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Georgia House passes bill requiring jailers to identify and hold immigrants after student's killing 03/06/2024 05:03pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House Republicans are backing a bill that would require every eligible police and sheriff’s department to help identify undocumented immigrants and detain them for possible deportation. The House voted 97-74 on Thursday for House Bill 1105 after police accused a Venezuelan Former track coach sentenced to five years for duping female athletes into sending nude photos 03/06/2024 01:30pm • BOSTON (AP) — A former college track and field coach was sentenced Wednesday to five years behind bars for setting up sham social media and email accounts in an attempt to trick women, including some he coached, into sending him nude or semi-nude photos of themselves. Steve Waithe, who coached at Editorial Roundup: United States 03/06/2024 11:29am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 4 The Washington Post on SCOTUS keeping Trump on ballot No, there is no one weird trick to keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot and out of the White House. That is the unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court, which ru Md. juvenile justice reform bills approved, work to resolve differences begins 03/06/2024 09:10am • Now that Maryland lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved juvenile justice reform measures, members of each chamber must determine how to resolve differences in separate bills. House Bill 814 and Senate Bill 744 have similar provisions such as requiring the state Department of Juvenile Servic Los Angeles County's progressive district attorney leads in early results against 11 challengers 03/06/2024 03:27am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the country's most progressive prosecutors, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, was leading in partial results in his bid for reelection, and Nathan Hochman, a one-time California attorney general candidate who ran as a Republican in 2022, was closely beh Voters show strong support for San Francisco measures to compel drug treatment, expand police powers 03/06/2024 02:33am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco voters showed strong support for a pair of controversial public safety ballot measure that expand police powers and compel treatment for adult welfare recipients who use illegal drugs, two efforts Mayor London Breed said would crack down on crime and the city's d DC Council approves sweeping anti-crime bill 03/05/2024 09:10pm • In response to troubling crime trends, the D.C. Council voted nearly unanimously on Tuesday to approve a sweeping bill that covers carjackings, gun crimes and DNA collection, among other things. Council members voted 12-0 in support of the legislation, with Ward 8 Council member Trayon White voti 'A crisis that is killing our people': Proposed Md. bill goes after sellers of fentanyl in overdose cases 03/05/2024 08:20pm • On Tuesday morning, two moms who have suffered unimaginable loss traveled to Annapolis to urge lawmakers to adopt tougher laws on fentanyl sales in Maryland. Isis Yamileth Flores, whose 16-year-old son Yader Rosa Flores died of a drug overdose in November of 2022, said she'd been fairly private a New obstruction of justice crimes levied against Sen. Bob Menendez in rewritten indictment 03/05/2024 07:54pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife face new charges that they obstructed justice while they were being investigated over allegations that they accepted bribes of gold bars, cash and a luxury car from three favor-seeking New Jersey businessmen. The obstruction charges were added Tu Momentum builds in major homelessness case before U.S. Supreme Court 03/05/2024 06:41pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Momentum is building in a case regarding homeless encampments that will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court next month and could have major implications for cities as homelessness nationwide has reached record highs. Dozens of briefs have been filed in recent days, includ International court seeks the arrest of 2 Russian officers over attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure 03/05/2024 02:29pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for two high-ranking Russian military officers on charges linked to attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine that judges said happened “pursuant to a state policy.” It's only the second time the Gang rape of a tourist in India highlights its struggle to curb sexual violence against women 03/05/2024 07:30am • NEW DELHI (AP) — The woman in the Instagram video appeared shaken. Her face was swollen and bruised. Sitting beside her husband, she began recounting her ordeal. “Something happened to us that we wouldn’t wish on anyone," she said in Spanish, with captions in English. Her husband then said: "W Today in History: March 5, Stalin dies after long USSR reign 03/05/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, March 5, the 65th day of 2024. There are 301 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On March 5, 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died after three decades in power. On this date: In 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who� The man sought in New York in the fatal bludgeoning at a hotel won't waive extradition from Arizona 03/04/2024 08:45pm • PHOENIX (AP) — The man sought in New York in last month's fatal bludgeoning of a woman in a Manhattan hotel said in an Arizona courtroom Monday that he would not waive formal extradition proceedings while he’s being prosecuted for subsequent stabbing attacks on two other women in Phoenix. Raad Oregon lawmakers voted to recriminalize drugs. The bill's future is now in the governor's hands 03/04/2024 08:06pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The future of an Oregon bill that would roll back the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law is now in the hands of Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek. The bill — which would make the possession of small amounts of drugs a crime once more — has not yet reached K