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Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones reflects on his 38 years on the job 01/31/2024 06:50pm • Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones said his decision to announce that he'll retire, effective July 1,��isn't a decision he came to suddenly. Jones told WTOP that not long after he was named chief of the Maryland county's police department in 2019, he considered the long-term plan, "a Teen girl sentenced to 5 years in fatal DC stabbing of friend after dispute over McDonald's sweet-and-sour sauce 01/31/2024 06:42pm • A Waldorf, Maryland, teenager was sentenced Wednesday to five years in a D.C. juvenile detention center after she pleaded guilty to killing her 16-year-old friend, Naima Liggon, last year in a dispute about McDonald's dipping sauce. The teen will remain in the D.C. Department of Youth and Rehabil Michigan school shooter's mom was worried he might do 'something dumb,' friend says 01/31/2024 06:35pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� Hours before a 2021 mass school shooting in Michigan, the mother of a teenager who killed four students said she was worried that he was "going to do something dumb,��� a man who had a close relationship with her testified Wednesday. Brian Meloche said Jennifer Crumbley expla Parents arrested in case of social media model charged with killing boyfriend 01/31/2024 06:26pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� The parents of a social media model charged with fatally stabbing her live-in boyfriend in South Florida have been arrested in Texas on charges related to the case, jail records show. Deborah Lyn Clenney, 57, and Kim Dewayne Clenney, 60, were taken into custody Tuesday in Austin, Texa Alphabet, Roper Technologies fall; Boeing, Paramount rise, Wednesday, 1/31/2024 01/31/2024 04:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: Alphabet Inc., down $11.36 to $140.10. Google's parent company reported disappointing advertising sales growth during its fourth-quarter. Advanced Micro Devices Inc., down $4.37 to $167.69. The chipmaker gave 'The Woman King,' 'Love & Basketball,' 'Swagger' filmmakers join WTOP to salute 'Genius: MLK/X' 01/31/2024 02:29pm • The Civil Rights Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Their lives are explored in Season 4 of ���Genius" subtitled "MLK/X," which premieres on National Geographic on Thursday, Feb. 1 before streaming on Hulu and Disney on Friday, Feb. 2 to kick off Black H Jannik Sinner does it his way. He chose tennis over skiing and selected his new coaching team 01/31/2024 12:58pm • ROME (AP) ��� Jannik Sinner���s career so far can be defined by the choices he made. And the freedom he had to make them. From when he was a kid growing up in the German-speaking area of the Italian Dolomites and he chose tennis over skiing ��� even though he had won a national junior title on the s Days of Darkness: How one woman escaped the conspiracy theory trap that has ensnared millions 01/31/2024 12:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� At first his stories seemed harmless. Tales about secret organizations plotting to take over the world, about the good guys working to save it, and about the proof that, if you knew where to look, was hiding in plain sight. To Ramona, her boyfriend Don's tales of conspiracy theor Some Republican leaders are pushing back against the conservative Freedom Caucus in statehouses 01/31/2024 09:18am • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� On the first day of Missouri's new legislative session, Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden tried to cajole colleagues into congeniality with a rhetorical question: ���Will we focus on principled progress or political pandemonium?��� Progress was intended. But pandemon House GOP takes party-line vote toward Mayorkas impeachment as border becomes 2024 campaign issue 01/31/2024 07:27am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Republicans voted along party lines early Wednesday to move toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a ���willful and systematic��� refusal to enforce immigration laws as border security becomes a top 2024 election issue. The Homeland Security Co Fighting fraud at the mailbox: Maryland bill goes after postal thieves 01/30/2024 11:40pm • They target the U.S. Post Office's "blue boxes" on street corners where people drop in their checks and letters. They break into mailboxes at town houses and apartment complexes. And they'll pluck mail out of mailboxes at the end of driveways. A new bill proposed in Maryland would go after the th Branford Marsalis is the new artistic director at New Orleans music center named for his father 01/30/2024 11:13pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Branford Marsalis, the jazz saxophonist and composer acclaimed for his movie scores, Grammy-winning recordings and his stint as the leader of The Tonight Show band, is taking on the role of educator in a return to his hometown of New Orleans. Marsalis was named Tuesday as the n Hours of additional video show what officers did and said after fatal beating of Tyre Nichols 01/30/2024 09:33pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� About 21 hours of newly released video and audio are revealing more about what first responders including the five fired police officers charged in the violent beating death of Tyre Nichols did and said the night Nichols was pulled over and mortally injured. The dozens of rec Virginia Senate panel votes to reject Youngkin nominations of parole board chair, GOP staffer 01/30/2024 08:53pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� A Democrat-controlled committee in the Virginia Senate voted Tuesday against approving Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's pick to lead the state's parole board, Patricia West. Without offering an explanation, the Privileges and Elections Committee voted to remove West's name fro Teachers strike in Boston suburb enters its eighth day, with tensions fraying 01/30/2024 07:40pm • NEWTON, Mass. (AP) ��� A teachers strike in a Boston suburb entered its eighth day Tuesday ��� one of the longest in recent state history ��� with both sides still unable to agree on salaries and other issues. The Newton School Committee on Tuesday said it made another revised offer to the Newton Te