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Missouri law banning minors from beginning gender-affirming treatments takes effect 08/28/2023 07:39pm • COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) ��� Two new laws restricting the access of transgender youth in Missouri to gender-affirming health care and school sports took effect Monday. One law bans minors from beginning puberty blockers and hormones and outlaws gender-affirming surgeries for youths. The other law requires After Montgomery Co. oral surgeon convicted in overdose death, victim's family remembers their 'shining star' 08/28/2023 05:42pm • The family of a woman, who died of an overdose after being supplied with ketamine and propofol by her boyfriend in Montgomery County, Maryland, said she was so much more than a tragic headline. Days after an oral surgeon was convicted of supplying 25-year-old Sarah Harris with the drugs that even Bronny James is doing well and 'we just have to be patient,' says USC coach Andy Enfield 08/28/2023 05:36pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Bronny James, the 18-year-old son of Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, is doing well and attending classes after the highly regarded freshman guard went into cardiac arrest during a workout last month, Southern California basketball coach Andy Enfield said Monday. "The Virginia Daybook 08/28/2023 04:32pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Monday, Aug. 28. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other Stat Son stolen at birth hugs Chilean mother for first time in 42 years 08/28/2023 02:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� "Hola, mam��.��� What seems like an unremarkable greeting between mother and son was in this case anything but. Forty-two years ago, hospital workers took Mar��a Ang��lica Gonz��lez���s son from her arms right after birth and later told her he had died. Now, she was meeting Illinois judge refuses to dismiss case against father of parade shooting suspect 08/28/2023 02:34pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A judge on Monday refused to dismiss the case against a father who helped his son obtain a gun license three years before authorities say the younger man fatally shot seven people at a 2022 Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago. Illinois prosecutors charged Robert Crimo Jr. unde DC Bike Ride gets rolling Sept. 9 ��� 20 miles and no cars 08/28/2023 02:33pm • The annual��D.C. Bike Ride will take place on Sept. 9 with 20 miles of streets from the Capitol to the Pentagon closed off for thousands of riders of all ages. More than 7,000 riders are registered and close to 10,000 are expected by the time registration closes Sept. 7. The ride raises money Pegula appoints himself NHL Sabres president, dissolves parent company that also oversaw NFL's Bills 08/28/2023 01:34pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ��� The NFL's Buffalo Bills and the NHL's Sabres will operate as separate entities after the teams��� owner Terry Pegula dissolved their parent company on Monday. The announcement to dissolve Pegula Sports and Entertainment is being referred to as one ���allowing each respective o One year before Paralympics, Paris trying to make city more accessible to those with disabilities 08/28/2023 11:49am • PARIS (AP) ��� With one year to go before Paris hosts the Paralympic Games for the first time, the French capital is faced with a significant challenge: The accessibility of its public transit. With only one subway line totally accessible out of 16, the city is under pressure to find solutions befor Thousands of DC-area students return back to school for new year 08/28/2023 11:00am • Virginia's Arlington County, the District and nearby Montgomery, Prince George's, Anne Arundel and Charles County, Maryland, students are packing their bags and settling into a new school year brimming with changes. Just one week after thousands of D.C.-area students returned to Northern Virginia Book Review: 'Holler, Child' is a profound short story collection about Black lives in America 08/28/2023 10:36am • ���Holler, Child��� by LaToya Watkins (Tiny Reparations Books) LaToya Watkins has surpassed the high bar set by her beautifully crushing debut novel, ���Perish,��� with a collection of short stories titled ���Holler, Child.��� Heavily rooted in west Texas where the author grew up, the 11 fictional p A Hong Kong language group shuts down after police allege one of its essays breached security laws 08/28/2023 10:22am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� A group that promotes the Cantonese language shut down Monday after Hong Kong authorities said a fictional essay depicting a decline in liberties in the city on the group���s website violated the national security law, in the latest example of the city���s erosion of freedom of ex A broad genetic test saved one newborn's life. Research suggests it could help millions of others 08/28/2023 09:57am • CINCINNATI (AP) ��� Brynn Schulte nearly died twice when she was a baby, at one point needing emergency surgery for massive bleeding in her brain. No one knew what was wrong until a test that looked at her full genetic blueprint found a rare bleeding disorder called factor XIII deficiency ��� an ear Ceremony marks start of journey home for Indigenous totem pole taken to Scotland a century ago 08/28/2023 09:46am • LONDON (AP) ��� Members of a Canadian First Nation held a spiritual ceremony on Monday at a Scottish museum to begin the homeward journey of a totem pole stolen almost a century ago. The 11-meter (36-foot) pole is being restored by the National Museum of Scotland to the Nisga���a Nation in northern An evacuation order finds few followers in northeastern Ukraine despite Russia's push in the region 08/28/2023 08:25am • KUPIANSK, Ukraine (AP) ��� The thunder of mortar fire echoes in the distance as 5-year old David approaches his mother with an innocent request: Can he play with the baseball bat a relative gave him as a gift? Valeria Pototska rolls her eyes and tells her son no for the umpteenth time. It's a toy fo