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Gunfire took their son at 20. Now it takes his daughter, 12 04/23/2023 06:44pm • Janet Rice headed to the hospital Thursday night, as she routinely does when tragedy befalls her community. A barrage of gunfire had injured several young people, including a 12-year-old girl struck in the head by a stray bullet. While en route, Rice's phone rang. She pulled over. The young girl in Guyana birdsong competitions flourish amid oil boom 04/23/2023 01:22pm • METEN-MEER-ZORG, Guyana (AP) — The judges leaned in, hands clasped behind their backs. Everyone grew quiet as they stared at the two tiny black birds flitting before them, wondering which one would break the silence. “One. Two,” a judge called out softly as the bird on the right erupted into t New apprenticeship program lends skills training for youths 04/23/2023 09:01am • BEDFORD, Va. (AP) — Josh Weeks, owner of Wicked Diesel, a diesel and automotive repair facility at 1051 Orange St., recently became the first Bedford County business owner to register with the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry’s Youth Registered Apprenticeship Program. He currently has t Top election official in Myanmar assassinated by guerrillas 04/23/2023 07:37am • BANGKOK (AP) — A top election official in Myanmar was fatally shot in his car in Yangon, the country’s commercial capital, in the latest attack attributed to militants opposed to military rule. Sai Kyaw Thu, deputy director-general of the military-appointed Union Election Commission, was shot mu Train hits car at crossing in Germany, 3 killed 04/23/2023 05:45am • BERLIN (AP) — A train hit a car at a crossing in northern Germany early Sunday, killing all three people in the car, police said. Police said that the regional train hit the car at full speed near Neustadt am Ruebenberge, outside the city of Hannover, German news agency dpa reported. The car's 22 The front door, threshold of welcome — and perilous border 04/23/2023 12:05am • NEW YORK (AP) — The American front door is a place where the welcome mat offers friendly greetings, where affable neighbors knock or ring, where boxes brimming with possibility are delivered. It is where home meets a world full of potentially good things. The American front door is a place where Today in History: April 23, Hank Aaron’s first home run 04/23/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Sunday, April 23, the 113th day of 2023. There are 252 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 23, 2005, the recently created video-sharing website YouTube uploaded its first clip, “Me at the Zoo,” which showed YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim s Rainstorm dampens National Cannabis Festival 04/22/2023 11:00pm • A mid-afternoon rain storm sent thousands of people scurrying from the 7th annual National Cannabis Festival in the Fields at RFK Stadium. Gray clouds swooped low over the sprawling RFK parking lots as the festival opened at noon, and the T-shirt sellers outside the gates quickly shifted to selli Police: Man killed in Fairfax Co. crash after evading DUI checkpoint 04/22/2023 09:09pm • Fairfax County police have identified the man killed in a crash in Chantilly, Virginia. The Fairfax County Police Department said that around 1 a.m. on Saturday, 39-year-old Ashton Robinson, of Culpeper, was being pursued by Fauquier County deputies after he drove away from a DUI checkpoint in an Jeb Burton wins Xfinity Series crash-fest at Talladega 04/22/2023 08:09pm • TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Jeb Burton won his second career Xfinity Series race at Talladega Superspeedway in a Saturday crash-fest that had two red-flag stoppages and took more than three hours to complete. Burton won in double overtime driving for Jordan Anderson Racing, which scored its first care Hamlin wins 1st superspeedway pole, drivers meet with NASCAR 04/22/2023 05:36pm • TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — The day opened at Talladega Superspeedway with NASCAR executives holding an an all-driver meeting. It was regularly scheduled and mostly mirrored a lengthier meeting held earlier this week between NASCAR and the smaller drivers' alliance. The topics included safety, rules a Lazio loses to Torino and could be overtaken by Juventus 04/22/2023 05:07pm • MILAN (AP) — Lazio failed to consolidate second spot in Serie A after it was beaten by mid-table Torino 1-0 on Saturday to end a run of four straight wins. Ivan Ilić netted the only goal two minutes before halftime to help Torino to its first win in five matches. The result left Lazio two points Akron temporarily bans use of nonlethal force on protesters 04/22/2023 03:45pm • AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in an Ohio city have agreed to temporarily bar the use of tear gas, pepper spray and other types of nonlethal force against nonviolent protesters, a move that comes after it was sued following a protest over a grand jury's decision to not indict police officers who s Rural Maine town shaken by violence remembers slain friends 04/22/2023 03:37pm • BOWDOIN, Maine (AP) — Tireless. Helpful. Deeply religious. Those were some of the ways Patti Eger’s friends remembered her Thursday in the small Maine town of Lisbon Falls, joining hands in prayer on a lawn outside a white church to say goodbye to a woman who stood alongside them to do charity w Police: 8 people, including girl, wounded in 2 DC shootings 04/22/2023 03:11am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two shootings in Washington, D.C., on Friday night resulted in eight people, including a young girl, suffering injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department said. There were no fatalities in the two shootings, which police said could be related because they occurred in the same ar