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Gov. vetoes Kansas bill on live deliveries during abortion 04/14/2023 09:07pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill on Friday that could have penalized doctors accused of not providing enough care to infants delivered alive during certain kinds of abortion procedures. In a statement on her website, Kelly, a Democrat, called the legislation “misleading Are students following Fairfax County's new cellphone policy? 04/14/2023 05:15pm • A new report from the Fairfax County, Virginia, school system, reveals 459 students were written up for cellphone violations during the first semester of the current school year. The report comes several months after Fairfax County Public Schools updated its Student Rights and Responsibilities ha Review: Owen Wilson's 'Paint' is a bizarre Bob Ross spoof with disappointing brush strokes 04/14/2023 05:13pm • "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" returns for its final season Friday on Amazon Prime Video, while "Barry" is back for its last season Sunday night on HBO, but what if you need something else to watch on Saturday afternoon? It's time to break down Owen Wilson's quirky new Bob Ross parody "Paint," i Attorney: Mom of Virginia boy who shot teacher was depressed 04/14/2023 04:00pm • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his teacher had a series of miscarriages and post-partum depression in the year before the shooting, her attorney said Friday, after she was arraigned on charges of child neglect and failing to secure the handgun Black church, NHL's Penguins reach historic land-use accord 04/14/2023 03:32pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — More than 60 years ago, a historic Black church was forced to give up its sanctuary, compensated for what it says was a fraction of its value, to an urban renewal project that wiped out the heart of an African American neighborhood known as the Hill District. Now, Bethel African Police: Valid explanation for 'suspicious buses' that tried to pick up kids in Fairfax Co. 04/14/2023 01:00pm • The day after police in Fairfax County, Virginia, warned of "suspicious buses" seen trying to pick up children, officials now say there may be a valid explanation. A Fairfax County police spokesman told WTOP that authorities are still investigating but that they  now think there was a plausible Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1pm 04/14/2023 12:55pm • 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 Review: In ‘Mafia Mamma,’ murder by stilettos and by cliche 04/14/2023 09:57am • At first, when suburban mom Kristin gets the mysterious call to head to Italy to settle the affairs of a dead relative, she protests she’s too busy. Then she realizes there’s not much keeping her: Her son is off to college, her job is dead-end, and her husband? He's cheating with the school guid Latest ruling on pill shifts US abortion landscape again 04/14/2023 06:00am • A federal appeals court has kept an abortion pill available, clarifying the U.S. abortion landscape but not settling it. The court's decision late Wednesday preserved but narrowed access to an abortion pill across the U.S. It was a major development in a fast-shifting landscape in flux since June, w Player of the Week: Quince Orchard's Camille Thomas 04/14/2023 05:30am • Each week, WTOP picks 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 senior Camille Thomas of Quince Orchard High School in Maryland. A four-year lacrosse goalie, Camille has a 65% save rate and broke the school record with South Floridians mop up, recall fear after historic deluge 04/14/2023 05:01am • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The water was rising around her car, and Amanda Valentine thought she was going to die. She had just gotten a warning on her phone about flash flooding, and now it was all around her. “I called my parents like, ‘I’m going to die. Like I’m going to drown. Thereâ Mississippi city faces tough road rebuilding after tornado 04/14/2023 01:05am • ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — The scent of the Mississippi Delta's soil took hold of Charlie Weissinger's psyche at an early age, and he has chased it ever since. Weissinger, 37, works at a bank to support his farming addiction in Rolling Fork, where his family has grown cotton, corn, soybeans, ri Biden says he's expanding some migrants' health care access 04/13/2023 08:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Thursday that hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children will be able to apply for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges. The action will allow participants in the Obama-era Deferred Act Anne Arundel Co. libraries to offer something more lifesaving than a book — gun locks 04/13/2023 08:35pm • Politicians have made gun safety a major issue, and now, a county in Maryland is taking a novel approach to improve firearm safety inside the home. Anne Arundel County is giving away free gun locks inside its libraries, something that's never been done before in Maryland. The county's 4,5 Texas county roiled by book ban considered closing libraries 04/13/2023 08:20pm • Leaders in a rural Texas county held a special meeting Thursday but drew back from the drastic option of shutting their public library system rather than heeding a federal judge's order to return books to the shelves on themes ranging from teen sexuality and gender to bigotry and race. Following pub