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Lawyers want East Palestine residents to wait for details of $600 million derailment settlement 04/10/2024 08:05pm • The lawyers who negotiated a $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern over that railroad's disastrous 2023 derailment in Ohio want residents to talk with them before deciding the historic deal isn't enough. They said Wednesday that the settlement for everyone within 20 miles (32 kilometers) of Should You Use a Credit Card Travel Portal? 04/10/2024 08:00pm • You have many options for booking travel, whether you want to book directly with airlines and hotels, use an online travel agency or book with your credit card's travel portal. Using a credit card travel portal may allow you to take advantage of cardholder benefits and credits and give you additiona How to Prepare Your Home for Spring Thunderstorms 04/10/2024 08:00pm • There is something awe-inspiring about watching a spring thunderstorm roll in. Unless your house gets flooded, zapped with lightning or pummeled by the wind. Then the magic fades and reality sweeps in. There are ways you can prepare your home for a severe thunderstorm. Chances are, you aren't going Psych exams ordered for mother of boy found dead in suitcase in southern Indiana 04/10/2024 06:05pm • SALEM, Ind. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered a psychologist and a psychiatrist to examine the mother of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana in 2022. Washington County Circuit Judge Larry Medlock asked the doctors to perform mental evaluations of Dejaune Anders Rescuers search off Northern California coast for young gray whale entangled in gill net 04/10/2024 05:44pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Rescuers were searching Wednesday for a gray whale last spotted off Northern California's coast with its tail entangled in a massive gill net. The 30-foot (9-meter) whale was spotted Tuesday near San Francisco swimming north as part of gray whales' annual migration from Mexico A Russian attack on a Ukrainian village kills a 14-year-old girl and two others, officials say 04/10/2024 05:09pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian attack struck a grocery store and a pharmacy in a Ukrainian village close to the border with Russia on Wednesday, killing three people including a 14-year-old girl, authorities said, as the Kremlin’s forces kept up a relentless bombardment. The strike on Lyptsi, ab Russians stage a rare protest after a dam bursts and homes flood near the Kazakh border 04/10/2024 05:04pm • Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday, calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan. Protests are an unusual sight in Russia where authorities have consistently cracked down on any for Iowa puts $1 million toward summer meal sites, still faces criticism for rejecting federal funds 04/10/2024 05:04pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is directing nearly a million dollars in grant funding to expand summer meal sites for low-income kids. It is an effort that advocates welcome, but some remained worried that it won’t be enough to alleviate the barriers to access that were addressed by a separate fe Tractor-trailer fire in Frederick Co. causes massive I-270 southbound delays 04/10/2024 04:57pm • Listen to WTOP online and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM for traffic and weather news on the 8s. A massive tractor-trailer fire caused traffic delays for hours Wednesday morning on Interstate 270 in Frederick County, Maryland. All southbound lanes were closed for around eight hours Top NASCAR driver Kyle Larson uses Indianapolis 500 testing to learn on the fly 04/10/2024 03:43pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Kyle Larson embraces the challenge of racing in any car on any track at any time. He's now facing his trickiest quest yet — preparing for his Indianapolis 500 debut next month. Larson returned to the historic 2.5-mile oval Wednesday for the first of two days of open testing a Family of Nigerian businessman killed in California helicopter crash sues charter company 04/10/2024 02:02pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of a Nigerian business leader who died in a Southern California helicopter crash that killed five others in February filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming the flight should have been grounded because of treacherous weather. Relatives of Abimbola Ogunbanjo, the former ch Last call for dry towns? New York weighs lifting post-Prohibition law that let towns keep booze bans 04/10/2024 12:36pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York towns and villages that have post-Prohibition bans on alcohol sales would be forced to lift such restrictions under a bill moving through the Legislature. The bill, which is up for a state Senate vote after advancing out of a committee last week, would strike down a 19 Switzerland will host a Ukraine peace conference in June and hopes Russia can join one day 04/10/2024 12:24pm • GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland's government said Wednesday it will host a high-level international conference in June to help chart a path toward peace in Ukraine after more than two years of war, and expressed hope that Russia might join in the peace process someday. The lakeside Bürgenstock resort Fighting escalates in eastern Myanmar as army holds out against resistance push on key border town 04/10/2024 10:44am • BANGKOK (AP) — Fighting appeared to be escalating in Myanmar on Wednesday as guerrilla fighters from the Karen ethnic minority and pro-democracy forces battle soldiers holding on to a major trading town on the border with Thailand, witnesses said. The fall of Myawaddy, which is also Myanmar’s m Edmunds picks the best used plug-in hybrids that qualify for the federal tax credit 04/10/2024 10:28am • Buying a plug-in hybrid vehicle, or PHEV, can be a great way to ensure fuel efficiency. These are hybrid vehicles that drive just like a regular hybrid but have a chargeable battery that allows you to first drive a short distance on all-electric power. Frequently charging the battery at home can sig