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US official says Mideast mediators are preparing for implementation of cease-fire deal in advance 08/16/2024 08:39pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� In a sign that mediators believe a Gaza cease-fire deal is imminent, a U.S. official said Friday that Mideast negotiators are working out logistics for the potential release of hostages and distribution of aid as part of any agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war. The official, who Hurricane Ernesto lashes Bermuda as wealthy British territory closes down 08/16/2024 08:18pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Hurricane Ernesto began to pound Bermuda late Friday with heavy winds and rain after officials in the tiny British territory in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean opened shelters and closed government offices. The Category 2 storm located 95 miles (150 kilometers) south- 9 injured after multicar crash during rush hour on I-270 in Clarksburg 08/16/2024 07:17pm • Nine people were hurt after a multicar crash on Interstate 270 in Clarksburg, Maryland, during rush hour Friday, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. All traffic was stopped on the highway around 5:30 p.m. and I-270 reopened about an hour later, according to WTOP Traffic re Ukrainian forces left a path of destruction in the Kursk operation. AP visited a seized Russian town 08/16/2024 07:01pm • SUDZHA, Russia (AP) ��� A trail of destruction lies in the path that Ukrainian forces carved on their risky incursion into Russia, blasting through the border and eventually into the town of Sudzha, where Associated Press journalists traveled Friday on a Ukrainian government-organized trip. Artiller Michael Brown���s death transformed a nation and sparked a decade of American reckoning on race 08/16/2024 06:45pm • Kayla Reed was born in a predominantly African American section of St. Louis where, like her own kin, many Black families had been transplanted out of the Deep South. After the death of her grandmother, Reed moved with her father from the city to a St. Louis County town located within one mile of F US Navy helicopter crew members injured in Nevada training mishap released from hospital 08/16/2024 06:31pm • FALLON, Nev. (AP) ��� Ten U.S. Navy crew members injured Thursday during a routine helicopter training in the northern Nevada desert were released from a Reno hospital Friday. The Navy is investigating the cause of the ���mishap��� involving two MH-60S Seahawk helicopters training at Naval Air Stati Jury convicts white Florida woman in fatal shooting of her Black neighbor during ongoing dispute 08/16/2024 06:13pm • A white Florida woman was convicted Friday of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black neighbor after the jury rejected her claims that she fired through a metal door in self-defense amid an ongoing dispute over children playing outside her home. The all-white jury in Ocala, Florida, found 60-y What to know about the US arrest of a Peruvian gang leader suspected of killing 23 people 08/16/2024 05:22pm • A South American crime boss wanted in the killings of at least 23 people in Peru was captured this week in New York, three months after U.S. immigration authorities arrested and then released him after he illegally entered the country at the Texas-Mexico border. The arrests Wednesday of Gianfranco T Prisoner serving life for murder who escaped in North Carolina has been caught, authorities say 08/16/2024 05:08pm • KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (AP) ��� A prisoner serving a life sentence for murder was captured at a North Carolina hotel early Friday, three days after his escape on the way to a medical appointment, and authorities say he had help from at least one person. Ramone Alston, 30, escaped from a van Tuesday as it Ukrainian officials urge civilians to evacuate eastern city of Pokrovsk as Russian troops close in 08/16/2024 04:59pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Military authorities in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk urged civilians to speed up their evacuation Friday because the Russian army was quickly closing in on what has been one of Moscow���s key targets for months. Pokrovsk officials said in a Telegram post that Russian Sports on TV for Aug. 17 - 18 08/16/2024 04:20pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Saturday, Aug. 17 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN���S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 ��� Adelaide at Port Adelaide 11 p.m. FS2 ��� AFL: North Melbourne at Western AUTO RACING 12:30 p.m. USA ��� NASCAR Cup Series: Qualifying, Michigan International Speed Ex-University of Florida president gave former Senate staffers large raises, report finds 08/16/2024 04:15pm • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� Spending by recently resigned University of Florida President Ben Sasse is coming under scrutiny after the student-run newspaper found that he awarded secretive consulting contracts and gave high-paying jobs to former members of his U.S. Senate staff and Republican allies Michael Brown���s death transformed a nation and sparked a decade of American reckoning on race 08/16/2024 03:48pm • Kayla Reed was born in a predominantly African American section of St. Louis where, like her own kin, many Black families had been transplanted out of the Deep South. After the death of her grandmother, Reed moved with her father from the city to a St. Louis County town located within one mile of F Biden signs order to establish 1908 Springfield race riot monument as he looks to burnish legacy 08/16/2024 01:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden on Friday designated a national monument at the site of the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Ill., a seminal moment in the United States' long and difficult history with racial violence targeting Black people. Biden was joined in the Oval Office by lawmakers Neighbor reported smelling gas night before Maryland house explosion 08/16/2024 12:51pm • BEL AIR, Md. (AP) ��� A neighbor reported smelling gas to a utility company the night before a home exploded in Bel Air, Maryland, killing two people, The Baltimore Sun has reported. Residents near the home have been saying that they smelled gas Saturday night, but the State Fire Marshal���s offi