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Suspect is detained after an explosion at a California courthouse injures 5 people 09/25/2024 11:01pm • SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) ��� A man set off an explosive device in the lobby of a California courthouse on Wednesday, sending five people to the hospital with minor injuries and prompting the shutdown of the court complex and other city buildings, officials said. A 20-year-old man was detained follow Cambodia hopes a new canal will boost trade. But it risks harming the Mekong that feeds millions 09/25/2024 08:58pm • PREK TAKEO, Cambodia (AP) ��� The Mekong River is a lifeline for millions in the six countries it traverses on its way from its headwaters to the sea, sustaining the world���s largest inland fishery and abundant rice paddies on Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Cambodia's plan to build a massive canal linkin As an era ends, the city that was home to the Oakland A's comes to grips with their departure 09/25/2024 08:34pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� The Athletics had long ago carved out a Jekyll-and-Hyde legacy as one of Major League Baseball's most successful ��� and sad-sack ��� franchises. Under their belts: nine World Series titles and 19 seasons of futility punctuated by 100 or more losses. This, though, is differe Passenger killed when gunman hijacks Los Angeles bus and leads police on downtown chase 09/25/2024 08:33pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A passenger was killed after a gunman hijacked a city bus in Los Angeles early Wednesday, leading to a slow police chase through downtown before the suspect was eventually arrested, authorities said. The armed man boarded the Metro bus with the driver and two passengers aboard s NTSB engineer says carbon fiber hull from submersible showed signs of flaws 09/25/2024 08:11pm • The carbon fiber hull of the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic had imperfections dating to the manufacturing process and behaved differently after a loud bang was heard on one of the dives the year before the tragedy, an engineer with the National Transpo Judge approves $600 million settlement for residents near fiery Ohio derailment 09/25/2024 08:09pm • A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $600 million class-action settlement Wednesday that Norfolk Southern railroad offered to everyone who lived within 20 miles (32 kilometers) of last year's disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Judge Benita Pearson gave the deal final approval after a Judge orders a stop to referendum in Georgia slave descendants' zoning battle 09/25/2024 07:24pm • A judge on Wednesday ordered a halt to a special election initiated by residents of the one of the South���s last remaining Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants, who were looking to voters to undo zoning changes that residents say threaten their island homes. Senior Judge Gary McCor Aging and ailing, 'Message Tree' at Woodstock concert site is reluctantly cut down 09/25/2024 07:10pm • Masses of people at the 1969 Woodstock festival stopped by the towering red maple tree a little ways off from the main stage. Many scrawled messages on paper scraps or cardboard and attached them to the old tree's trunk. ���SUSAN, MEET YOU HERE SATURDAY 11 A.M., 3 P.M. or 7 P.M.,��� read one note l 10 homes have collapsed into the Carolina surf. Their destruction was decades in the making 09/25/2024 06:57pm • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) ��� A slow-motion catastrophe has been playing out in the coastal North Carolina village of Rodanthe, where 10 houses have fallen into the Atlantic since 2020. Three have been lost since Friday. The most recent collapse was Tuesday afternoon, when the wooden pilings of a home nick Colorado man's malicious prosecution lawsuit over charges in his wife's death was dismissed 09/25/2024 05:59pm • A Colorado man's malicious prosecution lawsuit has been dismissed, with the federal judge saying prosecutors acted badly in his case, but authorities still had enough reason to arrest and charge him in his wife's death four years ago. Barry Morphew filed a lawsuit against Chaffee County, its sheriff Thousands are pouring into Syria, fleeing worsening conflict in Lebanon 09/25/2024 05:27pm • JDEIDET YABOUS, Syria (AP) ��� Families fleeing the escalating conflict in Lebanon poured into Syria in growing numbers on Wednesday, waiting for hours in heavy traffic to reach the relative safety of another war-torn country. U.N. officials estimated that thousands of Lebanese and Syrian families h Maryland Gov. Wes Moore welcomes King Abdullah II of Jordan to the state Capitol 09/25/2024 04:11pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland Gov. Wes Moore welcomed King Abdullah II of Jordan to the state's Capitol on Wednesday for a roundtable discussion with business and education leaders from around the state. It was the first time a foreign head of state has visited the Maryland State House on offi Cowboys look to maintain their recent dominance against the Giants 09/25/2024 02:22pm • EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) ��� The Dallas Cowboys are off to a slow start and concerns are mounting after two straight losses at home. The anxiety in Big D could reach a tipping point on Thursday night when the Cowboys (1-2) travel to face the New York Giants (1-2). Both New Orleans and Baltimore pl A tale of crushing security lapses and missed chances to stop the man who shot Trump 09/25/2024 02:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The acting director of the Secret Service was incensed at what had happened that July evening. ���What I saw made me ashamed,��� Ronald Rowe Jr. said. ���I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured.��� The unguarded roof, easily within shooting distance of the rally stag What to know as Hurricane Helene takes aim at Florida 09/25/2024 12:44pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) ��� Another storm system is taking aim at Florida, this time possibly at the Panhandle or Big Bend area, with storm effects expected all over the state due to its vast wind field. The fast-moving Hurricane Helene is intensifying quickly as it crosses from the Caribbean Sea