IDAHO FALLS (KIFI)-Idaho Falls Power experienced a fire to a power pole near E 25th Street and Barbra Avenue. As a result Idaho Falls Power needs to temporarily turn off power to approximately 570 customers in the area. Idaho Falls Power have crews en route and will provide updates as they become available. Traffic signals on major roads in area should still be functioning, however smaller streets’ traffic lights may be off. Please treat these intersections as four way stops. Local News 8 will update this story if there is more information. (The following story is from an Idaho Falls Power ..read more

By Jess Seldner Click here for updates on this story     LAKELAND, Florida (WESH) — Two Polk County Deputies are recovering, and a man is dead after an early-morning shootout. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said a deputy was out Friday night patrolling an area that had become a hotspot for car burglaries. She noticed a white car at Hunt Fountain Park off Green Road two hours after the park closed. She called for backup, and more deputies joined her. They approached the car and the man started shooting, hitting Lt.Chad Anderson and Deputy Craig Smith. Sheriff Judd says this ..read more

By Joe Espy, Samantha Romero Click here for updates on this story     PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida (WBBH) — A Port Charlotte priest was arrested Wednesday on multiple counts of capital sexual battery, with allegations connected to his previous tenure in the 1980s as a priest in Iowa. Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office detectives and Dubuque, Iowa, police worked together to arrest Leo P. Riley, 68, at his Port Charlotte home. According to the Dubuque Police Department, four people reported being sexually abused by Father Riley from 1984 to 1986, when he was the associate pastor of ..read more

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — The number of measles cases around the world nearly doubled from 2022 to 2023, researchers say, presenting a challenge to efforts to achieve and maintain elimination status in many countries. There were 171,153 cases globally in 2022, according to Dr. Patrick O’Connor of the World Health Organization, who presented the research Saturday at the ESCMID Global Congress in Barcelona. Provisional data shows 321,582 cases for 2023 and more than 94,000 so far in 2024, although the number is probably much higher. Almost half of this year’s cases have been ..read more

By Angela Rozier Click here for updates on this story     RIVIERA BEACH, Florida (WPBF) — A Palm Beach County attorney received his very own special law school graduation and doctoral hooding ceremony. Attorney Matthew C. Russell, 88, has been an educator and civic leader in Riviera Beach for decades. Russell said he realized in the late 1960’s he wanted to become an attorney. “In Riviera Beach, we were having some problems with trash pickup,” Russell said. “I decided I would go to law school because I felt we needed somebody out here who would be willing to standup and may ..read more

TONIGHT: Scattered rain showers continue across the Upper Snake River Plain and for western WY in the early evening hours.  As the night goes along, showers become a lot more isolated and stray out towards western WY.  Winds will be mostly light between 5-15 mph.  Low temperatures get down to the 30's. TOMORROW: We are only expecting a few groups of isolated rain and even fewer snow showers out for the extreme Upper Snake River Plain and for western WY.  The rest of the region will look to have dry, mostly cloudy skies.  High temperatures get into the 50's. LONG TERM ..read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say helicopter crew has recovered the body of a climber who died after falling about 1,000 feet while on a steep, technical route on Mount Johnson in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve. Park officials say 52-year-old Robbi Mecus of Keene Valley, New York, died of injuries sustained in a fall Thursday while climbing a route on the southeast face of Mount Johnson. His climbing partner, a 30-year-old woman from California, was seriously injured. She was rescued Friday and flown to an Anchorage hospital. The helicopter tried to recover the body of the c ..read more

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former Arkansas Gov. and U.S. Sen. David Pryor is being remembered. Funeral services were held Saturday for family, friends and colleagues, including former Arkansas governor and President Bill Clinton. Pryor died at the age of 89 on April 20 from natural causes. Saturday’s memorial was held at a Little Rock church. Clinton remembers Pryor as one of the few people he could count on as president to give him difficult news. Pryor’s son, David Pryor Jr., spoke about his father’s long career in politics and his commitment to the people he served ..read more

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Authorities say armed assailants have ambushed and killed three law enforcement officers in southern Chile before setting their car on fire. It’s the latest attack on police to revive security concerns in the South American country. It remains unclear who carried out Saturday’s assault on Chile’s national police force in the Biobío region. But a long-simmering conflict between the Mapuche indigenous community and landowners and forestry companies in the region has intensified in recent years, testing President Gabriel Boric, who came to power in 2022 promising to ease te ..read more

WABC, CNN By Clare Duffy and Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — One of the core demands over the past week by the pro-Palestinian student groups at Columbia University has been for the school to withdraw investment funds from what they describe as companies profiting from Israel’s military action in Gaza. Columbia’s endowment is worth $13.6 billion and is managed by a university-owned investment firm. The request from Columbia University Apartheid Divest — a coalition of student groups behind the movement — includes, among other steps, divesting endowment funds from several weapons ma ..read more