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    BOSTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A Massachusetts woman appeared in court on Tuesday, accused of faking her own cancer death in order to avoid having to face a judge for drunk driving and shoplifting charges.

Shannon Wilson shook her head in Plymouth District Court as prosecutors laid out the indictment against her.

“This is a defendant who was willing to fake her own death,” Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Alex Zane said.

Wilson is charged with one count each of furnishing false identifying information, obstruction of justice, forgery, uttering of a public record, and failure to appear after release on bail.

Woman accused of faking own death Prosecutors said the 45-year-old woman orchestrated the scheme to evade cases from 2022-2023. The first came in 2022 when she was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence.

“And this is when she first raises that she has terminal brain cancer,” Zane said, adding that Wilson told a Hingham judge at the time that she was dying.

They argue that she did the same thing during an arraignment for a shoplifting charge in Plymouth.

Then, prosecutors said Wilson stopped appearing in court. Defense attorneys reported that Wilson was in hospice care as her condition deteriorated.

“And ultimately, the counsel representing the defendant gives the court a screen grab or a print out of a text message that he received from that number he’s been communicating with that he believes is the defendant’s family of a death certificate from Rhode Island saying that she had passed away,” Zane said, saying the claim that Wilson died happened in May 2023.

Investigators looked at the grainy copy of the death certificate. The doctor whose signature was used, the hospice center listed, and the funeral home all had no record of Wilson’s death. Prosecutors determined the document was a fake.

Shannon Wilson charged in Massachusetts In August 2023, the person who previously posted Wilson’s $400 bail recovered the money after being informed she was dead. Several weeks later, prosecutors say Wilson showed up at the person’s house and allegedly admitted she had faked her death.

Wilson allegedly also duped her ex-fiancé, who she lived with in a Plymouth home.

“He indicated a week or so after the Hingham matter was dismissed, he actually thought that she was dead,” Zane said.

Wilson’s defense attorney argued that she was not the architect of the plan.

“She’s not the one who made these phone calls. She’s not the one who prepared the document that Mr. Zane referred to and she’s not the individual who submitted that to the court,” defense attorney Josh Werner said. Werner did not say who he believes sent in the fake death certificate.

Wilson pleaded not guilty and is being held on $50,000 bail.

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    ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — The wall toward the East Side of Lindy’s Diner collapsed on Monday, April 27, 2026, nearly one week after the City of Albuquerque red-tagged and shutdown the historic diner in southwest Albuquerque over safety concerns on Monday, April 20, 2026. According to Albuquerque Fire and Rescue, there were no injuries reported.

According to the City’s Code Enforcement Division Report, the red tag was issued for an “unsafe structure” inside of Lindy’s Diner. According to the owners, the building is 100-years-old. However, the restaurant opened in 1929 as Coney Island Cafe.

“We’re out here at Fifth and Central on scene of a building collapse. We had reports of a building collapse, and crews responded. We have crews from station one and station four here. Station four is our heavy technical rescue station,” Albuquerque Fire and Rescue Lt. Jason Fejer said during a press conference after the incident Monday morning.

“There are no reports of injuries. When crews arrived on scene, they confirmed that and then worked to start evacuating some of the adjoining structures of this building. So, structures have been evacuated,” Fejer said.”We need building engineers to come out at this point to actually evaluate the structure. You can see that East wall came down, and you can see that big crack by the other window. So, there is a threat that more of that wall,” Fejer told KOAT.

On Monday, KOAT spoke with co-owner Dawn Vatoseow shortly after the collapse. She and her husband, Steve Vatoseow, told KOAT they are heartbroken by the painful loss, but thankful there are no reported injuries, as both arrived to the chaotic scene.

“Thank God that no one was hurt. Nobody was close enough in proximity that—you know, there are tenants that are still in the building. That had until the end of the month to get out of there,” Vatoseow told KOAT. “It’s tragic. I’m sure that building will now be demolished. It’s a historic landmark. That’s 35 years of my life right there. Everybody’s safe. It was that one piece of wall. We have been working on it, and working on it, right up until today, to see what we needed to do with that.”

On Monday, architect and owner of 505 Central Food Hall Mark Baker, and his employees told KOAT they witnessed the aftermath of the building partially collapsing Monday morning. The Food Hall is adjacent from Lindy’s Diner on the Northwest side of Albuquerque.

“The bartender in our front bar spotted smoke come out on the side walk, and they can tell something had happened. The building probably collapsed. They ran to the back, and told another employee,” Baker told KOAT. “That employee came up to the architecture studio and told the architects, so we came out in the street and saw it, and right when we walked up— we still saw the smoke rising from the ashes.”

“The City’s Planning Department, through Code Enforcement, had been monitoring the property for several weeks because of structural safety concerns. Below is a timeline of the City’s response:

Code Enforcement did an external inspection of Lindy’s Diner on March 20, 2026, after a local news channel contacted the Planning Department regarding a tip they had received. Between March 21 and April 10, Code Enforcement also received two separate complaints through the City’s 311 system from two different parties concerning the property. Those complaints along with the initial inspection prompted an additional inspection of the building on April 2. Findings from that inspection warranted a more in-depth inspection, which was conducted on April 20 utilizing drone technology. Following the April 20 inspection, the property was red-tagged and issued an emergency shutdown order because of concerns the structure could collapse.

“We investigate these matters very carefully and that is why we ordered the closure and installed the safety fencing. However, we remain hopeful that some of the structure can be a safely restored so the building once again becomes an attractive landmark along Route 66.” — Planning Department Director Alan Varela

On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, KOAT spoke with co-owner Dawn Vatoseow on the sudden closure after the diner was red-tagged and shutdown by the City of Albuquerque. Vatoseow told KOAT they were aware of the structural concerns with the building and applied for grants through the City and State of New Mexico over the years, but to no avail.

The owners also sent KOAT documentation and e-mails of inquiries submitted for assistance with structural concerns in 2024. KOAT spoke with the City of Albuquerque on its reasoning for the red-tag a month after an initial inspection that addressed minimal concerns.

“Well, it certainly isn’t the way that we wanted to go out, that’s for sure. I would have liked to have gone out on our own terms and say goodbye to our customers. We appreciate each and every one of them, and we’re going to miss them so much. We have spent a lifetime serving Albuquerque and loving every minute of it,” Vatoseow told KOAT.

“We applied for grants. The grant process is not an easy process to do. Most of those grants have to be picked up by a municipality. They have to be the ones to apply for the grant. The money doesn’t come directly to you. It comes to the city of Albuquerque,” Vateseow said. “Then, they dispense it out to the people that have applied for those grants. It is a lengthy process and everything takes money. There’s only so much that you can afford to do without help trying to keep this building going.”

On Tuesday, KOAT reached out to the New Mexico Tourism Department for reasoning of denial for Vatoseow’s Route 66 Infrastructure grant— and many more, applied through the City of Albuquerque as well as assistance. Both statements are below.

“Code Enforcement’s initial inspection was just of the exterior of the building and of the roof. The findings from that inspection warranted a follow-up inspection which is what happened yesterday,” City of Albuquerque’s public information officer Tim Walsh said. “Code Enforcement found some pretty severely damaged lateral support and that is a life safety risk, so that’s why they had they had to issue the red tag.”

Vateseow disputed the City’s account, stating ” That is not true. They were inside of the place. They took pictures in the inside of the place. Two weeks ago, a week ago. It’s been a continual barrage,” Vatoseow said. “We have a few neighbors that continuously called several times a day, both of which wanted the building. So, they just got sick of the constant phone calls coming in and just said, ‘that’s it, we’re red tagging, fencing. Get a structural engineer over here.”

“We’ve had a structural engineer come in. He’s retired now, but he’s the one that worked on the building some years back. We put steel all the way around the inside of the dining room and the restaurant. It’s all the way around to hold the weight of the upstairs,” Vatoseow said. According to the City of Albuquerque, The City’s Code Enforcement Division conducted a follow-up inspection on Monday, April 20, 2026 after complaints submitted through 3-1-1 concerning the building’s condition which prompted an initial inspection last week.

“Local mom-and-pop businesses make our city so special, but we also have a legal and ethical responsibility to ensure that businesses are safe for everyone. While Lindy’s Diner is a treasured landmark, it was rightfully determined to be unsafe and uninhabitable under current conditions. We will do what we can to help keep Lindy’s and this historic corner.” —Alex Curtas, Communications Director for Mayor Tim Keller

City of Albuquerque Deputy Communications Director Mikayla Ortega confirmed the City of Albuquerque’s Planning Department proactively assisted Lindy’s Diner in applying for the ‘Preserve Route 66 Combined Grant’ in 2025. Ortega also sent to KOAT the following:

Please see below for a full assessment of Lindy’s applications and disbursements within the Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency:

This program was designed to reduce vacant ground-floor spaces downtown by supporting new businesses or expansions into vacant storefronts.

Lindy’s was awarded $35,000 to expand and open Narke. They received the first disbursement of $17,500 on March 9, 2022. Narke closed after only a few months, which put them out of compliance with the grant terms. As a result, they did not receive the remaining $17,500.

This program provides funding for exterior security cameras to improve safety.

Lindy’s was awarded and received $19,896.15 for security camera installation.

This was a matching grant program for property improvements aimed at enhancing building conditions and economic performance.

The program is now closed for applications. There is no record of an application from Lindy’s.

This program supports exterior improvements such as paint and murals within Metropolitan Redevelopment Areas.

The program recently closed, and awards have not yet been announced. There is no record of an application from Lindy’s.

“The Route 66 Centennial Grant program was a competitive grant where all applicants were required to provide detailed proposals for project goals. It was determined by the review process that this application provided an inadequate amount of information about how this project relates to specific goals stated in the program objectives. NMTD awarded this grant for two fiscal years.” — Cody Johnsons, Communications Director

“The Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency (MRA) routinely receives requests for assistance with renovations and repairs from privately owned businesses. In March 2026, MRA received an inquiry from real estate advisor Anthony Lotto, representing Steve and Dawn Vatoseow, inquiring about potential financial assistance from the City for repairs to Lindy’s Diner. The requested amount ranged from $1.5 million to $3.2 million.

Unfortunately, the City is unable to provide funding for major repairs to individually owned businesses due to budget constraints. Mr. Lotto was informed that the City does not have resources available at that level to support significant renovations; however, information was provided regarding the City’s seven-year tax abatement program.” — Operations Manager, Sarah Supple

Update: According to Vatoseow, Anthony Lotto is their Real Estate Agent. Vatoseow told KOAT he contacted MRA to inquire what funds would be available to anyone that purchased the building to rehab upstairs for housing. According to Vatoseow, the request was not for Lindy’s Diner.

Vatoseow told KOAT they will try to raise funds to address structural safety concerns with the City of Albuquerque. According to Vatoseow, the structural repairs will cost $250,000. According to the Code Enforcement notice, the owners have 14 days from the date of notice issued on April 20, 2026, to respond, submit structural engineer’s report, acquire a building permit, take corrective action and comply.

As of Tuesday evening, Vateseow told KOAT they don’t have access to the building. However, she was assured they would have access by 8 a.m. on Tuesday.

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    WAUKESHA COUNTY, Wisconsin (WISN) — Prosecutors said a dispute over dinner may have led to a deadly stabbing at an apartment in the Village of Lac La Belle.

Mikayla Kloth, 27, was charged Monday with first-degree intentional homicide.

According to prosecutors, the crime happened Friday, April 24, at Kloth’s apartment on Wisconsin Avenue in the Village of Lac La Belle. Responding officers arrived on scene to find a man with a stab wound in the chest. Prosecutors said Kloth, who was standing in the apartment, told an officer on scene she stabbed the man because she was angry at him.

The victim later died at a hospital. Family identified him to WISN 12 News as Lukas Rosch, 25.

On the way to the police station, the complaint said Kloth made “excited utterances, stating she should have just gone to the bar, and the whole thing was irritating.”

The complaint adds, “While transporting her, the defendant stated that if Victim A’s parents didn’t hate her before, they will hate her now.”

Prosecutors said during an interview with police, Kloth told them she did not want Rosch to come over for dinner that night. Rather, she wanted to go out. Rosch “proceeded to come over to the apartment and he had chicken drumsticks, seasoning, and was planning on using the air fryer,” prosecutors said. “The defendant stated Victim A began pushing her buttons, she was upset and an argument ensued.”

According to the complaint, Kloth admitted to stabbing Rosch and took full responsibility, stating, “If they had to lock her up, that was cool.”

A week before the stabbing, the criminal complaint said Rosch was speaking to another woman and the apartment landlord. Rosch stated he had been bitten in the thumb by the defendant. The woman said Rosch “genuinely seemed afraid” of Kloth and stated, “Please take my full name, in case something ever happens to me.”

Kloth made her initial appearance in court on Monday. The court set cash bond at $2,000,000. Her preliminary hearing is set for May 29.

Rosch’s family shared a statement with WISN 12 News that said,

We are completely broken at the tragic and senseless loss of our son, Lukas John Rosch, the most loving, giving, kind-hearted person anyone could ever meet. We are just asking for privacy at this time as we try to process.

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    CONCORD, New Hampshire (WMUR) — A committee at the State House is considering whether to discipline or expel a state representative from Weare over a social media post targeting a fellow lawmaker and invoking a Nazi term for the systemic extermination of Jewish people.

Some who spoke at the hearing Monday said it doesn’t matter if state Rep. Travis Corcoran, R-Weare, was joking. They believe he should face consequences.

“Mr. Corcoran’s words are an affront not only to Jewish people, but to all people who are committed to the free exchange of ideas without threat of violence or murder,” said Rabbi Daniel Aronson, of Keene.

Jewish religious and community leaders went to Concord on Monday to call for Corcoran to face consequences for his recent social media post. Corcoran was responding to an invitation from state Rep. Jessica Grill, D-Manchester, to join the “karaoke caucus” when he posed on X: “We need a final solution for theater kids in politics.”

Grill is Jewish.

“I did not know Representative Grill was Jewish when I made the comment,” Corcoran said. “There are nearly 400 members of this House. I do not keep track of my colleagues’ religious backgrounds. The claim that this targeted her because of her background is false.”

Corcoran blasted the hearing as a “full-blown piece of political theater.”

“A joke is now being treated as though it were an act of malice, and sarcasm is being recast as hate speech,” he said. “This is absurd.”

After speaking, Corcoran stood up, left the hearing room, and did not return.

Grill also testified, calling for the committee to recommend that Corcoran be expelled.

“As a Jewish lawmaker, the use of this phase ‘final solution’ is especially disturbing,” she said. “It is not vague or thoughtless. It is not a poorly worded joke. It is targeted language with a specific historical meaning.”

Corcoran had one fellow lawmaker speak in his defense. Several others asked for accountability within the recommendations available to the committee, saying no matter the intent, the House must stand against such language.

“You have the power to reprimand, censure and expel,” said Mark Murray, of Bedford. “So, I’m going to assume there is behavior that would warrant that happening. If this isn’t it, what is? What’s going to be acceptable next?”

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    OCALA, Florida (WESH) — Two teens were arrested Saturday following the release of a video showing one of them driving a lawn mower inside a Target store, according to the Ocala Police Department.

Police say 18-year-old Janek Szkaradek arrived at the Target store on Southwest College Road, unloaded a lawn mower from a trailer, and drove it through the doors of the store, damaging them as he drove through. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Luke Charske recorded a video for social media.

“The last thing you expect to see inside a Target is a lawn mower coming through the door,” said Vanessa Scarlett, a witness.

Vanessa Scarlett said she was inside the store when she began recording the incident as it unfolded.

“He actually drove straight into the door first and shattered it. It was quite interesting,” Scarlett said.

Scarlett, who said she did not know either teen, said she started recording after realizing what was happening.

Police said the damage is still visible at Target, where wood boards and broken glass now cover the damaged entrance.

Investigators said the incident did not start at Target. The night before, Szkaradek allegedly used a leaf blower inside a Culver’s on SW College Road.

Police said Szkaradek was charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. Both Szkaradek and Charske were arrested in connection with the Target incident and charged with disorderly conduct. Charske was charged as a principal to disorderly conduct for his role in recording the stunt.

“I think they are teenagers that definitely got the consequence that a lot of people think they deserved. But I also think to give them some grace, because they are teenage boys,” Scarlett said.

Police said what began as a social media stunt resulted in property damage, arrests, and criminal charges.

“These actions endangered people and caused property damage,” said a spokesperson for the Ocala Police Department. “They are crimes, not harmless videos.”

“Think before you record- It’s not worth an arrest and a criminal charge,” Ocala police said.

According to jail records, both Szkaradek and Charske were released on Sunday.

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    TORRANCE, California (KABC) — Parents in Torrance say they were shocked by the arrest of tutor Cole Tomas Allen, who is charged with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.

Allen is accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, firing as he ran toward the ballroom. Investigators say Allen was armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives.

In his first court appearance on Monday, Allen was charged with three federal counts: attempting to assassinate the President of the United States, which potentially carries a life sentence, transportation of a firearm and ammo through interstate commerce and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.

A secret service agent was hit in an exchange of gunfire, but his bulletproof stopped the bullet. As the investigation continues, it’s still not clear who fired that shot.

The 31-year-old allegedly wrote that administration officials were his targets, “not including [FBI Director Kash] Mr. Patel,” and were “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,” according to a criminal complaint. He allegedly wrote that Secret Service agents were targets “only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible.”

We’re learning Allen is highly intelligent, shy, socially reclusive, and was at one point a devoted Christian. Just hours after Saturday’s attack, federal agents swarmed the Torrance home where Allen lives with his parents and siblings.

Those who know Allen describe him as a very quiet guy. But now we’re learning that online is where he expressed his anti-Trump views.

ABC news reports that, on a now-deleted Bluesky account, Allen shared posts denouncing Trump’s polices on Iran, Ukraine and ICE. And through reposts, he criticized a reporter in connection with the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“The aspiring dictator dismantling your country — and your institution — does not give even the tiniest [expletive] about your little glee-club protest,” one of the posts he reported shared said.

Federal investigators say Allen referred to himself as a “friendly federal assassin” in a note he sent to his family just before the incident. That was not a comforting description for a father who showed up at C2 Education on Monday for what was supposed to be a tutoring session for his daughter with Allen.

Standing outside C2 Education, which tutors students for college entrance exams, Nathania Miranda and her dad said they weren’t so sure she should go in for her tutoring session.

Moments before they pulled up, Joaquin Miranda said he saw the slightly familiar face of Allen flash across his social media feed.

“I screenshot the photo of him, and I showed her like, ‘Do you know this guy?’ I know this guy because I talked to him just once. I talked to him like two weeks ago,” Joaquin said.

“When I went in the car, my dad showed me a photo of him, and I was like, ‘Yeah, I know him. He tutored me three times,'” Nathania said. “He didn’t make me really nervous. He just was like a regular tutor.”

On his LinkedIn, Allen describes himself as a gaming developer, creating a game called “Bohrdom,” which he calls an “atomic fighting game” that is “a skill-based, non-violent asymmetrical fighting game loosely derived from a chemistry model that is itself loosely based on reality.” On the gaming platform Steam, one of the popular tags used to find it was “bullet hell,” and another was “shooter.”

“He was talking about his video game, and yeah, he was talking about it when he was tutoring me, too,” Nathania said.

On Saturday night, 3,000 miles from his Torrance neighborhood, federal prosecutors say her “regular tutor” shook the nation’s capital when he stormed the Washington Hilton, strapped with a shotgun, several knives and more guns, shooting as he ran toward a ballroom where President Trump sat inside.

“It’s scary. It’s scary, very scary,” Joaquin said. “Because you bring your kids… and it was like an assassin guy.”

By all counts, Allen is a highly educated and intelligent man, with a degree in mechanical engineering from Caltech and a master’s in computer science from California State University – Dominguez Hills.

It was during his time at Caltech that Allen worshiped at the Pasadena United Reform Church, which meets on Sundays in South Pasadena.

The pastor described Allen as a, “Nice, gentle, smart young man.”

That’s also how he’s described by neighbors around the Torrance home where he lives with his parents, and that agents swarmed over the weekend.

“I’m sad for his family. His parents are good people. They don’t deserve this,” neighbor Paul Thompson said. “I know they’re very active members of their church, and I believe that his father is in a leadership position in his church.”

ABC7 spoke to a man who appears to be Allen in 2017 at a conference on aging about his own invention.

“The idea with this is to prevent it from moving at all,” he said in the 2017 interview. “The wheelchair brakes tend to lock the wheels, but don’t lock the chair to the ground.”

C2 named Allen “Teacher of the Month” in 2024, but the head of the Torrance Teachers Association told Eyewitness News he had nothing to do with Torrance schools.

“We never ran into him. He was not credentialed in the state, so he would not be able to even work here,” said Julie Shankle, the executive director of the Torrance Teachers Association.

One mother with a student at C2 Education, who didn’t want her name or face shared, said Allen tutored her daughter.

“You’d come across him in the hallways. He wouldn’t look at you or interact. He would come out here and have lunch, and that was about it. Never ‘hi’ or ‘bye,'” she said.

Attorney Steven Harowitz works in the same business complex as C2 Education.

“You’d see him at lunch, and he would eat by himself and look at his phone and basically kept very quiet,” Harowitz said.

“To think that somebody that we live near was armed and dangerous is kind of a scary thought in retrospect,” Thompson said. “I think it’s important that whatever he’s accused of doing, that he face the responsibility for what he’s done.”

Now, parents of students at C2 say they want answers.

“I have a lot of questions. That’s why I was going to go talk to them,” Joaquin said.

C2 Education issued a statement over the weekend, saying they are fully cooperating with the investigation:

“We were shocked to hear the news of the horrifying incident that transpired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. We are cooperating fully with law enforcement to assist them in their investigation. Violence of any kind is never the answer.”

Allen’s sister told investigators that her brother reportedly had several weapons inside the family’s home. She said the weapons were purchased legally, but that their parents did not know about them.

According to California voter registration records, Allen was listed as “no party preference.” Records also show that back in 2024, he donated $25 to a super PAC that was earmarked for Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

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    DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — The trial against a man accused of killing a Melvindale police officer concluded on Tuesday with a conviction of first-degree murder of a peace officer and related charges.

Michael Lopez of Southfield had faced trial for the shooting death of Officer Mohamed Said in the line of duty in July 2024.

Lopez was also charged with weapons possession by a person, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of methamphetamine, possession of cocaine, weapons carrying with unlawful intent, five counts of felony firearm and fourth offense habitual offender.

According to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, Lopez entered the Auto Zone at around 8:47 p.m. on July 20, 2024. Lopez allegedly entered the store as a customer, pointed a handgun at a store employee and robbed the store of money and knives before fleeing.

The ATF, Michigan State Police, Melvindale police, the National Police Defense Foundation, and U.S. Marshals were among those working on the investigation.

During the first day of trial testimony on April 22, Wayne County Assistant Medical Examiner Leigh Hlavaty had testified that Said’s cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death was homicide.

The proceedings were marked by repeated disruptions.

Closing arguments started on Tuesday, and a verdict was read shortly after 2 p.m.

Court officials ordered Lopez to maintain his composure as the verdict was read. He nodded in agreement with the instruction.

The jury was then invited back into the courtroom. The jury returned a guilty verdict on first-degree murder of a peace officer and guilty on the related weapons and drug charges.

“It’s a happy moment,” said Mohamad Said’s brother, Ahmed Said, following Tuesday’s verdict. “We’ve been waiting so long; it’s been almost two years. Finally, it came to an end. Yes, we’re not going to get my brother back, but at least he (Lopez) gets what he deserves.”

Six uniformed deputies stood near Lopez and his attorney as the jury return was read. He remained quiet during the reading of the verdict and was then led out a side door.

“Policing is one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet. The alleged facts in this case will show that this defendant callously gunned down and killed 23-year-old Officer Mohamed Said, who was just doing his job and had just begun his career in law enforcement. Tragic does not even begin to describe what happened here,” said Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.

Lopez will be sentenced on May 18.

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    KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — A family is recovering after driving into a sinkhole on a historic bridge on Friday night.

The hole developed on the 96-year-old bridge in the 1600 Block of John Brown Road west of Princeton after recent heavy rain in the area, according to the county’s public works director Jeff Welton.

A man was driving with his wife around 5:30 p.m., along with their daughter and grandson, in a Ford F-250 truck when he noticed a shadow in the road.

The man told deputies he later realized it was a sinkhole when he could not swerve out of the way.

The two women in the truck went by ambulance to AdventHealth in Ottawa, according to a Kansas Motor Vehicle Crash report obtained under a Kansas Open Records Act.

The driver told KMBC he is glad his family is alive but respectfully did not wish to provide any more comments.

Last week, Franklin and Miami Counties received rounds of heavy rain and storms.

“I was out this morning with the engineers,” Welton said on Monday. “They’re pretty confident, as well as I am, that this was due to the recent storms and the weather, extreme rains that we got.”

BRIDGE RATED “POOR” KMBC 9 Investigates also discovered the bridge in question over Middle Creek is rated in “poor condition,” according to a standardized scale on the Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory.

Ratings are calculated in good, fair, and poor categories.

A poorly rated bridge does not mean it is unsafe. The rating simply calls attention to its condition to prioritize repairs.

It was first listed as poor in 2023, according to Welton. It was reinspected in 2024.

The bridge received its last inspection on July 2, 2025.

On an inspection report, an engineer found:

Heavy rust at flow line of metal arch. Multiple holes. Arch showing signs of stress ( bending downward). Head walls with stone deterioration. Deterioration at flow line of both North and South sides. Corners at North flow line bent and allowing water to flow behind and between stone and metal arch culvert. Heavy stone and mortar deterioration at flow line.

But Welton told KMBC the engineer did not see enough to take the bridge out of service.

In fact, more than 38,000 “poor” rated bridges are still in service across the country, according to a Hearst Television Data Team analysis of the U.S. National Bridge Inventory. That’s a significant drop from more than 86,000 in 1992.

But, a growing number of bridges across the country are in “fair condition,” in need of repairs.

Last year, the county applied for $1.2 million in federal funding to make repairs to the bridge, according to Welton, but they were still waiting to hear back on funding.

He said due to the bridge’s historical status, there are several more steps to take than a normal bridge repair request before making sure repairs are complete.

NEXT STEPS FOR BRIDGE Welton said the remaining portion of the bridge will have to come down. Barricades are standing to prevent drivers from driving through.

The bridge has more than 500 crossings every day.

“We’ll need to get the bridge back in place, especially before harvest,” he said.

Welton said a recent disaster declaration for the area may help speed up funding requests for the bridge.

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    WAUKESHA COUNTY, Wisconsin (WDJT) — An Okauchee woman is charged with first degree intentional homicide after prosecutors say a dispute over dinner turned deadly Friday, April 24.

According to the criminal complaint, 27-year-old Mikayla Kloth admitted to stabbing her boyfriend during an argument that started over chicken he brought to her apartment for dinner.

The complaint says when an officer at the scene asked who stabbed the victim, Kloth allegedly responded, “I did,” telling police she was angry at him.

During an interview with investigators, prosecutors say Kloth said she didn’t want the victim to come over for dinner and wanted to go out. She reportedly said the victim came over with drumsticks and “began pushing her buttons.”

Kloth allegedly admitted to stabbing the victim, saying her anger got the best of her, according to the complaint, and “if they had to lock her up, that was cool.”

During her transport to the police department, the complaint says Kloth told officers she “should have just gone to the bar” and that “the whole thing was just irritating.”

Court records say an autopsy indicated the victim died of a stab wound to the chest.

In court Monday, Kloth’s cash bond was set at $2 million. A preliminary hearing is set for May 29.

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