Today's five.

Two people decided to shoot at each other in a crowd of hundreds, and twelve people who came for live music and a beer garden paid for it. The shooting broke out just after 5:30pm near Toledo's Old West End Festival — an annual neighborhood tradition — when at least two gunmen, probably targeting each other, opened fire and hit bystanders ranging in age from 14 to 61. Two are in critical condition. No one is in custody. Ohio's governor issued a statement about summer festivals being safe spaces. The suspects, for their part, did not read it.

Twenty-year-old Weston Higginbotham stayed behind while his family visited a temple near Kyoto, and then he was simply gone. His parents watched his location move on a tracking app, texted him, got nothing back. A massive search by Japanese police and local volunteers followed. A week later, a volunteer search-and-rescue group found his body in a mountainous area outside the city. His mother announced it on Facebook — where she'd also first asked for help finding him. Cause of death hasn't been released. The family is asking for privacy now, which is the least anyone can give them.

A week after election day, Los Angeles still doesn't have a second finalist, which is either democracy working as intended or a stress test nobody asked for. Incumbent Karen Bass is in — AP called that one. But the second runoff spot has flipped: Spencer Pratt, the former reality TV personality, led by ten points on election night. Then more ballots arrived. Now Nithya Raman, a city councilwoman, is one point behind him with 78% counted. Both outlets covering this leaned hard on "ballot dumps" framing. The math hasn't finished mathing yet.

Cardiac arrest at home, pronounced dead at the hospital, autopsy confirms nothing suspicious — the Clearwater Police Department released its final report on Hulk Hogan's death Friday, nine months after he died in July 2025 at 71. The official language, as official language tends to go, is a masterpiece of the genre: death attributed "exclusively from compelling natural disease, with no reasonable traumatic or terminal toxicologic contributions." No criminal wrongdoing. No open questions. Coverage was essentially uniform across outlets — same report, same quotes, same conclusion. The investigation is closed. The man's name was Terry Bollea.

The Tampa Bay Rays stadium deal is somehow still not ready to vote on, which at this point feels less like negotiation and more like a coping mechanism. Tampa City Council Chair Alan Clendenin wants the CRA discussion pushed to July at the earliest — because, he says, the talks aren't resolved. Hillsborough County Commissioner Joshua Wostal went further, suggesting the CRA could yank the Rays' memorandum of understanding off the agenda entirely and force a renegotiation. Clendenin disputed that framing. So two officials are publicly disagreeing about how delayed to make the delay. The stadium is still theoretical.