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Florida woman sentenced for girlfriend's 2021 BW Parkway death 08/04/2023 10:43pm • A Florida woman has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for the death of her girlfriend, who police found dead on the side of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in November 2021. Janice Martina Mason, 30, of Melbourne, Florida, was convicted in May of this year for the 2021 voluntary man Thousands overwhelm New York's Union Square for streamer giveaway, tossing chairs and pounding cars 08/04/2023 09:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A crowd of thousands that packed Manhattan's Union Square for a popular livestreamer's hyped giveaway got out of hand Friday afternoon, with some clambering on vehicles, hurling chairs and throwing punches, leaving police struggling to rein in the chaos. Aerial TV news footage show Power at the gas pump: Oregon lets drivers fuel their own cars, lifting decades-old self-serve ban 08/04/2023 09:06pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) — For the first time in 72 years, Oregon motorists can grab a fuel nozzle and pump gas into their cars on their own, since a decades-old ban on self-serve gas stations has been revoked. Gov. Tina Kotek signed a bill on Friday allowing people across the state to choose between havi Indiana man formally charged after weekend block party kills 1, wounds 17 08/04/2023 07:36pm • MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A Muncie man was formally charged Friday with two counts of aggravated battery and criminal recklessness in connection with a weekend shooting that left one person dead and 17 others wounded in the central Indiana city. John L. Vance Jr., 36, was also charged in Delaware Circui Scott Dixon can tie Kanaan's IndyCar consecutive starts streak in Nashville 08/04/2023 07:30pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Scott Dixon credits luck for being in position to put his name on another IndyCar Series milestone Sunday. If the defending champion of the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix starts the race around Nashville's streets, Dixon will tie Tony Kanaan's IndyCar record with his 31 Clothes for kids with disabilities get better, but teens see a lack of fashionable options 08/04/2023 07:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Mindy Scheier was working in fashion before her son, Oliver, was born with muscular dystrophy. As he grew, and she watched him struggle to get dressed, her eyes were opened to her industry's limitations for people with disabilities. At 8, Oliver wanted to ditch his daily sweatpants Actor Mark Margolis, murderous drug kingpin on 'Breaking Bad' and 'Better Call Saul,' dies at 83 08/04/2023 06:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran character actor Mark Margolis, who had a breakout role as a mobster in “Scarface” but became best known decades later for his indelible, fearsome portrayal of a vindictive former drug kingpin in TV's “Breaking Bad," has died. He was 83. The actor died on Thursday at M Colorado fugitive who was captured in Florida was leading a posh lifestyle and flaunting his wealth 08/04/2023 05:41pm • A career fraudster who escaped from a federal prison in Colorado nearly five years ago was captured this week while moving into a $1.5 million house near the ocean on Florida’s Gold Coast, federal officials said Friday. Federal marshals arrested Alan Todd May, 58, at the house in Fort Lauderdale o Oppressive heat, wildfires expected to worsen globally, experts say 08/04/2023 05:17pm • Blistering heat, large wildfires and warming oceans from North America across Europe to North Africa have caught hundreds of millions of people in dozens of countries unprepared this year. Experts warn it will only get worse in the short term, even if critical changes are made immediately. In ear 2 Palestinians killed in separate episodes in latest West Bank violence 08/04/2023 03:58pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli security forces killed an 18-year-old Palestinian during a military raid into the northern West Bank on Friday, Palestinian health officials said, while another Palestinian was killed when Israeli settlers stormed a village and sparked fighting with residents. The deaths m Another harrowing escape puts attention on open prostitution along Seattle's Aurora Avenue 08/04/2023 03:45pm • SEATTLE (AP) — A vanload of church volunteers drove along a main street in north Seattle one night last month with sandwiches, water bottles and blankets for homeless people. They didn't find any — but they did see dozens of barely clothed women walking along the road or leaning into traffic to 3 people killed in Slovenia by torrential storms and flash floods 08/04/2023 03:20pm • LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Torrential rains and heavy floods ravaged Slovenia on Friday, killing at least three people, cutting off roads and bridges and surging into buildings. Slovenia's prime minister described the devastation as “catastrophic.” The Slovenian environmental agency raised the Greek authorities meet on migration as arrivals by land and sea are increasing 08/04/2023 02:54pm • THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece's government met on Friday to try to improve coordination on migration as a group of 102 migrants crossed by land from Turkey and other parts of the Mediterranean country saw a spike in arrivals by sea. The ministers for merchant marine, police and migration dis Alabama authorities charge Carlee Russell for fabricating story about kidnapping, finding toddler 08/04/2023 02:49pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities in Alabama said Friday they filed criminal charges against a woman who confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of an interstate highway. Carlee Russell was charged with false reporting to l Freight train derails in upstate New York, disrupting Amtrak service 08/04/2023 12:59pm • AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (AP) — A freight train derailed in upstate New York on Friday, disrupting Amtrak service and prompting authorities to close roads in the area. About 17 cars of a CSX train hauling mixed freight derailed just before 8 a.m. northwest of Albany, a CSX spokesperson said in a statement.