Murder accused's fiancée fled after beating and felt threatened, she testifies

Toronto police say a man was taken to hospital after he was struck by a vehicle that fled but later returned to the scene in Scarborough late Thursday night. Officers were called to Eglinton Avenue East and Mason Road just before 9:45 p.m. for reports of a pedestrian struck.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A powerful storm swept across Southern California on Thursday, bringing heavy rain, hail, damaging winds, flooding and even a dusting of snow in some mountain areas. In Victorville, strong winds sent trash, dirt and other debris swirling through the air, startling drivers. Jolina Broady captured video of the conditions while stopped at a traffic light. "This was the most intense, scary thing I've seen in person in regards to wind," Broady told Eyewitness News. Video showed bushes being torn apart as debris filled the air. A trash can was launched airborne, and tree limbs were blown across a roadway. "It was strong enough to tear things apart. Trees were getting ripped out, the fences were gone," Broady said. "I don't know what it was that it was tearing through, but you could just see it in the air and pieces everywhere. "In Hollywood, several vehicles were crushed when a tree fell during the storm. Across the region, residents also reported heavy hail and rain. Heavy downpours flooded some neighborhoods and underpasses, leaving drivers stranded. "The water started coming over the hood, and my car stalled.

There’s often a bit of a calm period before the end of the regular season. Or maybe that chill in the air is because of the Ghosts. It is October, after all. The biggest riser in this week’s Globe Top 20 girls’ volleyball poll is Westford. Now with 10 straight victories, including the last three against Cambridge, Newton South, and Lincoln-Sudbury, those Ghosts appear at the top of the Dual County League. It’s the time of the year in which league/conference titles are being clinched (congrats to Chelmsford, Central Catholic, Winchester, et al.) and the tournament picture is coming into focus via the MIAA power rankings. The Middlesex League is only requiring each team play each other once this season. Merrimack Valley teams are just now getting to their nonconference battles. Not much changed this week, but from Thursday on, this regular-season finish should be a fun one. Records based on scores reported to the Globe. The Globe’s Top 20 girls’ volleyball pollThe Globe poll as of Oct. 23, 2026. Teams were selected by the Globe sports staff. AJ Traub can be reached at aj.traub@globe.com. Follow him on X @aj_traub and Instagram @ajt37.

Because I follow Stewart Brand — writer, futurist, cool cat — on social media, I saw this announcement: “All my work online for a guaranteed 100 years. It’s a new service being offered by WordPress. I think it’s great.”It’s true. For $38,000, WordPress is offering a stepped-down version of digital immortality, “A FULL CENTURY [their emphasis] ensuring that what you create today remains accessible for the future.” Their plan includes LOCKSS — Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe — technology, which “stores all of your data in at least three separately mirrored data centers to ensure access and redundancy in the event of failures or disasters.”On the one hand it’s great to see this homage to Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and woolgatherer extraordinaire. On the other hand — a website that lasts 100 years? Really? When best-selling books by computer geniuses, such as “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,” are predicting the AI apocalypse in (checks watch) two or three years? Online critics dunking on WordPress have noted that domain names can be registered for only 10 years, or, per one headline: “This assumes …

I recently interviewed So. This transcript has been condensed. Q. This book begins with a confession. You noticed your thinking was changing due to AI. Can you describe what it felt like? A. I was writing an email to a colleague. I wrote up a partial sentence, and then pasted it into ChatGPT and said, “Can you help me finish this professionally?” And I remember sitting back in my chair and feeling the weight of having essentially removed my own mind and thought process from, you know, the act of work. It was this very uncomfortable balance between, on one hand, being more efficient, and the sense that it was no longer reflecting my own brain, my own originality, and my contribution. Q. In the book, you describe how naturally AI dependency can take hold. How does it usually happen? A. So the first stage of the cycle typically starts out rather innocently, where someone begins to use AI. Maybe it’s out of fascination. Maybe it’s because of pressure from their employer. But when you start to use AI, what happens is that you lose touch with the act that typically helps maintain and build skill sets.