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Las Vegas police officer found guilty in string of brazen casino heists could get life sentence 07/14/2023 06:19pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A federal jury convicted a Las Vegas police officer Friday on all counts of stealing nearly $165,000 during a trio of casino heists, including one where he was armed with a department-issued weapon that was loaded. Caleb Rogers, 35, faces life in prison upon sentencing because he After mass shooting, Baltimore leaders slam police for inadequate response 07/14/2023 04:38pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Nearly three hours before a mass shooting turned a south Baltimore neighborhood block party into a scene of terror and bloodshed, the city���s police department received a call about hundreds of partygoers armed with guns and knives ��� but on-duty officers decided no police servi The story behind Barbenheimer, the summer���s most online movie showdown 07/14/2023 01:08pm • The very online showdown between Greta Gerwig���s ���Barbie��� and Christopher Nolan���s ���Oppenheimer��� all started with a date: July 21. It���s not uncommon for studios to counterprogram films in different genres on a big weekend, but the stark differences between an intense, serious-minded pict Online, 'unalive' means death or suicide. Experts say it might help kids discuss those things 07/14/2023 09:56am • When Emily Litman was in middle school, kids whose parents grounded them would blithely lament: ���I just want to die." Now she's a middle school teacher in New Jersey, and when her students' phones and TikTok access are taken away, their out-loud whining has a 21st-century digital twist: ���I feel Weekend vote could require drivers to change response to pedestrians in Arlington Co. 07/14/2023 06:57am • With a ���yes��� vote this weekend, not coming to a complete stop for a pedestrian at a crosswalk in Arlington County, Virginia, could land you a hefty fine. The county���s council is set to vote on an ordinance that would allow for the enforcement of a new state law that doesn���t allow drivers Democratic Gov. Beshear touts economic gains as theme in reelection bid in GOP-trending Kentucky 07/13/2023 06:41pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ��� Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear touted robust revenue collections in Kentucky as another sign of a surging state economy Thursday, building on a theme he has made a cornerstone of his reelection bid in a state that Republicans have dominated in recent years. Citing general fund Maryland reports first heat-related death of the year as DC region grapples with extreme heat 07/13/2023 05:37pm • Maryland has reported the state���s first heat-related death of 2023, a 52-year-old Cecil County man, as the D.C. area faces a hot, dry summer. The state���s Department of Health tracks both heat-related illnesses and heat-related deaths from May through September. In 2022, during those months, t Justice Kavanaugh seeks to dispel the notion that the Supreme Court is partisan 07/13/2023 04:41pm • BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) ��� Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed to the mixed U.S. Supreme Court decisions this term as he sought Thursday to dispel notions that it is partisan, even after conservatives brought about the end of affirmative action in college admissions and struck down President Joe Biden' Russian lawmakers move to further restrict transgender rights in new legislation 07/13/2023 09:45am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Russian lawmakers on Thursday approved a toughened version of a bill that outlaws gender transitioning procedures, with added clauses that annul marriages in which one person has ���changed gender��� and bar transgender people from becoming foster or adoptive parents. The b China and ASEAN agree to try to conclude nonaggression pact on sea feud in 3 years 07/13/2023 04:50am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� China and Southeast Asian nations agreed Thursday to try and conclude within three years a long-delayed nonaggression pact aimed at preventing the frequent territorial spats in the busy South China Sea from turning into a major armed conflict. China and the Association of Influencer arrested over TikTok video satirizing wealthy Emiratis in Dubai shows limits on freedoms 07/13/2023 01:07am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� An online influencer has been arrested in Dubai over a satirical TikTok video in which he portrays a brash Emirati on a spending spree inside a luxury car showroom. The comedic sketch, in which he tosses stacks of bills at bewildered employees and offers to buy A Florida sinkhole that claimed a man's life in 2013 reopens, this time harmlessly 07/12/2023 06:49pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) ��� A Florida sinkhole that in 2013 fatally swallowed a man sleeping in his own house has reopened for a third time, only now it's behind chain-link fencing and doing no harm to people or property. Hillsborough County officials said the sinkhole located in the Tampa suburb 3 tax prep firms shared 'extraordinarily sensitive' data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say 07/12/2023 05:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Three large tax preparation firms sent ���extraordinarily sensitive��� information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over the course of at least two years, a group of congressional Democrats reported on Wednesday. They say some of that data was the Local bank stakes its claim by being friend to DC region entrepreneurs, small businesses and startups 07/12/2023 04:12pm • Capital Bank rates its performance based on the success of the people and places it serves across the greater Washington metropolitan region. ���When we bank with local businesses, we take those deposits and reinvest them in building communities,��� said Capital Bank CEO Ed Barry. ���We have Hulu documentary on the 'world���s most ingenious thief' hopes to steal viewers this week 07/12/2023 01:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It's hard not to feel grudging respect for Gerald Daniel Blanchard's long resume of crime ��� no matter what side of the law you're on. He once stole half a million dollars from a bank before it officially opened by using a concealed pinhole camera inside the branch. He escaped fr