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Channel Tunnel terminal shut for hours as UK bomb squad checks vehicle before deeming it no threat 09/08/2023 12:07pm • LONDON (AP) — A main route between England and France was shut for several hours Friday while British Army bomb-disposal experts examined a vehicle that was stopped by police near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel before deciding it posed no safety risk. The Kent Police force said one man was ar Indonesia says China has pledged $21B in new investment to strengthen ties 09/08/2023 09:58am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Visiting Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Friday pledged $21.7 billion in new Chinese investment in Indonesia to strengthen the countries' economic and political ties, an official said. Li arrived in Jakarta on Tuesday to attend the three-day summit of the Association of South Man gets 110 years for killing ex-girlfriend, her grandmother outside Indiana auto seating plant 09/08/2023 08:39am • FRANKFORT, Ind. (AP) — A man who fatally shot a former girlfriend and her grandmother outside an Indiana automotive seating plant was sentenced to 110 years in prison by a judge who called the killings “brutal and heinous.” Gary Ferrell II, 28, had avoided a possible death sentence when he ple Cyclists take over the streets this weekend for the 7th annual DC Bike Ride 09/08/2023 08:06am • Be prepared for road closures around the D.C. waterfront on Saturday: The streets will be taken over by 10,000 cyclists for the seventh annual D.C. Bike Ride. Riders will cycle 20 miles of streets across the District and Northern Virginia on the morning of Sept. 9. Locals and tourists alike wi 2 dead in Hong Kong amid extreme rain and flash floods that also struck southern China 09/08/2023 06:38am • HONG KONG (AP) — Heavy rain in Hong Kong and southern China overnight flooded city streets and some subway stations, with hundreds evacuated and two deaths reported in Hong Kong. Hong Kong authorities said during a joint news conference Friday that the extreme weather was expected to last until at Brock Purdy's wild NFL ride leads to a Week 1 start at QB for 49ers 09/08/2023 06:00am • SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Brock Purdy has been on quite a ride since entering the NFL as the final pick of the 2022 draft. Purdy worked his way onto the San Francisco 49ers' roster as a rookie, then went on a storybook late-season run when forced into action by injuries only to sustain a serious Maui beckons tourists, and their dollars, to stave off economic disaster after wildfires 09/07/2023 10:30pm • KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — Richie Olsten has been in Maui's helicopter tour business for a half century, so long he's developed a barometer for the tourism-dependent economy: rental cars parked at the island's airport. There are so many since wildfires killed at least 115 people in the historic town Hong Kong closes schools as torrential rain floods streets, subway station 09/07/2023 10:29pm • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong on Friday closed schools and halted trading on the stock exchange as torrential rain lashed the city overnight, flooding streets in parts of the city as well as an underground subway station. Heavy rains poured down on the city from Thursday night, with the government wa Robbery suspect who eluded capture in a vehicle, on a bike and a sailboat arrested, police say 09/07/2023 06:58pm • A Vermont armed robbery suspect who police say eluded capture in the past week in a vehicle, on a stolen bike, on foot and in a stolen sailboat was arrested Thursday after he was spotted in a kayak on a river, authorities said. Eric Edson, 52, was wanted on accusations of a robbery of a store in Bu Teens killed in car by deputy in upstate New York were 15 and 17, police say 09/07/2023 06:28pm • DEWITT, N.Y. (AP) — Two Black teenagers fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy in upstate New York as he tried to stop a stolen vehicle were 15 and 17 years old, authorities said Thursday. The deputy was in danger of being run over when he fired three shots into the vehicle near Syracuse on Wednesday Ta’Kiya Young, killed by police in an Ohio parking lot, is mourned along with her unborn child 09/07/2023 06:06pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ta’Kiya Young treated her two little boys like kings, dressing them sharply, letting them have too many sweets, cooking them big gourmet meals of T-bone steak with broccoli, cheese and rice. The royal life also awaited her unborn daughter. When Young found out she was pregn A Democratic prosecutor is challenging her suspension by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis 09/07/2023 05:51pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida state attorney whose suspension marks the second time Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has removed a top Democratic prosecutor from office because of policy differences is challenging the decision. DeSantis failed to demonstrate that Monique Worrell was incompetent or ne Police: Man in stolen BMW crashes into Fairfax Co. front yard, starts house fire 09/07/2023 05:24pm • Fairfax County police have arrested a man who they say stole a car and crashed into a transformer box, igniting a house fire in Lorton, Virginia, before fleeing the scene. No one inside the house was injured. In a news release, Fairfax County police identified the man as 32-year-old Nico Antho Police officer killed, another injured in Hartford after their cruiser is struck by a speeding car 09/07/2023 05:04pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A police officer was killed and another was seriously injured Wednesday night when their cruiser was struck by a car speeding through a red light while fleeing a traffic stop in Connecticut's capital city, authorities said. The driver of the car was arrested. Officer Robert Crash involving school bus sends 3 adults to hospital in Montgomery Co. 09/07/2023 04:48pm • A crash involving a school bus in Gaithersburg, Maryland, has sent three people — all adults — to the hospital. The crash, which involved a school bus and a car, happened on Miller Fall Road and Muncaster Mill Road, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. All 30 student