Lifeguard saves young swimmer’s life at pool

CNN Newsource on September 30, 2025

By Alexis Ramanjulu

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    SIERRA VISTA, Arizona (KGUN) — An 18-year-old lifeguard helped save a young girl’s life after she suffered a cardiac event while swimming at the City of Sierra Vista’s pool last week.

Nathan Gluck was off duty when he noticed the swimmer in distress between lanes two and three at the Cove, Sierra Vista’s aquatic center. Working alongside a former firefighter, Gluck assisted in life-saving CPR that restored the girl’s heartbeat and breathing.

“We just like went to worst case scenario,” Gluck said.

For Gluck, this was his first real emergency as a lifeguard.

“I’ve honestly never, like made a save. I’ve never jumped in the water like nothing has ever happened here. To be honest, I just kind of show up every day, like hoping nothing like that happens, because it’s really bad,” he said.

When the pair reached the swimmer, she had no pulse and wasn’t breathing. The former firefighter began chest compressions while Gluck provided rescue breathing.

“I asked the firefighter for a pulse. There was no pulse. She wasn’t breathing. The firefighter started compressions. I tilted her head back with the mask, started giving ventilations to her,” Gluck said.

Their quick actions successfully revived the young swimmer, before paramedics arrived.

“I was like, yes, like, she’s alive. Like, I would never want anybody to ever, like, lose their life or anything,” Gluck said.

Two days after the rescue, Gluck received acceptance to serve as a combat medic for the U.S. Army. The life-saving experience reinforced his career choice in emergency medicine.

“It was like really thankful that we’re able to save somebody’s life and keep them living,” Gluck said.

Before heading to basic training, Gluck hopes to meet the girl whose life he helped save.

“I haven’t met her or seen her at all, but hopefully, maybe soon, I don’t know that’d be cool,” Gluck said.

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How one treatment facility is handling a changing drug scene

CNN Newsource on September 30, 2025

By Alex Dowd

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    TUCSON, Arizona (KGUN) — September is National Recovery Month— a month dedicated to celebrating substance use recovery. That’s a feat that some treatment facilities are seeing as more difficult as the potency of drugs on the street grows.

Drug treatment facilities in Tucson are adapting their approach as stronger illegal drugs flood the streets

Community Medical Services in Tucson has found itself relying more heavily on methadone in recent years as synthetic opioids like fentanyl become more prevalent. For the past two decades, treatment facilities have used medications like Suboxone, Buprenorphine and Methadone to treat opioid addiction, choosing the drug based on the patient’s stage of withdrawal.

“Methadone is what we call a full opioid agonist, so it replaces the opioid—the illicit opioid— in somebody’s opioid receptor,” said Desiree Auge, Community Impact Manager at Community Medical Services.

The popularity of synthetic opioids has led the facility to not only prescribe methadone over Suboxone more frequently, but also to increase those doses.

“It’s been a little bit more difficult to try to get people on track. Some clients are reporting— at intake— using 60, 80, 100 pills a day,” Auge said.

Over 1,200 deaths have been reported in Arizona, according to the Arizona Department of Health.

“People are not really using even to get high anymore, they’re just using not to be sick,” Auge said.

The medications help ease withdrawal symptoms, encouraging people into treatment without the pain of detox.

“That’s all you remember is the pain that your body was going through during that time. So when you have people consistently doing that, when you mention treatment to them, their automatic thought may go to detox, and they’re going to say no,” Auge said.

At Community Medical Services, the goal is stability, not sobriety, achieved with the help of medication-assisted treatment. Auge says her team is changing the narrative of what treatment means, and they’ve seen steady growth in clients over the past few years. The facility now serves 2,228 people in Pima County.

Earlier this year, the treatment facility opened their third clinic in Tucson at Grant and Alvernon.

Auge stressed that methadone or Suboxone is just one piece of the recovery work they do at Community Medical Services. Treatment is paired with therapy and peer mentors.

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Viral video shows bouncer put man in chokehold

CNN Newsource on September 30, 2025

By Adam Thompson

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    FEDERAL HILL, Maryland (WJZ) — Baltimore police are working to identify a bouncer who was seen in a viral video putting someone in a chokehold outside of an establishment in Federal Hill.

The incident happened in the area of East Cross Street following an argument.

Although police said they have not received any calls or reports related to this incident, detectives are still working to determine what happened and identify the person involved.

In a social media post, Baltimore City Councilman Yitzy Schleifer called for accountability, while tagging both the Baltimore Police Department and Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates.

“Both Bouncers/Security guards need to be held accountable,” Schleifer said.

Anyone with information about the person’s identity is asked to call detectives at 410-396-2499 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup.

In August, a private security firm in Federal Hill said it was working with the community to reduce crime.

The Federal Hill Neighborhood Patrol started in 2020 after someone was fatally shot and another person was carjacked within days of each other.

The neighborhood patrol contracted MATCOM Office of Public Safety, a private security firm, for years, which they say has dropped crime numbers by 41% in some categories in certain parts of Federal Hill.

The neighborhood patrol is certified as special police in the state, meaning they can detain suspects if a crime happens in their jurisdiction.

Staffing has increased to the point of having half a dozen officers on weekend nights.

“It even gets to the point where on the weekends, we’re able to have six officers on the street to kind of balance out, when the officers are tied up dealing with the bars and we’re able to kind of mitigate and take care of things on the street here,” said Maj. Brian Askew, who serves as the neighborhood’s director of patrol and works for MATCOM Office of Public Safety.

The neighborhood patrol said it has an agreement with the Southern District of Baltimore City Police to help when needed.

“They sort of allow us to be an extra set of ears, not to supplement what they do. It’s just that they can’t be everywhere at once. We don’t expect them to,” said Ian Neuman, president of the Federal Hill Neighborhood Patrol.

Recently, Federal Hill has reportedly had a string of break-ins, a wave of vandalism, a 39-year-old woman injured in a shooting, and a woman who was allegedly carjacked at knifepoint with her child in the car.

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Genesee County declares state of emergency in response to Grand Blanc church attack

CNN Newsource on September 30, 2025

By Paula Wethington

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    MICHIGAN (WWJ) — The local government of Genesee County, Michigan, has declared a local state of emergency in response to Sunday’s attack on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township.

Four victims were killed in the shooting and fire. The shooter is also dead, officials said. Eight others who were at the church that day are in hospital care, according to updates Monday from authorities.

Delrico J. Loyd, chairman of the Genesee County Board of Commissioners, signed the county declaration Monday, in support of one that Grand Blanc Township had already issued.

“We stand with the victims of this senseless act of violence and destruction that has struck at the heart of our community,” Loyd said. “Making this declaration ensures that we are doing everything in our power to protect our community, provide the necessary support, and stand shoulder to shoulder during this time of grief. My prayers, and the prayers of our entire board, are with everyone impacted by this tragedy.”

Under Michigan law, a local state of emergency declaration activates emergency operations plans and authorizes the furnishing of aid, assistance, and directives under those plans.

The declaration enables Genesee County to request additional support and resources from the State of Michigan, which might include the deployment of emergency personnel and resources, and to expedite aid to residents and organizations directly impacted by the incident.

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‘A little bit of magic’: Emotional reunion as part of Lake Lure Rainbow Bridge recovered

CNN Newsource on September 30, 2025

By Taylor Thompson

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    LAKE LURE, North Carolina (WLOS) — It was a touching and emotional moment for WLOS’s general manager, Courtney Youngblood, when volunteers in Lake Lure uncovered part of a special memorial that was lost to Hurricane Helene.

Last week, workers clearing the channel to the Lake Lure boat marina discovered a section of the town’s Rainbow Bridge in the sediment.

The Rainbow Bridge is a memorial on the Flowering Bridge where pet owners can put their departed dogs’ collars and leashes.

Last week’s recovery of some of these important memories brought relief to many pet owners, including one of our own, Courtney Youngblood.

She left part of her heart on the rainbow bridge on Sept. 8, 2024.

Youngblood said that she never thought she would part with anything from the dogs she’s had throughout her life. But when she stepped onto the Rainbow Bridge, she felt overwhelmed by all the love.

“So many loved animals are represented, even if you didn’t have a dog that was out there, if you had a heart for animals, it would bring you to tears,” she said.

Youngblood and her husband decided to put their three pups’ tags together on one leash to hang on the bridge. She said it felt right in her heart. She had no idea that just 19 days later, Helene would sweep through Lake Lure and wash the bridge away.

She remained cautiously optimistic, but part of her knew that these memories of her dogs were probably gone forever.

“I remember sitting down in the hallway with Meghan Danahay here at WLOS when we saw that the bridge was gone because, as dog lovers, it was just the thing that finally made us sit down, and we just cried,” she said.

If you’re a dog person, you get it.

“They don’t care even if you had a bad day, they make your day better, they greet you at the door,” she said. “It’s just the definition of love for me.”

364 days later, the day before the one-year mark of the storm, a miracle happened.

Youngblood was scrolling through Facebook and saw a post saying that part of the Rainbow Bridge had been found. She spent several minutes looking closely at every photo to see if she could find their collar, but no luck.

Later that day, archives of all the collars found were posted, and her beloved pups were listed as number 51.

“I looked and I didn’t even know they were archiving the collars,” she said. “It’s a beautiful thing, and there they were.”

She couldn’t believe that her pups found their way home.

Now, all of the found collars will be cleaned and stored until the new Rainbow Bridge is built.

The new bridge is expected to be completed next spring.

“How special it is to know that history will always be there and that my dogs will always be on the new bridge,” she said.

Lots of happy tears took place on the old bridge, and Youngblood is thrilled that Pugsley, Hemingway and Johnny’s memories will forever live on the new bridge.

“I felt like – for all of the sadness and all of the destruction that happened – the day before the one-year mark of Helene just did feel like a little bit of magic, a little bit of happiness in a time where we all need it,” she said.

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Thousands of beer cans littered across the freeway after semi-truck crash

CNN Newsource on September 30, 2025

By Chelsea Hylton

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    California (KCAL, KCBS) — Cases of beer were scattered across the westbound 210 Freeway in Azusa on Tuesday morning after a semi-truck crash.

A semi-truck carrying cases of beer nearly folded in half, causing nearly 5,000 beer cans to scatter across the freeway.

The California Highway Patrol issued a Sig Alert for the freeway just west of Vernon Avenue. The CHP said the two right lanes will be closed for several hours as crews work to clear the roadway.

KCA News has also issued a Next Traffic Alert to warn drivers about the impact on their morning commute.

It is unclear how the crash occurred. No injuries were reported.

Officials are urging drivers to travel with caution to be observant of crews working in the area.

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Human remains found in Canadian well identified as woman born in 1881

CNN Newsource on September 30, 2025

By Kerry Breen

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    MINNESOTA (WCCO) — Canadian authorities have identified a person known as “The Woman in the Well” nearly two decades after her remains were found.

The woman, Alice Spence, was born in September 1881 and had moved to Canada from Minnesota in 1913, police said.

In June 2006, crews excavating a site in Sutherland, Saskatoon, found an old well and a barrel containing preserved human remains, according to a news release from the Saskatoon Police Service. The area was previously the site of the Shore Hotel, a boarding house that was demolished in 1927, according to a news release from the private genetic genealogy company Othram.

The woman had been partially dismembered, police believed, and was wrapped in a burlap sack and stuffed in the barrel, Othram said. Police found clothes, including a fitted jacket and long skirt, that dated to between 1910 and 1920, Othram said. A broken necklace and men’s clothing were also found.

An autopsy determined the woman had died under suspicious circumstances, but authorities were unable to identify her despite years of investigation. Police developed a DNA profile, but found no matches, and facial reconstruction images released to the public turned up no answers, Othram said.

In 2023, the Saskatoon Police Services submitted forensic evidence from the case to Othram. Othram’s scientists were able to develop a DNA extract from the skeletal evidence. They built a comprehensive DNA profile, Othram said, which was used to generate “new investigative leads” that were returned to the police service.

A breakthrough came in June this year, Saskatoon Police Service Sergeant Darren Funk said in a news conference. At an event in Ottawa, Funk heard the Toronto Police Service describe how they had used investigative genetic genealogy to solve a homicide. Investigative genetic genealogy uses the DNA of people who were related to the subject to help make an identification.

Funk connected with the Toronto Police Service and asked them to review the case of “The Woman in the Well.” The Toronto Police Service’s follow-up investigation led investigators to people who may have been the woman’s relatives. Police collected reference DNA samples from those subjects, and those samples were compared to the woman’s DNA profile. Authorities also used historical information and city archives to help make the identification.

Alice Spence was married to a man named Charles Spence and had a daughter, Idella, police said. Spence’s listing in a 1916 census was the last proof of life historians could find for her.

The family’s home in Sutherland was destroyed by a fire in 1918, police said. Other records show Charles and Idella Spence living with a housekeeper in 1921. Investigators believe that Alice’s death occurred sometime between 1916 and the fire in 1918.

Spence’s descendants, located through forensic genetic genealogy, were largely unaware of their relative and her death, police said.

The police service said it believes this is the oldest investigation in Canada to be solved with the assistance of investigative genetic genealogy. Saskatoon Police Service Chief Cameron McBride called it a “testament to the determination and innovation of investigators throughout all these years.”

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Video shows two cars chasing, colliding in parking lot during possible road rage incident

CNN Newsource on September 30, 2025

By Nicole Comstock, Dean Fioresi

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    WEST COVINA, California (KCAL, KCBS) — Wild video captured the chaotic moments that two drivers chased each other around a West Covina parking lot last week, colliding multiple times before both fled from the area.

Witnesses say that the incident rapidly escalated into what the now-viral video shows, as two sedans speed around a parking lot in circles before colliding once, causing debris and clothing from one car’s trunk to fly. The cars separate briefly, each heading down a different aisle, before again crashing into one another in front of a clothing store.

After the second crash, both cars sped off in different directions, heading away from the parking lot at Francisquito Avenue and Sunset Avenue.

“I was literally at a loss for words,” said Drea Cano, the general manager at Louie’s Liquor. “Part of me wanted to run over there and be nosy and see what happened.”

West Covina police said that a report was taken based on a witness statement, but that neither of the drivers involved contacted them to file their own reports.

“Both parties involved in the incident fled the area prior to our arrival,” said a statement from WCPD. “We are still attempting to identify the parties involved. The investigation is still ongoing.”

While the investigation into who was involved and what exactly led up to the wild incident continues, Cano said that she heard that it was possibly connected to some sort of domestic dispute.

No further information was provided by police, and it’s unclear what charges the drivers could face for their part in the incident, if any.

CBS News Los Angeles has reached out to both the West Covina mayor and some city council members for comment on the matter but has not yet heard back.

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WATCH: Bear seen running around grocery store

CNN Newsource on September 30, 2025

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    ORO VALLEY, Arizona (KGUN) — Can you imagine going inside a Fry’s grocery store at around six in the morning, and being told by a fellow shopper that there’s a bear inside the store? Well that was the reality for Charlie Alolkoy on Monday morning.

“I just didn’t believe it. I just thought this guy’s drunk,” he said about the man who told him.

While some were scared, he said others were curious, and one woman was even crying. While he encounters a lot of wildlife when he photographs them, a bear is not an animal he has ever encountered.

“I was very startled and my first reaction was to just get out of the way,” Alolkoy said about his own reaction. “When I felt like I was at a safe distance from it, I was more about curiosity than fear.”

Alolkoy recounted that the bear looked like it was looking for a way out of the store, running around the different aisles. However, he said it eventually found its way out and Fry’s employees evacuated the store and the Oro Valley Police Department arrived at the grocery store.

“When they’re cornered, they’re more dangerous and this seemed like that kind of situation so I was a little more cautious than I normally am,” Alolkoy said.

Because it’s rained less this year, Arizona Game and Fish’s public affairs community liaison Mark Frieberg said bears come closer to our neighborhoods when looking for “bear necessities” like food because there are less resources in the mountains. Uusally Frieberg said it doesn’t happen often, but when it does he said it happens during the summer and has recently been happening more.

Last Friday Olena Kotsur said she was barely able to stay calm when she saw a bear in this neighborhood about three miles away from the Fry’s. She said she also saw it around six in the morning when she was going for a walk in the morning. While she normally sees wildlife like javelina, she said she had never seen a bear.

“I was frozen. I was freaking out because you don’t really expect to see a bear somewhere here,” Kotsur said. “When he saw me, he just stopped and he started staring at me. It was really scary moment.”

This also comes after there was a bear sighting last Friday by another person.

Frieberg said they’re still looking for the bear from Fry’s. They said it could be put in a sanctuary or be put down if it was a threat to humans. If anyone finds it, Frieberg said they can call 623-236-7201.

“It was unbelievable. I will never forget this,” Kotsur said.

A bear was filmed Monday morning running around the aisles of a grocery store on Oracle Road in Oro Valley.

Photographer Charlie Alolkoy captured footage of the bear as it ran around the aisles.

According to Arizona Game & Fish, officers are currently out looking for it.

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Southlake mom, former substitute teacher released after sex trafficking indictment linked to New York sex “dungeon”

CNN Newsource on September 30, 2025

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    SOUTHLAKE, Texas (KTVT) — A Southlake mom and former substitute teacher was released from federal custody with a GPS monitor on Monday. U.S. prosecutors allege she is involved in sex trafficking women to New York to a financier’s so-called sex “dungeon.”

Jennifer Powers entered the courtroom in shackles around 2 p.m. The 45-year-old was softspoken. She told the judge she understood the charges.

This initial hearing came just hours after Carroll Independent School District confirmed she was a substitute teacher but had been dismissed.

This appearance was for a federal criminal case, but CBS News Texas learned she has also been involved in a civil case that was dismissed in 2022.

Powers allegedly arranged encounters for Rubin Prosecutors allege that between 2009-2019, the two arranged for women to travel to New York City to engage in sex with Rubin at his penthouse on 57th Street or in luxury hotels. Rubin had converted a bedroom of his penthouse into a soundproof sex “dungeon,” prosecutors said, and would engage in sadomasochistic sex with the women. He allegedly used a device to shock or electrocute the women, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors allege Rubin would establish a “safe word,” but then ignore it or prevent women from saying it because they were bound and gagged. He allegedly encouraged women to drink alcohol and take sedatives. Additionally, Rubin is accused of threatening women with legal action and public shaming if they sought help or reported the incidents.

“For many years, Howard Rubin and Jennifer Powers allegedly spent at least one million dollars to finance the commercial sexual torture of multiple women via a national trafficking network. The defendants allegedly exploited Rubin’s status to ensnare their prospective victims and forced them to endure unthinkable physical trauma before silencing any outcries with threats of legal recourse,” FBI Assistant Director in Charge Raia said.

Civil case against Jennifer Powers and Howard Rubin In or about 2017, Powers and others, including Howard Rubin, a former Wall Street portfolio manager, were sued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York by women who allegedly engaged in commercial sex acts with Rubin, requesting millions of dollars in damages.

According to the women, they were asked to sign a non-disclosure document that asked women to stay quiet about engaging in “…sexual, sadomasochistic (sm) activity that can be hazardous and on occasion cause injury…”

Attorneys for the women entered exhibits that they claimed showed Powers texting the women, sending airline tickets, arranging payments to them for up to $5,000 and confirming entry into Rubin’s New York penthouse.

In 2022, the civil case against Powers was dismissed by a jury. All other defendants were ordered to pay compensatory damages. On Friday, CBS News Texas learned the former substitute teacher and Rubin are now facing a 10-count criminal indictment.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says that as Rubin’s personal assistant, Powers was involved in misleading and recruiting women between 2009 and 2019.

Carroll ISD calls the allegations “serious” In a statement, Carroll ISD called the allegations “serious” and confirmed it is working with “the appropriate agencies.”

“We understand how much trust families place in our district, and I want to assure you that the safety and well-being of our students are our highest priorities,” CISD Board President Cam Bryan said. “The individual in question is no longer employed by Carroll ISD, has been fully removed from all roles, and no longer has any access to our campuses or facilities.”

CBS News Texas reached out to Powers’ attorney, who has not responded to the requests. CBS News Texas also reached out to several of Rubin’s attorneys, but they have not responded.

After processing, Powers will be free to go home on a monitor; however, the judge made sure she was aware of her next hearing in New York later this week.

Powers and Rubin are both charged with sex trafficking and transporting women across state lines for sex. If convicted of the top charge of sex trafficking, they each face 15 years to life in prison. Rubin pleaded not guilty at a federal court in Brooklyn, according to the Associated Press.

Rubin was also charged with bank fraud in connection with misrepresentations made to a bank in the course of financing Powers’ mortgage for the Texas home of Powers and her husband.

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