Recreational Dungeness crabbing opens November 7, but only with hoop nets and snares, and not at all north of Fort Bragg because of domoic acid. The commercial season is delayed until at least January.
California's recreational Dungeness crab season opens Saturday, November 7, but with two big limits, ABC7 reports. Crab traps are not allowed, because of the risk of humpback whales becoming entangled, so crabbers will have to use hoop nets or crab snares. And north of Fort Bragg, where state scientists found unhealthy levels of domoic acid in crab, taking or possessing Dungeness crab is prohibited.
Nine companies must show whether they charge different people different prices based on personal data. It's a study, not an accusation, and here's what shoppers can do meanwhile.
The Federal Trade Commission has ordered nine companies, Delta, United, JetBlue, Lyft, Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, Target and Walmart, to hand over detailed information on whether they use personal data to set the prices customers pay, and in the case of ride-hailing and delivery apps, what their gig workers are paid, the agency said October 28.
Eleven people, including six children, were shot near Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida, after a Florida A&M University football game on Saturday, October 24, and police said they were searching for the gunman, CBS News reported. No deaths were reported. News Unc will update this story with arrests or charges.
The agency alleges GovAssist and Entry bought Google ads for searches like "passport renewal" and charged travelers for help they could get from the State Department.
The Federal Trade Commission has sued GovAssist LLC, Entry LLC and Scott Zuckerman, alleging that since at least October 2023 their websites, including GovAssist.com, Entry.com and IVS.us, impersonated the U.S. State Department or claimed to be affiliated with it to sell passport and visa services, the agency said October 22. The defendants have not had their day in court; the allegations are the FTC's.
Saturday, October 31, is the last day to drive most of the park this year. Only the North-to-Northeast road through Lamar Valley stays open all winter.
Yellowstone National Park closes its West, South and East entrances and nearly all park roads to regular vehicle traffic on November 1, the park said October 21. Saturday, October 31, is the last day visitors can drive most of Yellowstone's roads in 2026. The road from Tower Fall to Canyon Junction over Dunraven Pass stays open through October 31, weather permitting.
Reported losses have risen about fivefold since 2020, driven by very large individual losses. Investment scams, often started on social media, topped $1 billion.
People 60 and older reported losing about $3 billion to fraud in 2025, up from about $600 million in 2020, the Federal Trade Commission said in its annual report to Congress on protecting older adults, released October 19. The FTC says the rise was driven largely by more reports of extraordinarily large individual losses, and it estimates the true cost of fraud to older adults last year, including losses never reported, could be as high as $119.5 billion.
A 16-year-old opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, October 15, killing three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher, police said, the Associated Press reports. A 7-year-old student and a 54-year-old teacher were critically injured. A community member shot and killed the attacker, police said.
A 45-year-old man shot and killed eight people, including a 1-year-old girl, a 5-year-old boy and a pregnant woman, at and outside a home in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Friday evening, October 9, then apparently shot himself, police said, Reuters reports. The victims also included three other women and two young men; police said the man was related to seven of the eight. Officers arriving on 911 calls found two women dead outside the home.
Gunfire at an unpermitted homecoming block party in Vienna, Georgia, killed two men and injured 35 people early Sunday, October 4, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. More than 1,000 people had gathered near the Dooly County Recreation Department gym when shots were fired around 1:25 a.m. in at least two places about a block apart, Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy said. Some of the injured were shot and others were hit by cars as people fled; victims ranged in age from 14 to 51.
The ShinyHunters group posted a 5,000-line sample with names, home addresses and Social Security numbers. Reuters partly verified it; the FBI said it was looking into activity affecting its jobs website.
A hacking and extortion group known as ShinyHunters said on Tuesday, September 22, that it had breached the FBI and stolen data on a large number of current and former employees and job applicants, Reuters reported. The FBI said it was aware of claims regarding unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov and was investigating.
A gunman killed three people and wounded seven others in a shooting that began in the drive-through of an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Saturday, August 1, before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said, CBS News reports. Those killed were Ashley Garibay, 23, of Stockton, California; Dale Schultz, 66, of Salt Lake City; and Christopher Claunch, 59, of Hagerman, Idaho.
The FBI is investigating attacks on about 30 Minnesota sites and nine in Michigan. Officials say drinking water stayed safe. Federal agencies had warned that Iranian hackers were targeting such systems.
Michigan said Saturday, August 1, that nine of its water systems had been hit by cyberattacks, days after Minnesota reported attacks on about 30 sites, the Associated Press reports. Federal agencies have said water systems in at least seven states were affected but have not named the others. The FBI said it and partner agencies are fully engaged and is investigating; it has not publicly named who is responsible.
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