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Zelenskyy wants Putin trial; Russia accuses US on drones 05/04/2023 05:05pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine and Russia pressed their wartime rhetoric Thursday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressing confidence that Vladimir Putin would be convicted of war crimes, and the Kremlin alleging that the U.S. was behind what it called an assassination attem Sex offender fatally shot 6, then killed self, official says 05/03/2023 08:31pm • An Oklahoma sex offender who was released from prison early shot his wife, her three children and their two friends in the head and then killed himself, authorities confirmed Wednesday as concerns grew about why he was free as his trial on new sex charges loomed. Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice s Washington governor rolls back limitations on police chases 05/03/2023 06:43pm • SEATTLE (AP) — With the stroke of a pen Wednesday, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee rolled back some requirements for police to chase people in vehicles, a partial reversal of a controversial pursuit policy first enacted in the state at the height of racial injustice protests following George Floyd’s Feds charge 45 people in takedown of 2 Minneapolis gangs 05/03/2023 06:32pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities announced racketeering and other charges Wednesday against 45 members or associates of two major Minneapolis street gangs for crimes including seven homicides, plus numerous drug trafficking and firearms violations. U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said at a news con Court: Man took leaf blower so brazenly, it wasn't burglary 05/03/2023 04:49pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man acted so brazenly when he stole a $500 leaf blower from a residence that it wasn’t a burglary, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In their unanimous decision, the justices found that because Donald Bertram did not use “force, stealth, or deception” to Attorney wants court records sealed in Ralph Yarl shooting 05/03/2023 03:39pm • LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — The attorney for an 84-year-old man accused of shooting a Black teenager who mistakenly came to his door is asking a court to prevent any new information in the case from being made public. Andrew Lester is accused of shooting Ralph Yarl on April 13 after the 16-year-old confu Judge: Synagogue massacre suspect can face death penalty 05/03/2023 10:00am • PITTSBURGH (AP) — The man charged in the deadliest attack on Jewish people in U.S. history has lost another bid to get the death penalty removed as a possible punishment. With jury selection underway at the federal trial of Robert Bowers, a judge ruled Tuesday against a defense motion that chal 300 arrested in global crackdown on dark web drug market 05/02/2023 08:52pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Authorities in the U.S. and Europe arrested nearly 300 people, confiscated over $53 million, and seized a dark web marketplace as part of an international crackdown on drug trafficking that officials say was the largest operation of its kind. The operation targeting Little progress in Serbia, Kosovo leaders' EU-backed talks 05/02/2023 05:31pm • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo met in Brussels on Tuesday for talks to implement a European Union-backed plan to normalize ties, and agreed to cooperate on resolving cases of missing persons. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell convened the meeting between Serbian Presi 'At our wit's end': Police don't have leads in deadly December Silver Spring parking garage shooting 05/02/2023 05:16pm • Joe Reynolds (Courtesy Montgomery County police) Four months after a father of three was shot and killed in a downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, parking garage, Montgomery County police say they have no idea who did it. Now, Joe Reynolds' widow is joining investigators in asking for the public Editorial Roundup: United States 05/02/2023 05:07pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 26 The Washington Post on a U.S. Supreme Court code of ethics It was never realistic to expect that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. would go before Congress for a clobbering over Supreme Court ethics rules. But citizens are ent Prince George's Co. officer convicted of assaulting handcuffed teen after traffic stop 05/02/2023 03:41pm • A longtime Prince George's County, Maryland, police officer was convicted Tuesday of assaulting a handcuffed teen after a 2020 traffic stop. Prince George's County police Cpl. Darryl Wormuth, 46, was found guilty of second-degree assault and misconduct in office following a bench trial before Cir Bolivian Jesuits apologize for alleged abuse by late priest 05/02/2023 02:58pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s Jesuit congregation apologized Tuesday and announced an investigation into a late Spanish priest who allegedly abused several minors in Bolivia dating back to the 1980s. “We apologize for the pain this has caused,” said the Rev. Bernardo Mercado, head of the Trump accuser says many in her generation didn't report rape 05/01/2023 06:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in a department store's dressing room two decades before he became president acknowledged Monday that she never followed her own advice to readers that they report sexual attacks to police. E. Jean Carroll told a federal civil co DeSantis signs death penalty, crime bills as 2024 run looms 05/01/2023 04:56pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned capital punishment in such cases. DeSantis, a Republican, also signed two other components of his criminal justice legis