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'This is a crisis': Montgomery Co. panel explores juvenile crime, possible actions 10/31/2023 08:05am • Bomb threats, carjackings, gun offenses. While juvenile crime on the whole in Maryland is below pre-pandemic levels, the numbers for particular offenses are "off the charts," according to Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy. Montgomery County Council members on the Public Safety Comm Elite Kenyan police unit goes on trial in the killing of a prominent Pakistani journalist last year 10/31/2023 02:55am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An elite Kenyan police unit went on trial Tuesday on charges of wrongful death in the killing of an outspoken Pakistani journalist in Nairobi a year ago. The case was jointly filed by the journalist's widow and two Kenyan journalists' unions. Arshad Sharif was killed Oct. 23, Online antisemitic threats unnerve Jewish students and spark condemnation at Cornell University 10/30/2023 05:32pm • ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Threatening statements about Jews on an internet discussion board have unnerved students at Cornell University and prompted officials to send police to guard a Jewish center and kosher dining hall. The menacing, anonymous messages, posted over the weekend in an online forum abo St. Louis County prosecutor drops U.S. Senate bid, will instead oppose Cori Bush in House race 10/30/2023 03:38pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell announced Monday he will drop his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley in 2024, and will instead make a run at a fellow Democrat — U.S. Rep. Cori Bush. Bell, 48, will oppose Bush in the 2024 Democratic primary for Misso Deadly explosion off Nigeria points to threat posed by aging oil ships around the world 10/30/2023 09:00am • OKITIPUPA, Nigeria (AP) — It was the dead of night when the ship caught fire, Patrick Aganyebi remembers, but the flames made it seem as bright as day. The explosion that night woke him and knocked him to the floor. He tucked his phone and his ID card in his pockets, strapped on a life jacket and Live updates | Israel intensifies Gaza strikes, hospital damaged by nearby bombs 10/29/2023 08:53pm • The Israeli military intensified airstrikes in Gaza on Sunday, including near its largest hospital, and another hospital was damaged by bombardment close by. Thousands of people desperate for food and basic items broke into aid warehouses in the besieged enclave. Internet and phone connectivity we Search for Maine shooting suspect leveraged old-fashioned footwork and new technology 10/27/2023 11:00pm • Hundreds of law enforcement officers descended on southern Maine this week, searching for a military-trained outdoorsman who vanished after police say he killed 18 people in two separate shootings Wednesday. The deceased ranged in age from 14 to 76. A teen bowler, a shipbuilder and a sign language Live Updates | Maine mass shooting suspect has been found dead, ending search 10/27/2023 10:56pm • The man wanted in the mass shooting at a bowling alley and bar that killed 18 people and wounded 13 was found dead Friday, authorities said, bringing an end to a search that put the entire state of Maine on edge for the last two days. Follow for live updates. WHAT TO KNOW — Here’s what we know a Five years later, trauma compounds for survivors marking Tree of Life massacre amid Israel-Hamas war 10/27/2023 07:03pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — In one sense, there was a feeling of closure as survivors of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history joined with hundreds of others for prayers, poetry and music at an outdoor commemoration of the 11 people who were killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue five years ago on Frid Nashville police chief has spent a career mentoring youths but couldn't keep his son from trouble 10/27/2023 03:56pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville Police Chief John Drake has spent much of his career trying to steer young people away from crime. Inspired by mentors who helped him as a young man, Drake has tried to pay it forward. But sadly, he was unable to keep his own son out of trouble. John C. Drake Jr. Pope orders Vatican to reopen case of priest accused of adult abuse but allowed to keep ministering 10/27/2023 11:21am • ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to reopen the case of a well-known priest-artist accused of sexually, psychologically and spiritually abusing adult women, and removed the statute of limitations that had previously prevented a church trial based on their claims. The Vatican's annou Fearful Maine residents stay home amid massive search for suspect in killing of 18 people 10/26/2023 11:56pm • LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Shocked and fearful Maine residents kept to their homes for a second night Thursday as hundreds of heavily armed police and FBI agents searched intensely for Robert Card, an Army reservist authorities say fatally shot 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the worst mass Killing of Hagerstown judge renews push to protect Md. judges from ‘disgruntled litigants’ 10/26/2023 07:25pm • Maryland State Sen. William Smith told WTOP that he'll bring back a bill designed to protect judges in the upcoming legislative session. Smith chairs the Senate's Judicial Proceedings Committee and said he expects the bill, which would shield the home addresses of the state's judges from being po DC murder suspect on the run for 7 weeks after hospital escape has been captured, police say 10/26/2023 05:12pm • A murder suspect who escaped police custody at The George Washington University Hospital more than seven weeks ago, sparking an extensive manhunt, has been captured, D.C. police announced Thursday. Christopher Haynes, 30, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service's Capital Area Regional Fugitive South Africa begins an inquiry into a building fire that killed 76 people in Johannesburg in August 10/26/2023 10:16am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An inquiry began Thursday into an apartment building fire that killed 76 people in South Africa in August and laid bare the deep problems of poverty and neglect in parts of Africa's richest city. The nighttime blaze swept through a five-story building in the Marshall