Two LAPD officers hospitalized after possible fentanyl exposure in Van Nuys

Two Los Angeles Police Department officers were hospitalized on Saturday afternoon after they were possibly exposed to fentanyl in Van Nuys. Circumstances surrounding the incident remain sparse, but additional officers were dispatched to the McDonald's parking lot in the 7100 block of N. Van Nuys after learning of the potential exposure. Two ambulances were requested for the officers involved in the incident. Both officers were released from the hospital to recover at home by Sunday afternoon, the LAPD said. SkyCal flew over the parking lot, where a damaged minivan surrounded by crime scene tape could be seen. A short distance away, a person appeared to be handcuffed in the back of an LAPD patrol car. It remains unclear where the officers encountered the narcotic and why they were in the area in the first place. 

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1 dead, 1 hospitalized after argument leads to shooting at McDonald's drive-thru in East Hollywood

A possible case of road rage may have led to a shooting in a McDonald's drive-thru in East Hollywood early Saturday that left one man dead and a woman hospitalized, authorities said. The shooting was reported about 3:45 a.m. at the fast food restaurant in the 1000 block of Western Avenue, just south of Santa Monica Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The suspected gunman, 21, was involved in an argument with a 36-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman before opening fire on them, an LAPD spokesperson said. Both victims of the shooting were transported to a hospital, where the wounded man died and the woman was listed in stable condition after being shot in the leg, police said. The uninjured suspect was taken into custody without incident at the scene of the shooting. The circumstances that led to the argument were under investigation, authorities said. Witnesses said the confrontation was prompted by a minor fender-bender in the drive-thru.

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Man shot and killed in Sawtelle alleyway

Detectives are investigating a shooting that left one man dead in a Sawtelle alleyway early Sunday morning, police confirmed. The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department, near the intersection of Missouri Avenue and Sawtelle Boulevard. Details on the shooting are limited, and police only said that the victim was found in an alley with multiple gunshot wounds. Paramedics arrived and transported the victim to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Authorities only identified the victim as a man estimated to be around 30 years old. It was unknown if he was unhoused at the time of the shooting. No suspect description was available as of 10 a.m. Sunday, but the shooting remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the LAPD.

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Police seek shooter who left scene of Westlake District killing on scooter

Authorities are searching for the person who shot and killed a 35-year-old man in the Westlake District before leaving the scene on a scooter. The shooting west of downtown Los Angeles was reported at about 4 p.m. Saturday on Westlake Avenue near MacArthur Park. The victim and shooter were in some type of dispute before the shooting, the LAPD said. The victim died at a hospital. Anyone with information about the shooting was asked to call the LAPD's Rampart station at 213-484-3400.

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Man enters NYPD station, slashes cop in face before fatal OIS

NYPD cops shot a man to death after he tried to get inside a Brooklyn precinct stationhouse early Sunday and slashed an officer in the face for stopping him, police said. The slasher tried to enter the 73rd Precinct stationhouse at East New York Ave. and Thomas S. Boyland St . in Brownsville through a locked door in the front vestibule about 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, then circled around the building and tried to get in through a backdoor, police said. When a uniformed officer stopped him and told him he needed to go around front if he wanted help, he whipped out a 14-inch butcher knife and attacked her, police said. “He slashed her in the face, but then she was able to fight him off,” NYPD Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera said Sunday. The slasher ran and an officer tried to subdue him with a Taser, but the shock wasn’t effective, Rivera said, adding that the knife attack and the Taser use were both caught on NYPD body camera footage.

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BWC: Man hits Ill. officer with bat before fatal OIS

Illinois State Police have released body camera footage from a fatal police encounter that occurred after a man hit an officer with a wooden bat while he was being detained, the Peoria Journal Star reported. According to authorities, Peoria police were responding to a report of a man publicly urinating on Aug. 5. Two officers approached the man, who was sitting on a curb holding a wooden bat in his lap. In the bodycam video released on Sept. 5 by Illinois State Police, one officer questions the man about the public urination report. The man can be heard repeatedly asking what he did wrong. The officer explained that a witness reported him urinating in public and that she saw him with his pants down when she arrived on the scene. She repeatedly asked the man for the bat and his personal information, informing him that he was being detained. The man continued to ask why he is being detained and refused to put down the bat.

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More Than 20 Active Shooting Hoaxes Have Locked Down Colleges Over the Past Two Weeks

Last month, as colleges and universities prepared to resume classes, students at nearly two dozen campuses got a grim welcome: an emergency alert. “Active shooter on my campus right now,” a theater student at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga posted on X during the subsequent lockdown, adding: “We can’t live like this.” In 17 states over the past two weeks, students returning to college campuses were confronted with active shooter alerts and lockdowns. They were all false alarms, authorities said, with an online group taking credit for calling in the fake reports to law enforcement. All told, there were at least 22 swatting hoaxes at American colleges during the last week of August and early September, according to a Trace analysis of news reports. Among those hit were Auburn University in Alabama; three colleges in Georgia, all which received false reports on the same day; and Villanova University in Pennsylvania, which was swatted twice. Most of the calls involved an armed person in the library. Some featured gunshots in the background.

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Firefighters rescue man from Boyle Heights manhole

Firefighters freed a 30-year-old man Saturday after he fell about 15 feet into a manhole in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles. The situation was reported at 1:22 p.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of South Boyle Avenue, near the junction of the 10, 5 and 101 freeways, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department's Lyndsey Lantz. Based on the patient's location in an underground space, authorities upgraded the rescue to a confined space operation, necessitating the employment of LAFD hazardous material specialists for air monitoring and an LAFD Urban Search and Rescue component for the technical hoist rescue, Lantz said. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ensured that all power lines in the underground space were de-energized prior to the rescue operation, and the Department of Transportation closed streets to traffic in the immediate area. The operation was complete at 2:49 p.m. with the man taken by paramedics to a hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries.

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Firefighters Put out Heavy Flames in Vermont Square Garage

A detached garage went up in flames Sunday at a home in the Vermont Square area of Los Angeles, but firefighters had it out in 12 minutes. The fire was reported around 8:24 p.m. Sunday at 1317 W. 41st Place, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Lyndsey Lantz. The fire did not spread to any other structures and no injuries were reported, Lantz said.

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Chagas disease, or deadly kissing bug disease, has spread in the U.S. Here's what to know.

Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition caused by an infected triatomine insect or "kissing bug," may be becoming endemic in the United States, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. In the report, which was originally published last month for the September issue of the CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, the authors said the disease is already endemic to 21 countries in the Americas, and growing evidence of the parasite is challenging the non-endemic label in the U.S. "Autochthonous (or, locally acquired) human cases have been reported in 8 states, most notably in Texas. Labeling the United States as non-Chagas disease-endemic perpetuates low awareness and underreporting," the report noted, adding the insect has been reported in 32 states. Other states with human cases include California, Arizona, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Arkansas, according to the report. The report notes that data is "inadequate" to prove that the insects are increasing in geographic distribution or abundance. But it also says that the bugs are "increasingly recognized" because of frequent encounters with humans and due to more research attention.

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