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See a crash or close call involving a pedestrian? You can now report it using this tool 03/14/2024 01:31pm • A new crash tracker and digital reporting form will enable people involved in, or witness to, a crash or near-miss to share details, in hopes of ensuring safer roads for bicyclists and pedestrians. The Washington Area Bicyclist Association has launched the phone-friendly reporting form "because o 'Freaknik' documentary tells untold story behind the massively popular Atlanta street party 03/14/2024 12:59pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� If you participated in Atlanta���s wildest gathering called Freaknik back in the day, then beware: You might be featured in Hulu���s new documentary about the legendary street party that became popular through folklore tales involving gridlock traffic, public nudity and highway A Danish hippie oasis has fought drug sales for years. Now, locals want to tear up the whole street 03/14/2024 07:04am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� The inhabitants of Copenhagen's freewheeling Christiania neighborhood plan to dig up the aptly named Pusher Street, in their latest attempt to stop illegal hashish sales which have led to deadly gang turf wars and sometimes violent confrontations with the police. Residen Stock market today: Asian shares mostly decline after Wall Street drifts to a mixed close 03/14/2024 12:12am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Asian shares mostly declined Thursday in lackluster trading after U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish. Japan's Nikkei 225 shed 0.2% in morning trading to 38,625.22. Nissan Motor Co. stock jumped 2.3% after an unconfirmed Japanese media report that the automaker behind the Leaf elec Naomi Campbell's enduring fashion career will be celebrated with a London museum exhibition 03/13/2024 09:34pm • LONDON (AP) ��� After four decades in fashion, the queen of the catwalk is getting her own exhibition. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is launching ���NAOMI: In Fashion,��� a celebration of Naomi Campbell's enduring career. The exhibition, which opens in June, will showcase memorable design South Dakota prosecutors to seek death penalty for man charged with killing deputy during a pursuit 03/13/2024 08:06pm • FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) ��� South Dakota prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Sioux Falls man charged in the death of a deputy who was struck while putting out spikes during a police chase. The South Dakota Attorney General���s office filed an official notice Wednesday announcing it will seek Many Basic Money Questions Stump U.S. Adults -- How to Boost Your Financial Literacy 03/13/2024 08:00pm • Understanding core personal finance concepts like cash management, bank accounts, credit, taxes and investing is important. With that knowledge, people can make decisions that benefit their current budget and help with future goal achievement. When they have low financial literacy levels, though, pe Massachusetts man gets prison for making bomb threat to Arizona election office 03/13/2024 07:00pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison for making an online threat to bomb then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs��� election office in February 2021, the U.S. Justice Department said. James Clark, 40, of Falmouth, pleaded guilty Last suspect sought in deadly bus shooting in Philadelphia, police say 03/13/2024 06:56pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a 17-year-old youth who they say is the last of four suspects sought in the shooting that wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus stop last week. The U.S. Marshals Service, while offering details Tuesday night on th The Latest | Israel wants Rafah civilians to go to Gaza's center ahead of southern offensive 03/13/2024 06:04pm • Israel plans to tell 1.4 million Palestinians displaced in the southern city of Rafah to seek shelter in central Gaza ahead of a planned military offensive into the south. Civilians would be directed toward ���humanitarian islands��� that would provide temporary housing, food, water and other necess Evangelical Christians are fierce Israel supporters. Now they are visiting as war-time volunteers 03/13/2024 05:47pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� When Shawn Landis, an evangelical Christian from Pennsylvania, heard about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, he knew he would come to Israel to volunteer as soon as it was safe. Five months later, he was chopping vegetables in a Tel Aviv kitchen, preparing meals f Jury begins deliberating manslaughter case against Connecticut trooper who killed man in stolen car 03/13/2024 05:32pm • A Connecticut state trooper's fatal shooting of the 19-year-old man who had just crashed a stolen car following a high-speed chase was ���overkill��� and showed an ���extreme indifference to human life,��� a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday during closing arguments at the trooper's manslaughter tria A new strategy to attack aggressive brain cancer shrank tumors in two early tests 03/13/2024 05:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A new strategy to fight an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor showed promise in a pair of experiments with a handful of patients. Scientists took patients��� own immune cells and turned them into ���living drugs��� able to recognize and attack glioblastoma. In the first-ste Ally of late Navalny accuses 'Putin���s henchmen' of attacking him in Lithuania, vows not to give up 03/13/2024 04:02pm • VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) ��� A close associate of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused Russian President Vladimir Putin���s ���henchmen��� on Wednesday of being behind a brutal attack that left him hospitalized. Police said an assailant attacked Leonid Volkov on Tuesday as he arr New York trooper found not guilty in fatal shooting of motorist following high-speed chase 03/13/2024 03:36pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ��� A New York state trooper who was charged with manslaughter after shooting an unarmed motorist to death following a high-speed chase was acquitted on Wednesday. Trooper Anthony Nigro testified during his nonjury trial this week that he feared for his life when he fired two sho