Month: September 2026

By Da Lin

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    SAN FRANCISCO, California (KPIX) — An intruder got much more than he bargained for when he targeted the San Francisco Sunset District home of a Vietnam War veteran.

A neighbor’s surveillance footage obtained by CBS News Bay Area showed the suspect had walked back and forth on 22nd Avenue, near Lincoln Way, about 40 minutes before the break-in.

A short time after 5 a.m., the 73-year-old veteran said the suspect drilled a hole into his wooden door on the first floor to unlock it and force his way inside.

“A professional burglar cut his way into my home,” said he said as he pointed at the large hole in his door. He withheld his name out of concerns for his safety.

Asleep on the third floor, he said he was jolted awake by strange noises from the floor below. He said he grabbed his handgun and went downstairs to investigate.

On the second floor, he came face-to-face with a man dressed in all black, wearing a hoodie and a face mask— And he wasn’t alone.

“He had a large dog, maybe a 60-pound husky, with him. And I encountered [the burglar] face to face. He kind of grabbed me, and I fell to my hands and knees, and I shot him because physically I felt really threatened. He had already made a deep intrusion into my home,” he said.

The Army vet said he suffered minor scrapes to his hands and knees during the physical confrontation with the intruder. He said he fired one shot at the suspected burglar.

“I believe I hit him somewhere here, somewhere in the buttocks,” he said.

The man ran off. Blood-stained shoe prints outside the home showed the suspect running toward Golden Gate Park, leaving his dog behind.

In a neighbor’s security video obtained by CBS News San Francisco, the abandoned dog could be heard repeatedly barking.

“He fled and the dog remained here for a while. He left the dog. I think Animal Control has the dog now,” said the San Francisco native.

A short time later, San Francisco police said they detained an injured man 3 miles away, near Geary Boulevard and 47th Avenue in the Outer Richmond.

Paramedics rushed him to San Francisco General Hospital. Police said he is currently recovering from non-life-threatening injuries.

“Our neighbor is really something special. I’m glad that he was able to do this. But it doesn’t surprise me,” said the veteran’s next door neighbor Michael, who declined to provide his last name. “He’s definitely got a heroic side to him. He’s a real, true vet.”

San Francisco police reported overall burglaries are down 22 percent compared with the same period last year. But neighbors said Saturday morning’s break-in is a reminder that crime still happens in the Sunset.

“It’s unusual. But the Sunset is not free of crime,” said Michael.

The veteran said he’s still trying to process what happened. And is grateful he wasn’t seriously hurt.

“I had a little help from a friend, just a little friend,” said the Army vet. “But I’m just kind of really shook up still.”

San Francisco police said if they confirm the injured man at San Francisco General is the burglary suspect, they’ll take him into custody. He could face burglary and other charges.

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By Dean Fioresi

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    BELLFLOWER, California (KCAL, KCBS) — Los Angeles County deputies fatally shot a man in Bellflower on Sunday afternoon after a woman was found dead inside a home in the area.

According to department officials, deputies responded to a call for a person in distress in the 95000 block of Maplewood Street at around 1 p.m. Upon arrival, they observed a woman in her 80s lying face down through the window and entered to find her in a pool of blood.

Deputies said that while they began to make their way through the home, they came face to face with the suspect, who was allegedly armed with a gun. The exact circumstances leading up to the shooting were immediately disclosed, but deputies opened fire and killed the man.

Neither the man, said to be in his 50s, nor the woman have yet been publicly identified. Deputies said that the incident is not random, and that the suspect and victim were likely known to one another. They did not immediately note their relationship.

Detectives said that a handgun was recovered at the scene as evidence. They have not yet determined if the suspect fired any shots at deputies.

The nature of the woman’s injuries remains under investigation.

LASD officials said that all deputies were accounted for and unharmed after the shooting.

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By Jasmine Arenas

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    DENVER, Colorado (KCNC) — A Colorado family is recovering after an armed robbery left a husband and wife with gunshot wounds and their two young children dealing with the trauma of witnessing an attack.

The robbery happened in Aug. 11 at the family’s home in Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood near 40th Street and was captured on surveillance video.

Wendolyn Toro, who sells jewelry, said two young men came to her home posing as customers interested in buying rings.

“One sat next to my husband and the other in front of me, and at that moment when I show him the rings, he pulls out the gun and points it at me,” Toro said in Spanish.

Toro said her 6- and 8-year-old children were nearby when the robbery unfolded.

Her husband rushed in and tried to wrestle the gun away. She then noticed three more people later approached the home.

Toro began screaming for help. That’s when, she said, gunfire erupted.

“They shot my husband twice in the leg,” Toro said. “A third shot was to me. It went here through my arm, under my lung.”

Both Toro and her husband were shot and required multiple surgeries. Toro said they were in comas for weeks.

The injuries have had lasting consequences for the couple. Toro said she lost a kidney and still has a bullet lodged in her lower back. Her husband lost part of his left leg.

“It was pretty intense, but I feel good because at least my husband is home now, and I feel better,” Toro said. “These scars are part of my life now.”

The physical injuries are only part of what the family is dealing with. In addition to being robbed of what Toro said was thousands of dollars, Toro said her children are now in therapy after witnessing the shooting.

“My kids are the ones most affected,” she said. “They have nightmares every day.”

Despite what happened, Toro hopes to continue selling jewelry, although she said she plans to be more cautious about how she conducts her business. The family has also moved to a new home.

“Sometimes I feel a little bit of fear, but we can’t live with fear either,” she said.

Toro said five people were involved in the robbery and that two have since been arrested. She hopes investigators will find the three others she believes were involved. The family is Venezuelan and left in 2023 due to corruption in their country. They were pleased police helped find the two main suspects.

“When I got the call, they had the first person caught, I was like, ‘Wow, justice really does get done here,'” Toro said. “So, I have faith that they’ll catch the other people, too.”

CBS Colorado has reached out to Denver police to get more information about the investigation, to confirm the arrests and whether additional suspects are being sought. A response is pending.

For now, Toro said her family is focused on recovering, staying together and continuing the business despite an experience she said changed their lives forever.

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By Logan Smith

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    CRAIG, Colorado (KCNC) — The tug of war over energy production between several states and the federal government continued Friday when the U.S. Department of Energy renewed an emergency order to keep a Colorado coal-fired power plant operating months after it was scheduled to shut down during a transition to clean energy sources.

The DOE first ordered Unit 1 of the Craig Generating Station in northwest Colorado to remain operational in December of 2025. It did so two more times in 2026 to keep it running, and then again Friday.

The most recent order directs the six utilities that co-own and operate the facility — Tri-State Generation and Transmission (primary operator), Platte River Power Authority, PacifiCorp, Xcel Energy, Salt River Project, and Southwest Power Pool — to continue Unit 1’s power generation through the end of the year.

Colorado belongs in a northwest power region which includes Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. In the most recent DOE order, Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited a 2024 long-term reliability assessment. That report claimed “‘[e]nergy variability is greater in the Northwest” than other regions “due to the large share of wind and hydro in the portfolio.'” Supply chain issues have delayed the construction of battery energy storage systems key to the reliability of those alternative energy sources, according to the report that Wright cited.

Meanwhile, electricity demands continue to rise, Wright explained. The NERC’s 2026 State Of Reliability report, which Wright also referenced, found large load growth is increasing the system’s vulnerability: “[D]ata center and computational loads continued emerging as a major reliability consideration due to their scale, speed of development, and unique operational characteristics.”

Prior to the first emergency order last December, President Donald Trump had issued three executive orders, one which declared the state of the nation’s electrical grid a national emergency.

“Without sufficient coal-fired baseload power, the United States will lack the stable electricity required to support defense installations, industrial expansion, and the high-energy demands of emerging technologies, such as [AI],” Wright says Trump wrote to him in a memo concerning that particular executive order.

The recent federal directives contradict previous instructions given to the Colorado plant’s operators. Craig Unit 1 was scheduled to be retired on Dec. 31, 2025, following the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission’s passage of the Regional Haze Implementation Plan in 2016. According to the commission, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved that state plan in 2011.

Meanwhile, Tri-State, in a press release, stated its own studies indicated adequate resources would still exist after Unit 1’s planned retirement, allowing the Tri-State system to maintain reliability.

Unit 1 broke down 12 days before its planned retirement due to a mechanical failure of a valve, according to Tri-State. Extra measures were taken to bring it back online at the DOE’s request.

“Tri-State has a policy of 100% compliance, and we will work with Unit 1 co-owners, and federal and state governments to determine the most cost-effective path to that end,” said Duane Highley, Tri-State CEO, at that time. “We are continuing to review the order to determine what this means for Craig Station employees and operations, and the financial impacts. As a not-for-profit cooperative, our membership will bear the costs of compliance with this order unless we can identify a method to share costs with those in the region. There is not a clear path for doing so, but we will continue to evaluate our options.”

Repairs to Unit 1 were completed Jan. 20, per Tri-State.

Unit 2 and Unit 3 of the Craig Generating Station are still scheduled for retirement in 2028.

The Colorado Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit in March against the DOE’s first emergency order. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C., claimed the order “tramples on the state’s authority” to manage its power resources, and was an abuse of emergency orders.

The case remains unresolved.

“DOE keeps renewing the order to keep the Craig unit open, and we’ve challenged each order,” wrote Lawrence Pacheco, spokesperson for the Colorado AG’s Office, in an email to CBS Colorado. “The Energy Department’s order keeping the Craig coal plant open is an unlawful abuse of the department’s emergency authority and it should be canceled.”

Pacheco pointed to a ruling by that same court earlier this month. In that ruling ruling, the appelate judge called the DOE’s emergency order to keep a Michigan coal plant going “disruptive” to complex local and state planning processes.

“The Department’s reading of ’emergency’ invites frequent federal interventions that are unsupported by the statute and threaten the stability of the energy market,” as stated in the Court of Appeals’s Sept. 11 ruling. “By directing a generator approved for retirement to remain operative while effectively walling it off from planning and market frameworks, the Order challenged here interferes with ordinary methods to assess a region’s true generation capacity and distorts price signals that otherwise prompt appropriate capacity investments. DOE’s use of its expansive interpretation of ’emergency’ to prevent planned retirements of generators slated to close, for example, will likely discourage development of needed new resources by artificially lowering capacity market prices and destabilizing those markets.”

In 2019, Colorado passed a law to make a “moral commitment” to a “just transition” for coal plant workers and their communities toward clean energy, as stated in a press release from the governor’s office. The Office Of Just Transition was created, and assisted in acquiring more than $1 million in state assistance for the City of Craig and Moffat County.

Tri-State, too, promised in 2024 to provide $70 million in assistance to its workers and their communities.

With emergency orders in 2025, the DOE directed a dozen coal-fired power plants to remain operational in 10 states. That includes Units 2 and 3 of the Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo. The Comanche 3 unit suffered a mechanical failure in August 2025 and required major repairs. It resumed operation earlier this month. Its planned for retirement in 2030, Unit 2 for retirement in 2028. Comanche Unit 1 was retired in 2022.

Only four coal plants were retired last year, according to DOE, “the least in 15 years.”

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By Nicholas Lentz

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    LANSING, Michigan (WWJ) — An investigation is ongoing after police in Lansing, Michigan, said they found “what appeared to be” human remains that are believed to be several years old on Saturday.

Officers located the remains on the 2400 block of Tecumseh River Road near the Grand River after responding to the area around 7 p.m. for a “suspicious situation,” according to officials.

The officers called crime scene investigators with the Lansing Police Department, the Michigan State Police and a team with Michigan State University’s Department of Anthropology to help process the scene.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Lansing Police Department at 517-483-4600 or Crime Stoppers of Mid-Michigan at 517-483-7867. Individuals can also send a private message to the Lansing Police Department on Facebook.

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