A woman is behind bars after Anchorage Police say she pulled a knife out and assaulted an employee at Burlington Coat Factory. Police say it happened Saturday at the Northway Mall. It's important to note that no one was hurt by the knife. Police say the preliminary investigation shows 28-year-old Deserae Kraus tried to take multiple items from Burlington Coat Factory. While trying to leave, she was confronted by an employee and that's when the knife was pulled out. Police say "as mall security guards attempted to give Kraus a trespass warning, Kraus became physically combative and began to fight. At some point during the confrontation, Kraus again brandished the knife...She fought security as she was being escorted out of the mall." Kraus is currently facing multiple charges including Robbery, Assault, and Theft.👮🏻‍♂️

Southern California slammed by winter snow storm, stranding holiday travelers; system now heads east. Holiday travelers in Southern California were hit with a blustery winter storm Thursday that saw the shutdown of major highways and at least one death as forecasters now warn that the system is picking up strength as it heads to the Central Plains and Upper Midwest. A 60-year-old woman died in San Diego County at around 6:50 a.m after the vehicle she was a passenger in lost control and veered off the road into an embankment. The victim, who was not wearing a seatbelt and in the back seat, was thrown forward into the windshield and pronounced dead on the scene. Traffic was at a standstill after heavy snowfall shut down the busy Interstate 5 in Tejon Pass through the mountains north of Los Angeles and stopped traffic on Interstate 15 over Cajon Pass in the inland region to the east.❄️

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Paramedics had to attend to a black thief's serious burn wounds after an attempt to steal cables from a substation in a Johannesburg suburb went wrong. This has led to a power supply interruption affecting houses in the area.

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BREAKING NEWS! Mexican authorities have arrested a municipal police chief for his suspected links to the killing of three women and six children of U.S.-Mexican origin in northern Mexico last month, local media and an official said on Friday. Suspected drug cartel hitmen shot dead the nine women and children from families of Mormon origin in Sonora state on Nov. 4, sparking outrage in Mexico and the United States. Several Mexican media outlets reported that law enforcement agents arrested Fidel Alejandro Villegas, police chief of the municipality of Janos, which lies in the neighboring state of Chihuahua, on suspicion of involvement in the crime, reported Reuters. The reports said he is suspected of having ties to organized crime, but details of his alleged role were not clear