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Jury convicts 5 people of blocking access to DC reproductive health clinic 08/29/2023 08:55pm • Five people face years in prison and hefty fines after they were convicted of blocking people from entering a reproductive clinic in D.C. Lauren Handy, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia; John Hinshaw, 67, of New York; Heather Idoni, 61, of Michigan; William Goodman, 52, of New York; and Herb Geraghty, What Is an Indictment? 08/29/2023 08:00pm • An indictment is a document that notifies the defendant of the charges against them. It is the beginning of the formal criminal process, says Daniel Richman, a former federal prosecutor and now the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution Myon Burrell, who was sent to prison for life as a teen but set free in 2020, is arrested 08/29/2023 07:45pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Myon Burrell, who was sent to prison for life as a teenager but was set free after 18 years behind bars, was arrested in a Minneapolis suburb Tuesday after police said they found a handgun and drugs in his SUV. Burrell, now 37, was released in 2020 after Minnesota's pardons boa FBI and European partners seize major malware network in blow to global cybercrime 08/29/2023 06:35pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major global malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks. They then remotely removed the malicious so Lawyers indicted with Trump say they were doing their jobs. But that may be a tough argument to make 08/29/2023 05:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — As John Eastman prepared to surrender to Georgia authorities last week for an indictment related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, he issued a statement denouncing the criminal case as targeting attorneys "for their zealous advocacy on behalf of their clients Exonerees support Adnan Syed in recent court filing as appeal drags on 08/29/2023 04:28pm • More than 70 wrongfully convicted people from across the country have expressed their support for Adnan Syed, whose protracted legal saga received widespread attention from the “Serial” podcast and has since pitted crime victims’ rights advocates against proponents of criminal justice reform. Court rejects Connecticut officials' bid to keep secret a police report on hospital patient's death 08/29/2023 04:26pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Police reports about deaths and other incidents in public hospitals cannot be kept secret, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, citing the importance of government transparency and the public's right to know what happened. A majority of the justices rejected an attem Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 08/29/2023 01:33pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Switzerland indicts Algerian ex-minister for alleged crimes against humanity during 1990s insurgency 08/29/2023 12:26pm • GENEVA (AP) — Swiss federal prosecutors said Tuesday they have indicted a former Algerian defense minister, now aged 85 and reportedly “on his deathbed,” for his alleged role in crimes against humanity during the bloody insurrection in the North African country in the 1990s. The Swiss attorne Jacksonville shootings: What we know about the racist killings 08/29/2023 09:20am • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A white man wearing a mask and firing a weapon emblazoned with a swastika gunned down three Black people Saturday in a racist attack in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooter, who had also posted racist writings, then killed himself. Here's what we know about the killings: WH A German woman who belonged to IS is imprisoned for allowing a 5-year-old child slave to die in Iraq 08/29/2023 07:16am • BERLIN (AP) — A Munich court on Tuesday sentenced a German woman who was a member of the Islamic State group to 14 years in prison for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun. The decision replaced an earlier prison sentence of 10 16-year-old fatally stabbed after dispute over sweet-and-sour sauce near McDonald's in Northwest DC 08/28/2023 10:24pm • A 16-year-old Waldorf, Maryland, girl has been ordered to be held at the D.C. juvenile detention center in the stabbing death of another teenager. Naima Liggon, 16, also of Waldorf, died after she was stabbed following a party in the District. The accused teenager is facing multiple charges, i 73-year-old female inmate dies at Arlington County Detention Center 08/28/2023 05:58am • A 73-year-old female inmate died on Sunday morning after she was found unresponsive in her cell at the Arlington County Detention Center in Virginia, officials say. In a news release, the Arlington County Police Department said 73-year-old Aboneesh Woldegeorges was discovered unresponsive in her Many big US cities now answer mental health crisis calls with civilian teams -- not police 08/28/2023 12:05am • DENVER (AP) — Christian Glass was a geology geek, a painter and a young man beset by a mental health crisis when he called 911 for help getting his car unstuck in a Colorado mountain town last year. When sheriff's deputies arrived, he refused to get out of the car after saying that supernatural Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin challenged the Kremlin in a brief mutiny 08/27/2023 09:07am • Yevgeny Prigozhin, who made his name as a profane and brutal mercenary boss before mounting an armed rebellion that was the most severe and shocking challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule, has died at age 62. Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, a Russian military contractor, was