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Shooter at Southern University frat party takes plea deal 09/06/2024 05:51pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for firing shots into a crowd at a 2022 fraternity party near Southern University's campus in Baton Rouge. As part of the agreement, prosecutors dropped 11 counts of attempted murder against Jaicedric Williams, 24, Man charged with homicide in killing of gymnastics champion Kara Welsh 09/06/2024 04:30pm • WHITEWATER, Wis. (AP) — A 23-year-old man has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the fatal shooting of a national gymnastics champion in his apartment near the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus. Chad Richards made an initial appearance Friday via video in Walworth Count Zelenskyy presses US military leaders to let Ukraine strike deeper in Russia 09/06/2024 02:57pm • RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — Ukraine needs the ability to strike deep within Russia now, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told U.S. and allied military leaders Friday as Kyiv more fervently pressed the West to loosen weapons use restrictions and allow it to target Russian air bases and launch si A dormitory fire in Kenya kills 18 students and injures 27. Dozens are unaccounted for 09/06/2024 02:22pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A fire in a school dormitory in Kenya has killed 18 students and 27 others have been hospitalized, with 70 children unaccounted for, the country’s deputy president said Friday. President William Ruto declared three days of mourning during which flags will be flown at half- Bull that escaped from Illinois farm lassoed after hours on the run 09/06/2024 02:01pm • MARENGO, Ill. (AP) — A bull that escaped from an Illinois farm spent hours on the run before men on horseback finally lassoed the animal in a scene straight out of the Old West. The bull was captured Thursday evening after the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office warned in a Facebook post around 4:30 Police say 2 siblings were found dead inside a vehicle in Oklahoma 09/06/2024 12:46pm • NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Police in Oklahoma said Friday that two 2-year-old children were found dead inside a vehicle after accidentally being left there. The two were found about 3 p.m. Thursday by officers responding to a request for a welfare check on the vehicle parked on a street in Norman, Okla Bomb threat forces Vistara airline plane en route to Frankfurt to land in Turkey 09/06/2024 12:36pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Vistara airline flight en route to Germany from India made a forced landing in Turkey on Friday following a bomb threat, Turkish officials said. Flight VTI027 from Mumbai to Frankfurt, with 234 passengers and 13 crew members on board, landed at the airport in Erzurum, in ea Primoz Roglic takes lead of the Spanish Vuelta and eyes fourth title 09/06/2024 12:08pm • ALTO DE MONCALVILLO, Spain (AP) — Primoz Roglic took a big step toward winning a fourth Spanish Vuelta title after claiming the race lead from Ben O'Connor on Friday with two stages left. Roglic entered Stage 19 five seconds behind O’Connor but the Australian couldn’t keep up as his rival powe Poland charges 3 Belarusian officials with diverting a plane to Minsk in 2021 to arrest a dissident 09/06/2024 11:45am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors on Friday charged three Belarusian officials with using a ruse to divert a Poland-registered plane while in flight three years ago and violating the freedom of 132 people on board as they sought to arrest a dissident. The three officials are accused of ord Sports on TV for Sept. 7 - 8 09/06/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Saturday, Sept. 7 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 — AFL Finals: Carlton at Brisbane, Qualifying Final AUTO RACING 8:30 a.m. TRUTV — FIM MotoGP: The San Marino Grand Prix Sprint, Misano Adriatico, Italy 11 a.m. USA Ruins of a long-sunken Greek village emerge as drought saps a vital reservoir 09/06/2024 09:39am • LAKE MORNOS, Greece (AP) — Like ghosts from the past, sunken villages at the bottom of water reservoirs are not meant to be seen. But the ruins of Kallio in the mountains of central Greece are becoming very much visible — and they have a warning to deliver. As an unprecedented drought induced by Heads up! What to know if you're trying to get around busy DC this weekend 09/06/2024 09:30am • Lots of great events are scheduled in D.C. this weekend, which means lots of people, as well as road closures and parking restrictions. Early Saturday, DC Bike Ride 2024 will close approximately 20 miles of roads to automobiles, allowing bike riders to enjoy portions of the nation's capital car-f In a landslide-stricken town in California, life is like camping with no power, gas 09/06/2024 01:00am • RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) — Nick Mardesic and his family are living off the power grid, so light at night comes from a flashlight, and a hot meal and shower require driving several miles to his parents’ home. The family is not in a rugged location, but rather on a scenic peninsula on the Suspect charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a deputy in Houston 09/05/2024 08:44pm • HOUSTON (AP) — A suspect has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Texas deputy constable who had stopped at a Houston intersection as he drove to work, authorities said Thursday. The announcement of the murder charge came on the same day as the deputy, Maher Husseini, was remembered US government orders big US airlines to explain their frequent-flyer programs 09/05/2024 08:40pm • The Biden administration is examining the four largest U.S. airline frequent-flyer programs and how they devalue points that consumers have earned and frequently change the number of points or miles needed to book flights. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote to the CEOs of American, Delta,