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West Virginia officer will not face charges for striking, killing 13-year-old with cruiser off-duty 05/12/2023 06:38pm • CHARLESTON W.Va. (AP) — An off-duty deputy sheriff in West Virginia who struck and killed a 13-year-old girl with his marked cruiser last year will not face criminal charges in her death, according to the prosecutor investigating the case. Special Prosecutor for Cabell County Mark Sorsaia determi Christian Lundgaard claims 1st career pole at Indianapolis Grand Prix 05/12/2023 06:38pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Christian Lundgaard is turning Indianapolis Motor Speedway into his favorite racing venue. Less than 10 months after the 21-year-old from Denmark earned his first IndyCar podium finish on the 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course, he returned Friday and claimed his first career pole. For Buffalo shooting victims' kin, Mother's Day is a reminder of loss, a lesson in navigating grief 05/12/2023 06:37pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Tirzah Patterson will dedicate this Mother’s Day to the hardest part of a mother’s job, trying to help her child make sense of tragedy. Patterson and her husband had divorced but remained close for the sake of their son. Then Heyward Patterson was gunned down along with ni Marine veteran who fatally choked NYC subway rider Jordan Neely is freed pending trial 05/12/2023 04:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Marine veteran who placed an agitated New York City subway passenger in a chokehold, killing him and sparking outrage as bystander video went viral, surrendered Friday on a manslaughter charge filed nearly two weeks after the deadly encounter. Daniel Penny, 24, was freed pen Stragglers pack up as Swiss village is evacuated under rockslide threat 05/12/2023 04:06pm • BRIENZ, Switzerland (AP) — Stragglers packed up belongings in cars, trucks and a least one pickup truck before an evacuation order took effect on Friday in a tiny village in eastern Switzerland that is facing an urgent rockslide threat. As geologists and other experts in fluorescent vests took mea Chief: Officers fatally shot man who attacked officer in cruiser 05/12/2023 02:37pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Virginia police officers shot and killed a man who had attacked a third police officer inside his cruiser, the police chief said. A Fairfax County police officer was investigating a U-Haul truck at a gas station in the Alexandria area that had been reported stolen and approa Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 05/12/2023 01:37pm • 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 Viewpoint: The answer to a more vibrant downtown D.C.? Not more cars. 05/12/2023 01:09pm • In an era in which telework is more common and people have more options about where to work and live, D.C. must make downtown a great place where people want to be. The most vibrant cities are achieving this through turning their streets into wonderful, green, people-oriented places. They are priori 0.002-second margin of victory stands test of time as Craven, Busch recall 2003 Darlington thriller 05/12/2023 12:09pm • DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Ricky Craven wasn't sure what to expect at the Darlington Raceway starting line more than 20 years ago. By the end, he had his final NASCAR Cup Series victory, a lifelong friend in racing rival Kurt Busch and a place in the sport's history. Darlington will celebrate NASCAR Race teams ask NASCAR for ‘meaningful’ talks as their business model dispute skids toward summer 05/12/2023 11:41am • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The fight between NASCAR and its teams over a new revenue model prompted the owners of 16 chartered organizations to send a letter to NASCAR's board of directors earlier this month requesting “meaningful dialog” regarding the franchise model system. The letter, a copy o Elon Musk says he's found someone to lead Twitter as new CEO 05/12/2023 08:44am • Elon Musk said Thursday he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it’s now called — and it's a woman. He did not name her but said she will be starting in about six weeks. Musk, who bought Twitter last fall and has been running it since, has long insisted he is not the company’s perma Authorities capture 1 of 2 inmates who escaped from Philadelphia prison 05/12/2023 08:40am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — One of two inmates who escaped from a Philadelphia prison was captured while dressed as a woman, authorities said, and a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force focused Friday on tracking down the other escapee. Members of the task force were conducting surveillance in an are Toyota: Data on more than 2 million vehicles in Japan were at risk in decade-long breach 05/12/2023 06:26am • TOKYO (AP) — A decade-long data breach in Toyota’s much-touted online service put some information on more than 2 million vehicles at risk, the Japanese automaker said Friday. Spanning from January 2012 to April 2023, the problem with Toyota’s cloud-based Connected service pertains only to ve Man who attacked officer inside patrol vehicle shot and killed by Fairfax Co. police, chief says 05/12/2023 05:57am • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, said one of their officers shot and killed a man in a McDonald's parking lot after that man assaulted another officer and stole his service weapon while inside a police cruiser. The shooting happened near the intersection of Route 1 and N. Kings Highway, in the Air Force One doubles as a campaign jet for Biden's reelection run. Who pays what? 05/12/2023 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden was running for president three years ago, he flew on a white private jet with his campaign logo painted on the side. Now he has a larger, more recognizable ride as he seeks a second term. Like his predecessors, he'll be crisscrossing the country on Air Force One.