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Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama resigned on Tuesday, following a months-long investigation into an alleged affair he’d been having with the wife of a subordinate officer. The scandal, which broke only after the city issued a news release earlier this month, marred what had been to-that-point a successful tenure for the chief — one that saw reductions in violent crime and an increase in the number of sworn officers serving the city. Balderrama is by no means the first Fresno police chief to become embroiled in controversy. There are stories of scandal within the department all the way back to William T. Shaw in 1906, and at least seven decades worth of documented reports on Fresno police chiefs who were investigated, fired or even jailed for perceived misconduct.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A defunct Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit, forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter for about an hour and adding to the mass of space junk already in orbit, U.S. space agencies said. There were no immediate details on what caused the break-up of the RESURS-P1 Russian Earth observation satellite, which Russia declared dead in 2022. U.S. Space Command, tracking the debris swarm, said there was no immediate threat to other satellites. The event took place at around 10 a.m. Mountain Time (1600 GMT) on Wednesday, Space Command said. It occurred in an orbit near the space station, prompting U.S. astronauts on board to shelter in their spacecraft for roughly an hour, NASA's Space Station office said. Russian space agency Roscosmos, which operated the satellite, did not respond to a request for comment or publicly acknowledge the event on its social media channels.

roles in the fentanyl poisoning death of a 19-year-old single mother, the United States Attorney’s Office Western District of Texas announced Thursday, June 27 in a news release. According to court documents, Kathy Lee Nicole Bradford, 32, coordinated the sale of M-30 pills to a woman in El Paso in April 2022. On Bradford’s behalf, codefendant Patricia Tafoya, 40, delivered 10 counterfeit M-30 pills containing fentanyl to the purchaser, who consumed some of the pills and, as concluded by the El Paso County Medical Examiner’s Office, died of “acute fentanyl toxicity,” according to the news release. Bradford admitted in March to knowing the pills contained fentanyl, pleading guilty to one count of distribution of a controlled substance causing death or serious bodily injury, according to the news release. She was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison.

An investigation is underway after an officer-involved shooting in New Hampshire’s largest city left a man with life-threatening injuries on Friday morning, authorities said. New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella said his office is responding to a report of an officer-involved shooting in the area of Bridge and Beech streets in Manchester. The man, whose name hasn’t been released, was taken to an area hospital. Manchester police described his injuries as “serious and life-threatening.” Several roads, including Bridge and Beech streets, have been closed to the public. Video from the scene showed several police officers and emergency vehicles blocking off the area, including officials from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. “Please stay out of the area as police work,” Manchester police said in a social media post.

The board of trustees at a Massachusetts college voted unanimously this week to begin the process of closing due to persisting financial issues. Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, which was founded in 1900, has “faced significant financial headwinds” in recent years and will soon close its doors. “We know this news will come as a shock and disappointment to many, especially those whose lives have been transformed by their affiliation with Eastern Nazarene College through its rich history,” Dr. David W. Bowser, Chair of the Board of Trustees of ENC, said in an announcement on Tuesday. The college plans to continue serving undergraduate and graduate students who are on track to graduate by the end of the year with Gordon College, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, and Trevecca Nazarene University serving as transfer options for all other students. The college says it will also provide job-placement support and access to counseling resources for faculty and staff affected by the closur...

The mayor of a town in western Mexico was killed on Monday, the regional government said, barely 24 hours after Claudia Sheinbaum was elected the Latin American country's first woman president. The Michoacan state government condemned "the murder of the municipal president (mayor) of Cotija, Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa," the regional interior ministry said in a post on social media. The murder of the woman mayor comes after Sheinbaum's landslide victory