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4 local police officers in eastern Mexico are under investigation after man is shot to death 01/20/2024 06:55pm • LERDO DE TEJADA, Mexico (AP) — Four local police officers in Mexico were placed under investigation in connection with the shooting death of a man in the Gulf of Mexico state of Veracruz, after neighbors in the town surrounded the officers and attacked them. The Veracruz Public Security Departmen Mourners fill church to remember the Iowa principal who risked life to save kids in school shooting 01/20/2024 06:52pm • The longtime Iowa principal who risked his life to save students during a shooting earlier this month was remembered Saturday not just for his heroic actions that day but for the unconditional love and compassion he showed his family and students during his years at Perry High School. Mourners fille An Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital killed at least 5 Iranian advisers, officials say 01/20/2024 04:42pm • DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing at least five Iranians, Syrian and Iranian state media reported. The Syrian army said the building in the tightly guarded western Damascus Winter blast in much of US poses serious risks like black ice, frostbite and hypothermia 01/20/2024 04:13pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Freezing temperatures and wind speeds are creating dangerously cold conditions in a large part of the U.S. stretching from Montana to northern Florida. The region is not expected to begin thawing out until Monday. Here are some of the dangers the winter blast poses and how to protec Israel's Netanyahu rejects any Palestinian sovereignty in post-war Gaza, rebuffing Biden 01/20/2024 03:48pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he “will not compromise on full Israeli control” over Gaza and that “this is contrary to a Palestinian state,” rejecting U.S. President Joe Biden’s suggestion that creative solutions could bridge wide gaps betw An explosive case of police violence in the Paris suburbs ends with the conviction of 3 officers 01/20/2024 10:04am • PARIS (AP) — A French court convicted three police officers of “voluntary violence” towards a youth worker in a Paris suburb who suffered serious injuries to his rectum after being assaulted with a police baton during an identity check seven years ago. All three officers received suspended pr Jimmie Johnson, his crew chief Chad Knaus join Donnie Allison in NASCAR Hall of Fame 01/19/2024 10:28pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson's dreams first came true when he was given a motorcycle for Christmas at age 4. That was when he fell in love with racing. Johnson was honored for his career on Friday night when he and crew chief Chad Knaus, who he teamed up with to win a record-tying seven C Live updates | US jets strike Yemen a sixth time as Israel's war in Gaza raises regional tensions 01/19/2024 10:25pm • United States fighter jets struck Houthi rebel sites in Yemen for a sixth time Friday, taking out anti-ship missile launchers that were prepared to fire. The Iranian-backed Houthi militants say their attacks on global shipping in the Red Sea corridor are aimed at stopping Israel’s war on Hamas in How DC's 'snow czar' helps keep roads safe during winter weather 01/19/2024 09:47pm • Ahead of Friday's snowstorm, the second of the week across the D.C. region, Warnique West didn't get a lot of sleep. She had a meeting at 1:30 a.m. and at least two more even before noon. Sometimes, residents and workers don't see the work that West and hundreds of others at D.C.'s Department Suspect in professor's shooting at North Carolina university bought gun, went to range, warrants say 01/19/2024 09:33pm • CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A University of North Carolina graduate student charged with fatally shooting his faculty adviser on campus five months ago had visited a gun range the day before the professor was killed and had bought a pistol, according to information from federal search warrants. Ta Biking to work in the snow? Even in the icy weather, WTOP's Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller never takes it for granted 01/19/2024 06:05pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. A lot of people in the D.C. area who are much heartier souls than yours truly get on their bikes every day, cycling for miles to get to work. They do it in all kinds o Man on trial for killing young woman whose friends pulled into wrong driveway says 'my soul is dead' 01/19/2024 05:59pm • FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — A man who fatally shot a 20-year-old woman after the car she was riding in mistakenly drove up his backcountry driveway in upstate New York testified at his trial Friday that he believed he was under siege that night and now feels “like my soul is dead.” But he maintai Two-time defending Rolex 24 winner Meyer Shank Racing watching race from afar after cheating scandal 01/19/2024 04:18pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Michael Shank spent Friday at his mother’s house in Ohio bitterly watching a timing and scoring feed from the first IMSA practice of the sports car season. It was agonizing for the owner of the team that is the two-time defending winner of the Rolex 24 at Daytona, but Man who built plane that crashed off California coast recalls selling to enthusiast young pilot 01/19/2024 04:13pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast on Sunday was constructed piece by piece over nearly a decade, one of tens of thousands of home-built aircraft that are part of a high-flying hobby taking off across the country. Federal investigators said the Small plane makes emergency landing on Loudoun Co. Parkway near Dulles Airport 01/19/2024 03:40pm • A small commuter airplane that had just taken off from Dulles International Airport made an emergency landing on the Loudoun County Parkway near the airport Friday afternoon, authorities say. Virginia State Police said it happened at about 12:50 p.m. The airplane skidded into a guardrail, but avo