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Illinois appeals court hears arguments on Jussie Smollett request to toss convictions 09/12/2023 03:47pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Jussie Smollett's lawyers told an Illinois appellate court Tuesday it should toss the former “Empire” actor’s convictions for staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police, arguing that anger over the case led to properly Cash bail disproportionately impacts communities of color. Illinois is the first state to abolish it 09/12/2023 10:23am • CHICAGO (AP) — It took four and a half months for Shannon Ross’ life to unravel. Ross, who describes himself as Indigenous and a person of color, was arrested in Chicago in October 2019 on weapons charges and ultimately found not guilty. But that came only after he spent months in jail awaiting Nobel winner Maria Ressa acquitted of tax evasion though she faces 2 more legal cases 09/12/2023 03:15am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa was acquitted of a final tax evasion charge Tuesday though she still faces two remaining legal cases she believes the former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte used to muzzle her critical reporting. Ressa and her online news organiz Police veteran hailed for reform efforts in Washington, California nominated to be New Orleans chief 09/11/2023 07:34pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Monday that she has chosen Anne Kirkpatrick, a former chief of police in Spokane, Washington, and Oakland, California, to head the New Orleans Police Department, a nomination subject to the approval of the City Council. Kirkpatrick, if appr UN says Colombia's coca crop at all-time high as officials promote new drug policies 09/11/2023 05:57pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Coca cultivation reached an all-time high in Colombia last year, the U.N. said, as the administration of President Gustavo Petro struggles to reduce poverty in remote areas and contain armed groups that are profiting from the cocaine trade. The new findings on coca growing Sudan's military chief visits Eritrea to discuss Sudan conflict with the president 09/11/2023 04:32pm • CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military chief traveled to Eritrea on Monday for a meeting with President Isaias Afwerki, the general's latest international trip since fighting broke out between his army and a rival paramilitary force in mid-April, state media said. Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan has been lookin Former Army service member arrested in 1994 cold-case killing of Fairfax Co. mother 09/11/2023 04:03pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, have made an arrest in the cold-case slaying of a mother who was stabbed to death a few days before Thanksgiving in 1994 while her toddler daughter was in the next room. Stephan Smerk, 51, of Niskayuna, New York, is awaiting extradition to Virginia on second-de Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates often speak out on hot topics. Only one faces impeachment threat 09/11/2023 03:59pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who Republicans are threatening to impeach over comments she made on the campaign trail about abortion and redistricting isn’t the first member of the court to offer public opinions about major issues of the day. One conservative justice f Could addressing attendance in Prince George's Co. schools solve bigger problems, too? 09/11/2023 01:58pm • Ever since the pandemic began to ebb, law enforcement have had to contend with an increase in crimes committed by kids. Despite a constant drumbeat for help from parents and the community, the stories stay the same: Every few months, carjackings and violent robberies spike, and more and more teenage Gov. Youngkin pardons sexual assault victim's father after Loudoun Co. school board meeting arrest 09/11/2023 09:55am • Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin granted a pardon Sunday to a father arrested at a Loudoun County School Board meeting in 2021 after his daughter was sexually assaulted in a school bathroom. The man's daughter was raped at Stone Bridge High School — leading to the father’s arrest for disrupting a 3 Woodbridge teenagers found with 1,000 fentanyl pills, 2 handguns during traffic stop 09/10/2023 06:26pm • Three 19-year-olds were found with over 1,000 fentanyl pills and two loaded handguns during a traffic stop Thursday for speeding on I-95, according to the Spotsylvania's Sheriff's Office. The three teenagers from Woodbridge were identified by police as D'Shon A. Mims, Jada Sales-Perez and Francis New Mexico governor issues order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque 09/09/2023 08:55pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least 30 days in response to a spate of gun violence. The Democratic governor said she expects lega Group sues after New Mexico governor suspends right to carry guns in Albuquerque in public 09/09/2023 08:33pm • New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque drew an immediate court challenge from a gun-rights group Saturday, as legal scholars and advocates said they expected. The National Association for Gun Rights and Fost Prominent activist's son convicted of storming Capitol and invading Senate floor in Jan. 6 riot 09/09/2023 12:02pm • The son of a prominent conservative activist has been convicted of charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, bashed in a window, chased a police officer, invaded the Senate floor and helped a mob disrupt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden's presidential election victory. Leo Powerful ethnic militia in Myanmar repatriates 1,200 Chinese suspected of involvement in cybercrime 09/09/2023 11:21am • BANGKOK (AP) — One of Myanmar’s biggest and most powerful ethnic minority militias has arrested and repatriated more than 1,200 Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations, an official of the group said Saturday. The arrests were carried out in territory controlled by