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Person in connection with dancer's stabbing death at Brooklyn gas station is in custody, police say 08/04/2023 10:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Police have a person in custody in connection with the death of O’Shae Sibley, a gay man who was fatally stabbed after a confrontation between a group of friends dancing to a Beyoncé song and several young men who taunted them, authorities said Friday. The New York City Police D 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grab a fuel nozzle and pump gas into their cars on their own, since a decades-old ban on self-serve gas stations has been revoked.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 Guardians place slugging 1B Josh Naylor on 10-day injured list with oblique strain 08/04/2023 05:45pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Guardians first baseman Josh Naylor has been placed on the 10-day injured list because of an oblique strain, leaving Cleveland without one of its top power hitters for the time being. Naylor sat out the ast two games in Houston with the injury that had been bothering him for longe 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 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 Judge's decision could force change in Michigan's handling of newborn blood samples 08/04/2023 01:32pm • DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan must return or destroy dried blood samples from nine newborns or get approval from parents to keep them, according to the latest scathing opinion from a federal judge who found parts of a routine testing program unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludi NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 08/04/2023 12:23pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ No, Trump is not facing the death penalty on his Viewpoint: Real estate apocalypse aside, the office is worth returning to 08/04/2023 11:54am • On a recent Thursday, I wandered from my desk to the desk of Dan Sernovitz, the Washington Business Journal’s senior reporter extraordinaire, dropped my arms on the raised wall of his cubicle and asked in an annoyingly slow drawl, “What’s happening?” As if I were about to abscond with his An American billionaire says he'll stop funding the think tank behind Israel's judicial overhaul 08/04/2023 11:25am • JERUSALEM (AP) — An American billionaire and major donor to a Jerusalem think tank backing the Israeli government's divisive judicial overhaul said on Friday that he would stop giving to the conservative group. The decision by Arthur Dantchik, a 65-year-old libertarian multibillionaire from New Yo Trainer Ron Burke and driver Yannick Gingras try to add Hambletonian to their resumes 08/04/2023 11:24am • EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — While they are in the Harness Racing Hall of Fame, trainer Ron Burke and driver Yannick Gingras have something they missing from their resumes — a win in the Hambletonian. Burke and Gingras will get a great chance to check off the box on their resumes when favored Ce Environmental leaders push for transparency on Maryland's clean energy program 08/04/2023 08:15am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Eight environmental leaders are pressing Maryland energy regulators for more transparency on how the state's renewable energy program is h Zimbabwe's opposition leader tells AP intimidation is forcing voters to choose ruling party or death 08/04/2023 08:07am • HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's main opposition leader accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of violating the law and tearing apart independent institutions to cling to power. In an interview with The Associated Press, Nelson Chamisa also warned that any evidence of tampering by Mnangagwa's rul Cyprus allows human COVID-19 medications to be used against deadly virus mutation in cats 08/04/2023 08:02am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ veterinarians association on Friday lauded a government decision to allow its stock of human coronavirus medication to be used on cats to fight a local mutation of a feline virus that has killed thousands of animals on the Mediterranean island but can't be transmit Mercury's Skylar Diggins-Smith says team won't let her use practice facility 08/04/2023 01:57am • PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix Mercury star Skylar Diggins-Smith said Thursday in a social media post that she's been barred from the team's practice facility while she is on maternity leave from the team. The six-time All-Star hasn't played for the Mercury this season after the birth of her second child. Family mistakenly held at gunpoint by Texas police say the stop traumatized the kids in the car 08/03/2023 10:53pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Black woman from Arkansas who was held at gunpoint along with three family members when Texas police wrongly suspected their car was stolen said Thursday that she decided to speak out after seeing video from a passerby and realizing two officers had aimed firearms at her