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Alabama DB Tony Mitchell receives 3 years probation on drug charge plea 05/24/2023 03:14pm • BONIFAY, Fla. (AP) — Alabama defensive back Tony Mitchell has been sentenced to three years of probation with a fine and community service after pleading guilty to a drug charge in Florida. Holmes County Circuit Judge Russell Roberts accepted Mitchell's plea to a charge of possession of more than Family of Georgia woman who died after falling from moving patrol car files wrongful death lawsuit 05/24/2023 02:47pm • DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — The family of a Georgia woman who died last year after she fell from a moving patrol car has filed a civil rights lawsuit, saying sheriff's deputies improperly arrested her and ultimately caused her death, attorneys announced Wednesday. The deputies who put Brianna Grier in the Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 05/24/2023 02:47pm • 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 Police: Man who said he was headed to CIA arrested at nearby preschool with AK-47 rifle in car 05/24/2023 02:22pm • McLEAN, Va. (AP) — A Florida man who police say had an AK-47 rifle in his car was arrested outside a northern Virginia preschool after he told officers he was headed to CIA headquarters, police said Wednesday. Fairfax County Police said the man was charged with possessing a firearm at a school, a Police in Wales face investigation over e-bike deaths of 2 teens that sparked Cardiff riot 05/24/2023 01:49pm • CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — A police watchdog said Wednesday it will investigate whether officers were chasing two boys who died in an e-bike crash that sparked rioting in the capital of Wales. The Independent Office for Police Conduct, which investigates deaths police may have been involved in, said it F1 drivers face new speed limits in double yellow flag zones to improve safety 05/24/2023 01:42pm • MONACO (AP) — Formula One drivers will be bound by stricter speed limits while driving behind safety cars in double yellow flag zones in a bid to improve safety, governing body FIA said Wednesday. The new measures apply to driving behind both safety cars and virtual safety cars being deployed and A.J. Foyt returns to the Indy 500, his legacy long secured and grief fresh from his wife's death 05/24/2023 01:41pm • WALLER, Texas (AP) — A.J. Foyt was 15 when a boat that he and two friends were riding in capsized in a storm. The young Foyt clung tightly to a buoy until a fishing vessel found him, too late for one of the other boys that had already drowned. Not long afterward, Foyt and some buddies were climbin Judge denies bond for ex-Alabama basketball player Darius Miles on capital murder charge 05/24/2023 01:37pm • TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A judge denied bond Wednesday for former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles, who is facing a capital murder charge related to a fatal shooting near campus. Tuscaloosa County Circuit Judge Daniel Pruet said at a hearing Wednesday that the bond issue could be revisited la After years of struggling, AJ Foyt Racing has cars to contend in Indianapolis 500 05/24/2023 01:01pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A.J. Foyt Racing is one of the underdogs of Gasoline Alley, which seems odd to say given that its namesake won the Indianapolis 500 on four occasions and he remains one of the most accomplished drivers in the history of motorsports. Yet Foyt's team, with its modest staff and sh Kenneth Anger, influential avant-garde filmmaker and author, dies at 96 05/24/2023 12:11pm • Kenneth Anger, the shocking and influential avant-garde artist who defied sexual and religious taboos in such short films as “Scorpio Rising” and “Fireworks” and dished the most lurid movie star gossip in his underground classic “Hollywood Babylon,” has died. He was 96. Anger died of nat Black children are more likely to have asthma. A lot comes down to where they live 05/24/2023 12:07pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Amid the balloons, cake and games at his best friend’s birthday party on a farm, 5-year-old Carter Manson clutched his small chest. “He just kept saying ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’’’ his mother, Catherine, recalled tearfully. “I picked him up and to Seeking asylum and work, migrants bused out of NYC find hostility 05/24/2023 11:54am • NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Before he left Mauritania, the West African nation of his birth, Mohamed thought of New York as a place of “open arms,” a refuge for immigrants fleeing dire circumstances. Now that he’s here, seeking political asylum from a government he feared would kill him, he doesn' Authorities capture 1 inmate who escaped Ohio prison, but convicted murderer still on the lam 05/24/2023 11:37am • LIMA, Ohio (AP) — One of two inmates who escaped from an Ohio prison was captured early Wednesday in Kentucky after a police pursuit of a stolen car the men were believed to be in ended in a crash and a foot chase, authorities said. James Lee, 47, was captured at the scene but Bradley Gillespie, 5 Alex Bowman cleared to return to NASCAR competition at Charlotte 05/24/2023 11:31am • Alex Bowman has been cleared to return to racing this weekend for the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway after missing four events with a fractured vertebra. Bowman was injured April 25 while competing in a sprint car race in Hendrick Motorsports' teammate Kyle Larson's new racing series in W Best ways to spend your tax refund 05/24/2023 11:25am • With tax filing season in the rearview mirror, most Americans have received their refunds -- or will soon. But what should you do with the money once it arrives? Whenever you get a windfall, it can be tempting to splurge on something fun. While it can be great to treat yourself with extra cash, a