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Liverpool's Klopp to let Diaz decide when he's ready to play again after kidnapping of father 11/03/2023 09:31am • LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will let winger Luis Diaz decide for himself when he's ready to play again, after his parents were kidnapped by a guerrilla group in Colombia. Diaz's father is still missing, while his mother was rescued within hours by police after the kidn After 20 years with 7News, Alison Starling is stepping away from anchoring 11/03/2023 08:30am • A staple of local journalism, Alison Starling is stepping away from the anchor desk at 7News after 20 years of delivering headlines to the D.C. area. Starling made the announcement that her last day on WJLA's air would be Nov. 22 in a social media post on Thursday. The post said that Starling wou TDS: Q3 Earnings Snapshot 11/03/2023 07:38am • CHICAGO (AP) — CHICAGO (AP) — Telephone & Data Systems Inc. (TDS) on Friday reported break-even earnings in its third quarter. The Chicago-based company said it had net loss that was 16 cents per share. The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts Prince George's Co. animal shelter experiencing outbreak of feline distemper 11/03/2023 06:18am • The Prince George’s County Animal Services Facility and Adoption Center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, said it is experiencing an outbreak of feline panleukopenia, also known as feline distemper. It's a highly contagious viral disease that infects cats, especially kittens, in their bone marrow an Player of the Week: Bishop McNamara's Zachary Betts 11/03/2023 06:01am • Each week, WTOP is picking one student athlete to be featured on air and online as our Player of the Week. This week's WTOP Player of the Week is Zachary Betts of Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Maryland. Betts plays in the trenches on both sides of the ball as a defensive and offensi FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried convicted of defrauding cryptocurrency customers 11/03/2023 05:52am • NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s spectacular rise and fall in the cryptocurrency industry — a journey that included his testimony before Congress, a Super Bowl advertisement and dreams of a future run for president — hit rock bottom Thursday when a New York jury convicted him Australian woman faces 3 charges of murder after her guests died from eating poisonous mushrooms 11/03/2023 02:38am • MORWELL, Australia (AP) — A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s parents and an aunt poisonous mushrooms with lunch appeared in an Australian court Friday, charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder. Erin Patterson, 49, did not enter pleas or apply to be released on ba Colombia's government says ELN guerrillas kidnapped the father of Liverpool striker Luis Díaz 11/02/2023 09:05pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's government said Thursday that the guerrilla group National Liberation Army, known as ELN, was responsible for the weekend kidnapping of the father of Liverpool and Colombian national soccer team striker Luis Díaz. The peace delegation of the government, which is How Loudoun Co. is responding to rise in student overdoses 11/02/2023 08:48pm • Amid a controversy about whether Loudoun County Public School officials in Virginia notified parents about suspected student overdoses quickly enough, some parents say they were told about the incidents and praised the way school leaders handled them. In a news release earlier this week, Sheriff Will the Stock Market Crash in 2023 or 2024? 7 Risk Factors 11/02/2023 08:00pm • The last three months haven't been kind to stock market investors overall, as the benchmark S&P 500 is down 4.3% as of Nov. 2, even with the early November rally. Joining the S&P 500 in negative territory is the Nasdaq composite index, down 4.9% over the same period, as investors have soured Who has the best odds to celebrate a NASCAR championship? Ryan Blaney's sister 11/02/2023 07:12pm • AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The oddsmakers named Kyle Larson the favorite to win the NASCAR championship, but half the field believe the person with the best chance to celebrate Sunday will be a spectator at Phoenix Raceway. Erin Blaney is in the unique position in that both her boyfriend and her olde MLB settles lawsuits from minor league teams, avoids possible antitrust challenge at Supreme Court 11/02/2023 06:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball avoided a possible U.S. Supreme Court challenge to its antitrust exemption when it settled a federal lawsuit and two in New York State court filed by minor league teams who lost their big league affiliations. James W. Quinn, a lawyer for the teams who sued, sa A lunch host is accused of killing her ex-husband's parents and aunt with poisonous mushrooms 11/02/2023 06:10pm • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The host of a weekend family lunch at her Australian country home was charged Thursday with murdering her ex-husband's parents and aunt with poisonous mushrooms and attempting to murder a fourth guest, police said. Police arrested Erin Patterson, 49, at her home in the V Alliant Energy: Q3 Earnings Snapshot 11/02/2023 06:08pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Alliant Energy Corp. (LNT) on Thursday reported net income of $259 million in its third quarter. The Madison, Wisconsin-based company said it had profit of $1.02 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.05 per share. The electric How the Virginia election may shake up gun laws 11/02/2023 05:58pm • Follow WTOP’s coverage of the Virginia Election 2023. The politics surrounding gun control have been at a standstill in Virginia due to its divided government, but the state could take a hard turn depending on what happens in its closely-watched election that's coming up on Tuesday. With Rep