Search for Missing Hiker, 24, Comes to Tragic End

The search for a missing 24-year-old hiker who vanished in a California canyon has come to a tragic end. Ian Roberts went on a solo hike in Placer County’s rugged American River Canyon on Friday morning and did not return home that night. His parents reported him missing early Saturday morning, sparking a frantic search involving hundreds of volunteers and land and water teams from Placer, Napa, Santa Clara, Marin, and Sacramento counties. Roberts, a regular hiker, had parked his car at Overlook Park in Auburn before hiking down into the American River Canyon area. Authorities said Roberts appears to have slipped and fallen down a steep embankment. “It is with heavy hearts that we share Ian Roberts was located deceased today, August 25,” Placer County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “There’s no indication of foul play.” The sheriff’s office said crews found Roberts within the Auburn State Recreation Area and Auburn city limits. The Auburn Police Department will investigate the circumstances surrounding his death. “We extend our deepest condolences to Ian’s family and are grateful for their kindness and support throughout the search efforts,” the statement said.

The U.S. Capitol Police arrested a California man on Tuesday after they found a guillotine in the back of his pickup truck. Authorities said the suspect, 35-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le of Julian, California, had illegally parked in the 100 block of East Capitol Street, “which is directly east of the Capitol, between the Supreme Court and the Library of Congress. Officers noticed the truck just after 3 p.m., after which they arrested the suspect and charged him with carrying a dangerous weapon, according to a press release. The suspect, whose motives and background are still being determined, had allegedly driven across the country to Washington, D.C. Whether he did so with the guillotine was not immediately clear. In photographs taken by the Capitol Police, the frame of the wooden decapitation device, which rose to prominence during the French Revolution, extends several feet above the roof of the truck and into the overhanging tree branches.

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A Republican election official in Connecticut has resigned after she used the N-word during an argument with her Democratic counterpart. Mary Smith, the Republican registrar of voters in East Lyme, Connecticut, was accused by the town’s Democratic registrar of voters, Wendi Sims, of using the racial slur during early voting in the state’s primary election earlier this month, according to The Day. Sims said that during an argument about the cleanliness of their shared office, she and other poll workers heard Smith shout that Sims “treats me like I’m a (N-word).” Smith and Sims are both white, according to CT Insider. After Sims reported the incident, the East Lyme Republicans voted unanimously to censure Smith for “language used during a workplace argument,” and town officials asked her to step down. Smith, who has apologized for her actions, according to The Day, announced that she would resign effective Nov. 19 and asked that her name be removed from the ballot for November’s general election in a letter to the town clerk on Friday. The East Lyme Republicans said in its statement that it “does not have the authority to either dismiss an elected town official from their position or remove their name(s) from a ballot in an upcoming election.” The town is legally obligated to pay Smith until her resignation date, according to The Day.

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Ryan Gosling and his indie movie production partner, Jessie Henderson, are working on a Flintstones project. The potential live-action movie will be centered on the freakishly strong and rambunctious character Bamm-Bamm Rubble—a plotline that hasn’t been explored since the 1970s cartoon spinoff The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, which depicted him as a teenager. The Open Invite producers are looking for a writer, according to Deadline. The Flintstones franchise has been brought to the big screen twice before, in 1994 and 2000, with stars including John Goodman as Fred and Rosie O’Donnell as Betty. With an estimated net worth of $90 million, Gosling’s recent blockbusters include Barbie, La La Land and his latest film, Project Hail Mary, which grossed almost $700 million worldwide.

Alley Mills, who starred in “The Wonder Years” and soap operas like “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “General Hospital,” recounted her late husband’s death on a podcast. Known for his appearances on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” Orson Bean, 91, was hit by a car while walking in Venice, California, in February 2020. A second car hit him after he fell, killing him on impact. “They put a tent over me because there were a lot of helicopters overhead and everything, and they let me hold him for four hours,” Mills said. She continued to give gruesome details of the traumatic scene, noting visible vertebrae and a bloody crash scene. Mills tried to perform CPR after feeling for Bean’s heartbeat, but he was “long gone.” She said on “The Mark Joseph Show” on Aug. 21 that she’s taken solace in the fact that he died instantly and didn’t suffer, according to the doctor who performed the autopsy. After six years, she hasn’t recovered from losing her “best friend,” but she said she’s beginning to adjust to life without him. Bean told her the day before the incident that she had a guardian angel.

A dangling packing strap on an Air Arabia plane led a London airport worker to a grim discovery: the body of a stowaway hidden in the aircraft’s landing gear compartment. The man, whose identity was not released, was found unresponsive following a flight from Tangier, Morocco, in June. Emergency services were called, and the man’s cause of death was determined to be cardiac arrest, followed by hypoxia and hypothermia. The coroner said the wheel compartment would have been extremely cold, with little available oxygen, and he had “reason to believe this death was unnatural.” London Gatwick released the following statement following the death: “London Gatwick’s emergency services attended an Air Arabia aircraft just after 11:30am on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, when an incident was identified upon arrival. As Sussex Police have confirmed, a body was found. Our teams subsequently supported Sussex Police and the coroner. Our thoughts are with everyone affected.”

Tom Selleck has landed his first role since the “frustrating” cancellation of Blue Bloods. The 81-year-old actorwill guest star in a new Apple TV comedy series featuring Elizabeth Banks and Ted Danson. Selleck and Danson acted together, alongside Steve Guttenberg, in the classic comedy, Three Men and a Baby (1987), and the sequel, Three Men and a Little Lady (1990). In the new series, Banks will play a newly divorced woman who steps in to manage her father’s (Danson) love life at his retirement community. Selleck starred in Blue Bloodsfor 14 seasons before CBS unexpectedly pulled the plug almost two years ago. “We’d already taken a 25 percent cut in salary,” the actor said last month on Danson’s podcast, Where Everybody Knows Your Name. “We’d already done all sorts of things to keep the show going… Out of the top 100 shows on broadcast television, Blue Bloods was number 6 in our 15th year. Nobody wanted to leave. Everybody was gonna stay on. That’s hard to get. It may be some kind of record to have the same cast intact for that length of time.”

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President Donald Trump’s administration has targeted another military family in its latest crackdown on immigration. The wife of an active-duty Army sergeant sat in a Texas detention facility until her deportation on Monday. Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo is now on her way to her native Honduras. She entered the U.S. at the age of 18 and does not have a criminal record, something the Trump administration vehemently claims to be targeting. She was issued an order of removal after missing an immigration hearing in 2017. But she and her husband, Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez, claimed they never received proper notice of the meeting and weren’t even aware of the removal request until they got married in 2022. She legally sought a military-family green card and waited for about four years before being detained. “We were following the rules—we did everything we could on our side to fix this problem,” Turcios Juarez told the AP. This comes after about 50 other family members of military soldiers and personnel were taken into custody after Trump rolled back protections for family members.

Target has removed a racist Halloween “clown” costume that it was selling on Monday amid online backlash. The costume was titled “Kids’ Glows Under ‌Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume.“ Part of the seasonal “Hyde and EEK Boutique” brand, the costume drew blackface allegations as consumers felt it emulated old minstrel cartoons. “As a company, we know we got this wrong, and we are deeply sorry. The costume is offensive and should never have been part of our assortment,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to FOX Business. “We know this is especially hurtful for our Black guests, team members and partners. Removing the costume is an important first step, and the company is looking closely at how this happened and what needs to change to ensure this won’t happen again.” The retailer scaled back on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion early last year after President Donald Trump increased pressure on the private sector to dismantle programs. Although Target apologized, anger remains simmering online. “You really don’t have anyone left in Minneapolis to say, ‘Hey, that’s racist’? Y’all cut DEI and now you’ve got a minstrel clown costume for kids on your website,” one user said on Threads. The Daily Beast has reached out to Target for comment.