ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — UFC heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones has agreed to attend four hours of anger management classes to resolve a pair of misdemeanor charges stemming from a drug test at his New Mexico home in which he was accused of being hostile.
A bench trial was set to begin Tuesday before a New Mexico judge, but a prosecutor and Jones' defense attorney announced at the start of the virtual proceeding that an agreement had been reached.
The charges of assault, a petty misdemeanor, and interference with communication, a misdemeanor, will be dismissed as along as Jones completes the anger management classes and follows all laws over the next 90 days.
Jones had pleaded not guilty in July, and when the allegations first became public earlier this year, he called them baseless. He posted on social media that he had been taken off guard by what he called the unprofessionalism of one of the testers and acknowledged cursing after getting frustrated.
Considered one of the top MMA fighters, Jones took the heavyweight title with a first-round submission over Ciryl Gane in March 2023. It was Jones’ first fight in three years and his first in the heavyweight division. He already was the best light heavyweight by winning a record 14 title fights.
Jones will face Stipe Miocic in UFC 309 on Nov. 16 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. He and Miocic were scheduled to fight last year, but a pectoral injury forced Jones to postpone.
In 2016, Jones was suspended for a year for a failed drug test and had his 2017 victory over Daniel Cormier turned into a no-contest after another drug test came up positive. Jones argued later that he would have passed under standards that were revised in 2019 by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which changed the criteria for what constituted a positive test.
A woman who worked for Drug Free Sport International, which conducts tests for professional athletes, initially filed a report with Albuquerque police in April. She accused Jones of threatening her while she and a colleague were at Jones' home for a drug test.
A criminal complaint stated that the woman described Jones as cooperative at first but that he became agitated.
Jones told police that he apologized for swearing at the woman and her co-worker at the end of the test. He provided video from what appeared to be a home camera system showing the woman giving him a high-five before leaving. He said neither appeared scared during the interaction.
FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2019, file photo, light heavyweight champion Jon Jones attends a news conference for the UFC 235 mixed martial arts event in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Pacific Northwest residents braced for another round of heavy rain Wednesday after a powerful storm clobbered the region the day before, swelling rivers, closing roads and prompting high water rescues.
Rivers across the western part of Washington were on the rise again after a brief morning lull, the National Weather Service said in a social media post, warning people to travel with caution. Major or record flooding was expected along the Skagit and Snohomish rivers north of Seattle, and overtopping of levees was possible, the National Water Center said.
Schools announced closings and delays over flooding concerns, the center said, and some roads were closed due to landslides. Widespread flooding of rivers and urban areas for parts of northern Oregon was also possible.
By early Wednesday, some areas in the Cascade mountain range in Washington were reporting “impressive” rain rates near or exceeding a half-inch (1.2 centimeters) per hour, the weather service posted on X. Paradise on Mount Rainier picked up 3.25 inches (8.2 centimeters) of rain in 10 hours, it said.
On Tuesday, a storm caused power outages, flooding and school closures in parts of Oregon and Washington. Drivers had to navigate debris slides and water that closed roads and submerged vehicles.
Fire officials northeast of Seattle said rescue crews used inflatable kayaks to pull people from stranded cars, and carried another person about a mile (1.6 kilometers) to safety after they were trapped in the woods by rising water.
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said in a post on X on Tuesday night that the state’s Emergency Operations Center had moved to its highest activation level because of the rain and wind.
Forecasters warned that the worst river flooding was still to come. The Skagit River near the town of Concrete in northern Washington was forecast to rise more than 15 feet (4.6 meters) above major flooding levels by Thursday, which would break a record, according to the National Water Prediction Service.
Harrison Rademacher, a meteorologist with the weather service in Seattle, described the atmospheric river soaking the region as “a jet stream of moisture” stretching across the Pacific Ocean “with the nozzle pushing right along the coast of Oregon and Washington.”
The weather service forecast several days of heavy rainfall along the coast and more than a foot (30 centimeters) of new snow in the northern Rockies in northwestern Wyoming. Flood watches were in effect, with scattered flash flooding possible along the coast and into the Cascade Range through midweek.
Along Interstate 5 between Seattle and Portland, firefighters conducted five rescues for people who tried to drive on flooded roads, including a semitruck driver, said Malachi Simper, spokesperson for Lewis County Fire Protection District #5. Authorities also rescued a family of six from their home in Chehalis, he said, adding that the road to the house was under about 4 feet (1.2 meters) of water at the time. None of those rescued were injured, he said.
Deputies in Washington were knocking on doors in certain neighborhoods to warn residents of imminent flooding, and evacuated a mobile home park along the Snohomish River. The city of Snohomish issued an emergency proclamation due to flooding, while in Auburn, south of Seattle, workers installed temporary flood control barriers along the White River.
On the Columbia River, farther south near the Oregon border, the city of Longview said it was opening a severe weather shelter Tuesday night.
Another storm system is expected to bring rain to the region starting Sunday, Rademacher said. “The pattern looks pretty unsettled going up to the holidays.”
In southeast Alaska, an arctic blast could bring wind chills as low as minus 50 degrees (minus 45.6 Celsius) in Skagway and minus 15 degrees (minus 26 Celsius) in the capital, Juneau, according to the weather service.
Meanwhile, a fast-moving storm across the Upper Midwest on Tuesday brought freezing rain, high winds and heavy snow.
Weather forced some schools to close or move to virtual lessons.
Parts of central and northern Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin saw heavy snow, with a mix of winter weather across the Twin Cities metro and southwest Minnesota. St. Cloud, Minnesota, got nearly 6 inches (15 centimeters) of snow by Wednesday morning, the weather service said.
The storm was heading into the Great Lakes region on Wednesday. Parts of upstate New York near Lake Ontario, including the western Adirondacks, were under a winter storm warning, with heavy snow expected.
A flag ripples in the wind as snow falls in Lowville, New York, on Tuesday night, Dec. 9, 2025. The area faces a winter storm warning through Thursday. (AP Photo/Cara Anna)
Floodwaters surround homes and buildings after heavy rains, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Chehalis, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Maery Schine, 11, is helped out of a rescue boat by rescue workers with Chehalis Fire after evacuating with her father Patric, second from left, following flooding after heavy rains in the region Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Chehalis, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
A man checks on a car caught in flooding after heavy rains Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Napavine, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Chehalis Fire rescue workers help residents evacuate their flooded neighborhood after heavy rains in the region Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Chehalis, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
