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Baby dies at day care in New York City, 3 other children hospitalized 09/15/2023 07:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A 1-year-old boy died and 3 other children were hospitalized after emergency workers responded to a report of cardiac arrest at a day care center in New York City on Friday, authorities said. Police said the incident was reported around 2:40 p.m. at a day care facility in the Bron Big wins for organized labor and progressive causes as California lawmakers wrap for the year 09/15/2023 07:10pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� When health care workers in California asked the state Legislature for a raise earlier this year, it seemed like the longest of long shots ��� especially after lawmakers in May had to loan hospitals in financial distress $150 million just to stay open. But on Thursday, ju Jackson says we must own hardest chapters of US history during 1963 church bombing remembrance 09/15/2023 06:09pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Alabama, church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the nation must remember and own the uncomfortable moments of its past in order to move forward. Ja Column: Flag football at the Olympics? Stop chuckling, it might happen 09/15/2023 04:09pm • Flag football at the Olympics? Admit it: You chuckled a bit at the thought. Well, hold the laughter. This apparently is a serious thing, though it's increasingly difficult to keep a straight face with anything involving the International Olympic Committee. The suits who allowed 3-on-3 basketball ��� Dominican Republic closes all borders with Haiti as tensions rise in a dispute over a canal 09/15/2023 03:59pm • DAJABON, Dominican Republic (AP) ��� The Dominican Republic shut all land, air and sea borders with Haiti on Friday in a dispute about construction of a canal on Haitian soil that taps into a shared river, as armed Dominican soldiers patrolled entry points and military planes roared overhead. Flight Lawsuit alleges sexual assault during Virginia Military Institute overnight open house 09/15/2023 03:36pm • LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) ��� A prospective student claims in a lawsuit that a Virginia Military Institute cadet sexually assaulted her during a 2021 overnight open house. The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg on Thursday states that the woman, then a high school student interested in atte Great Frederick Fair kicks off with Gin Blossoms, Sugar Ray and cornucopia of food, rides 09/15/2023 02:53pm • There are plenty of county fairs in our region, but you can't beat the views in Frederick, Maryland. Nestled beside the beautiful Catoctin Mountains at the end of the Carroll Creek river walk, The Great Frederick Fair returns Friday, Sept. 15 through Saturday, Sept. 23. The annual family U.S. ambassador to Russia visits jailed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich 09/15/2023 02:11pm • MOSCOW (AP) ��� The U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy visited imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said in an online statement. Tracy's visit comes a day after Gershkovich's parents and sister appeared in the United Nation's headquarters 17-year-old boy charged with murder in shooting of teen girl trying to break up fight outside Prince George's Co. high school 09/15/2023 02:02pm • A 17-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old girl, who was struck by gunfire trying to break up a fight outside of DuVal High School in Lanham on Monday. The teen, of Glenarden, Maryland, is being charged as an adult in the shooting of Jayda M Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/15/2023 01:42pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov British neonatal nurse found guilty of murdering 7 babies launches bid to appeal her convictions 09/15/2023 01:35pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A British neonatal nurse who was found guilty of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others has launched a bid to appeal her convictions, officials said Friday. Lucy Letby, 33, was sentenced last month to life in prison with no chance of release. A jury at Manches TikTok is hit with $368 million fine under Europe's strict data privacy rules 09/15/2023 11:17am • LONDON (AP) ��� European regulators slapped TikTok with a $368 million fine on Friday for failing to protect children's privacy, the first time that the popular short video-sharing app has been punished for breaching Europe's strict data privacy rules. Ireland's Data Protection Commission, the lead Maryland advocates are pressing for a lower voting age in local elections 09/15/2023 08:52am • Common Cause Maryland is encouraging local officials to allow more young people to vote in local elections. The nonprofit advocacy organization, based in Annapolis, posed a question in a recent mass email: ���Do you agree with lowering the voting age to 16 for local elections so young people can Barry Steenkamp, the father of the woman Oscar Pistorius fatally shot, has died at age 80 09/15/2023 04:57am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� Barry Steenkamp, the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman who was fatally shot by Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius, has died, a family spokesperson said Friday. He was 80. Family lawyer and spokesperson Tania Koen confirmed Barry Steenkamp's death. A foundation set up Secret records: US says Va. Marine's adoption of Afghan orphan seen as abduction, must be undone 09/15/2023 12:18am • The U.S. government has warned a Virginia judge that allowing an American Marine to keep an Afghan war orphan risks violating international law and could be viewed around the world as ���endorsing an act of international child abduction,��� according to secret court records reviewed by The Associate