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Maryland plan to curb juvenile crime stirs debate 02/09/2024 10:45am • Is crime committed by young people getting out of hand? Top prosecutors in Maryland say that it is — and argued their case before the General Assembly in Annapolis on Thursday. Lawmakers, advocates and others testified about recently introduced bill to address juvenile crime. Gov. Wes Moore An activist who searched for her disappeared brother killed in Mexican border city 02/09/2024 10:44am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gunman has killed an activist who led a group of volunteers searching for some of Mexico’s over 100,000 missing people, prosecutors said. The killer burst into a beauty salon Thursday in the northern border city of Mexicali and shot to death Ángela León, who apparently ran Body-camera footage shows chaotic lead-up to Times Square brawl between police and migrants 02/08/2024 11:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The confrontation begins with police officers ordering a group of migrants to leave a bustling Times Square block. It escalates when one of those men, slowly walking away, lobs an insult in Spanish: “They look like Ugly Betty.” Seconds later, he is pushed up against a wall by a Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry calls for special session, focused on tough-on-crime policies 02/08/2024 06:52pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Thursday officially called for a highly anticipated crime-focused special legislative session that could overhaul the state's current criminal justice system, reversing hard-fought and historic reforms that happened under Landry's Democratic pr California governor to send prosecutors to Oakland to help crack down on rising crime 02/08/2024 06:49pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — California's governor announced plans Thursday to send prosecutors to Oakland in his latest move to crack down on rising crime in the San Francisco Bay Area city where brazen robberies in broad daylight have drawn national attention. Gov. Gavin Newsom days earlier said he wo 200 victims allege child sex abuse in Maryland youth detention facilities 02/08/2024 05:05pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Since Maryland lawmakers eliminated the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits last year, the number of victims suing the state’s juvenile justice agency has grown to 200. The latest lawsuit, which was filed Thursday on behalf of 63 plaintiffs, alleges rampant a Hawaii's high court cites 'The Wire' in rebuke of US Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights 02/08/2024 05:03pm • HONOLULU (AP) — A ruling by Hawaii's high court saying that a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit cites crime-drama TV series “The Wire” and invokes the “spirit of Aloha” in an apparent rebuke of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights nationw Takeaways from the Supreme Court arguments over whether Trump is ineligible to be president again 02/08/2024 04:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday heard two hours of historic arguments in a Colorado case to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot. The justices sounded highly skeptical of the effort. It's the first time that voters have tried to block a candidate from the preside Brazil police investigate ex-President Bolsonaro's top aides over alleged coup plot 02/08/2024 03:01pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police on Thursday searched homes and offices of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s top aides in an investigation alleging they plotted a coup and that the ex-president was aware of the plan, court documents showed. The alleged plot in the event Bolsonaro lost the Pressure mounts on Hungary's president to resign over pardon in child sexual abuse case 02/08/2024 10:42am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Hungary's head of state to resign after it was revealed that she issued a presidential pardon to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case. Hungary's opposition parties say that President Katalin Novák, Hungary's one-time minist On live TV, Guardian Angels rough up a man in Times Square then misidentify him as a 'migrant' 02/07/2024 08:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Members of the Guardian Angels roughed up a man during a live interview on Fox News Tuesday night, then misidentified him as a “migrant” in a primetime segment meant to highlight disorder and crime caused by new arrivals to New York City. The bizarre altercation played out as C Panama ex-President Ricardo Martinelli receives political asylum from Nicaragua 02/07/2024 08:09pm • PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli has received political asylum from Nicaragua days after Panama's Supreme Court denied his appeal over a money laundering conviction that carried a 10-year sentence. Martinelli’s attorney Shirley Castañeda said outside the Nicarag Kentucky lawmakers dine with homeless people as they consider creating unlawful camping offense 02/07/2024 05:28pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers weighing a bill to make sleeping on a sidewalk or under a bridge illegal shared a meal of fried chicken and green beans Wednesday with people who could be most affected by the legislation. The luncheon in the Capitol Annex gave lawmakers a glimpse into the Guilty plea from Md. man found with stolen mailbox keys, $80K worth of checks 02/07/2024 04:40pm • A Maryland man pleaded guilty to illegally having a gun, drugs, stolen checks and stolen mailbox keys and could face several years in prison. Andrew Steven Martin, 30, of Silver Spring, is scheduled to be sentenced in April. He was arrested following a traffic stop in May 2022. A Gaithersburg Soccer star Dani Alves denies alleged sexual assault, testifies he's 'not that type of man' 02/07/2024 03:45pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves denied accusations that he sexually assaulted a young woman at a Barcelona nightclub, testifying Wednesday that he’s “not that kind of man.” After two days of listening to testimony from the alleged victim, witnesses, and experts, Alve