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Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court 04/14/2024 12:13am • GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) — A pickleball game in this leafy Oregon community was suddenly interrupted one rainy weekend morning by the arrival of an ambulance. Paramedics rushed through the park toward a tent, one of dozens illegally erected by the town's hundreds of homeless people, then play resu Today in History: April 14, Abraham Lincoln is fatally shot at Ford's Theatre 04/14/2024 12:00am • Today is Sunday, April 14, the 105th day of 2024. There are 261 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington. NHRA Four-Wide Nationals 04/13/2024 07:33pm • SaturdayAt Las Vegas Motor SpeedwayLas VegasSunday's PairingsTop Fuel 1. Doug Kalitta, 3.738 seconds, 336.82 mph vs. Bye; 8. Shawn Langdon, 3.798, 319.29 vs. 9. Steve Torrence, 3.800, 332.75; 2. Tony Schumacher, 3.768, 325.53 vs. 15. Terry Totten, 4.092, 287.78 vs. 7. Shawn Reed, 3.793, 323.12 vs. 1 Veteran Nebraska police officer killed in crash when pickup truck rear-ended his cruiser 04/13/2024 05:42pm • CERESCO, Neb. (AP) — A veteran police officer was killed when his cruiser was struck by another vehicle after he made a traffic stop in eastern Nebraska, authorities said Saturday. The Nebraska State Patrol said in a news release that Ceresco Police Officer Ross Bartlett, 54, stopped a car about a Sam Mayer makes last-lap pass and wins Xfinity race in Texas by .002 seconds over Ryan Sieg 04/13/2024 05:27pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Sam Mayer made a last-lap pass and held on to win by a matter of inches and less than a second ahead of Ryan Sieg at Texas Motor Speedway in one of the closest finishes in NASCAR Xfinity Series history on Saturday. Mayer was high against the outside wall after the two cars McKenna Haase sold batteries door to door as a teen to buy her 1st sprint car. Now she'll race more 04/13/2024 03:43pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — McKenna Haase started her own racing team at age 13, and at one point she went door to door selling batteries when trying to raise money to buy her first sprint car. Now 27, Haase will be able to hire a crew chief and expand her racing schedule with help from that same bat Pakistani police search for gunmen who abducted bus passengers and killed 11 in the southwest 04/13/2024 03:40pm • QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police searched for gunmen who killed nine people after abducting them from a bus on a highway in the country’s southwest. The same attackers earlier killed two people and wounded six in another car they forced to stop. The abductions took place on Friday in Bal 174 people stranded in the air are rescued, almost a day after a fatal cable car accident in Turkey 04/13/2024 03:02pm • ISTANBUL (AP) — The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey were brought to safety Saturday, nearly 23 hours after one pod hit a pole and burst open, killing one person and injuring seven when they plummeted to the rocks below. Interior Minister Ali Yerli Homicide suspect kills himself after fleeing through 3 states, authorities say 04/13/2024 02:24pm • CUSTER, S.D. (AP) — Authorities said they're investigating a case of domestic violence that ended with a man dead and a woman injured in South Dakota, and the suspect fleeing through Wyoming before killing himself Saturday in Colorado. Deputies responded to a report of a homicide around 9:45 p.m. William Byron is back in Texas with more big wins since getting Hendrick's 300th there last fall 04/13/2024 01:43pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — When William Byron first met Rick Hendrick a decade ago, the teenager who had learned racing on a computer wasn't all that confident how things would work out as he revealed his goal to drive one day for the NASCAR team owner. There is certainly no lack of confidence now f West Bank sees biggest settler rampage since war in Gaza began as Israeli teen's body is found 04/13/2024 01:40pm • Al-MUGHAYYIR, West Bank (AP) — Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank went on the largest rampage against Palestinians there since the war in Gaza began, as Israel's army said Saturday the body of a missing Israeli teen was found after he was killed in a “terrorist attack.” Witnesses said 10 years after armed standoff with federal agents, Bundy cattle are still grazing disputed rangeland 04/13/2024 12:43pm • BUNKERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — The words “Revolution is Tradition” stenciled in fresh blue and red paint mark a cement wall in a dry river wash beneath a remote southern Nevada freeway overpass, where armed protesters and federal agents stared each other down through rifle sights 10 years ago. It wa How O.J. Simpson burned the Ford Bronco into America's collective memory 04/13/2024 11:37am • The Ford Bronco initially was conceived and designed for rugged outdoorsy types, a two-door means of escape to nature from the bustling cities of mid-century America. But it had already been tamed and polished for suburbanites, with cruise control and air conditioning, by 1994, when O.J. Simpson co Nearing 50 Supreme Court arguments in, lawyer Lisa Blatt keeps winning 04/13/2024 09:11am • WASHINGTON (AP) — No woman has appeared more often before the Supreme Court than Lisa Blatt, who will make her 50th argument this month. No lawyer, male or female, has done it with quite the same mix of humor, passion and style. And her win-loss record isn't bad, either: 40-6, with two cases yet 'I don't take it for granted': DC native Rajah Caruth makes his mark in NASCAR’s Truck Series 04/13/2024 07:53am • Rajah Caruth is not your average 21-year-old. On a normal day, he wakes up early in the morning and hits the gym, and before he can think about his classes at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, the D.C. native heads to the car shop for a different kind of study hall: learning to impro