Responded to a report of a commercial alarm in the 1400 block of S. 14th Street.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s, leaving more than 1.3 million clients in the dark. Officials said it could take up to two days to restore power.

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — Finnish investigators probing the damage to a Baltic Sea power cable and several data cables said they found an anchor drag mark on the seabed, apparently from a Russialinked vessel that has already been seized.

Park fun

Haiden Martinez, left, pushes Valerie Salinas in the swing at McLain Rogers Park.

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- Custer Co. leaders talk end of year

- School board group makes resolutions

- Top 10 Stories in 2024

- Senior hoops player looking to get into med field

- Full obituary for Rita Gayle (Warden) Hughes, Glenda Newton

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine judge confirmed charges against five people in connection with the death of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Direction, and ordered preventive prison for two of them for having supplied him with drugs. A judicial officer confirmed Monday the judge’s decision and said that one of the two people ordered to be put under preventive prison — a form of pre-trial detention — was an employee of the hotel in Buenos Aires where Payne stayed until he died after falling from the balcony of his room in October.

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