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Florida auto shop owner and angry customer shot each other to death, police say 09/28/2023 10:44am • LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A shooting at a Florida auto shop that killed two men was triggered by a former customer's dissatisfaction with work done on his car two years ago, police said Thursday. The Largo Police Department said Eugene Frank Becker, 78, arrived at Stout's Automotive in a rental car Wedne A fire breaks out for the second time at a car battery factory run by Iran's Defense Ministry 09/28/2023 10:36am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A fire broke out Thursday at a car battery factory owned by Iran's Defense Ministry for the second time in less than a week, state media reported. No one was injured in the blaze, which erupted in an area where plastic waste is stored, state TV said. Iranian news outlets circul Envisioning Metro of the future: Riders weigh options, commuting possibilities 09/28/2023 10:20am • If Metro went more places, would drivers be more likely to leave their cars at home and commute by transit? Metro General Manager and CEO Randy Clarke has said a robust Metro would mean fewer cars on area roads. Now, riders and commuters have until Saturday to complete an online survey of proposa Macron proposes limited autonomy for France's Mediterranean island of Corsica 09/28/2023 10:04am • PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron proposed granting limited autonomy for Corsica on Thursday in a modest step toward nationalist sentiment on the Mediterranean island. In a speech he described as “an outstretched hand,” Macron said: “Let us have the audacity to build a Corsican a SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: From bananas to baby socks, lawyers stick to routines before arguments 09/28/2023 08:00am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration's top Supreme Court lawyer eats a bunch of bananas. Other advocates play music to psych themselves up. Some rub the feet on John Marshall's statue a floor below the courtroom. The Supreme Court, which begins its new term on Monday, is awash in ritual. So Shelters for migrants are filling up across Germany as attitudes toward the newcomers harden 09/28/2023 07:57am • BERLIN (AP) — Dozens of people from around the world lined up on a sunny morning this week in front of a former mental health hospital in Berlin to apply for asylum in Germany. There were two older women from Moldova. A young man from Somalia sat next to them on a bench. A group of five young Paki CarMax: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot 09/28/2023 06:57am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — CarMax Inc. (KMX) on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $118.6 million. On a per-share basis, the Richmond, Virginia-based company said it had profit of 75 cents. The results matched Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine Colorado supermarket shooting suspect suggested to psychologist that he wanted police to kill him 09/28/2023 01:52am • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The man accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 told a mental health evaluator he bought firearms to carry out a mass shooting and suggested that he wanted police to kill him, according to Wednesday court testimony. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa made the statem Long a city that embraced cars, Paris is seeing a new kind of road rage: Bike-lane traffic jams 09/28/2023 01:46am • PARIS (AP) — Ring, ring! It's rush hour on Paris' Sébastopol Boulevard, and the congestion is severe — not just gas-guzzling, pollution-spewing, horn-honking snarls but also quieter and greener bottlenecks of cyclists jockeying for space. Until four years ago, motorists largely had the Paris th Trump goes to Michigan to rail against Biden's electric vehicle push while GOP rivals debate 09/28/2023 12:39am • CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — As his Republican rivals sparred onstage in California at their second primary debate, Donald Trump was in battleground Michigan Wednesday night working to win over blue-collar voters by lambasting President Joe Biden and his push for electric cars in the midst of an Alexandria planning to expand license plate reader program aimed at identifying stolen cars 09/27/2023 11:55pm • City leaders in Alexandria, Virginia, are planning to expand a program that uses license plate readers to detect stolen cars, among other things. At an Alexandria City Council meeting this week, Police Chief Don Hayes said the pilot program has been so successful in six months that the city is go The candidates went after Biden — and Trump — at the second GOP debate. Follow live updates 09/27/2023 11:38pm • The seven candidates on stage for Wednesday night's second presidential debate went after President Joe Biden, one another and the absent GOP front-runner. The at-times chaotic event featured staple questions about immigration, economics and abortion but also spawned a new nickname for Donald Trump, Francona's beloved scooter stolen, stripped as Cleveland's manager gets ready to say goodbye to game 09/27/2023 10:19pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Terry Francona made it to the home finale, his last managing the Guardians before retirement. His beloved scooter didn't get there. Just hours before Cleveland sent off the popular manager, who is leaving baseball after 11 seasons with the club, with a 4-3 win over Cincinnati, Fra Tech CEO killed in Baltimore remembered as dedicated, compassionate entrepreneur 09/27/2023 10:15pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — While Pava LaPere built a successful tech startup that earned her national recognition and local political clout, she remained laser focused on what motivated her from the beginning: forging connections, building community and using entrepreneurship to create meaningful social cha ExxonMobil loses bid to truck millions of gallons of crude oil through central California 09/27/2023 09:05pm • SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — ExxonMobil lost a court bid Wednesday to truck millions of gallons of crude oil through central California — a crucial part of its efforts to restart offshore oil wells that were shut in 2015 after a pipeline leak caused the worst coastal spill in 25 years. A federal