The victims represented four generations of the blended family, ranging from a great-grandmother in her 90s to a 7-year-old girl, according to Jennifer Mercer, a neighbor and family friend who set up an online fundraiser to help cover funeral costs and other expenses and was authorized to release these details.

Police said they responded to the home on Sunday evening and heard gunshots coming from out back, just before the house was completely engulfed in flames. Investigators confirmed Tuesday there had been eight victims, including four children, and that one person had suffered a fatal, self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Brad Ireland, whose former wife and two children were among the dead, identified the shooter as Alan Smith, 44. Smith had recently been told to move out of the home, Ireland said.

Genevieve Gallagher was infected after swimming with a cut on her leg during a boat day with her family in July 2025. Days later, “I was taken back for immediate surgery, where my body began to shut down,” the Pensacola, Fla., mom told Fox 35 in August 2026. “Every organ in my body began to fail. I went septic. I was intubated for six days, almost lost my life.”

She’s sharing her story amid a spike in cases of the virulent bacteria: There have been 15 cases of vibrio vulnificus in Florida this year, according to the Florida Department of Health. The bacteria have caused the deaths of a Marion County resident and a Palm Beach County resident.

Vibrio naturally lives in coastal waters, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The majority of people are sickened by it after eating raw or undercooked shellfish, namely oysters, because the bacteria will “concentrate” inside the shellfish. However, it can cause an infection if a swimmer has an open wound, recent tattoo or piercing.

The bacteria can cause flu-like symptoms like fever, vomiting, stomach cramps and diarrhea. But it’s earned the nickname “flesh-eating bacteria” because it causes the skin around the cut where it enters the body to die. The only treatment is to remove the skin — often leading to amputations.

In Gallagher’s case, she recalled that she “woke up and a lot of my leg was missing at the bottom.”

According to The Guardian, former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown said Saturday that she had been told Markle would no longer be joining the Netflix crime series. “I learned this morning that the casting of Meghan Markle in season 3 of Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen has been withdrawn,” Brown wrote. “The backlash in the UK was so intense, it became untenable to go forward.”

Sean quickly challenged that account. Responding to Brown on social media, he wrote, “It was never on—I know #guyritchie total fabrication that you and the rest of the Media decided to run with.” Sean also tagged Deadline while calling the story “ridiculous.” His account directly conflicts with reporting from multiple outlets that Markle had been discussing a role in the series.

In Seattle, people can currently park their RVs overnight in industrial areas or, according to posted signage, up to 72 hours in one place, like other vehicles. However, the new legislation would change the law so that RVs could only park for two hours in one place, and would be forbidden from parking anywhere overnight (from midnight to 6am). Failure to follow these laws could result in towing without notice.

The only exception to this new rule would be for people living in RVs and “fifth wheel” trailers who succeeded in applying for a special permit during a one-time census. In order to receive a permit, residents would have to agree to receive services and ultimately move into other housing or shelter. There would be one permit per person who would have to prove they were the registered owner of the vehicle.

In order to retain a permit, residents would have to abide by a number of regulations, including having the vehicle display a license plate and vehicle identification number, not leaving trash around, not hosting a group of five or more people, not leaving a pet tied up unattended, etc.

Permit holders would be able to turn down up to six offers of shelter or housing, but after that, they would lose their permit.

Strauss framed his plan as a way to help people who live in their vehicles.

“Today, we have zero places for people who live in their vehicles to come inside to. We have no city systems or city teams that are designed to help people that are experiencing homelessness with vehicles,” Strauss told The Urbanist. “We need to create those systems, and from there as well, RVs are a unique type of vehicle that are not built for year-round habitation.”

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/65677011

Her nephew, Brian Seaver, revealed the news in an Aug. 25 Instagram video.

“My name is Brin Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, and I’m representing the Parton and Owens family today announcing the passing of my aunt, Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean, Sister, Sis and Granny to one generation and Gigi to the next,” he says in the video. “This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality. As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven’t truly felt it until now.”

Seaver added: “It is an honor, an honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents and countless others who have watched her and longed to meet her in the heavens.”

Her nephew, Brian Seaver, revealed the news in an Aug. 25 Instagram video.

“My name is Brin Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, and I’m representing the Parton and Owens family today announcing the passing of my aunt, Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean, Sister, Sis and Granny to one generation and Gigi to the next,” he says in the video. “This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality. As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven’t truly felt it until now.”

Seaver added: “It is an honor, an honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents and countless others who have watched her and longed to meet her in the heavens.”

Since opening in 2024, Baba Yaga has been one of the best new additions to the Seattle music scene. One of two musician-owned clubs to open that year in Pioneer Square, the day-and-night “rock ‘n’ roll clubhouse” has been a key contributor to the historic neighborhood’s music and arts renaissance — one that’s held the beat through spats of late-night violence and a hot FIFA summer.

After consistently strong bookings of both local and touring bands, the club named for a mythical witch is ready to cast its spell across the neighborhood more broadly, launching a new festival the weekend after Halloween.

Dubbed Baba Obscura, the new four-day fest (Nov. 5-8) will be a multiclub affair, filling six stages with (but not limited to) garage, psychedelic and punk rock bands like Texas psych lords The Black Angels, Bay Area post-punks Provoker, Nigerian desert blues guitarist Mdou Moctar (solo), influential garage punks The Gories, and Sub Pop punks Downtown Boys.

It’s often only after a drug is released do we learn women might be affected totally differently from men — as with the case for two recent major studies.

Specifically, the new research points to the role of estrogen, which naturally ebbs and flows over the course of a menstrual cycle.

Changing levels of estrogen has major impacts across the entire body under normal circumstances. Introduce medication into the mix, and it becomes a whole different ballgame.

“For too long, the menstrual cycle has been treated as background noise in health research,” said Poppy Cooper, an author of one of the recent studies. “This work is part of a growing shift in that thinking and a recognition that the menstrual cycle has impacts beyond reproductive health.”

“Seattle should be a city where families can feel safe getting where they need to go — whether they’re walking their kids to school, biking to the park, or taking transit,” Wilson said in an announcement of the order. “We’ve made important progress, but every serious injury or death on our streets is one too many. We know what makes our streets safer. This Executive Order is about turning our commitment into action — getting proven safety improvements on the ground and bringing the full City together to prevent serious injuries and deaths.”

The executive order directs the Seattle Department of Transportation to fast-track high-priority safety improvements across high-crash corridors. Key measures include completing the SW Wildwood Place protected bike lane by late 2026, advancing Phase 2 of the 12th Ave S Safety Project, increasing intersection visibility through daylighting, and upgrading 19 high-collision locations along major routes like Aurora Ave N and Rainier Ave S.

The supplement glutathione, given through an IV or an inhaler-like machine called a nebulizer, has not been proven to be safe or effective and could expose firefighters to illness if there is contamination while it's produced, experts say.

At least two pharmacies recalled the supplement in August due to bacterial contamination found during testing at their labs, with one saying it had received reports of people suffering from fever, chills, severe headache and other symptoms.

A group of naturopaths called The Integrative Health Action Network had previously provided the supplement to firefighters during the January 2025 wildfires that tore through Los Angeles County. The group’s work with firefighters began following a 2017 blaze that destroyed thousands of homes in California’s wine country.

The supplement's promotion in Spokane prompted physicians and some members to contact the IAFF with concerns about health claims despite no research proving those claims or showing the supplement's safety, said Sean DeCrane, IAFF assistant to the general president for health and safety. Some doctors have warned of adverse effects.

The IAFF also received reports saying some firefighters felt worse or became sick after getting treated. Medical treatments being marketed to firefighters should be evaluated and tested to make sure there are no unintended consequences, DeCrane said.

“When I finally saw the image, that’s when it felt like a punch to the gut,” DeSantiago tells WIRED. Parts of it resembled a mirror selfie that he remembered taking at a job in college. But instead of his work uniform, he was wearing lingerie. And instead of standing normally, as he had been in the original photo, he was posing suggestively.

The texts kicked off a monthslong saga that crossed two schools and involved students and administrators. And DeSantiago is far from the only educator who’s been victimized this way.

WIRED spoke with three other teachers who allege that their students made sexualized photos and videos of them, likely using AI. They say the incidents have been profoundly distressing and disappointing—and in some cases, it’s led them to reassess how they view their work and their relationships with their students.

But a major driving force behind the antipathy toward Patrick appears to be that women recognize the broad contours of his alleged behavior toward his wife—and they are pissed as hell about it. This is evident when you look at the social media comments on the TikToks accusing Patrick, which are filled with harrowing stories from women whose husbands treated them insensitively while they were struggling with postpartum anxiety or depression, left them for another woman while they were at their lowest, or even emotionally or physically abused them.

(As many TikTokkers have pointed out, Rusty Yates, the husband of Andrea Yates, the woman suffering from severe postpartum psychosis who drowned her children in 2001, reportedly urged her to get pregnant again while she was in recovery from postpartum depression after her fourth pregnancy, against her psychiatrist’s advisement.)

Many right-wing (male) pundits have been inclined to dismiss these comments as the ramblings of female hysterics, who are somehow using their own terrible experiences with new motherhood as an excuse to demonize men or exonerate Lindsay. In an X post from last week, far-right pundit Matt Walsh referred to Lindsay’s defenders as “psychotic women on the internet … outright exalting or celebrating” her, attributing this sentiment to “a deep sickness in our culture.” Others have criticized those casting suspicion on Patrick as frivolous misandrists, who are too obsessed with true-crime podcasts and millennial feminism to maintain a logical perspective on the case. (An astrology meme suggesting that Patrick killed his kids because he was a Gemini is often cited as evidence of this perspective.)

Walsh’s reading is an extremely shallow one. The fact that women are empathizing with Lindsay does not suggest they are “celebrating” or “exalting” her, let alone excusing her crimes. But what it does suggest, pretty damningly, is deep structural perversity—not just with the institution of maternal health care in this country, as so many commenters have pointed out, but with the state of motherhood in the United States. Lindsay’s suffering ran so deep that ultimately she thought the only way to end it was to end her own life, and take the lives of her children. Nobody seems to be asking why so many women empathize with that.

The toddler, Kohen Wiley, was killed when police officers shot at a vehicle he was in after they responded to a shoplifting call at a local Walmart store.

In one text message, the chief, Harold Vanderford, described having a “racist moment.” In another, he wrote that he “almost beat a removed and white woman’s ass a few minutes ago.”

Vanderford used the racist slur, spelled various ways, more than a dozen times in a series of 10 text conversations dating back to last summer and continuing after he became chief. The texts were provided to reporters by the person who had received them, who said they came from Chief Vanderford. Three other acquaintances confirmed that the phone number associated with the messages belonged to the chief.

Three months before the Walmart shooting, Vanderford texted a colleague to lament Mississippi State University’s performance in a college sporting event, referring to a player using a racist slur.

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When he took over the department, Chief Vanderford, a 60-year-old native of Greenville and 29-year veteran of law enforcement, vowed his tenure would focus on “reestablishing and solidifying trust” with the community.

Then, in June, his officers confronted Vellesiya Wiley and Latoya Ferrell after they were accused by people in a Walmart of stealing baby clothes and a pack of diapers. The pair got into a vehicle, and officers surrounded them with raised guns.

Wiley, who was in the passenger seat holding her son, said that as they drove away, she lifted up the boy in an effort to make sure officers saw him. Then she heard three or four shots.

Starting Sunday, workers involved in labor disputes must comply with the state’s rigorous job search requirements to receive benefits. This means actively seeking work and recording efforts to find another job.

Since Jan. 1, when the law took effect, Washington’s Employment Security Department waived that requirement because it deemed those involved in labor disputes to be “attached to an employer.”

But this week the U.S Department of Labor told the state agency that this approach does not conform with federal law.

Federal officials said the state’s employer-attached waiver “does not apply in the case of a strike because the employer did not initiate the separation,” Chris Barron, communications director for the Employment Security Department, said Friday.

“While we cannot provide specifics about the number of current claimants, this only impacts a handful,” he added. Barron said the agency is reaching out to those individuals to inform them about the job search requirements.

This requirement will apply to all new claims during a strike. It will not impact previous claims.

The agency filed an emergency rule Friday and will conduct a formal process to adopt a permanent rule change.

Calkins spent 11 years covering sports for the Seattle Times, and announced his resignation from the paper yesterday on Substack. His stated reason for resigning is that his editors refused to publish a column he wrote about anti-trans protestors who gathered outside the arena before a recent Seattle Storm game. After interviewing one of the protestors, he was inspired to write:

One of them was 16-year-old Ahnaleigh Wilson, who’d lost to a biological male in a track and field race in eighth grade and was holding a sign reading “Thank You Sophie for Speaking up for Girls!”

I didn’t know if I was going to write something at that point, but after she allegedly got cussed out by a Storm co-owner during the game, I felt like I had to weigh in.

One thing Wilson emphasized to me at the rally was that she wasn’t anti-trans. Another student-athlete named Frances Staudt — who said she’s endured daily verbal abuse after refusing to play against a biological boy in a basketball game — echoed Wilson’s sentiment.

So that was the thesis of my column (which you can read here) — that supporting the separation of biological females and males doesn’t automatically make you transphobic, so let’s stop throwing those labels around.

Calkins claims that his editors held onto the column for almost a week before informing him that the paper wouldn't be running it, at which point he resigned.

If Calkins's editors deserve any criticism, it is only for how long it took them to communicate their decision. A column with a thesis as obviously wrong as the one Calkins produced should be spiked without too much consideration. If a writer brings an editor a poorly written or poorly argued column that the editor never asked for, it is the editor's duty to put it into the trash can as quickly as possible, so that the writer can find a better idea on which to spend their time.

“The current executive leadership is saying and doing the right things, and the management team that met with us appeared sincere, solution-focused and genuine in their efforts to right the past errors of their predecessors,” a statement from SPEEA reads. “Still, the membership has made clear that the current offer falls short, and without significant improvements to the last offer, they are prepared to strike.”

Boeing vice president and functional chief engineer of production engineering Ben Nimmergut said in a statement that the company gave a "strong contract offer to position our employees among the market leaders in pay and benefits in the Pacific Northwest."

"We’re disappointed our engineers and technical workforce voted no on our offer," the statement continues. "As a result, we are now implementing our strike contingency plan and diverting the dollars we had wanted to invest in our SPEEA-represented team to prepare for a potential strike.

"We have no choice but to implement our contingency plan. We have a responsibility to the rest of our workforce and our customers to build on our progress over the last two years and maintain our momentum."

According to Nimmergut, no further talks with SPEEA are scheduled.

SPEEA represents about 13,000 engineers and scientists in its professional unit and more than 4,000 analysts, designers and technicians in its technical unit.

About 64.3% of the professional unit and 71.9% of the technical unit rejected the contract.

The vote came after SPEEA negotiators endorsed Boeing’s proposed contracts, saying the pay increase would be the largest wage pool increase for its members since 1983.

However, the union negotiation team acknowledged its members “deeply mistrust” Boeing management, and the technical unit’s bargaining council recommended member reject the deal. The professional unit’s bargaining council didn’t reach a recommendation.

That mistrust stems from the loss of SPEEA jobs and concerns about deteriorating quality and safety, according to the union.

SPEEA said it planned to survey members about what changes they would like to see in the contract in order to approve it and continue negotiating with Boeing.

This is the union’s first full contract negotiation with Boeing in 14 years. SPEEA members last approved a contract extension in 2020.

When negotiations began in July, SPEEA laid out its contract priorities, which include higher pay, better benefits, more flexible work and accountability measures.

The musician started dating Australian model Helena Vestergaard in 2013, and they split after being together for approximately two years.

Before that, Kiedis, now 63, had a relationship with Heather Christie, who was 22 years his junior. When the pair welcomed their son, Everly Bear, in 2007, Kiedis was 44 and his partner was 21.

In the latest episode of My Therapist Ghosted Me, Williams and her co-host Joanne McNally discussed age-gap relationships, with the former I’m a Celebrity campmate saying: “Do you know who else I find really disappointing, because I really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Anthony Kiedis.”

Seemingly referring to his romance with Vestergaard, Williams continued: “He is like 54 or something, and he is going out with a 19-year-old. And it is like, ‘Dude, what are you talking about?’”

McNally replied: “I've seen this. I just accept now that most men, all men, are drawn to – I'm going to be very careful how I say this – significantly younger women. That's all I'm going to say. It is what it is and I don't think there's any getting away from it. We judge it but it's not going to change.”

“I would have to say that it is not all men,” Williams continued. “Because I do think it is a very specific thing.”

Addressing why younger women might decide to date older men, McNally added: “And of course, people like him [Anthony Kiedis] and rockstars like him can get away with it because no 19-year-old girl wants to be going out with some old lad who is driving a Toyota Corolla around town.

C-sections for gorillas are quite rare, largely because birth complications are uncommon and risks of surgery can be high, said Dr. Tim Storms, Woodland Park’s director of animal health. Fewer than a dozen have been recorded globally to date, according to the zoo, which attributed the anecdotal estimate to gorilla experts around the world, like the Gorilla Species Survival Plan.

In the case of Olympia, a 30-year-old western lowland gorilla who’s lived in Seattle since 2022, the emergency surgery brought together a team of animal and human medical providers to serve a critically endangered species and accomplish a feat they’d never practiced.

“We were all just in awe,” said Dr. Suzanne Peterson, a maternal and fetal medicine specialist at Swedish First Hill. “This was a moment that we will have with us forever.”

Woodland Park Zoo, more than 120 years old, has worked with “human-based” medical experts for decades, said zoo spokesperson Gigi Allianic. Specialists in care ranging from cardiac to orthopedic to ophthalmology have consulted on Woodland Park’s animals in the past, including in 2017 when a gorilla received a leg exam from the head physician of the University of Washington’s football team.

Rather than functioning as conventional cameras, the sensors are expected to feed information into Visual Intelligence. This would allow Siri to answer questions about what is around the wearer or save information they encounter throughout the day.

This is not the first report suggesting Apple is developing AirPods with cameras. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman previously claimed the earbuds would collect “visual information in low resolution,” effectively acting as eyes for Apple’s AI features.

Potential uses could include asking Siri questions about nearby objects, saving information without taking out your iPhone, or receiving more detailed turn-by-turn directions based on the wearer’s surroundings.

The AirPods shown in the video resemble a slightly thicker version of the AirPods Pro 3, with longer stems seemingly providing room for the additional hardware.

Apple has not officially announced the device, so its final name, price, features, and launch date remain unknown. However, previous reports suggest the AirPods could arrive as early as September alongside Apple’s next generation of iPhones.

The first-of-its-kind Australian study, funded by the Office of National Intelligence, surveyed 1,122 young people aged 13-17 and 2,307 adults, to compare attitudes on women, gender equality, online influences and violent extremism. The study also surveyed more than 500 Australian school teachers about their experiences of misogyny and extremism in classrooms.

Study author Dr Sara Meger, from the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Arts, said the findings were concerning.

“These attitudes were far more prevalent among the young people surveyed, and of everything we measured, these hostile views were the single strongest predictor of support for violent extremism,” Dr Meger said.

Among boys aged 13-17 the study found:

• 31.8 per cent believed that attempts to give equal opportunities to women in Australia have gone too far
• 30.1 per cent believed men have more of a right to a job than women when jobs are scarce
• 24.7 per cent believed feminism is damaging to our society and should be resisted with violence if necessary.

On several measures, teenage girls shared similar views to adult men surveyed. Gen Z women were twice as likely as Millennial women, and four times as likely as Gen X women, to agree that marriage entitles a husband to sex with his wife, even if she does not want to.

The study found these attitudes were associated with the online content young people were consuming.

“Engagement with ‘manosphere' content, pornography and online dating showed the strongest links to misogynistic views,” Dr Meger, said.