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What we know about the elementary school shooting in Bend, Oregon
Three young children and a teacher were killed Thursday afternoon in a horrific shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, and a teenage suspect was fatally shot by a good Samaritan who pursued him.The shooter forced entry into Silver Rail Elementary School by firing through the locked doors around 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET), Bend police said.Police arrived within three minutes and learned the suspect had been shot and killed. Many questions remain about the motive and how the shooter gained access to the long gun used in the attack. Here's what we know.TimelinePolice arrived within three minutes of the first call for help. Deschutes County dispatch received a call at 12:59 p.m. PT from a person in a vehicle saying they were being "shot at multiple times by a person with a long gun," Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said at a news conference Thursday evening.A man in a red Toyota Tacoma, pictured above, said he saw the gunman jumping over the school fence as he was driving by and asked the person what they were doing. The person turned around and opened fire on his truck. He sped up the street and called 911. Photo Credit Justin PenfieldIn the ensuing minutes, dispatch received "dozens" of 911 calls reporting that a shooter had entered the K-5 school, he said.A tone alert was issued at 1 p.m. telling all law enforcement officers to report to a critical incident.One minute later, the school was directed to go into lockdown.At 1:02 p.m., the first Bend police officers arrived and moments later learned that a suspect "had been shot by a community member who had seen the suspect enter the school and pursued him into the school and engaged him," Krantz said. Officials did not say how far the gunman got into the school, which has more than 400 students and over 40 staff members. Officers entered the school, confirmed the suspect was dead and began to evacuate it, busing people to a reunification center at a nearby church and providing aid to the victims. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek praised the courage of the school's staff members, parents and first responders and the unidentified community member who "heroically intervened to stop further loss of life."The victimsThree children — ages 5, 8 and 11 — and an adult teacher were killed. Their identities were not publicly disclosed, but their families were notified, Krantz said. A 7-year-old and a 54-year-old teacher were taken to St. Charles Medical Center — Bend with critical injuries, he said. What we know about the suspectOfficials identified the suspect as a 16-year-old Bend resident but did not disclose his name. Authorities declined to say how many shots were fired. A Bend resident who was walking near the school Thursday afternoon heard at least six shots ring out. "They were spaced out, which made us question whether it was gunshots or someone doing construction," Leah Schwartz told NBC News.Police tape is placed outside Silver Rail Elementary school, where a shooting took place, on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, in Bend, Oregon.Police said they are still investigating the suspect and did not say whether he previously attended the school or knew anyone who did.The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives received the results of an urgent trace on the long gun used by the gunman Thursday evening, a source familiar with the investigation and the crime scene said.Authorities have not said how the shooter got access to the weapon. In Oregon, a person must be 18 to purchase rifles and shotguns and 21 for handguns. It is illegal to sell firearms to minors.However, people under 18 can legally possess firearms if they have parental consent, in which case they may use non-handgun firearms. Minors can also temporarily possess firearms for lawful reasons, such as hunting or target practice. Oregon 19 hours ago Teen shooter kills 4 at Oregon elementary school before being shot by a witness Elections Oct 15 Letters with 'suspicious' substance sent to congressional and election offices nationwide The investigationKrantz said there will be a large law enforcement presence at the school for several days. "This is going to be a long investigation," he said. Kotek, the governor, said that the Oregon Department of Emergency Management is coordinating across multiple state agencies and that "the state stands ready to support" the community. The ATF and the FBI were also assisting.All schools in the Bend-La Pine Schools district, as well as activities and athletic events, are canceled Friday. Bend Mayor Melanie Kebler said Thursday that it was an "awful day for our community.""A school should be a safe place where children can learn and feel secure," she said.
Oregon elementary school shooting: what we know so far
A teenage gunman opened fire in the city of Bend, killing four people and leaving two more in critical condition, before he was shot and killed by a bystanderShooter kills three children and one teacher at Oregon elementary schoolA 16-year-old gunman opened fire at the Silver Rail elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, authorities said, killing three children and a teacher.The student victims are aged five, eight and 11. Their names have not yet been released, and authorities said their families had been notified.The 16-year-old shooter was found dead at the scene. Police said that an armed bystander pursued the suspect and shot him inside the school shortly before officers arrived.Two other victims, a seven-year-old and a 54-year-old, have been hospitalized. As of Friday morning they remained in critical condition, according to police.Police arrived at the school at 1.02pm local time after receiving multiple reports of a shooting. One 911 caller reported an individual armed with a long gun firing upon their car. Police said the gunman forced entry into the building by shooting at locked doors, but did not identify the make of the firearm they used.The teenage shooter was a resident of the town, police said, but their name has not been released. Police have yet to provide a motive for the shooting and said they were still investigating if he had ties to the school.The attack has rocked the small city of Bend, which is home to 100,000 residents and is located on the Deschutes River, about 170 miles south-east of Portland. All public schools in the district, and campuses of Oregon State University-Cascades and Central Oregon Community College, will be closed on Friday.Hundreds gathered at nearby Drake Park on Thursday night at a somber candlelight ceremony to remember the victims. Some attenders called on authorities to harden gun laws in Oregon, already some of the tightest in the nation.Officials have praised the swift actions of law enforcement officers and of the community member who intervened. The Oregon governor, Tina Kotek, praised the intervention as heroic and extended her thoughts to the bystander. "Your actions carry a heavy emotional burden," she said on Thursday evening.The FBI is helping local authorities investigate the shooting, according to the agency's director, Kash Patel. Continue reading...
FBI workers fired over Trump classified files probe sue to get their jobs back
FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate sued Thursday to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of "political retribution."The complaint adds to the growing list of legal challenges to the mass terminations by FBI Director Kash Patel of agents who participated in investigations of the Republican president or who were perceived as opposed to Trump administration interests.The suit was filed in federal court in Washington on behalf of nine agents, intelligence analysts and staff operations specialists who were fired in February following earlier dismissals of agents who had investigated Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.Patel has said in congressional testimony that the fired employees had "weaponized" the FBI and that terminations at the bureau follow internal investigations that turn up inappropriate conduct. But the agents deny that claim in the lawsuit, noting that that they were fired without any investigation, notice or hearing. They said that between them they had more than a century of distinguished and apolitical FBI service that involved responding to the Boston Marathon bombing, hostage recoveries and the investigation into the 2024 assassination attempt of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.Their firings, the lawsuit says, create an "immeasurable loss" to "America’s national security.”"In return for their service, they were fired because they did their jobs, as they always did, to follow the facts and law without bias or favor. To this administration, this is an offense. To the rest of us, it is heroic," said a statement from their attorneys, Margaret Donovan, Abbe Lowell and Rebecca Tinio."This lawsuit will prove their unlawful dismissal and hold the administration accountable for this blatant attack on the rule of law," the statement added.The Mar-a-Lago investigation produced criminal charges against TrumpThe suit includes a detailed recitation of the allegations against Trump, describing how he improperly stored dozens of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, that he took with him after leaving the White House, showed them to people not authorized to see them and obstructed FBI efforts to get them back.The investigation resulted in a 2022 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago that recovered classified records, and a federal indictment in Florida the following year charged Trump with dozens of felony counts.Trump denied wrongdoing, and the case was dismissed in 2024 by a Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon, who ruled that the special counsel who filed the charges, Jack Smith, had been illegally appointed by the Biden administration Justice Department.The nine fired FBI employees did not volunteer for the investigation but were rather assigned to it as part of their work on counterintelligence and counterespionage squads, according to the lawsuit, which says they were terminated because of a baseless perception that the performance of their law enforcement duties had run "afoul of the political and personal loyalty to Trump that Defendants demanded.""By casting Plaintiffs' work on the Plasmic Echo investigation as 'politically weaponized,' Defendants incorrectly presumed to know the personal political convictions of Plaintiffs and took unlawful action based on that presumption," the lawsuit says, using the FBI code name for the classified documents investigation. "Worse still, Defendants incorrectly concluded that those personal political convictions affected or drove their work."Several of the fired employees participated in the search, and one signed the affidavit that was presented to a magistrate judge for approval, the lawsuit says. But beyond that particular case, the suit says, the agents and analysts had a diversity of career experience, including expertise in the counterintelligence threat from Iran and instances of helping recover American hostages held abroad.At least one participated in the investigation into pipe bombs placed in January 2021 near the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national committees. The investigative team was praised at a news conference by Patel, who shook the hand of one of the employees who would later be fired, Harrison Kaufman, and thanked him for his work, the complaint says.The lawsuit seeks remedies including reinstatement to the FBI, an awarding of back pay and a court order declaring the firings unlawful.The suit says the firings were the culmination of a retribution campaignLawyers for the fired employees suggest their clients’ "fate was sealed" well before the February terminations, casting the ousters as the culmination of a long-running retribution campaign that kicked into gear once Trump returned to the White House in 2025.The lawsuit notes how Patel, in his capacity as a conservative podcaster before becoming Trump’s FBI director, had derided the Mar-a-Lago search as "unlawful" and had called agents who participated in it "corrupt government gangsters."Days after Trump was inaugurated, a top Justice Department official demanded that the FBI produce a list of employees who had investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, an order that the then-director, Brian Driscoll, resisted and that was seen within the workforce as a potential prelude to mass firings of employees involved in Trump-related inquiriesOver the following year, the FBI and Justice Department fired waves of employees involved in investigations of Trump, without hearings or proper notice that the plaintiffs’ lawyers say are required by law. Besides the Mar-a-Lago agents, other employees were dismissed for kneeling at a racial justice protest in Washington in 2020 and for their involvement in a dispute intelligence assessment from 2023 warning of a potential threat from Catholic violent extremists.The lawsuit suggests the February 2026 firings may have been an attempt to take public attention away from negative publicity Patel received days earlier from his attendance at the Winter Olympics in Milan, where he was seen chugging beer and partying with the U.S. men’s hockey team after their gold medal win."The Plaintiffs were unlawfully terminated not for any cause or any legitimate reason, but only to satisfy the President's personal vendetta," the lawsuit states. "The firings did not follow any internal investigation or disciplinary process within the FBI, and Plaintiffs were not given any notice, a hearing, or an opportunity to appeal."
Why the wildly popular Savannah Bananas are bringing their baseball show to Toronto
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Police search for clues to deadly shooting at Oregon elementary school
Schools closed after one teacher and three children killed, and child and teacher hospitalized with critical injuriesOregon elementary school shooting: what we know so farPolice are investigating a deadly shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, where a 16-year-old opened fire on Thursday, killing three children and a teacher, before being shot dead by an armed bystander.Authorities in Oregon said that the three children killed at Silver Rail elementary school were aged five, eight and 11, and that a seven-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher were also hospitalized with critical injuries. Continue reading...
Trump says Ukraine resuming strikes on Russian oil sites is a 'disgrace'
President Donald Trump has labeled Ukraine's resumption of strikes on Russian oil refineries a "disgrace," the latest salvo in his campaign to pressure the U.S. ally over rising gas prices that could cost Republicans in next month's Midterm elections.Kyiv said Thursday that it would no longer abide by Trump's "energy ceasefire," citing Russia's refusal to halt its own attacks on Ukraine's power grid. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy angrily accused the U.S. of costing civilian lives by striking deals with Moscow and withdrawing support that is crucial to Kyiv's defense against the Kremlin's invasion.Ukrainian officials had raised alarm after restrictions on the Starlink satellite service disrupted military operations, and gaps in intelligence sharing left Kyiv vulnerable to Russian attacks.With Ukraine defying his demands to halt strikes, Trump responded late Thursday."If you tell me that Zelenskyy is again shooting at refineries, all he's doing is making the world oil price higher," Trump told Newsmax's Rob Finnerty. "I think that's a disgrace. There's plenty of other targets; they don't have to hit," Trump said."Zelenskyy is not a good guy for us to deal with" on the war, he said, adding that "I think they actually both would like to see it end, but I think I find Zelenskyy to be more difficult to deal with than (Russian President Vladimir) Putin."The Kremlin agreed with Trump on Friday, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying it was clear that "Zelenskyy doesn't want to take responsibility and move toward a peaceful resolution."As his clash escalated with Trump, Zelenskyy was in Brussels on Friday to shore up support from European allies, whom he called "real leaders" as they gathered for a crucial summit.Ukraine hit a Russian oil refinery on Thursday after Zelenskyy said he was "done" with the truce, which Trump had announced to the apparent surprise of both sides in the war. Neither Moscow or Kyiv reported any new strikes on Russian refineries on Friday. Trump has sought to blame Ukraine's strikes for destabilizing the price of diesel globally, despite the impact of his own war in Iran. But this campaign of attacks deep inside enemy territory has given Ukraine crucial leverage, sparking a major fuel crisis inside Russia. Russia-Ukraine War Oct 15 'We're done': Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian oil refineries as anger mounts with Trump Russia-Ukraine War Oct 11 Trump claims Russia and Ukraine agree to energy ceasefire, but Zelenskyy says this is 'news for me' Donald Trump Oct 10 Trump says Ukraine should get a new president as he blames Zelenskyy for U.S. diesel prices Kyiv hoped this would give it a stronger hand at the negotiating table, but as Washington pushes for an end to the conflict it has taken a series of steps that have caused surprise and alarm among Ukraine and its backers in Europe.Last week, Trump announced a deal to buy diesel from Russia, an apparent attempt to relieve pressure at the pump for American consumers ahead of the Midterm elections but which reversed years of U.S. policy. Trump then called for Kyiv to stop all strikes on Russian oil infrastructure and said Zelenskyy had to be replaced as Ukraine's leader. It comes amid mounting questions about whether the U.S. is still sharing critical military intelligence with Ukraine after a pair of major strikes earlier this week that Kyiv said came without a usual advance warning from its partners.Ukraine also reported a slowing down of the Starlink satellite terminals, which are critical for its army's communications, drone missions and aerial defenses. Kyiv said that Starshield, the military version of the technology that is used by Ukraine's troops, had been limited without any warning. SpaceX chief Elon Musk, the billionaire Trump ally, said that such decisions were up to the U.S. military and ultimately Trump. After repeated requests for comment about Musk's statement, a senior U.S. official told NBC News that "no such request was ever made by the president." Trump has also denied restricting military intelligence for Ukraine. Kyiv said Thursday the Starshield service was being restored, but the episode only added to the mounting suspicion in Ukraine that the U.S. was willing to cut it off from battlefield support in order to exert pressure for a peace deal. European and Ukrainian officials told NBC News they believed that the moves, coming only days after Trump eased sanctions on Russia's diesel exports and railed against Zelenskyy, were most likely aimed at pressuring Kyiv into making concessions at the negotiating table amid the stalemate in peace talks.Gabe Gutierrez, Dan De Luce, Abigail Williams, Reuters and Tara Prindiville contributed.
From Dallaglio's medals to Cantona's shorts, sporting memorabilia is big business | Emma John
Like transfer fees and ticket prices, mementoes are one more marker of sport's rampant self-inflationThe auctioneer cradled his gavel in his palm like a pipe, the handle pointing towards him. It gave his patter the air of a Victorian gentleman holding forth by the mantelpiece in a period drama. "Are you bidding, Wilf? You're waving at me." Under the hammer was a Barclays Manager of the Month trophy, complete with travel case, but no indication of which Premier League luminary once owned it. It outstripped its estimate and sold for £700.An hour and a half into what Budds auction house dubbed its "Octoberfest" of sporting memorabilia, David Convery at the podium showed no sign of fatigue, save the occasional swig from a water bottle. There were 332 lots in total; Convery regularly manages sales with twice as many. In his three decades as an auctioneer he's even secured some world-record prices, from the oldest surviving FA Cup to Pelé's 1970 World Cup final shirt. Continue reading...
Israeli settlers attack olive farmers and Washington Post journalist in West Bank
Settlers hurl rocks at Palestinians and beat photographer Heidi Levine as part of yearly attacks to disrupt harvestIsraeli settlers have attacked Palestinians across the occupied West Bank in a coordinated movement to disrupt the annual olive harvest, burning cars and trees and injuring Palestinians and a Washington Post photographer.Masked settlers wielding clubs and other weapons attacked people attempting to harvest their olives in West Bank towns on Friday. Palestinian authorities said they recorded attacks in eight villages, and injuries among at least 20 people. Continue reading...
Kirill Marchenko hat trick not enough as Maple Leafs lose to Sabres in OT
See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source That's the Kirill Marchenko that the Maple Leafs figured they were getting in a trade with Columbus at the end of September. The talented winger put all of his offensive gifts on display on Thursday night at Scotiabank Arena, recording a hat trick […]
'Vote like Canada depends on it': Carney tells Alberta referendum rally
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Outlander: Blood of My Blood — 2x5: "Forgive Me, Father" (STARZ)
The Jacobite Army fights at the Battle of Sheriffmuir, while Ellen and Julia face their own dangers. Colum holds fast at Leoch but doubts his resolve.
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You Can See Everything (174 minutes)
Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.
Masterplan (109 minutes)
When a legendary thief sets his sights on the Mona Lisa, he recruits two young strangers to help him before revealing they are long-lost siblings… and oh yes, by the way, he is their father. Thrown into a chaotic reunion they never asked for, this new family must learn to work together — and try not to kill each other — if they want any chance at pulling off the heist of the century.
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-481 — SpaceX (00:01 UTC)
A classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bus, based on locations of ascent rocket stage drop zones being fits with previous SDA Transport Layer launches.
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1978 — Karol Wojtyła Elected as Pope John Paul II
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1968 — Black Power Salute at 1968 Olympics
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1964 — China Detonates First Atomic Bomb in 1964
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1946 — Execution of Nürnberg Trials Defendants
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1859 — John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
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1847 — Charlotte Brontë Publishes Iconic Novel Jane Eyre
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1846 — William T.G. Morton Demonstrates Ether Anesthesia
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1813 — Napoleon's Defeat at the Battle of Leipzig
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1793 — Marie-Antoinette guillotined
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1758 — Birth of American Lexicographer Noah Webster
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