An elections director in Washington state's most populous county says her office is asking the sheriff’s office to investigate people who posted signs near ballot boxes warning voters they were “under surveillance.” The Seattle Times reports King County Elections Director Julie Wise blasted Tuesday what she called an effort to scare voters. The signs were posted near ballot boxes in Seattle and suburban locations, and included a scannable QR code that linked to a King County Republican Party website and a form encouraging people to submit “incident reports." King County Republicans chair Mathew Patrick Thomas said he was disbanding the its so-called election integrity committee whose members were involved in planting the signs.

A New York man working at a filming location for the TV series “Law & Order: Organized Crime" has been shot and killed. Police say Johnny Pizarro was found at about 5:15 a.m. Tuesday in front of a residence in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and neck. The 31-year-old Queens resident was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police were investigating. A spokesperson for NBC confirmed that Pizarro was a crew member for the series and said that no filming was going on at the time of the shooting.

Officials say a former East Texas deputy pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation for punching a restrained detainee in the chest repeatedly with a shock gun. Former Van Zandt County sheriff's deputy David Yager pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge arising from a February 2021 assault on a detainee. The man was in a restraint chair with one arm free when he banged his food tray against a cell door, then knocked a shock gun from Yager's hand. Angered, Yager assaulted the detainee until another deputy persuaded him to stop. He faces up to 3 1/2 years in prison.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging the University of Wisconsin System reinstated former Badgers receiver Quintez Cephus without seeking input from a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2018. A UW-Madison investigation found that Cephus likely assaulted her and the university expelled him. A jury acquitted him of charges, however, and he was readmitted to the school. The woman alleged in her lawsuit that the university shut her out of the reinstatement decision, violating federal gender equity laws. But U.S. District Judge William Conley ruled Tuesday that the woman didn't provide enough evidence that the laws were violated. Cephus currently plays for the Detroit Lions.

A worker at the San Francisco International Airport was stabbed Tuesday, and a suspect was in custody, police said. It was the third security incident in a month at the airport south of San Francisco. The San Francisco Police Department said the victim, who it did not identify, was attacked in the baggage claim area of Terminal 3 and taken to a hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries. CLEAR, an airport security provider, says the victim is one of its employees. Police say officers detained a man in connection with the attack and that no flights were affected. The police department gave no other information about the incident. An email seeking comment was not immediately answered Tuesday.

A Rochester police investigator seen in a widely circulated video handcuffing an emergency medical technician in a hospital emergency room has been suspended with pay. The suspension of the unidentified investigator was announced by city police Monday, a week after he handcuffed the EMT, a Black woman, after she bumped his vehicle while unloading a patient from an ambulance. The video obtained by WHEC-TV shows the investigator backing her into a corner as she stood beside a patient on a stretcher. He grabs her arm, cuffs her hands behind her back and takes her outside. Police said the incident was being investigated.