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Days after her puppy was stolen, DC woman reunited with French bulldog 11/28/2023 04:00pm • A D.C. woman's puppy that was stolen last weekend has been found, police said Tuesday. D.C. police posted a photo of the reunion on Tuesday on the social platform X. #update Hendrick has been located and reunited with their owner! pic.twitter.com/iB33CUGhGP — DC Police Department (@DCPolice Suspect in shooting of 3 men of Palestinian descent near the University of Vermont pleads not guilty 11/27/2023 10:30pm • BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Three college students of Palestinian descent out for a walk in Vermont were seriously injured over the weekend when a man shot them at close range on a city street — an attack being investigated as a possible hate crime, authorities said Monday. Jason J. Eaton, 48, made h 2 men exonerated for 1990s NYC murders after reinvestigations find unreliable witness testimony 11/27/2023 04:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Two men who served decades in prison for separate murders in New York City were exonerated on Monday after reinvestigations found that they had been convicted based on unreliable witness testimony. Jabar Walker, 49, walked free after he was cleared of a 1995 double murder. He had b Final trial over Elijah McClain's death in suburban Denver spotlights paramedics' role 11/27/2023 11:36am • DENVER (AP) — The final trial over the 2019 death of Elijah McClain after he was stopped by police in suburban Denver is expected to delve into largely uncharted legal territory, with paramedics, not officers, being prosecuted this time. Starting Monday, jurors will be chosen to decide if the para Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails 11/27/2023 12:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaigning in Iowa this year, Donald Trump said he was prevented during his presidency from using the military to quell violence in primarily Democratic cities and states. Calling New York City and Chicago “crime dens,” the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential n Mexico cancels conference on 1960s and 1970s rights violations raising claims of censorship 11/24/2023 07:25pm • Mexico's Department of the Interior reportedly revoked funding on Friday for a conference on the government’s violent anti-insurgency policy from the 1960s to the 1980s, raising claims of censorship. The conference had been scheduled to begin in two days time. Organizers said they were forced to c Some Virginia inmates could be released earlier under change to enhanced sentence credit policy 11/24/2023 03:43pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia prison officials have agreed to give more inmates enhanced earned sentence credits for good behavior to allow for earlier releases from prison. The Washington Post reports that the change comes after the ACLU of Virginia sued the governor, attorney general and stat Homicides are rising in the nation's capital, but police are solving far fewer of the cases 11/24/2023 01:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Though it's no longer the homicide capital of the United States, the nation's capital is witnessing a multiyear spike in the number of homicides but solving far fewer of them. And for families of the victims, the issue of unsolved killings cuts deep. Asiyah Timimi's husband Activists call on France to endorse a consent-based rape definition across the entire European Union 11/24/2023 11:55am • PARIS (AP) — Activists wearing masks depicting President Emmanuel Macron urged France on Thursday to change its position and endorse a law proposed by the European Union that would define rape as sex without consent in the bloc's 27 countries. The demonstrators gathered in downtown Paris on the ev Missouri governor granting pardons at pace not seen since WWII era 11/24/2023 09:19am • Distraught by a romantic breakup, 16-year-old Kenny Batson vented his hurt by stomping out the windshields of cars on a for-sale lot. He landed in juvenile detention, but that was only the beginning of his trouble. Over the ensuing years, Batson stole cigarettes, booze and cars for drunken joyrides New Zealand's new government promises tax cuts, more police and less bureaucracy 11/24/2023 01:41am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealanders can expect tax cuts, more police on the streets and less government bureaucracy, according to the three leaders who signed an agreement Friday to form a new government. The coalition deal ended nearly six weeks of intense negotiations after New Zealand Georgia Supreme Court ruling prevents GOP-backed commission from beginning to discipline prosecutors 11/22/2023 06:09pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to approve rules for a new commission to discipline and remove state prosecutors, meaning the commission can't begin operating. Some Republicans in Georgia want the new commission to discipline or remove Fulton County District Attor Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/22/2023 01:11pm • 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 Maryland man sentenced to life in prison in fatal 2021 Applebee's shooting 11/22/2023 12:42pm • A Suitland, Maryland, man who shot and killed an Applebee's employee and wounded two others more than two years ago was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison, plus 80 years. The fatal shooting happened at the Applebee’s Grill and Bar on Donnell Drive in Forestville, Maryland, in May 2021, accordi Incoming Philadelphia mayor taps the city's chief of school safety as next police commissioner 11/22/2023 12:36pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker, who won her post by promising gun-violence-weary residents to get tough on crime, on Wednesday selected longtime police official Kevin J. Bethel to become the next police commissioner of the nation's sixth most populous city. The move i