Thieves take 39 seconds to steal $15K worth of Pokémon cards from store

CNN Newsource on June 10, 2026

By Dryden Quigley

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    BRENTWOOD, California (KGO) — Thousands of dollars worth of Pokémon cards were stolen from a Brentwood store over the weekend in a burglary that was caught on video.

Surveillance footage shows three masked thieves rushing into The Card Lab and leaping over display cases before taking Pokémon cards. The entire incident lasted about 39 seconds.

Video shows the suspects driving away in a Nissan Altima after stealing about $15,000 worth of cards.

“My first thought was, I hope that my employee was okay, and I was relieved to see that she was. And then I also just kind of wanted to see what the damage was, what damage was done,” said store owner Ronnie Hackett.

Hackett said a manager was inside the store when the burglary happened Saturday night. He said she was upstairs at the time.

“I’m relieved that she was not downstairs because that could have been way worse. But she was upstairs doing our end of the day protocol,” he said.

The store opened two months ago, Hackett said.

The theft comes amid what some store owners describe as a growing trend of similar crimes targeting valuable trading cards. In recent years, some cards have surged in value, with certain packs now worth significant sums.

Another Brentwood store, Games of Brentwood, said it has also been targeted and has taken steps to increase security.

“Since we had our incident here we’ve completely rebuilt our security system. We’ve made sure our alarms are much better, we’ve added IR sensors. It’s not going to stop someone if they’re really determined but we’re as ready as we can be,” said Anthony Paoli of Games of Brentwood.

He said the cards can be difficult to trace and easy to sell.

“It’s easy to move on the second hand market it’s not traceable for the most part and they’re more valuable than they’ve ever been,” Paoli said.

Brentwood police are investigating the burglary.

“So I have faith and the only thing I can do now is just let them do their job,” Hackett said.

The Card Lab will remain closed for the next few days while additional security measures are put in place.

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Ex-law enforcement officer accused of holding boy’s head underwater at Florida pool pleads no contest

CNN Newsource on June 10, 2026

By Malcolm Shields

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    KISSIMMEE, Florida (WPBF) — Days before the start of a trial, a former law enforcement officer accused of child abuse entered a plea in a Central Florida court.

According to court documents in Osceola County, Tiffany L. Griffith, 36, from Fort Myers, pleaded no contest to a child abuse charge on Wednesday, June 3.

She was sentenced to five days of time served in county jail, and must serve 18 months of probation.

Griffith must also complete an anger management class, 50 hours of community service, stay away from the victim and the victim’s family and pay court costs.

Griffith’s trial was scheduled to begin on Monday, June 8.

She is accused of forcing a 6-year-old boy’s head underwater for several seconds by pushing on his shoulders at a pool located at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee on Dec. 19, 2025.

A report from the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office noted that Griffith allegedly dunked the kid in the water in response to the boy allegedly forcing her son’s head underwater.

The report notes that when the victim emerged from the water, he was visibly upset and had a nosebleed.

The child then reported the incident to his parents.

During an interview with deputies, the sheriff’s office report noted Griffith said she was a former law enforcement officer.

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Photos show police officers jumping into action to save 4-year-old boy from house fire

CNN Newsource on June 10, 2026

By Jake Anderson

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    OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — Omaha police released photos from body-worn cameras showing the officers who quickly jumped into action to save a 4-year-old boy from a house fire on Tuesday morning.

The fire happened around 2:33 a.m. near 69th and Mason streets in Omaha.

Omaha police said officers David Eckstrom and Ian Baxter were responding to an abandoned car in the street near 72nd and Pacific streets when they saw an explosion and a large fire.

At the scene, residents told the officers that their 4-year-old son was still in the basement, officials said. Eckstrom kicked out a basement window and called for the child.

Omaha police said the child followed the sound of the officers’ voices to the window, where Eckstrom pulled him to safety.

Eckstrom suffered lacerations to his forearms from the broken glass during the rescue.

Officials said the child was treated at the scene for possible smoke inhalation, but otherwise was not injured.

“Every day, Omaha Police Officers are faced with split-second decisions. Officer Eckstrom and Baxter’s quick response to a life-threatening situation is just one of many examples of OPD officers putting their lives on the line to protect the citizens of Omaha. We are proud of Officer Eckstrom and Baxter, and all our officers’ dedication and service,” Omaha police said in a Facebook post.

Investigators determined the fire was caused by discarded grilling charcoal left on a deck.

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Judge orders Deanna Harrell to be held without bond in fatal toll booth crash case

CNN Newsource on June 10, 2026

By Pamela Comme

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    DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Florida (WESH) — A Volusia County judge ordered Deanna Harrell to be held without bond Tuesday as she awaits trial on charges stemming from a crash that killed a toll booth worker at the Dunlawton Beach Approach.

Harrell faces charges of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide in connection with the death of Tammy Jo Baker. Investigators allege Harrell was driving under the influence when her pickup truck crashed into a staffed toll booth, killing Baker.

The decision came during a pretrial detention hearing that lasted about a minute.

Harrell’s court-appointed public defender did not oppose the state’s request for detention.

“The state and the defense is not objecting to the pretrial detention hearing this afternoon,” the attorney told the court. “And we would stipulate that if the state were to present evidence that they would be able to meet the standard of the statute.”

With no objection from the defense, Judge Leah Case quickly granted the request.

“All right, then, I will hold the defendant in custody without bond,” Case said.

The hearing was another difficult moment for Baker’s family, who attended the proceeding.

“I forgive her, but I will never forget her actions,” Baker’s daughter, Louella McBride, said. “And she’s forever affected my life. My daughter’s life.”

McBride said her mother’s absence continues to be felt throughout the family.

“My mom was the glue that held us together,” she said. “Mom was in charge of all that. It’s going to be different this year.”

Baker’s son, Shawn Baker, said his family is trying to move forward while seeking accountability through the court process.

“She wouldn’t want me to have anger and hatred in my heart over this,” he said. “At the same time, we would like to see justice done.”

Harrell remains in custody as the case moves toward trial.

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Mom says her 9-year-old was beaten on school bus, blames driver and bus company

CNN Newsource on June 10, 2026

By Alex Null

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    CINCINNATI (WCPO) — A Cincinnati mother said her 9-year-old son was attacked by two other students while riding his school bus.

Janika Woods said about two weeks ago, she was at the hospital for a scheduled procedure when she got a call that every mother dreads.

“She said ‘Your son, Uriah, is missing,'” Woods said.

The call came from her son’s school bus dispatch, First Student Transportation. She was told he suddenly jumped off the bus and ran.

She said Uriah ran off the bus somewhere around Mitchell and Kenard avenues in Spring Grove Village.

Woods said he was out of sight for at least 30 minutes.

“It was like a panic, cause it was like, ‘Where’s my child?'” Woods said.

When Uriah was finally found, Woods said she quickly realized why he ran.

She told us Uriah had a bloody face, a black eye and a broken nose.

“I was mad, I was sad, cause it was like, ‘Who did this to my child?'” Woods said.

Uriah attends Best Point Education and Behavioral Health in Madisonville. Woods said two older students allegedly assaulted Uriah on the bus.

“Both of them was extremely bigger than my baby,” Woods said.

Woods said she recently reviewed the company’s video from inside the bus.

She said it showed one of the students moving behind her son in the back of the bus. She told us Uriah felt uncomfortable and moved toward the front.

Woods said that’s when the student began to hit her son.

She said there was no bus monitor and that the bus driver failed to protect her son.

“Where was the plan to keep my baby safe?” Woods said.

We reached out to the school and bus company for comment on what happened.

The school referred us to First Student Transportation, saying the incident happened under their supervision.

First Student Transportation sent the following statement to us late last week:

“The safety of the students we transport is our top priority. We are aware of the incident that occurred last week and are working closely with our customer as part of the ongoing review.” First Student Transportation

Woods said she disagrees with that statement.

“It was never a top priority for the driver to protect my baby,” Woods said.

First Student Transportation did not respond to our request for a copy of the video.

As for what’s next, Woods said she’s obtained an attorney and plans to press charges.

“In absolutely no form should that have happened to anybody’s child,” Woods said.

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Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity celebrates 40 years of home building

KRDO on June 10, 2026

Bradley Davis

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity is hosting a “Trivia on the Block” party Saturday to celebrate 40 years of building affordable homes in Southern Colorado.

Tickets are $40 a person. The money supports Pikes Peak Habitat’s homebuilding efforts, including their next “Rising Moon 41 Doors” development to help 41 families afford new homes. Kids 15 and younger get in free with an adult.

The party starts at 4:30 p.m. at the Meanwhile Block event space in Colorado Springs next to Weidner Field. Pikes Peak Habitat will have food trucks, yard games, a “hammerschlagen” hammer and nail competition, and the main event, trivia.

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Construction to cause traffic impacts at two Colorado Springs intersections

KRDO on June 10, 2026

Scott Harrison

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A pair of intersections affected by previous and ongoing construction projects are about to present more traffic impacts for drivers.

Both of the changes are expected to start on Wednesday.

The longest closure — lasting until the end of the year — will be on Wooten Road, just north of the Galley Road intersection.

City officials say that crews need to repair and upgrade a large culvert for stormwater drainage beneath the intersection; other improvements will be made to sidewalks, curbs, ramps, and pedestrian crossings to improve safety and access.

Much of Galley, west of the intersection to Murray Boulevard, reopened in March after being closed for two years because of a bridge replacement and a water main replacement that has gradually advanced eastward to Space Center Drive.

Traffic is reduced to a lane in each direction around that water main project that will eventually cross Powers Boulevard.

Crews will eventually return to the Galley/Wooten intersection to make similar upgrades on the south side.

“I’ve lived here for about 50 years, and I watched them construct this ditch when they were making it,” said neighbor Mark Snead. “As far as the construction going on, I wish it was over. It’s been a long road here.”

The second change will affect two of the three lanes of northbound Circle Drive, between Interstate 25 and Janitell Road.

Crews will continue a water line installation that started nearby earlier this spring at the Circle/Hancock Expressway interchange.

Officials said the project is one of the final phases of the $40 million bridge replacement on Circle, which began in the fall of 2023 and is expected to be completed by this fall.

Drivers will notice some of the water line equipment along the west side of Circle in the project area.

Also worth remembering is that the pavement in that area remains extremely rough until the city repaves it later this season as part of the 2C expanded paving program.

Officials say that the double-lane closure should end by mid-July, weather permitting.

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Federal lawsuit filed after Florida man dies following police stun gun incident

CNN Newsource on June 10, 2026

By Justin Schecker

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    PALM BAY, Florida (WESH) — Thomas Farley, who was paralyzed after being stunned by a Palm Bay police officer in June 2024, passed away on June 19, 2025, after living for a year paralyzed from the mid-chest down.

The incident occurred near a Circle K when Farley fell headfirst from a six-foot fence after being shocked by a stun gun six times.

“I’m paralyzed, I can’t feel my feet. Sir, I think I broke my neck,” Farley said during the incident.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump announced Tuesday morning at a church in Eatonville that a federal lawsuit has been filed against the Palm Bay Police Department and the city of Palm Bay.

The lawsuit challenges the department’s stun gun policy, which attorneys argue is unconstitutional.

“It’s so foreseeable that you tase a person’s common offense is dangerous that they can fall and sustain critical, life-threatening injuries,” Crump said.

Farley’s mother, Pamela Farley, reflected on her son’s final moments.

“I stood by his side for a year. My children and I watched him take his last breath on June 19, 2025, and I will not let his name die in vain,” she said.

Attorney Josh Levin criticized the department’s stun gun policy, which he said allows officers to fire on individuals at elevated heights under “exigent circumstances,” a standard he described as “far, far, far lower than deadly force justification.”

Palm Bay police declined to comment on the lawsuit but referred to an October 2024 statement from a sergeant, which said an internal review “determined that the officer legally and justifiably used his Taser.”

Levin argued that officers had no reason to believe Farley posed a threat.

“They had no reason to believe that Thomas had done anything dangerous, that he posed any threat to them or anyone else,” Levin said.

The federal lawsuit also alleges that the officer involved had previously been investigated for deploying his stun gun on a man riding a moving dirt bike.

According to the complaint, the department’s second-highest-ranking official recommended the officer be terminated, but the department overruled the recommendation, kept the officer on the force, and even gave him a merit raise that year.

“But the department, they overruled their number two official, they kept this officer on the force, and get a lot of this; they gave him a merit raise that year,” Levin said.

Crump said the lawsuit seeks millions of dollars in damages.

“To deal with the enormity of all the medical bills, not to mention the value that none can be placed, and that is losing your firstborn, your child,” Crump said.

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Real-time drone tech helps Oklahoma City police track suspects and recover evidence

CNN Newsource on June 10, 2026

By Meghan Mosley

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    OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — Oklahoma City police are using real-time drone technology to improve response times and provide critical support during emergencies.

“It’ll automatically deploy the drone, and it will fly autonomously to the scene of that log of that CAD call address,” said Sgt. Dax LaPorte of the Oklahoma City Police Department.

The drones have helped officers track suspects, recover evidence and make arrests. In one case, a drone captured footage of a man ditching a gun in the woods.

In another instance from April, a downtown fight escalated quickly, and the drone provided real-time information to officers.

“As the drone’s getting overhead, they see the physical confrontation, and then they see one chasing another. They’re able to see through the lens of the drone that the person chasing the other has a gun,” LaPorte said. “What started out as just a yelling match or maybe a slight physical match now then transitioning to one person chasing another with a gun in a crowded downtown area, and they’re able to see this with the lens of the drone and update the officers responding.”

Analysts in the department’s real-time information center monitor dispatch calls and prioritize them to determine if a drone is needed.

“We have six different priority levels. If it is priority one or two, they’re pretty much piecing, ‘Do I have a dock in the area of that call, and I want to start sending a drone,’” LaPorte said.

The drone technology averages nearly 1,200 flights a month, with strategically placed docking stations across the city to ensure rapid deployment.

Police say the technology not only aids officers but also provides critical support to local fire departments during emergency calls.

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More than 200 Iowa state IT workers laid off as Reynolds administration outsources technology operations

CNN Newsource on June 10, 2026

By Pepper Purpura

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    DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — More than 200 Iowa state information technology employees are losing their jobs after Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Tuesday that the state will outsource much of its technology infrastructure and operations to Amazon Web Services and Cognizant Government Solutions.

According to the governor’s office, the state will move the executive branch’s data from state-operated servers to Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform. Cognizant Government Solutions will assume responsibility for many day-to-day IT operations, including managing servers and networks, providing on-site technical support and handling employee IT support requests.

The Reynolds administration says the transition will save taxpayers more than $525 million over the next decade.

“In 2022, I directed the first comprehensive review of state government in 40 years, and since then, my administration has been focused on continuously improving government efficiency and effectiveness,” Reynolds said in a news release. “One of the most important strategic initiatives we’ve undertaken since was the consolidation and centralization of all IT resources across state government.”

State officials said approximately 200 employees currently providing IT operations services will receive employment offers from Cognizant Government Solutions.

For employees like Ryan Klares, the announcement was surprising, but not unforeseen.

“I’m in, like, a state of shock,” Klares said. “I saw the writing on the wall, like, back in 2023, when realignment started with the Department of Management.”

Klares is one of more than 200 employees in Iowa’s Division of Information Technology whose state employment will end July 31 as part of the transition.

Retirement benefits lost Klares said one of the primary reasons he joined state government was the retirement and benefits package offered through public employment.

“There were numerous other job opportunities that came to me that I did apply for and go through and did turn down because of, at the end of the day, the benefits and the retirement and everything that the state had to offer,” Klares said.

According to information provided to employees and information published by the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System, members generally must be vested before retaining employer-funded retirement benefits.

Klares said he has accumulated roughly $18,000 in employer retirement contributions that will be lost because his tenure was only four years.

The state says Cognizant Government Solutions will offer affected employees jobs at no less than their current compensation levels. However, Klares says that offer does not include benefits.

State says outsourcing will save money and modernize systems The governor’s office said the transition is part of a broader effort to modernize Iowa’s technology infrastructure.

According to the administration, Amazon Web Services will transition dozens of state data centers and thousands of physical servers into a cloud environment. State officials say the move will improve cybersecurity, reliability and long-term efficiency.

The Department of Management spokesperson Gloria Van Rees said the department plans to hire about 40 new state positions as Iowa transitions to the managed-service-provider model, and the state’s remaining IT workforce will focus on “setting IT strategy, measuring results, and driving innovation for the State.” The pool of employees being laid off is eligible for those roles.

Van Rees also explained how the projected savings estimate was decided.

“The projected savings came from cost comparison between current DOM IT rates and new Cognizant/AWS rates,” Van Rees wrote. “The DOM IT rates include personnel, hardware, data and infrastructure all rolled up into a billable rate charged to state agencies.”

Employee questions service impacts While state officials say the new model will improve efficiency, some employees worry outsourcing could negatively affect service for state agencies.

Klares pointed to previous changes in Iowa’s IT structure, saying additional layers of support sometimes delayed responses to technical problems.

“Sometimes it can take upwards of two plus days before we even get the tickets. And it’s something that I can go up there and fix in the matter of five or ten minutes,” Klares said.

The Department of Management has said Cognizant Government Solutions will begin providing services for the state in August.

According to communications sent to affected employees, workers will receive individualized employment offers from Cognizant and may also apply for newly created state positions tied to the new technology oversight model.

Full statement from Gov. Reynolds Reynolds provided the following statement Wednesday:

“The state of Iowa and Cognizant Government Solutions have been fully committed from the onset of this project to employing an Iowa-based workforce throughout the duration of our engagement. At no point during our negotiations was it even considered to employ H-1B visa holders. The state’s daily IT operations will continue to be supported by Iowans, for Iowans, as it is now.

“Part of the state’s negotiations with Cognizant Government Solutions was their guarantee to offer equal or better employment to the approximately 200 state employees who today provide the IT services that Cognizant Government Solutions will manage going forward. This ensures continuity and consistency for the IT workforce that serves state government and the state agencies who rely on them.

“IT operations is not a core function of state government and transitioning to a managed service provider model — especially one that includes Cognizant Government Solutions and Amazon Web Services, two world-class leaders in the tech industry — is necessary to ensure the integrity, security, and efficiency of Iowa’s data and systems.”

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