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With Sunday’s season opener drawing closer, the Jets still have not settled on a kicker, allowing a shaky position battle to linger into the final days before Week 1. The competition, already underwhelming, became even more complicated last week when New York claimed Blake Grupe, adding another layer to a spot that has caused the franchise plenty of frustration over the years.
Special teams coordinator Chris Banjo said the Jets are searching for two simple things as they weigh Grupe against Jason Sanders: “confidence and consistency.”
The harder question is what the team does if both kickers show exactly that throughout the week.
“I guess time will tell,” Banjo said Thursday before the Jets took the practice field in preparation for their Week 1 matchup with the Tennessee Titans in Nashville.
For now, the situation has not inspired much certainty. The unease dates back to the spring, when the Jets allowed veteran Nick Folk to leave in free agency despite the fact that he missed only one kick during the entire previous season.
Jets kicker Jason Sanders (19) misses a field goal during the fourth quarter of the Jets and Giants game in East Rutherford, NJ, on Friday, August 28, 2026. Bill Kostroun/New York Post
Grupe, 27, had a strong preseason with the Colts but was released after losing the competition to Spencer Shrader.
Sanders won the Jets job over Cade York, something Banjo publicly declared at his last press conference prior to Thursday, but Gang Green released Sanders and subsequently signed him to the practice squad, kick-starting another competition.
“He’s been a true professional,” Banjo said when asked how Sanders, who missed two kicks in the preseason finale against the Giants, has handled the situation. “Again, we ask these guys to come to work, put their head down, and just go to work and compete and he’s continued to do that. He hasn’t blinked at all since our last preseason game, and he just comes to work and continues to perform.”
Blake Grupe, who is battling for the Jets’ starting kicker job, talks with reporters on Sept. 10, 2026 in Florham Park, N.J. Bill Kostroun / New York Post
Where head coach Aaron Glenn, Banjo and the Jets ultimately land will come into focus Saturday, when Gang Green’s practice squad elevations are revealed.
If Sanders gets elevated, that likely means he’ll kick. If not, that means the Jets will turn to Grupe, who missed two kicks in the preseason and went 29-for-37 last year across 16 games with the Saints and Colts, to open the season.
But until then, that competition — which has been disastrous in past seasons outside of the stability Folk provided in his second stint with the team — remains a mystery.
When asked about his personal feelings with the onset of a season after being away from the NFL for two years, offensive coordinator Frank Reich mostly deflected to the rest of the Jets in his answer, but he did acknowledge, “It feels like I’ve never left.”
Reich last coached an official game in the league in November 2023, when he was the head coach of the Panthers. He’ll call plays for the Jets from the press box like he did in the preseason.
EDGE Joseph Ossai (foot) and WR Tim Patrick (groin) were the only Jets who didn’t practice Thursday.
CB D’Angelo Ponds (calf) was a limited participant.
RB Isaiah Davis (knee), RB Breece Hall (groin) and TE Kenyon Sadiq (groin) were all full participants.
Titans linebacker Cedric Gray, who is in concussion protocol after a UTV accident over the weekend, didn’t practice for a second consecutive day.
Defensive coordinator Brian Duker said the Jets watched Giants film to prepare for what a Brian Daboll-led offense might look like with the Titans, with the former Big Blue head coach about to start his first season in Tennessee.
Each September, when the first school bell signals a new year, my mother, Patty Lewis, brings out her speaker. With her favorite ’80s songs playing loud, she greets students arriving at Adam J. Lewis Academy — the school named for my father, her husband, Adam, who was killed in the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
My father was raised in a one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx, New York, where he lived with his dad and attended local public elementary and middle schools. A gifted athlete, he earned a scholarship to The Dalton School in Manhattan, an educational break that transformed the direction of his life. That experience shaped one of his deepest convictions: education can be the great equalizer, giving children from any background the foundation they need to compete, grow and thrive.
He made the most of that chance. After Dalton, he attended Hamilton College, where he met my mother, and later built a career at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a financial firm with offices in the Twin Towers.
As our family grew to include four children — Reilly, Sam, Sophie and me — my mother left teaching to focus on raising us. My father remained deeply present in our lives, commuting between New York City and Connecticut while making sure each of us felt noticed, listened to and loved. Providing for his family was central to who he was, and he knew that the educational opportunity he had been given helped make that life possible.
The Lewis family: Adam, Patty and their four children.
Caroline Lewis
Ten years after 9/11, my mother found her way back to education through an admissions role at my private school in Westport, Connecticut. There, she met and interviewed hundreds of children from surrounding communities, including Bridgeport, a lower-income city where many public schools were struggling. Again and again, she saw bright, promising students who had not been given the early academic foundation they needed to succeed. Far too often, those children were denied admission.
She began to wonder: What if someone created a high-quality early childhood program that gave these students the foundation they needed?
The idea stayed with her. Eventually, she shared it with her friend and former teacher, Julie Mombello. Julie initially called her “nuts,” but then listened for six hours as my mom explained how the right educational opportunity could change a child’s life — just as it had changed my dad’s.
In 2011, The Adam J. Lewis Preschool was officially incorporated. Now, my mom needed a building, a permit and a staff.
After searching for two years for the perfect place and recruiting her teacher friends, the Adam J. Lewis Preschool opened in Bridgeport in 2013 with just 12 students. The interest and support skyrocketed.
Most notably came support from my dad’s former employer, KBW. My mom reached out to them in hopes of getting them involved with the start of the school. KBW graciously sponsored the playground for the preschool, but it didn’t stop there. Tom Michaud, my dad’s close friend and colleague, and current CEO of KBW, continues to support the school to this day.
After gaining so much interest from donors and students alike, my mom decided to grow the school with each grade, reopening as the Adam J. Lewis Academy in 2018.
Students and staff at the Adam J. Lewis Academy in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 2025.
Pamela Einarsen Photography LLC
Today, AJLA has nearly 200 students from pre-K to eighth grade, and I could not be prouder of my mom. Each time I return to Connecticut to visit her and the school, I am in disbelief at how much she was able to accomplish and how impactful this institution has become.
My dad’s legacy has not only been physically enshrined in the name of the school, but his legacy lives on through the children.
Sept. 11, 2001, was an extraordinary and horrific tragedy, but with loss also comes new life, and I can only marvel at the impact AJLA is making on the children of today.
As Tom Michaud told me, “The story of 9/11 is not done being written,” and 25 years later, AJLA is writing new chapters with every student.
Vladimir Putin’s war machine may have no more than two years of effective fighting power left, Ukraine’s senior military intelligence chief has claimed.
Lieutenant General Oleh Ivashchenko said this week that Russia’s mounting battlefield losses, weakening troop morale and growing economic strain could seriously limit Moscow’s ability to continue the war by 2028.
Western intelligence assessments reportedly indicate that Russia is losing around 6,000 more soldiers each month than it is able to replace through recruitment. Ukrainian figures, meanwhile, put Russia’s total losses since the full-scale invasion in 2022 at more than 1.5 million troops, including up to 450,000 killed.
Speaking from the headquarters of Ukraine’s military intelligence service in Kyiv, Ivashchenko told The Times: “Russia has military and economic resources for the next year, but we estimate it will end in 2028.”
He added that Moscow is bringing in roughly 1,000 new recruits a day, sometimes as many as 1,200, but said those numbers are being overtaken by the scale of casualties. “Yesterday it was 1,410, the day before it was 1,511. Of those, around 60 per cent are killed in action,” he said.
Another 18 months of fighting would likely result in a further 765,800 Russian casualties, with 459,480 dead and 306,320 wounded, statistics suggest.
And such startling figures, according to Ivashchenko, have resulted in a lack of enthusiasm for the war effort across the border in Moscow.
‘Morale is very low because nobody wants to fight,’ he added. ‘Also the morale of the Russian population is very low: most people do not really want war.’
Lieutenant General Oleh Ivashchenko (pictured) claimed this week that a loss of troops, dwindling morale and a struggling economy may impact Russia’s ability to wage war by 2028
Western intelligence services are reported to suggest that Russia is losing 6,000 more soldiers than it can recruit every month
The spy chief dubbed Putin ‘subnormal’ for waging a war in such conditions. ‘Draw your own conclusions about a person who wants to kill other people to seize their territory,’ he said.
In a separate interview, Ivashchenko suggested that Russia is considerably weaker economically than it was when the full scale conflict launched four years ago.
Much of Kyiv’s war-time strategy has centred around long-range drone strikes against refineries, oil depots, factories and tankers.
Only this week, reports suggested an oil refinery in Rostov-on-Don as well as three Russian air defence assets were struck by Ukrainian forces in an overnight operation.
It came a matter of days after a fire was recorded at the Ryazan Oil Refinery – one of Russia’s largest oil-processing refineries.
Around 40 per cent of Russia’s oil-refining infrastructure has been disabled, according to the Kyiv Independent, leading to fuel shortages and a ban on exports of diesel and gasoline.
Ivashchenko told the Ukrainian news agency: ‘The main problems facing the Russian economy are a shortage of labour resources, a growing budget deficit and a deteriorating situation in the banking system.
‘At the same time, it still has enough resources to wage war against Ukraine. We do not rule out that these resources will last through 2027 to 2028.’
The lieutenant’s comments came hours after Ukrainian officials claimed five people were killed and 67 others wounded by a Russian drone which targeted a shopping mall in Pavlohrad, a city in Dnipropetrovsk region.
Shops and vehicles were hit in the attack, which Ukrainian Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi said took place ‘when the streets were full of people’.
Volodymyr Zelensky later echoed that sentiment, accusing Russia of ‘using drones to kill people who were simply standing near shopping centres’.
Firefighters work at the site of an alleged Russian drone strike on a shopping mall in Pavlohrad, a city in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region
Cars are seen destroyed as smoke billows above the shopping centre on Thursday afternoon
It comes after two other malls – in the cities of Zaporizhzhia and Sumy – were also reported to have been hit by Russian air strikes earlier this week.
On Tuesday, Zelensky said: ‘Russia deliberately tried to calculate for maximum damage to life. No strike against Ukraine and against life can be left unpunished. Russia must be stopped.
‘Every day we make the case to our partners for our need for interceptors. Ballistic missiles remain particularly difficult to intercept.’
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha meanwhile described Russia’s decision to target his country’s civilians as a ‘tactic of coercion’.
He added: ‘Russia believes that relentless attacks on civilians can exhaust Ukrainians and force Ukraine into coercion.’
EUSTIS, Fla. – The floodwaters that swept through Spring Ridge Estates last fall have receded, and the damaged culvert has been restored. Nearly a year later, however, the financial fallout remains unresolved as homeowners wait to learn how much they may have to pay.
After severe flash flooding struck in October 2025, the City of Eustis used $676,747 from its General Fund to repair the privately owned culvert. City records show Eustis expects the Spring Ridge Estates Homeowners Association to repay the full cost of the work. The expense was included in the city budget along with an offsetting receivable from the HOA.
$676,747 repair bill (WKMG-TV 2026)
On Thursday night, city officials offered one of their clearest explanations so far of how that repayment plan could take shape.
Eustis City Attorney Taylor Tremel told commissioners that the HOA received a draft cost-recovery agreement in May. Turnover on the association’s board, along with questions raised by the HOA, has delayed progress, he said. City and HOA representatives have tentatively arranged another meeting for Sept. 22. The City of Eustis website lists Tremel as its current attorney.
Tremel said many of the association’s outstanding questions focus on how payments would be collected and credited to individual homeowners, ensuring residents are not charged more than their share.
One version of the proposed agreement calls for a seven-year repayment period averaging about $84 per month, Tremel said. Extending the schedule to 10 years could reduce the average payment to roughly $65 per month. He cautioned, however, that interest and other variables could affect the final amount.
Those estimates addressed a central question raised by residents who spoke with News 6 earlier Thursday.
‘What is it gonna cost us?’
Theodis “Theo” Bob has lived next to the culvert for nine years and has longstanding connections to Eustis. He told News 6 that he and his wife have called the city home for decades and previously served in city government.
For Bob, the night the floodwaters arrived remains a vivid memory.
He said rain continued pouring down, the culvert began giving way and emergency officials quickly converged on the neighborhood. Some neighbors across the culvert had to leave their homes for roughly two weeks after water service was shut off, he said.
Bob praised the city for its response, saying crews appeared to be working “night and day” until residents could return home.
Now, he said, the concern is different.
“Now the aftermath, what is it gonna cost us as residents, as citizens to repay?”
Bob said the HOA had been discussing the issue at meetings, but residents had not been given a final amount or individual payment figure.
“We haven’t been told as residents, ‘Here’s what the total number is and here’s your share.’”
Before Thursday night’s commission discussion publicly laid out the roughly $84- or $65-a-month examples, Bob told News 6 he feared the eventual expense could be far larger. He said a several-thousand-dollar assessment would be difficult for many families to absorb.
“It could be devastating,” Bob said, adding that any substantial unexpected expense would be difficult in the current economy.
Tremel specifically addressed concerns about larger figures during Thursday’s meeting, telling commissioners the draft agreement does not contemplate homeowners suddenly paying thousands of dollars each year.
Why Eustis paid to repair private infrastructure
The question of who pays stems from an extraordinary flooding event last October.
Eustis received more than 19 inches of rain within several hours, according to city officials interviewed by News 6 at the time. The culvert system serving Spring Ridge Estates later partially collapsed, and 20 homes were evacuated. City officials said additional deterioration threatened nearby city-owned utility lines.
The Spring Ridge culvert is privately owned by the HOA, according to city records. But on Nov. 6, commissioners authorized the city manager to procure the labor, materials, equipment and services necessary to stabilize the collapse and secure and restore city utility service. The authorization also contemplated a cost-recovery agreement requiring restoration costs to be reimbursed to Eustis.
At the time, Fire Chief Michael Swanson said the city’s immediate concern was protecting its utilities and getting displaced residents home before Thanksgiving. Earlier estimates placed the repair between $500,000 and $700,000. News 6 reported then that the city and HOA were negotiating reimbursement terms while insurance and possible state and federal assistance were also being explored.
By January, the final bill was known.
A Jan. 8 city budget amendment put the restoration cost at $676,747. The city engineer had reviewed and approved the invoice, and the city used General Fund balance to pay it. The same memorandum said the city expected to be reimbursed for the entire restoration cost after the cost-recovery agreement was executed.
Insurance denied; FEMA money not available
Thursday night’s discussion also closed off two potential sources of reimbursement.
Officials confirmed the HOA’s insurance claim was denied. Deputy City Manager Miranda Burroughs said the city also explored outside government funding but found there was no available recovery mechanism for the already-completed work.
Burroughs told commissioners the project did not qualify for FEMA funding, saying city staff had fully explored that option.
That leaves the city and HOA trying to work out repayment directly.
Tremel also told commissioners that, according to the HOA’s attorney, the water management district is requiring certain improvements and money to be maintained in reserves. He said that obligation is one factor the HOA wants considered as it works through how much it can afford to pay toward the city at the same time. Tremel said he did not yet have details on the reserve requirements.
Another resident questions drainage and nearby development
For longtime Spring Ridge resident Barbara Hill, the repair bill is only part of the concern.
Hill, who said she has lived in the neighborhood since 2008, told News 6 she has watched drainage conditions around her property change over time. She believes nearby development may have affected the way water moves through the area.
Hill was careful to say she does not know what caused the culvert to collapse, but she questions whether the area’s broader drainage system is functioning the way it once did.
“I think part of it is Eustis’ fault,” Hill said, arguing that the city has allowed development without adequately considering infrastructure.
Her assertion about development causing or contributing to drainage changes has not been independently established.
During Thursday’s commission discussion, city officials said the repaired culvert is safe and complete and was restored to its original design. Tremel also noted the extraordinary nature of the storm, telling commissioners that stormwater systems are generally not designed for rainfall approaching the roughly 19 inches Eustis received during the event.
Hill nevertheless said she wants officials to explain what comes next for drainage around the neighborhood.
Asked what she wants the city or HOA to tell residents, Hill said she wants to know their plans for addressing what she still sees as problems in the area.
A special assessment remains possible
The voluntary cost-recovery agreement is not the city’s only option.
Tremel told commissioners that if an agreement cannot be worked out, Eustis could move toward a special assessment for the amount owed. He described that as a lengthier process and recommended allowing the Sept. 22 meeting to take place first.
Several commissioners expressed impatience with how long negotiations have taken.
One commissioner said the city acted immediately when residents needed help but felt the repayment process was now “stalling.” Another recommended allowing the Sept. 22 meeting to occur, then giving the HOA approximately 30 days to provide a firm answer. Commissioners also raised a broader concern: while they want to help residents of Spring Ridge Estates, the city is responsible for roughly 25,000 residents and needs to preserve resources for the next emergency.
No special assessment has been approved.
A city finance official told commissioners that if Eustis ultimately chooses that route and wants an assessment placed on the next property-tax bill, the city would need to complete a notice of intent and an intent resolution by Dec. 31.
The city attorney said the Sept. 22 meeting should take place before the commission’s next regular meeting, allowing staff to return with another update and recommend what should happen if talks fail.
What happens next
For now, the city has a final repair bill: $676,747.
It has an expectation: the HOA reimburses it.
And it now has a framework under discussion that could spread repayment across seven or 10 years rather than requiring residents to absorb a massive bill at once.
What it does not yet have is a finalized agreement.
News 6 reached out to the Spring Ridge Estates HOA seeking an interview and written answers about its position on the city’s reimbursement request, the denied insurance claim, how repayment would be funded and whether residents could face an assessment or higher dues. The HOA had not responded by publication.
That means the next significant date is Sept. 22, when city officials and representatives for Spring Ridge are expected to meet again.
For Bob, who watched city crews race to protect his neighborhood months ago, the tension is simple: he is grateful the city stepped in, but he wants residents to know what happens financially now.
“Here’s what the HOA owes the city,” Bob said he wants officials to clearly establish, followed by a fair repayment timeline.
Later in his interview, Bob summed up the mood more simply:
“We need answers.”
The culvert is repaired. The road is open. The remaining question is how the $676,747 financial obligation moves from the HOA’s books to actual payments — and what each Spring Ridge homeowner will ultimately be asked to contribute.
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The battle to claim Australia’s most coveted breakfast radio opening is gathering serious momentum.
Following months of intense industry chatter over who could step into the shoes of Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson, a left-field combination is now being tipped to front KIIS FM’s high-profile breakfast slot.
Radio insiders say Nova presenter Jack Charles, TV favourite Dr Chris Brown and KIIS FM regular Amy Gerard have emerged as the leading contenders to become the station’s next breakfast team.
If confirmed, the trio would mark a major shift in tone for the network, moving away from the provocative style that helped turn the Kyle & Jackie O show into a ratings juggernaut across more than two decades.
According to news.com.au, Charles is considered close to locked in for the role after revealing his unexpected exit from Nova this week, ending an 11-year run with the broadcaster.
Fans were left stunned when the radio star revealed on-air that he would be leaving The Chrissie Swan Show, describing the move as an opportunity to pursue a ‘new challenge’.
After months of speculation about who could possibly replace fallen radio duo Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson, a surprising new trio has emerged as the frontrunner to take over KIIS FM’s lucrative breakfast slot
However, the biggest surprise is the reported involvement of Dr Chris Brown.
The former Bondi Vet star has repeatedly been linked to the breakfast radio gig in recent months and speculation reached fever pitch when Kyle Sandilands himself appeared to suggest the television favourite had already been signed by ARN.
Brown later attempted to shut down the reports during a radio interview, insisting the rumours were ‘not true’.
But many industry observers noted the denial stopped well short of completely ending the speculation.
Also tipped to join the lineup is influencer and KIIS personality Amy Gerard, who has become a familiar voice for listeners after a series of guest-hosting appearances this year.
Gerard has impressed network executives during her extended stint behind the microphone and is reportedly viewed as a strong fit for a younger audience demographic.
The proposed trio would mark a significant reset for KIIS following the dramatic collapse of its biggest radio franchise earlier this year.
Meanwhile, it was revealed this week that radio star Ash London will be joining fashion personality Elliot Garnaut to take over KIIS FM breakfast in Melbourne.
Industry sources claim television personality Dr Chris Brown (left) and KIIS regular Amy Gerard (right) are being lined up as the network’s next breakfast team
Nova’s Jack Charles also joins the trio. Pictured with Chrissie Swan
In a move that has been described as a return to ARN’s local roots, the Sydney and Melbourne shows will go back to being two separate entities.
It follows the failed experiment that was handing both slots to Sydney-based Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson, whose arrival in the Melbourne market in 2024 was plagued by ratings woes.
Speaking to investors last month, ARN chief executive Michael Stephenson revealed the company had spent months developing fresh talent and new programming, while stressing the network would not rush decisions on its next generation of stars.
‘Very rarely do you get the opportunity to reset your talent base,’ Stephenson said at the time.
The network has teased a complete overhaul of their programming, sharing a post on social media last week teasing new horizons.
Alongside an image of several people’s silhouettes, the network wrote: ‘A new era is coming’.
The development comes after an emotional Sandilands revealed he was left in tears after learning his former co-host Henderson had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
As Henderson battles her former employer in a lawsuit seeking $82million in damages, her PTSD diagnosis was referenced in a medical report prepared by Dr Jonathan Phillips.
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In a sworn statement, Henderson said she was ‘belittled’ and ‘humiliated’ by her ‘unpredictable and erratic’ former KIIS FM co-host Sandilands.
Henderson’s KIIS FM contract was abruptly terminated in March after a high-profile on-air argument between her and Sandilands.
Sandilands settled his own termination dispute with ARN for $12.09million in June.
A Pennsylvania social media influencer known for confronting suspected child predators is now facing charges after a volatile encounter at a Tim Hortons ended with him being stabbed in the arm.
Nicholas Attalla, 34, who goes by Niky Sal online, was charged last week with criminal nuisance and endangering the welfare of a child, according to WGRZ News.
Attalla has built an online following by posing as a minor through undercover social media accounts, using the personas to arrange meetings with alleged pedophiles and film the confrontations — an approach often compared to Chris Hansen’s NBC series To Catch a Predator.
The charges are tied to a physical altercation that broke out last year after Attalla confronted a man he believed was attempting to meet a minor at a Tim Hortons in upstate New York.
According to the outlet, the incident began when Attalla, posing online as a 14-year-old girl, started communicating on a dating website with an unidentified person who claimed to be a 16-year-old boy.
After arranging to meet at a Tim Hortons in Jamestown, Attalla crossed state lines on the afternoon of December 15, 2025, to ‘expose’ the man as a pedophile.
There, Attalla confronted two men, James Morris, 43, and Eric Spencer, 42, and accused Morris of talking to a minor.
The Jamestown Police Department said that Attalla ‘threatened Morris based solely off the phone conversation and his voice,’ according to WGRZ.
Nicholas Attalla, a Pennsylvania influencer known for hunting down alleged child predators, was charged after he was stabbed in the arm during a tense confrontation last year
His charges stem from a physical fight that erupted after he confronted a man allegedly trying to meet up with a minor inside an upstate New York Tim Hortons
It came after Attalla, posing as a 14-year-old girl, began chatting on a dating website with an unknown person who claimed to be a 16-year-old boy
Attalla confronted two men, James Morris (pictured), 43, and Eric Spencer, 42, and accused Morris of talking to a minor
Before leaving the establishment, Morris stabbed Attalla in the arm, leaving him with a large laceration, police said (fight pictured)
A physical fight broke out between the three men, during which they allegedly crashed into a family and their one-year-old child.
Before leaving the establishment, Morris stabbed Attalla in the arm, leaving him with a large laceration, police said in a Facebook statement.
Attalla was taken to UPMC Chautauqua for treatment before later being transferred to a hospital in his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania.
In a photo shared on social media, the influencer is seen lying in a hospital bed flashing his bloodied hand at the camera. One arm appears to be wrapped in a cast-like covering.
Police said Morris was found just a short distance from the Tim Hortons and arrested without incident.
Morris was charged with first degree assault, tampering with physical evidence and third degree criminal possession of a weapon. Following his arraignment, he was remanded to the Chautauqua County Jail.
But a subsequent investigation by the department found that none of the men had been communicating before the fight, according to Erie News Now.
Search warrants for the three men’s cellphones found no contact between them before the confrontation, which police said put numerous patrons in danger, including a toddler caught in the chaos.
In a photo shared on social media, the influencer is seen lying in a hospital bed hooked up to wires and flashing his bloodied hand at the camera
A subsequent investigation by the department found that none of the men had been communicating before the fight (pictured), according to Erie News Now
During the fight between the three men, they allegedly crashed into a family and their one-year-old child
Attalla, 34, who uses the name Niky Sal online, was hit with charges of criminal nuisance and endangering the welfare
On September 4, following a lengthy investigation, all three men, Morris, Spencer and Attalla, were charged with second degree criminal nuisance and endangering the welfare of a child.
Morris and Spencer were arrested in January 2026, according to police, while Attalla surrendered to the Jamestown Police Department last week.
Attalla has amassed about 47,000 followers on Facebook, describing his page as a platform ‘for educational purposes and to help spread awareness of online child predators.’
The Jamestown Police Department, led by Chief Scott D Forster, conducted the investigation. Authorities have not released further details about the upcoming court proceedings.
NBC employees are said to be breathing easier after the network stepped up security around the “Today” show following a series of frightening incidents.
As Page Six previously reported, staffers had been deeply unsettled after Savannah Guthrie’s mother was abducted from her Arizona home in February, a shocking ordeal that rattled those connected to the morning show.
Concerns only intensified in July, when another alarming situation unfolded after an intruder managed to get past security and make it inside the “Today” show studios.
Now, sources say NBC has added several layers of enhanced, fortress-style protection at 30 Rockefeller Center, with the new measures aimed specifically at safeguarding “Today” show talent and staff.
“It’s a relief,” one insider told Page Six. “It was much-needed and took longer than people would have liked, but it does feel a lot better now.”
Another source told us that while heightened security measures are sometimes seen as a hassle at busy offices, “Today” folks have been happy to play ball.
“Staffers are more than willing to oblige with the new protocols,” said another insider, “It hasn’t been seen as a [burden.]”
Just before 9 a.m. on July 16, an intruder later identified as disturbed homeless man Andrew Truelove, slipped past security guards and got into the area immediately outside the studio where “Today” is shot.
Truelove allegedly confronted co-anchor Craig Melvin and asked him to tell him where he could find fellow co-host Al Roker before calling Melvin the n-word.
Melvin alerted security, and Truelove was arrested.
Page Six reported that a security guard was fired after the incident.
Nancy was abducted on Feb. 1 and has not been found.
California woman pleads guilty to paying homeless to register to vote
The Justice Department is raising alarms about voter fraud in California following a guilty plea from a woman accused of paying homeless people to register to vote and sign ballot petitions. Federal officials say the case underscores how weak state safeguards can leave both state and federal elections vulnerable to abuse.
A California man was arrested early Thursday after prosecutors said he and two others paid homeless individuals in Los Angeles’ Skid Row neighborhood to sign petitions under the stolen identities of registered voters, allegedly as part of an effort to help ballot initiatives qualify for local elections.
James Brass, 47, also known as “Lord,” was taken into federal custody in Victorville, about 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, according to the Justice Department. Brass and two co-defendants — Courtney Price, 49, of Jacksonville, Florida, and Jateisha Herron, 33, of Boron, California — face charges of conspiracy to commit identity fraud in furtherance of a state felony.
Brass and Price also face separate charges of identity fraud in furtherance of a state felony.
A homeless encampment is seen on Skid Row in Los Angeles on Sept. 23, 2021.(Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
“Securing American elections from criminal interference is of the upmost importance to this FBI,” FBI Director Kash Patel told News Media. “For at least 6 months in 2026, these subjects were allegedly paying homeless people on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles to sign petitions in support of ballot initiatives, all using stolen identities of registered voters.”
“Election security will always be a top priority of this FBI,” Patel added.
Brass allegedly orchestrated the ballot harvesting scheme through the management of a team of signature collectors, as well as collecting signatures himself, federal prosecutors said.
James Brass is accused of running a scheme in which homeless people in Los Angeles’ Skid Row were paid to sign petitions to qualify ballot initiatives with the stolen identities of registered California voters.(Getty Images; Justice Department)
Price and Herron were employed by Brass, authorities said.
From February through August, the trio allegedly gathered the identities of voters from a database and handed the information to homeless people on Skid Row, a neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles that contains one of the largest concentrations of homeless people in the United States.
Tents and encampments remain visible near the Skid Row Care Campus, a taxpayer-funded facility that provides healthcare, housing assistance and harm-reduction services.(Fox 11 Los Angeles)
The homeless participants were allegedly paid to sign petitions in the names of the voters.
After the petitions were signed, Brass and Herron signed declarations at the bottom of the petitions, declaring that they personally witnessed the named registered voters sign the petitions and that each signature was, to the best of their knowledge, “the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be,” federal prosecutors said.
The bogus petitions were turned in by Brass and Herron to petition coordinators. In total, authorities claim Brass was paid $41,600 from one petition management company.
Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, said the alleged conduct “undermines the confidence voters have in our election systems,” adding his office “will vigorously investigate and charge anyone involved in corrupting our elections.”
All three defendants face up to five years in prison per count if convicted. Brass is expected to appear in court Thursday.
It sounds like a storyline lifted from Albert Square.
Yet only yards from the EastEnders set, a row over scaffolding on a Hertfordshire high street has become a very real ordeal for residents and traders, who claim they are being left at the mercy of a billionaire property firm.
The structure in Borehamwood has already been in place for a year, and permission for it to remain has recently been extended. Its owner has been given three years simply to start the work the scaffolding is meant to facilitate, even as locals report injuries and shopkeepers say passing trade has been hit.
Put up by Leathbond, a property company with net assets of more than £1billion, the 130m stretch of scaffolding now dominates a high street once visited by film stars Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey, who stopped at the Golden Plaice fish and chip shop while filming the Wicked movies.
The scaffolding was erected to allow work on loose cladding, but residents and business owners in so-called “British Hollywood” say they received no advance warning before it went up, blocking windows and obscuring shopfronts.
And the company has told those living and working in the building that it will not begin work until they cough up extra service charges, which have been hiked more than fourfold for some.
Komar Tourachi, 36, runs the Nza Food Store and took over the premises in June last year, a month before the scaffolding was put up.
He told the Mail he had not even been able to change the sign above his shop, which is blocked by the metal bars, and cannot extend his £15,000 canopy to protect his fruit and vegetables on display outside.
Scaffolding, put up to deal with falling cladding, has blighted Borehamwood high street for more than a year
Wicked co-stars Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande were regulars on the street while filming the musical adaptation at the nearby Sky Studios
The scaffolding-clad building is just a stone’s throw from the BBC’s EastEnders set (pictured) and residents can see the top of Albert Square’s houses from their windows
All the while he has continued to cough up £19,500 in rent each quarter on top of £2,900 in business rates.
And since he took over the shop, Leathbond has hiked his service charge from £1,500 per quarter to £6,177 in what the business owner called an ‘unfair fight’.
Meanwhile Mr Tourachi said he was losing between £2,000 and £3,000 each week in food that rotted in the sun.
‘I really don’t know what to do,’ he said.
‘If I don’t display anything outside then the shop would close because I cannot bring the customers in.’
‘I cannot make a proper display to welcome the customer inside. Anything I display outside, if it’s not sold the same day, the next day I have to sell it for even less than the cost price.
‘When I display it outside, all the products get destroyed by the sun.’
Komar Tourachi, who runs the Nza Food Store, said he lost thousands in rotted stock each week because the scaffolding blocked his £15,000 canopy from extending
Mr Tourachi has not even been able to change the shop’s sign from the previous business after the scaffolding went up a month after he moved in
He said fruit and vegetables from his pavement display rotted away quickly in the sun and rain, with his requests for waterproofing denied
He said he was ‘so worried’ about continuing to rent the shop and said if the scaffolding remained up for another year, ‘most of the businesses [in the street] will be closed’.
Though he asked for the area above his shop to be waterproofed while his canopy was rendered useless, he said the request was denied.
And he said it was rare to see anyone working on the scaffolding.
‘There’s no one doing work on it. There’s no one on the scaffolding. You never see it.’
Down the road at Crystal Salt Cave – which provides respiratory and relaxation therapy – co-owner Ildiko Szocs-Dee said her service charges had risen from £600 to £2,400 in one swoop this year.
That was in addition to her £3,800 rent for the quarter and £900 in business rates.
The entrepreneur took over the business from its Irish founder two years ago, having worked as a manager since it was founded in 2020.
Ildiko Szocs-Dee, co-owner of Crystal Salt Caves, told the Mail her service charges had risen fourfold this year and her protests against the scaffolding had been ignored
She said her shop had seen traffic fall ‘drastically’ since the scaffolding was put up and covered her sign
Larger companies including Specsavers invested in banners to let customers know their shop remained open
But she said customer traffic had ‘drastically dropped’ since the scaffolding went up and covered her shop sign.
She said older customers had the impression there would be construction noise inside the shop, a major problem for a business based on relaxation.
‘I love what I’m doing, I love helping people, I really love this job,’ she said but Leathbond ‘ignored everything’ when she tried to protest.
Residents in the flats above told the same story of inflated service charges and blocked views.
Mark Edwards, a leaseholder, said it had become impossible to sell his two-bedroom flat since the service charge rose to around £6,000 a year, up from just £500 a few years ago.
He said the extra charges had ‘drained my savings’ and owners had ‘lost a lot of trust’ with the company.
Leaseholder Mark Edwards said the extra service charges imposed by Leathbond had impacted his savings
Residents in the building have had bars in front of their windows for more than a year
And those on the second floor had already been subject to extra charges after their rear outside staircase collapsed three years ago
Residents on the second floor had already been hit with extra charges when their external stairs collapsed three years ago – they are still forced to make do with a temporary installation and cough up extra fees each month.
Borehamwood residents, some of whom were on mobility scooters and wheelchairs when the Mail visited the high street, have complained of accidents and difficulty navigating the scaffolding.
Dotted with uneven wooden blocks under the metal rods, the scaffolding has caused some to trip and fall.
Sarah Keys, whose nine-year-old son Riley has cerebral palsy, said he had ‘tripped over the scaffolding so many times even though he’s tried to navigate around it’.
‘It is so upsetting for him. He gets embarrassed as it is always in front of people, especially by the bus stop.’
‘It is just ridiculous now,’ she said.
The high street’s bus shelter was almost totally obscured by the metal rods littering the pavement, with many of the foam protectors to help stop painful bumps ripped or fallen off
Residents said they had suffered trips and falls as a result of the scaffolding’s wooden bases, which were uneven and rotting in places
Residents in mobility scooters tried to navigate the scaffolding behemoth when the Mail visited Borehamwood
Dan Ozarow, a member of the town’s council, said the Labour-Liberal Democrat administration in the borough had ‘rewarded this billion-pound company with three years to start the work’.
‘I don’t think anyone was arguing that they shouldn’t have put it up in the first place just for safety. Everyone recognizes that. But what everyone is so upset about is why has it been up for a year and they still haven’t started work yet? They’re not going to start the work until they’ve got all the money.’
But his campaign to have the scaffolding removed was branded ‘fake’ by Paul Richards, a Liberal Democrat member of Hertsmere Council’s ruling coalition.
The council has been hit by a number of embarrassing revelations in recent months, including WhatsApp messages among Labour members which called for developments to be approved ‘where we can’t win seats’.
And last year the council’s Labour leader Jeremy Newmark branded St George’s flag campaigners ‘nonces’ and ‘criminals’.
Hertfordshire County Council, which extended the scaffolding licence, said it did so because work had not yet been completed and there was a risk of falling cladding.
Leathbond and Hertsmere Council, which has planning responsibility, were contacted for comment.
