Troubled defunded Vallejo Police Department finally gets new chief.

Kara St. Cyr reports on interim chief Jason Ta being made the permanent Vallejo chief of police.

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BREAKING! Biden decides to block U.S. Steel sale to Japanese buyer, administration officials say. The move threatens the future of the once-iconic American business and is expected as early as Friday.

Barring an unforeseen change of heart, which the officials do not expect, a White House announcement of the presidential finding is planned as soon as Friday.

Biden opted to kill the deal despite intense efforts by some of his senior advisers to sway him in recent days, who warned that rejecting a sizable investment from a top Japanese corporation could damage U.S. relations with Japan.

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/02/biden-blocks-nippon-us-steel-deal/

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Police, HSI, ATF and FBI agents are maintaining a high security presence as Bourbon Street, Canal Street and the French Quarter re-opens following the New Year’s Day truck ramming terrorist attack in New Orleans, Louisiana on Thursday, January 2, 2025.

The area reopened Thursday afternoon under an extremely heavy police presence with officers in tactical gear as the public roamed the streets thankful that the area is opened for business.

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UPDATE: A bomb threat has resulted in the closure of major road in the Upstate Thursday evening, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster announced.

Traffic is now being let through on Interstate 85 and White Horse Road after the driver of an 18-wheeler was arrested Thursday night, according to law enforcement.

The person's identity hasn't been released.

A man who was freed early from federal prison under a “compassionate release” program is headed back where he belongs after being convicted of the same crime for which he was initially locked up.

Read more: https://lawenforcementtoday.com/career-criminal-released-under-california-compassionate-release-arrested-for-committing-the-same-crime-he-was-jailed-for

DEVELOPING! United Airlines Flight 540 From Denver to San Diego was diverted to LAX after circling SD a few times.

No additional information is currently available.

Michigan: A driver crashed their car into a Detroit home Wednesday night and it was all caught on camera.

The driver slammed into a residential home's porch as police arrived on the scene. She did it again while police were on the scene before leading cops on a chase.

The incident happened on the city's west side, and the circumstances leading up to the incident are unknown. We reached out to Detroit police to gather more details.

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EXCLUSIVE: Texas police arrest soldier indicted in hack against AT&T.

A U.S. Army Soldier has been Arrested for Allegedly Hacking Trump and Kamala Harris’s Phones, Selling Confidential Phone Records Online.

The records were stolen from computer networks run by Snowflake, a cloud storage service used by AT&T and a number of other companies. In court records reviewed by The Desk, Wagenius is not accused of targeting Snowflake directly, but investigators believe he used the name “Kiberphant0m” in an online forum frequented by hackers and cybersecurity researchers, where he allegedly tried to extort AT&T into paying a ransom.

In a post made on November 5, Wagenius allegedly threatened to leak call logs connected to Trump and Harris officials if AT&T did not reach out to him or another hacker who went by the pseudonym “Reddinton.”

Previously assigned to network communications in South Korea, Wagenius was described by his mother as tech-savvy. Operating online under the alias “Kiberphant0m,” he is accused of hacking 15 companies, including AT&T and Verizon, and selling stolen phone records in online forums as recently as November.

Federal investigators believe the data breach involved multiple high-profile targets and extensive black-market operations.

Read more: https://thedesk.net/2024/12/cameron-wagenius-kiberphant0m-arrested-indicted/

Back to LA: found this drunk driver passed out in the middle of the freeway lane. 👀

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Sharks were spotted lurking close to swimmers at two different beaches in Perth, Western Australia. 🦈

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Good morning! More than half of the states across the country have one of these on the map:

NEW: Metro bus involved in multi-car collision in Van Nuys

The 13-year-old girl told police that the four teens tried to sexually assault her and that they had guns on them. Officers did recover two handguns and hollow point bullets during a court-authorized search of the hotel room. All of the teenagers were arrested.

Read more: https://lawenforcementtoday.com/group-of-teens-arrested-for-holding-13-year-old-hostage-in-nj-hotel-room

UPDATE: LA County deputies stuck using radios as dispatch system remains down.

The LASD said its computer-aided dispatch program — known as the CAD — was “not allowing personnel to log on with the new year, making the CAD inoperable.”

Read more: https://www.foxla.com/news/la-county-sheriffs-department-system-down-january-2025

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🚨Mr. Elon Musk, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna (R-CA) needs the help of your engineers.