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A week after South Lake Tahoe's mayor resigned amid an embezzlement scandal, her successor was chosen a man who is fighting charges related to a run-in at a bar. An overflow crowd attended the Tuesday city council meeting at which Cody Bass was promoted to the top role, TV station KOVR reported. Tamara Wallace formally left the job on Oct. 13. The previous week she announced in a public letter that she had embezzled from a church, and that her guilt, shame and grief drove her to attempt suicide on Sept. 11. She spent the subsequent weeks in mental health treatment, she said.

The suspect - Albert Decoto, 46, of Oakland, who was arrested Oct. 9 - has been charged with four counts of first degree residential burglary, three counts of first degree residential robbery, one count of carjacking, two counts of vehicle theft, one count of assault on a peace officer and one count of attempted carjacking, all felonies. He has also been charged with misdemeanor counts of resisting a peace officer and possession of a controlled substance.

Pacheco faces several charges, including second-degree hindering prosecution-a Class E felony-two counts of official misconduct, and two counts of second-degree obstruction of governmental administration, both of which are Class A misdemeanors. The first charge, which is the most serious, accuses Pacheco of rendering criminal assistance to a person who has committed a Class B or Class C felony. According to the Elmira Star-Gazette, Elmira police chief Kristen Thorne was informed in July of Pacheco's alleged unauthorized release of sensitive information regarding an ongoing investigation.

Marconi had been accused of soliciting then-Republican Gov. Chris Sununu to influence the attorney general's investigation into her husband, telling him that the investigation was the result of "personal petty and/or political biases." According to the indictment, she told Sununu there was no merit to the allegations and that any investigation into her husband "needed to be wrapped up quickly because she was recused from important cases pending" before the court.

Deputy District Attorney Jessalee Mills told jurors the case will show activism that crosses the line into criminal conduct. This case is not about what Miss Rosenberg believes; it's about what she did, Mills said. And what she did was illegal. Prosecutors allege she entered the facility on Lakeville Highway late at night, accessed computers and records, and placed GPS trackers on 12 delivery trucks.

Brooklyn Special Victims Squad detectives charged Justin Lee, 22, of Queens Village, on Oct. 5 with attempted rape, strangulation, and burglary in connection with an early-morning attack on Oct. 4 within the 60th Precinct in southern Brooklyn. According to police, Lee allegedly broke into a private residence where a 12-year-old girl was located and tried to rape her. The burglary charge stems from his unlawful entry into the home, while the strangulation charge is related to actions taken within the act, police sources said.

A Santa Rosa restaurant owner was arrested early Sunday after police say he fired a gun during a dispute with a customer over a bill. Moises Flores, 48, was taken into custody shortly after the altercation, reported about 4:10 a.m. at Dos Culturas Restaurant, 1709 Santa Rosa Ave., according to the Santa Rosa Police Department. He faces allegations including assault with a deadly weapon and shooting at an occupied vehicle.

Barry George has been charged with rape and two indecent assaults against a teenager alleged to have happened almost four decades ago, police have said. The Metropolitan police said they had charged George who now lives in County Cork, Ireland. Police said the alleged offences happened in west London against a 14-year-old girl in September 1987. George, 65, was wrongly convicted of murdering the BBC journalist Jill Dando. He spent eight years in jail for the 1999 killing, before being released in 2008 after a unanimous acquittal.

Rest in peace Isabelle, fly high little girl. Forever two.

Two suspects are facing criminal charges after a Tuesday night shooting at a downtown Concord parking garage injured three people. Justino Lopez-Perez, of Bay Point, was charged with attempted murder, assault with a firearm, discharging a firearm from within a vehicle and more, according to the Concord Police Department. Erickson Melendez, of Concord, was charged with conspiracy and discharging a firearm from a vehicle.

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988, or go to 988lifeline.org, to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. You can also call the network, previously known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, at 800-273-8255, or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources. People - and especially parents - can't stop talking about the Netflix documentary, "Unknown Number: The High School Catfish," in which Michigan mom Kendra Licari cyberbullies her own teenage daughter, Lauryn Licari.

A 95-year-old woman was arrested in New York after allegedly bludgeoning her 89-year-old nursing home roommate to death with a wheelchair pedal. Galina Smirnova, 95, is charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, according to officials. She was transferred to another hospital before her next hearing. Authorities said a nurse found 89-year-old Nina Kravtsov, a Holocaust survivor from Ukraine, covered in blood and unresponsive Sunday at the Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Coney Island, according to a report from affiliate FOX 5.

The artist, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one felony count of resisting an executive officer during the August incident. During a court hearing in the case on Monday, attorneys for Hill told Los Angeles county Judge Shellie Samuels that the Grammy-winning musician was receiving in-patient treatment out of state.

Ian Fotheringham, of Falmouth, is charged with threatened use of a deadly weapon in a public building, Cape and Islands District Attorney Robert Galibois announced Friday. He pleaded not guilty in court and was held without bail pending a dangerous hearing. In late August, Fotheringham was reported to police after he "indicated that he wanted to shoot up a school," the DA alleged.

WARNING: This story references child sexual assault. Ontario corrections officials have denied a request to transfer registered child sex offender Daniel Senecal to a women's jail as the 25-year-old awaits a bail hearing in another case, this one involving an attack on a girl in Welland. Senecal was released earlier this year after serving time for the sexual assault of a 12-year-old in the Niagara Region city. The latest charges involve a three-year-old over the Labour Day weekend.

Screenshot via Fox News. President Donald Trump told the Fox & Friends audience Friday that he had chosen not to watch the full videos of Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska being killed, calling them just horrific. Kirk, 31, was the founder of Turning Point USA and a staunch Trump supporter. He was speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday when he was fatally shot. On Friday, Utah authorities announced that the alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, 22, had confessed to his father and was convinced to allow himself to be taken into custody.

While on scene, the driver of the Ford Explorer, later identified as Bezan, stumbled toward officers in a hysterical crying state. Bezan appeared erratic and unsteady on her feet with visible bruising on her arms consistent with an intravenous drug user. Bezan told officers that her sister, who is autistic, grabbed the steering wheel while she was backing out of a parking space, causing her to run a person over.

SAN JOSE The mother-daughter operators of a San Jose daycare center where two toddlers drowned in a swimming pool in 2023 were held to answer to charges of child endangerment by a judge following a preliminary hearing this week. The ruling, which means that there is sufficient evidence for the case to proceed to trial, was passed down by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Ronald Toff, following a three-day preliminary hearing that concluded Thursday.