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LA Times: Matthew Perry, ���Friends��� star, dead at 54 10/28/2023 09:05pm • Matthew Perry, who starred as Chandler Bing on ���Friends,��� has died in an apparent drowning accident at his Los Angeles home, according to the Los Angeles Times, citing law enforcement sources. He was 54. No foul play is suspected, the sources told the LA Times. Los Angeles Police would Surprising Colombia wins baseball gold medal at Pan American Games 10/28/2023 07:37pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) ��� South American baseball has eclipsed the Caribbean and North America at the Pan American Games. Two teams with little tradition in the sport played the tournament's final on Saturday, with Colombia ending as gold medalist after a sound 9-1 win against Brazil. Neither had eve All the world's a stage ��� especially this Takoma Park couple's lawn for Halloween 10/28/2023 06:33pm • A unique and popular local Halloween event takes place on the front lawn of a married couple's home in Takoma Park, Maryland ��� and this is its final year. For seven years, Alice Weiss and Steven Badt have turned their front lawn into an elaborate stage where they put on an annual free Halloween What we know so far about the mass shooting in Maine 10/28/2023 04:02pm • LEWISTON, Maine (AP) ��� Authorities say a U.S. Army reservist fatally shot 18 people at a bowling alley and a restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night. A massive search for 40-year-old Robert Card of Bowdoin was launched until he was found dead Friday. The shooting in Maine's second-large 5 children die in boat accident while on school outing to Kenya amusement park 10/28/2023 03:24pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Authorities say five children died Saturday in Kenya after a boat they were riding in at a popular amusement park capsized in the country's western Uasin Gishu County. Police said the children were visiting Amazement Park with other students and teachers from the Arap Moi Pri An Iranian teenager injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media say 10/28/2023 01:40pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran's Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media reported Saturday. The death of Armita Geravand comes after her being in a coma for weeks in Tehran and after the one-year ann French Jewish groups set up a hotline for people in the community traumatized by Israel-Hamas war 10/28/2023 04:58am • PARIS (AP) ��� French Jewish groups have set up a helpline to provide support to people in the community traumatized by the latest Israel-Hamas war ��� from families who have lost loved ones in the Middle East to parents anxious about their children���s reaction to the conflict and Holocaust survivo Most New Mexico families with infants exposed to drugs skip subsidized treatment, study says 10/27/2023 08:46pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� Most New Mexico families with infants exposed to illicit drugs, marijuana and alcohol in the womb have been forgoing subsidized addiction treatment and other voluntary support services since the state's shift in 2020 that halted automatic referrals to protective services, a n FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried acknowledges in court that customers were hurt but denies fraud 10/27/2023 07:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Sam Bankman-Fried, testifying at his fraud trial Friday, cast himself as a bumbling cryptocurrency visionary who knew nothing about the industry when he started FTX or about marketing when he became the face of his company and not enough about his businesses to see they were $10 bi With early voting already underway, school board candidate in Fairfax Co. disqualified from ballot 10/27/2023 05:50pm • Follow WTOP���s coverage of the Virginia Elections. A school board candidate in Fairfax County, Virginia, has been disqualified with less than two weeks before the election and a full month after voters began casting ballots in the race during early voting. Marcia C. St. John-Cunning, who is r Twitter takeover: 1 year later, X struggles with misinformation, advertising and usage decline 10/27/2023 05:27pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� One year ago, billionaire and new owner Elon Musk walked into Twitter's San Francisco headquarters with a white bathroom sink and a grin, fired its CEO and other top executives and began transforming the social media platform into what is now known as X. X looks and feels som Coyotes' Travis Dermott on using Pride tape, forcing NHL's hand: 'Had to be done' 10/27/2023 04:36pm • Travis Dermott had a lot on his mind as he carefully wrapped the shaft of his hockey stick with rainbow-colored tape. The NHL had dispatched a memo to teams before the season, reiterating its ban on altering on-ice gear for warmups and practices to reflect theme nights. The Arizona Coyotes defensema DC mayor pressed to declare public health emergency over opioid overdoses 10/27/2023 02:23pm • Asiyah Timimi, who runs a youth anti-violence program, said she was driving down New York Avenue when she saw a young man overdosing outside of a McDonalds. ���I turned him on his side and he was just ��� the fluid was just pouring out,��� Timimi said. ���His friend didn't have a clue what to 3 teens were shot and wounded outside a west Baltimore high school as students were arriving 10/27/2023 12:36pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Three teenagers were wounded in a shooting outside a west Baltimore high school around the time classes were starting Friday morning, officials said. The shooting adds to a recent uptick in youth violence plaguing the city this year, including several instances of Baltimore public Lawsuit: Montgomery Co. Schools ignored at least 25 reports of alleged misconduct by former principal 10/27/2023 10:02am • A former Montgomery County teacher has filed a lawsuit against her former boss and the Maryland school district after she says she was subjected to years of sexual harassment and intimidation and that the school tried to cover it up. The former teacher at Farquhar Middle School in Olney, named as