West
Oregon parents arrested after repeatedly tasing young children as discipline: police
Authorities in Oregon have arrested the parents of two young children who investigators say were being abused and tasered as a form of discipline.
On September 17, the Springfield Police Department and Department of Human Services began investigating a report of child abuse regarding a 7-year-old boy with multiple injuries all over his body.
Police identified Brandon Rogers, 44, and Heather Black, 36, as the parents of the child.
Through the course of the investigation, police determined Rogers and Black had physically abused their son, on two reported occasions, by tasing him as a form of discipline.
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A pair of Springfield parents have been arrested after police uncover they had been abusing their young children by using a taser as a form of punishment. (Springfield Oregon Police Department)
Springfield Police Detectives located Rogers and Black at their residence and subsequently arrested them for Assault III, Unlawful Use of a Stun Gun, and Criminal Mistreatment regarding those incidents on October 4.
Detectives also served a search warrant at their residence and collected multiple items of evidence to corroborate the incident.
During the investigation, detectives began processing a large volume of digital evidence, to include multiple hours of video surveillance and other digital evidence.
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The Springfield Police Department has arrested the parents of two young children who it says were abused. (Springfield Oregon Police Department)
During this time, police said Rogers and Black were both released from the Lane County Jail.
However, as the investigation progressed, a more heinous environment was discovered.
Detectives learned that Rogers and Black were physically abusing their son multiple times a day for multiple days in a row using a Taser and other weapons.
In addition to the abuse of their son, the investigation also revealed that Rogers and Black abused their 4-year-old daughter on multiple occasions with the Taser.
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A pair of Springfield parents have been arrested after repeatedly tasering children as discipline. (Springfield Oregon Police Department)
On October 29, detectives re-located Rogers and Black and arrested them for additional incidents that were discovered after their first arrest.
“Detectives are still going through video and additional charges may be forthcoming,” the police department said in a statement.
Black and Rogers are being held at the Lane County Jail.
Police said their 7-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter are now safe and living with other family members.
Anyone with further information regarding this incident is encouraged to contact the Springfield Police Department at 541-726-3721.
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Colorado
Colorado mom accused of killing 2 kids, fleeing to UK arrives back in US to face murder charges: ‘Momentous day’
A Colorado mom who is accused of stabbing her two young children to death and then fleeing the country after trying to frame her ex-husband finally arrived back in the US on Tuesday — almost two years after she was arrested in the UK.
Colorado District Attorney Michael Allen announced Kimberlee Singler’s return to the US during a somber press conference Tuesday afternoon. The 36-year-old faces two counts of first-degree murder and life behind bars if convicted.
“It’s a momentous day today,” Allen said, adding that her return “marks the first step in the criminal justice process.”
Singler is accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son and slashing her 11-year-old daughter amidst a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband on Dec. 18, 2023.
Her ex had recently been awarded more parenting time and his sister had been due to pick the three children up for the holidays two days before the slayings — but Singler refused to hand the kids over.
The husband’s lawyer then got a court order on Dec. 18, the day of the gruesome stabbings, for her to exchange the children two days later.
The mom called cops just after midnight on Dec. 19, claiming someone had burglarized the family’s Colorado Springs apartment. When police arrived, they said they found her two youngest children dead and her eldest injured.
Singler then told police that her ex-husband “had previously dreamt about killing his family” and that he was “always trying to ‘frame her’ and ‘get her arrested’ and to have the kids taken away from her,” Judge John Zani at Westminster Magistrates’ Court said in his January ruling when he rejected the challenge to her extradition to face murder charges.
A warrant was issued for her arrest mere days after the slaying, but she’d fled the country by then.
Singler’s extradition from the UK had repeatedly been stalled due to challenges ever since she was arrested in London on Dec. 30, 2023, less than two weeks after she allegedly killed her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son.
She tried to argue that her extradition would violate the European human rights protections on the basis that a potential first-degree murder conviction would slap her with an automatic life-without-parole sentence, per Colorado law.
An eleventh-hour appeal was rejected in November, clearing her long-awaited extradition.
Allen, meanwhile, reiterated the importance of granting her eldest daughter, now 13, and her distraught family the privacy they desperately need.
The sole survivor previously recounted the moment her disturbed mother led her and her siblings to their bedrooms while muttering that “God was telling her to do it or their father was going to take them away.”
Singler faces seven first-degree charges for murder, attempted murder, and first-degree assault, Allen said.
Hawaii
Episode 39 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption is underway at Kīlauea | Maui Now
December 23, 2025, 9:01 PM HST
Episode 39 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 8:10 p.m. HST on Dec. 23, according to an update from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Sustained lava fountains approximately 100 feet in height are currently erupting from both north and south vents, with increasing heights.
Past episodes have produced incandescent lava fountains over 1,000 feet high that produce eruptive plumes up to 20,000 feet above ground level. According to the National Weather Service, winds are blowing from the northeast direction, which suggests that volcanic gas emissions and volcanic material may be distributed to the southwest.
- All eruptive activity is confined to Halemaʻumaʻu crater within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park; commercial airports in Hawai’i County (KOA and ITO) will not be affected by this activity.
- Three Kīlauea summit livestream videos that show eruptive lava fountains are available here: https://www.youtube.com/@usgs/streams
- KPcam and MKcam provide views of the plume height for aviation purposes
Episode 39 was preceded by overflows of degassed lava that began at approximately 6:41 p.m. from the south vent and continued to increase in intensity until 8:10 p.m., when sustained fountaining began, according to the HVO.
Most episodes of Halemaʻumaʻu lava fountaining since Dec. 23, 2024, have continued for around a day or less and have been separated by pauses in eruptive activity lasting generally at least several days.
No changes have been detected in the East Rift Zone or Southwest Rift Zone.
Kīlauea Volcano Alert Level/Aviation Color Code remain at WATCH/ORANGE. All current and recent activity is within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.
Idaho
How often does Boise get a ‘White Christmas’?
BOISE, Idaho — While some have resigned themselves to a rainy forecast this week across the Treasure Valley, some optimistic Idahoans are still holding out hope for the unlikely— the City of Boise blanketed in snow on Christmas morning.
While those wishes may (or may not) be answered this year, it’s worth noting that a White Christmas in Boise is not as common as some may think.
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The National Weather Service in Boise just took a look back at the last 70 years to see how often the valley has been blessed with snowfall on Dec. 25.
Based on that data, the City of Boise averages a 25% chance of a White Christmas each year. The last time Boise had a White Christmas was in 2022.
The last time there was over 3 inches of snow on the ground on Christmas was 2017.
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