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Westfield Fire Chief Adrian Dillehay has spoken about the personal journey that led him from East Aldine to a position of leadership, saying the department he now runs gave him direction when he needed it most. Dillehay was featured during Hispanic Heritage Month for his work in north-east Harris County, where his family has longstanding ties. At the intersection of Bentley and Mooney, he recalled the neighbourhood’s past as farmland and the hard-working families who helped shape it. His own connection to the area is particularly strong. Dillehay said his grandmother’s house once stood on Mooney, and he has a…

The Fitzroy River in Rockhampton has been approved as the rowing venue for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics, Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has told parliament. The Central Queensland site will also host para rowing, canoe sprint and para canoe events after passing an International Olympic Committee assessment, according to Mr Crisafulli. “It’s official, signed, sealed and delivered,” he said on Thursday. The Fitzroy River is a crocodile habitat, while the nominated venue had faced pressure over concerns about fairness, safety and sustainability. Mr Crisafulli said the proposed Rockhampton flatwater course had received approval following a comprehensive independent technical assessment by “renowned…

Paramount is “deadly serious” about leaving California if state officials do not drop their legal challenge to the studio’s proposed $110 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery, according to people inside the company. Chief executive David Ellison has warned that Paramount could abandon its Hollywood base of almost a century and relocate to Texas, Georgia or Tennessee unless an agreement is reached by October 1. The threat appeared to become more concrete this week after Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Attorney General Rob Bonta were reportedly told that a deposit had been placed on moving trucks. Paramount was…

Australia may need further interest rate rises to bring inflation under control, the International Monetary Fund has said. The IMF’s assessment points to the possibility of additional monetary tightening as Australian policymakers seek to tame persistent inflation.

Charles Spencer has made fresh claims about King Charles’s response to Princess Diana’s death, alleging that the then Prince of Wales reacted angrily when Spencer objected to Princes William and Harry taking part in their mother’s funeral procession. The allegations appear in Spencer’s memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, which recounts a conversation he says took place days after Diana died in August 1997. Spencer said he had tried to prevent William and Harry, then aged 15 and 12, from being paraded through the streets during the funeral because he believed it would have been against Diana’s wishes. According to…

LeJames Norman, 40, has been executed in Texas for the 2005 triple murder of three people during an attempted robbery at a home in Edna, south-west of Houston. Norman was put to death by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville on Wednesday, September 16. He was the fifth person executed by Texas this year. The US Supreme Court rejected a last-minute application from Norman’s lawyers to halt the execution on the same day. Norman was sentenced to death for the fatal shootings of Samuel Roberts, 24, Tiffani Peacock, 18, and Celso Lopez, 38. The victims were inside a…

CCTV footage from 2017 shows a jogger pushing a woman into the path of an oncoming bus. A suspect in the case has since been found dead at his home. The footage captured the incident involving the woman and the jogger. No further details about the circumstances of the woman’s condition or the suspect’s death were provided.

The US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is “highly effective”, according to Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for US Central Command. Captain Hawkins said Iran did not control the waterway, amid the continuing blockade. He added that 900 million barrels of oil had passed through the Strait of Hormuz since May.

Barbie Ferreira has backed a Justin Bieber and Harry Styles duo for the Super Bowl halftime show, saying she would welcome both pop stars sharing the stage. The Euphoria star was approached at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday and asked about reports that the pair were being considered for the Super Bowl LXI performance. Ferreira admitted she does not know much about football, but said her younger self would have been delighted to see either singer perform at the event. She was unable to choose between them, having grown up listening to Bieber and One Direction. Her preferred solution…

Four students have been arrested over an alleged hazing incident at Boyd High School in Texas, with two 17-year-olds charged as adults. The Boyd Police Department began investigating after receiving a criminal complaint on September 3. Officers said the alleged incident took place inside the school’s field house. Chason Lee-Earl Tucker and Noah Davis, both aged 17, are accused of injury to a child causing bodily injury, a felony, and unlawful restraint. They have been booked into Wise County Jail. Two other students were also arrested but have not been identified because they are juveniles. Boyd High School hazing investigation…