The raccoon that’s moved into downtown Brooklyn’s Nevins Street subway station taunted transit workers attempting to catch him Friday, eyeing a cage stocked with food before retreating back down the platform, NY Post reports. “He’s not stupid you know,” one cop said while his colleagues called out to striped critter they’ve dubbed Chepe. Nevins Street’s newest resident reappeared Thursday, more than a month after he was first spotted lurking on the IRT platforms in November. Cops and MTA workers tried Friday to coax the lovingly-named Chepe the Raccoon out of his tunnel residence into a cage stocked with plantains, chicken and a bagel. Chepe did make it into the cage at one point — only to evade capture when police tried to shut him in. “He usually comes out, he’s just scared of the train noise,” one worker said. 🐾 #funny

Meanwhile in Texas ... 😂

A California toddler who was spending his first Christmas without his police officer father got a special surprise from his late father’s colleagues. Newman Police Corporal Ronil Singh, 33, was killed in the early hours of Dec. 26, 2018 after he pulled over a suspected drunk driver. The gunman – later identified as Gustavo Arriaga Perez -- fled, and a two-day manhunt led to his arrest before he prepared to leave to Mexico. This Christmas, the Newman Police Officers Association decided to make Singh’s son holidays a little bit special. In a Facebook post shared on Christmas, Newman police said Singh had always said that his son would grow up to be a police officer like him and that he hoped to teach him the ropes one day. To get an early start, the association delivered the toddler his very own patrol car, which a local anonymous resident modeled to look just like his dad’s old one.🎄👮🏻‍♂️

Climate change nutters get what they bargained for at the new IN N OUT BURGER in LONG BEACH 😂😂🤦‍♂️

(WARNING 21+) Christopher Grant Meador and Laken Rawlins — have been exonerated of any wrongdoing stemming from the Aug. 13 shooting death of Joplin resident David Ingle, Joplin Police Chief Matt Stewart said. The shooting was investigated by the Joplin Police Department as well as the Missouri State Highway Patrol. During a 45-minute press conference, video from the dashboard camera on Rawlins' patrol car as well as from the two officers' body cameras was shown to the media. Combined, they showed events leading up to the moment when Meador fired shots from his service weapon at Ingle, who was unarmed but charging at Meador. “The Missouri State Highway Patrol completed their investigation and determined no criminal wrongdoing (had been committed) by either of the officers,” Stewart said. 🔫👮🏻‍♂️#shooting

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! A brutal daylight murder in Brazil. 😱

A new internet privacy law returns power to consumers, USA Today reports. Today, Americans' every move is tracked across the internet by a trillion-dollar industry that mines and stockpiles thousands of their data points to target ads at them. You don't need tofeel like you're being watched — you are. But starting Wednesday, Californians will have the right to see what information companies are collecting about them and request they stop selling it. The landmark California Consumer Privacy Act has the potential to become a national law if other states follow or companies extend those rights beyond our state lines, privacy advocates say. Here's a big thing to know about the new law: You have to take action. That means you need to send companies a form requesting the details on what they've sold and directing them not to sell anything else. Within 10 days, expect confirmation that your request has been received. Within 45 days, you should get a response.

More than a dozen people were injured when a nitrogen line ruptured at the Beechcraft aircraft manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kansas, causing part of the building to collapse 💥

The wreckage of a Hawaii tour helicopter carrying seven people that went missing Thursday evening has been found, and crews are continuing to search for possible survivors, officials said. The helicopter was found about 9:30 a.m. Friday in a mountainous area on the east side of the island of Kauai, authorities said. A pilot and six passengers, including two children, were on board. Authorities said in a news release that they were sending additional resources to search for survivors. Kauai Fire Department Battalion Chief Sol Kanoho said "no actionable information on the status of the passengers" was available during a news conference Friday afternoon.

Two men have been kicked out of the Army National Guard after liberal activists reported on their alleged membership in a religious group with white supremacist ties. Earlier in 2019, the Atlanta Antifacists group published a report saying East and Woodward were leaders of the Norse pagan group Ravensblood Kindred. The group is part of the Asatru Folk Assembly, which researchers say endorses white supremacy. Haralson County Sheriff Eddie Mixon earlier forced East to resign as a jailer. When the report was published, Woodward was on active duty in Afghanistan. Woodward’s unit returned from deployment in June and an investigation into his connections with white supremacy concluded in October. The military has struggled in recent years to root out members of white supremacist organizations or sympathizers with white power causes, reported USA Today.

A multi-vehicle pileup in Texas was partially captured in a dramatic video of an 18-wheel tractor-trailer slamming into the accident scene. The accident began as a two-car crash on Highway 84 in Lubbock County. Police were investigating the crash when a semitruck traveling eastbound jackknifed and slid, coming to rest at the center median. Several more vehicles subsequently crashed into the truck as the area was under a dense fog advisory at the time. The accidents occurred in the midst of a dense fog advisory for the area, causing a quarter mile or less of visibility. Drivers were advised to slow down to prevent injury.

A 'meteor' was filmed falling from the sky over Guam in the Mariana Islands, Oceania. Viewers say the fireball, which could also be debris from a Long March 5 rocket test in China, was a 'gift' from North Korea or China. Officials have said they are 'tracking and working to validate any information'.