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13 people injured when more than 40 vehicles crash on Chesapeake Bay bridge in Maryland 01/27/2024 04:11pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Crashes involving more than 40 vehicles closed all lanes on the heavily-traveled U.S. 50 Bay Bridge in Maryland on Saturday, injuring 13 people and snarling traffic for about six hours, authorities said. The Maryland Transportation Authority said on X, formerly Twitter, that th Hiker dies of suspected heart attack in Utah's Zion National Park, authorities say 01/27/2024 03:17pm • SPRINGDALE, Utah (AP) — A man died of a suspected heart attack while hiking a strenuous trail in Utah's Zion National Park, authorities said Friday. The 63-year-old man from San Diego, California, was found unresponsive on the West Rim Trail on Friday afternoon, the National Park Service said in a Avian flu is devastating farms in California's 'Egg Basket' as outbreaks roil poultry industry 01/27/2024 02:44pm • PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) — Last month, Mike Weber got the news every poultry farmer fears: His chickens tested positive for avian flu. Following government rules, Weber's company, Sunrise Farms, had to slaughter its entire flock of egg-laying hens — 550,000 birds — to prevent the disease from inf Spectator becomes game official in Bundesliga after player hits assistant referee with ball 01/27/2024 01:53pm • WOLFSBURG, Germany (AP) — A spectator at a Bundesliga game was recruited as the fourth official after the assistant referee was struck in the face by the ball and taken to hospital on Saturday. The game between Wolfsburg and Cologne was stopped in the 14th minute when Cologne player Max Finkgräfe A Holocaust survivor in Israel recalls that trauma through the lens of Oct. 7 attack 01/27/2024 10:55am • ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Gad Partok was 10 years old in 1942 when Nazis stormed his street in the coastal Tunisian town of Nabeul. He saw them going door to door, hauling out his neighbors, shooting them and burning down their homes. Like so many Jews who moved to Israel after the war, Partok beli 2024 James Beard semifinalists include DC restaurants, bars, chefs 01/27/2024 04:18am • The James Beard Foundation announced that a number of D.C. restaurants, bars and chefs are among the semifinalists in a number of categories for its 2024 awards. Finalists will be announced on April 3, and the winners will be celebrated on June 5 at the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards cere Haitians suffering gang violence are desperate after Kenyan court blocks police force deployment 01/27/2024 01:00am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Radio stations across Haiti got jammed with calls just hours after a court in Kenya blocked the deployment of a U.N.-backed police force to help fight gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. Many callers wondered and demanded: What’s next? Few know. Uncertainty and Other passengers support man who opened emergency exit and walked on plane's wing in Mexico airport 01/26/2024 11:19pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — At first it sounds like a typical case of bad behavior aboard airplanes. The Mexico City International Airport acknowledged in a statement Friday that a man had opened an emergency exit and walked out on a wing of a plane that was parked and waiting for takeoff Thursday. The a Man charged in 20-plus calls of false threats in US, Canada pleads guilty 01/26/2024 09:36pm • TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state man who made over 20 “swatting” calls around the country and in Canada, prompting emergency responses to his fake bombing, shooting and other threatening reports, pleaded guilty on Thursday to four crimes. Ashton Garcia, 21, pleaded guilty Thursday in U Biden urges Congress to embrace border bill. But House speaker suggests it may be 'dead on arrival' 01/26/2024 08:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday pressed Congress to embrace a bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures with Ukraine aid, but House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested the compromise on border and immigration policy could be “dead on arrival” in his chamber. The Dem Iowa promised $75 million for school safety. Two shootings later, the money is largely unspent 01/26/2024 08:10pm • IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The June 2022 announcement was addressed to parents horrified by the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas: Iowa would spend $75 million in federal pandemic relief funds to improve school building security. Citing an urgent need to act after Uvalde and shootings A private prison health care company accused of substandard care is awarded new contract in Illinois 01/26/2024 07:40pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois has awarded a more than $4 billion prison medical care contract to the same company it's used for three decades, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the firm and statewide complaints alleging substandard care. Pittsburgh-based Wexford Health Sources was o Twins have laid low this offseason with regional TV revenue uncertain; they still like their team 01/26/2024 06:00pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Limited player movement across Major League Baseball this offseason has been no more pronounced than in Minnesota, where the defending AL Central champion Twins have so far claimed a couple of players off waivers and signed a middle reliever coming off an injury. Hot stove? Try Man accused of picking up teen fugitive following escape now facing charges, authorities say 01/26/2024 05:27pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man who authorities say picked up a teenager awaiting trial in a homicide case after the youth escaped outside a Philadelphia hospital this week is now facing charges while the search for the teen continues. Michael Diggs, 18, is accused of hindering apprehension, escape, cri Bill decriminalizing drug test strips in opioid-devastated West Virginia heads to governor 01/26/2024 04:47pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would decriminalize all strips used to test drugs for deadly substances in West Virginia, the state with the nation's highest overdose rate, is headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Jim Justice. Justice hasn't said publicly whether he supports the bill, which