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Former soccer star Robinho starts 9-year prison sentence in Brazil for 2013 rape in Italy 03/21/2024 08:14pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Former soccer star Robinho started serving a nine-year prison sentence in his native Brazil on Thursday more than 10 years after he was first accused of raping a woman in Italy. The 40-year-old Robinho left his apartment building in the beachfront city of Santos, outside Sao Paulo NASCAR's next big hopeful makes national series debut as teenager Zilisch races truck at COTA 03/21/2024 08:03pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A promising young driver who might just be one of NASCAR's budding new stars will make his national series debut this Saturday in the Truck Series race at Circuit of the Americas. Connor Zilisch will then hop a private jet and hustle his way to Pensacola, Florida, to compete Do You Need a Lawyer to Fight a Speeding Ticket? 03/21/2024 08:00pm • After the flashing blue lights fade in the distance and the dreaded speeding ticket is in hand, drivers have two main options to consider. They can either deal with the ticket themselves or hire a lawyer to contest it. While speeding sounds like a minor infraction, it killed 12,330 people in 2021 al The Latest | Blinken says he'll talk with Israelis about alternatives to Rafah ground assault 03/21/2024 06:38pm • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he will share alternatives to Israel's planned ground assault into the southern Gaza town of Rafah when he meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his War Cabinet on Friday. Blinken and Arab leaders on Thursday discussed efforts for a cease-fire a Lawsuit from family of Black man killed by police in Oregon provides additional details of shooting 03/21/2024 05:45pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police officers in Oregon shot and killed a 24-year-old Black man in the back and then instead of providing medical care, mocked his lifeless body, threw explosives at him and sent a dog to attack his corpse, his family alleges in an updated lawsuit filed Thursday with additi Fifth suspect charged in Philadelphia bus stop shooting that wounded 8 03/21/2024 05:23pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fifth suspect has been charged in a shooting that wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus stop earlier this month. Jeremiah Jefferson, 15, of Philadelphia, faces counts of attempted murder, aggravated assault, conspiracy, reckless endangerment and weapons cha Man accused of kidnapping and killing ex-girlfriend's daughter to plead guilty to federal charge 03/21/2024 03:53pm • GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping and killing her 2-year-old daughter has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of kidnapping resulting in death, court records show. The plea agreement entered into Thursday by Rashad Trice shows he faces a m New health rankings: How do Maryland, Virginia counties fare? 03/21/2024 03:16pm • A county-by-county breakdown shows Northern Virginia and the Maryland suburbs of D.C. are generally much healthier than the national average. The 2024 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, produced by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, looks at why there are differences in Prince Harry says tabloids intercepted phone calls of mother, the late Princess Diana, and father 03/21/2024 02:24pm • LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry alleged Thursday that the publisher of The Sun tabloid unlawfully intercepted phone calls of his late mother, Princess Diana, and father, now King Charles III, as he sought to expand his privacy invasion lawsuit against News Group Newspapers. The Duke of Sussex is seekin 2 Northern Va. teens facing charges for YouTube prank at Lowes 03/21/2024 01:18pm • Two Northern Virginia teenagers are facing serious charges after their attempt to film a YouTube prank resulted in a police response in the City of Fairfax earlier this month. Sgt. James Lewis said the City of Fairfax Police received reports of someone being abducted outside of a Lowes on Jermant Near-record home sale in Cleveland Park (and why it’s called Cleveland Park) 03/21/2024 01:01pm • A newly-built six-bedroom home in Northwest D.C.’s Cleveland Park neighborhood has sold for $7.35 million, the second-highest sale ever in Cleveland Park. The home, at 3126 38th Street NW, was built by Coba Properties, along with MS Vicas Interiors and Bennett Frank McCarthy Architects. The fou Katie Meier, Miami's coach for the last 19 seasons, announces her retirement 03/21/2024 12:23pm • CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Katie Meier, who led Miami to 10 NCAA tournaments and guided the Hurricanes to the Elite Eight last season, announced her retirement from coaching on Thursday. Meier, the 2011 Associated Press national coach of the year who had four years remaining on her contract with th Russia fires 31 missiles at Kyiv in the first attack in weeks as people scramble for cover in subway 03/21/2024 12:13pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired more than two dozen missiles at Kyiv before dawn on Thursday, attacking the Ukrainian capital for the first time in six weeks and sending panicked residents flooding into the relative safety of the subway system in a scene reminiscent of the first weeks of the war Man who helped drag police officer into mob gets over 5 years in prison for Capitol riot attacks 03/21/2024 12:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Colorado man who helped other rioters drag a police officer into a mob storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Thursday to more than five years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Jeffrey Sabol ripped a baton from an officer's hands before pulling another off Family member arraigned in fatal shooting of Michigan congressman's brother 03/21/2024 11:15am • FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A family member in a hospital recovering from a vehicle crash was arraigned Thursday on murder and other charges in the fatal shooting of a Michigan congressman's brother. Timothy J. Kildee is accused of killing his father, Timothy E. Kildee, at a Flint-area home Tuesday. The 5