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Virginia high school marching band wins $15,000 worth of instruments in national Metallica contest 01/10/2024 04:04am • Exit light, enter night, take my hand — off to congratulate a Virginia high school marching band! The Oakton High School Marching Cougars just won Metallica's Inaugural Marching Band Contest, announced this past Sunday night on ESPN. "It feels pretty awesome," band director Jamie VanValkenb With threats, pressure and financial lures, China seen as aiming to influence Taiwan's elections 01/10/2024 12:56am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Using military threats, diplomatic pressure, fake news and financial inducements for politicians, China is being accused of deploying a broad strategy to influence voters in Taiwan’s elections to pick candidates who favor unification. China's ultimate goal is to take contro With Trump present in court, judges express skepticism of claims that he's immune from prosecution 01/09/2024 07:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — With Donald Trump listening intently in the courtroom, federal appeals court judges in Washington expressed deep skepticism Tuesday that the former president was immune from prosecution on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The panel of three j Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 01/09/2024 01:27pm • 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 A man who claimed to be selling Queen Elizabeth II's walking stick is sentenced for fraud 01/09/2024 12:41pm • LONDON (AP) — A 26-year-old man who tried to sell what he claimed was a walking stick used by the late Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced for defrauding eBay buyers. Dru Marshall, from Hampshire in southern England, claimed he was a senior footman at Windsor Castle and that the proceeds from t NYC Mayor Eric Adams says story of firing a gun at school, recounted in his book, never happened 01/09/2024 06:56am • Even for Eric Adams, whose hardscrabble upbringing featured heavily in his rise to become mayor of New York City, the tale of his near-miss school shooting was harrowing. One day at school, Adams was hanging out with a group of friends when someone showed up with a gun, according to his 2009 book, Analysis: Victory formation was never meant for the kind of trickery the Saints used against Atlanta 01/09/2024 06:00am • Victory formation hits different now — just like the Atlanta Falcons defenders undoubtedly will next time they face the New Orleans Saints. That's the fallout of backup quarterback Jameis Winston going rogue during mop-up duty and leading New Orleans to a rub-it-in touchdown Sunday against an unsu Today in History: January 9, Mississippi secedes from the Union 01/09/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, Jan. 9, the ninth day of 2024. There are 357 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 9, 1861, Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union, the same day the Star of the West, a merchant vessel bringing reinforcements and suppl California man gets 4 years in prison for false sex assault claims against Hollywood executives 01/08/2024 06:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A California man was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for seeking to win a $100 million lawsuit by making false sexual assault claims against Hollywood executives. Rovier Carrington, 34, of Los Angeles was sentenced in Manhattan federal court after he pleaded guilty to maki US fugitive accused of faking his death to avoid rape charges is booked into a Utah jail 01/08/2024 06:03pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A U.S. fugitive known as Nicholas Rossi, who is accused of faking his own death and fleeing the country to avoid rape charges, is in a Utah jail after he was extradited from Scotland last week, jail records showed on Monday. Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, is Judge in Trump's DC election case is targeted by fake emergency call in latest high-profile swatting 01/08/2024 03:23pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A home owned by the judge overseeing the federal election subversion case against former president Donald Trump was targeted by a fake emergency call Sunday night, the latest in a spate of similar false swatting reports at the homes of public officials in recent days. Police r Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 01/08/2024 01:17pm • 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 Book Review: ‘Sugar, Baby’ is a train wreck with no consequences that you can’t help but read 01/08/2024 10:12am • Agnes Green grew up on the poor side of a town outside London in the new novel “Sugar, Baby.” She's been an outsider her whole life, with her strict conservative Christian upbringing directly at odds with her desire for romance, sex and parties. When a wealthy model teaches Agnes to use her you Hasina wins Bangladesh vote, but low turnout and opposition boycott raise doubts over its legitimacy 01/07/2024 11:20pm • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won an overwhelming majority in Bangladesh's parliamentary election after a campaign fraught with violence and a boycott from the main opposition party, giving her and her Awami League a fourth consecutive term. While the Election Commissio New Mexico attorney general says fake GOP electors can't be prosecuted, recommends changes 01/05/2024 08:08pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s top prosecutor said Friday that the state’s five Republican electors cannot be prosecuted under the current law for filing election certificates that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential race. However, Democratic Attorney Gene