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Norfolk Southern won't push for one-person train crews 03/23/2023 06:30pm • Railroad Norfolk Southern is backing away from its push to reduce its train crews down to one person, the company said Thursday in a joint announcement with the nation’s largest rail union. The two sides said they will instead focus on quality of life issues for employees, such as scheduling and Woman carjacked at gunpoint near the Mall at Prince George's 03/23/2023 05:00pm • A woman was forced out of her car at gunpoint Thursday morning, in a brazen car jacking in Hyattsville, Maryland. It happened near the Mall at Prince George’s in the 3500 block of East-West Highway. Hyattsville Chief of Police Jarod Towers said a woman was arriving for work at the T-J Maxx s Sloppy racing could make it tough for NASCAR road ringers 03/23/2023 04:06pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The NASCAR field this Sunday will be stacked with two former Formula One world champions, an IndyCar driver and a sports car star who has a 24 Hours of Le Mans win on his resume. What can these so-called ringers expect on the road course at Circuit of the Americas? “To g Feds: Woman charged in Wyoming clinic fire opposes abortion 03/23/2023 03:30pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A woman accused of setting fire last year to a Wyoming abortion clinic that was under construction told investigators that she opposes abortion and was experiencing anxiety and nightmares over the facility opening, authorities say in court documents. Lorna Roxanne Green, of C Rioter charged in Pelosi laptop theft sentenced to prison 03/23/2023 03:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman linked to a far-right extremist movement was sentenced on Thursday to three years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where she invaded then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office with other rioters. Riley June Williams, 23, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, w California may punish oil companies for high gas prices 03/23/2023 03:11pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A first-in-the-nation bill to punish oil companies for profiting from price spikes at the pump breezed through the California Senate on Thursday at the urging of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, the first major vote in an effort to pass the law by month's end. The proposal i Tastee Diner closes, but dining car to stay 03/23/2023 02:00pm • Fans of Silver Spring's Tastee Diner were surprised by its abrupt closing on Wednesday, but it has a future despite the site being bought by a developer with plans for a new residential building. D.C.-based Roadside Development purchased the site next to a former Capital One Bank branch which it Ohio toxic train derailment upends school baseball, track 03/23/2023 01:37pm • EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — On the surface, everything looks normal. There's the East Palestine High School baseball team learning the finer points of baserunning at one edge of Reid Memorial Stadium. At the other, a handful of sprinters dart through the mild March air, the blue parachutes attache Zebra runs loose in Seoul before being taken back to zoo 03/23/2023 01:31pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A young zebra walked, trotted, and galloped for hours in the busy streets of South Korea’s capital before emergency workers tranquilized the animal and brought it back to a zoo. The zebra — a male named Sero that was born in the zoo in 2021 — was in stable conditio Mozambicans vow to keep marching for deceased protest rapper 03/23/2023 11:38am • MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambican fans of deceased protest rapper Azagaia have vowed to keep marching in his honor, even though police violently dispersed demonstrations in Maputo and other cities last week. Peaceful demonstrations will go ahead with or without police authorization, said David Jury finds former Puerto Rican mayor guilty of corruption 03/23/2023 09:45am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal jury has found a former Puerto Rican mayor guilty of bribery, extortion and conspiracy in the U.S territory’s latest government corruption case. Ángel Pérez Otero, who was mayor of the northern city of Guaynabo and president of Puerto Rico’s Mayors’ F Palestinian killed in Israeli military raid in West Bank 03/23/2023 07:18am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian militant during a raid in the northern West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian health officials said, the latest escalation of violence in what has been the deadliest start of a year for Palestinians in the occupied territory in more than tw Coroner's office confirms body found near abandoned car was 17-year-old student accused of Denver high school shooting 03/23/2023 07:16am • DENVER (AP) — Coroner's office confirms body found near abandoned car was 17-year-old student accused of Denver high school shooting. Rare tornado near Los Angeles rips building roofs; 1 injured 03/23/2023 06:35am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare tornado touched down in a Los Angeles suburb, ripping roofs off a line of commercial buildings and sending the debris twisting into the sky and across a city block, injuring one person. The National Weather Service sent teams to assess damage in Montebello and later confi Heavily indebted Chinese developer proposes restructuring 03/23/2023 05:31am • BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese real estate developer whose struggle to manage more than $300 billion in debt rattled global financial markets announced a long-awaited plan Thursday to restructure what it owes to foreign bondholders. The Evergrande Group, the global real estate industry's most heavily in