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Police are investigating a serious crash involving two tractor-trailers that injured two men and closed Interstate 84 East Monday morning, according to Connecticut State Police. Police were called just before 7:30 a.m. to a crash near Exit 65 between two trailers. A tractor-trailer operated by a 45-year-old Maryland man was parked on the right shoulder near Exit 65. A second tractor-trailer driven by a 44-year-old Georgia man entered the right shoulder and struck the rear of the vehicle. first by pushing him into a light pole, according to state police. The Maryland man was taken to Hartford Hospital with minor…

Click here for News 9’s live coverage Oklahoma City police said two Oklahoma County officers were shot on the city’s southwest side. The shooting happened at a residence near Southwest 78th Street and South Pennsylvania Avenue. Deputies were taken to OU Health in Oklahoma City. One of the two deputies has died. The second deputy who was shot is still being treated at the hospital. Authorities said several officers were handing out foreclosure documents at the residence before the shooting. Police’s search for the alleged suspect continued with a brief chase through the city’s southeast side. The alleged suspect was…

NEW YORK – Tired of Venezuela’s autocratic government and the misery he earned in the military, Dario Maldonado defected and fled with his family to neighboring Colombia. But life was still hard: money was tight and expenses were mounting. So he left for the United States, an odyssey that required him to travel on foot through the Central American jungle infested with poisonous snakes and gun-toting bandits, sometimes dodging the corpses of people who died on the same trip. Now Maldonado and thousands of other asylum seekers from Latin America and the Caribbean are caught up in the political battle…

John Tirman, an MIT scholar of political theory and an expert on US-Iran relations and human security, died on the morning of August 19 after suffering cardiac arrest. He was 72 years old. Since 2004, Tirman has served as Executive Director and Principal Investigator of MIT’s Center for International Studies (CIS). During this time, he was a prolific and thoughtful—but always modest—leader of many of the center’s initiatives. He led several projects on US-Iran relations, convened conferences and published on the regional dimension of the Iraq war, the role of terrorism in altering diplomatic relations, and the challenges of political…

This is the first year the Oregon Health Authority has reported deaths among Oregon’s homeless Sen. Deb Patterson, D-Salem, hears a question Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, as Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, reads in the background. [Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle] Newly released data on Oregon’s homeless who died this year shows a need for more detailed reporting and more resources, said the state senator who requested the data from the Capital Chronicle. A 2021 bill authored by Sen. Deb Patterson, D-Salem, would require the state to keep records of people who died without a fixed address, listing their address as “unknown…

Arrests for crimes Identity theft – James Andrew Barco, 35, of the 400 block of Columbus Avenue, Medford. Medford police arrested Barco Thursday on charges of identity theft, second-degree forgery and possession of a forged instrument. Barco was booked into the Jackson County Jail and released. Assault – Kayla Jean Yates Burch, 29, no known address. Medford police arrested Burch Thursday on charges of second-degree assault on a police officer and disorderly conduct, second-degree burglary and second-degree criminal trespass. She was taken to jail and released on her own recognizance. weapon – Marla Marie Dippel, 56, of the 600 block…