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Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/14/2023 01:00pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov American teenager Lia Block to race in next year's F1 Academy season for ART team 11/14/2023 12:02pm • WANTAGE, England (AP) — American teenager Lia Block will drive for the ART Grand Prix team in next year's F1 Academy season, Formula One team Williams said Tuesday. The 17-year-old Block will represent Williams on the 2024 F1 Academy grid after joining the Williams Driver Academy program. “This AUTO RACING: Three-peat champion Max Verstappen and Formula One take center stage in Las Vegas 11/14/2023 11:45am • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Last race: Ryan Blaney raced to his first career NASCAR championship by banging his way past fellow contender and 2021 champion Kyle Larson in the closing laps at Phoenix Raceway to give Team Penske back-to-back Cup titles. Joey Logano won the title last year, and Vehicles with higher, vertical front ends raise risks for pedestrians 11/14/2023 11:36am • Motor vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends raise risks for pedestrians, according to a highway safety organization. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said that whatever the nose shape, pickups, SUVs and vans with a hood height greater than 40 inches are about 45% more likely to ca NCAA FBS Individual Leading Rushers 11/14/2023 11:11am • Leading Rushers G Car RuYD Tds Yds Pg NCAA FBS Team Rushing Offense 11/14/2023 11:10am • Rushing Offense G Car RuYD TD Yds Pg NCAA FBS Team Rushing Defense 11/14/2023 11:10am • Rushing Defense G Car Yds TD Yds Pg BBC says 2 more people have come forward to complain about Russell Brand's behavior 11/14/2023 09:18am • LONDON (AP) — The BBC said Tuesday two more people have come forward to complain about Russell Brand since the broadcaster launched a review into the actor and comedian's behavior. The BBC was giving an update to its investigation after British media outlets in September published claims by four Small plane crashes into car after overshooting runway during emergency landing near Dallas 11/14/2023 06:28am • MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A small plane overshot the runway while landing at a Texas airport over the weekend and struck a car driving along a nearby road, injuring one person, authorities said. Video shows the propeller plane smash through a fence during an emergency landing in the Dallas suburb of Arson likely caused fire that damaged vital artery of Los Angeles freeway, governor says 11/13/2023 11:39pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arson was the cause of a massive weekend fire that charred and indefinitely closed a vital section of a Los Angeles freeway, causing major traffic headaches for hundreds of thousands of commuters, California authorities said Monday. Gov. Gavin Newsom said investigators were tryi L.J. Cryer scores 21 to lift No. 6 Houston over Stetson 79-48 11/13/2023 10:52pm • HOUSTON (AP) — L.J. Cryer scored 21 points, Damian Dunn added 15 points and No. 6 Houston defeated Stetson 79-48 on Monday night. Cryer, a transfer from Baylor, had 14 points in the first half on 6 of 9 shooting. He finished 9 of 15 from the field, including 3 of 6 on 3-pointers. Cryer had struggl House pushes off impeachment of Homeland Secretary Mayorkas for handling of southern border 11/13/2023 09:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Monday to push off a Republican effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ending for now a threat against the Cabinet secretary that has been brewing ever since Republicans took the House majority in January. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Secret Service agents protecting Biden's granddaughter open fire when 3 people try to break into SUV 11/13/2023 08:14pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden’s granddaughter opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle in the nation’s capital, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The agents, assigned to protect Naomi Bide Police fatally shoot 17-year-old during traffic stop in North Dakota's Bismarck 11/13/2023 05:16pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Police shot and killed a 17-year-old early Sunday during a traffic stop in a mall parking lot in Bismarck, North Dakota, while investigating the teen in connection with a reported shooting. Police responded about 12:15 a.m. Sunday to gunfire in the area, according to a news r Oregon jury awards man more than $3 million after officer accused him of trying to steal a car 11/13/2023 05:00pm • SALEM, Oregon (AP) — A jury in Oregon has awarded a man more than $3.1 million after a police officer accused him of trying to steal a car he was fixing and allegedly used excessive force when arresting him. That jury award included more than $2 million in punitive damages to Christopher Garza fo