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Devon's Journey: Gales takes unique path after tragic injury 12/22/2022 11:32am • JEFFERSON, Ga. (AP) ��� Devon Gales wasn't even supposed to be on the field for that fateful play. He was a backup on the kickoff return team, lingering at the other end of the Southern University bench when one of the coaches shouted: ���Hey, Devon, get out there!��� To this day, Gales still isn't Migrants flee more countries, regardless of US policies 12/22/2022 10:56am • TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) ��� In 2014, groups of unaccompanied children escaping violence in Central America overwhelmed U.S. border authorities in South Texas. In 2016, thousands of Haitians fled a devastating earthquake and stopped in Tijuana, Mexico, after walking and taking buses through up to 11 cou Holiday procrastinators are back in force. Blame inflation. 12/22/2022 10:31am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Last year, Lucila Gomez and her husband started their holiday shopping around Thanksgiving and wrapped it up a week before Christmas, spending $750 on tablets and clothing for their three children and relatives. This year? Gomez is waiting until she gets her annual bonus on Friday Lebanon's financial pains eased by remittances over holidays 12/22/2022 10:11am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Youssef Safouri wandered through a noisy jam-packed Beirut Christmas market, where the hundreds of families who flocked to stands selling gifts by Lebanese designers belied a severe economic crisis that has sapped the savings of millions. Safouri is among thousands of Lebanese who le Path to lieutenant gov.'s office: Maryland's Aruna Miller on her past and plans for next 4 years 12/22/2022 09:23am • Aruna Miller, Maryland's next lieutenant governor, will be the first woman of color and the first immigrant to hold the job. Miller is a resident of Montgomery County where she's lived for 32 years. She's a civil engineer who worked for the Montgomery County Department of Transportation befor Applications for jobless claims up slightly last week 12/22/2022 09:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Slightly more Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to show strength even as the Federal Reserve has tried for nearly a year to slow the economy by raising its main lending rate. Applications for jobless claims for the week ending Dec. Bosnian children's gifts to Ukraine evoke parents' memories 12/22/2022 02:32am • SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) ��� In homes and schools around Bosnia, youngsters this December have been preparing gift boxes they hope will put a smile on the faces of their peers living through war in Ukraine ��� just as such gifts did for many of their parents a generation ago. Responding to Fairfax police chief talks about Tysons arrest, domestic crimes and dept.'s future 12/21/2022 11:39pm • A Virginia police chief credited the "good police work" of members of Fairfax and Arlington county police departments, which led to the arrest of two suspects at a busy Virginia shopping mall. Fairfax County police Chief Kevin Davis told WTOP's "DMV Download" podcast that an off-duty Arlingto Former Harvard fencing coach and Maryland businessman are both acquitted of bribery charges 12/21/2022 10:49pm • A former Harvard fencing coach and a Maryland businessman were both acquitted of conspiring to get the businessman's two sons admitted to Harvard in exchange for more than $1.5 million in bribes, authorities announced Wednesday. Former fencing coach Peter Brand, 67, and businessman Jack Zhao, 61, Aaron Judge becomes Yanks captain, with Derek Jeter at side 12/21/2022 09:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Aaron Judge stood for photo after photo as if at a wedding. And in a way it was: He had gotten hitched to the New York Yankees for the rest of his baseball life. Judge posed with his wife, parents, Yankees management, agents and even Derek Jeter and Willie Randolph, and discussed h Top Stocks to Buy in 11 Different Sectors 12/21/2022 07:00pm • Despite economic uncertainty, there are still highly rated stocks to help you diversify.The stock market has had a bumpy ride in 2022. The Federal Reserve has been aggressively raising interest rates in its ongoing battle against inflation and is expected to continue to tighten monetary policy in ea Former Harvard coach, dad acquitted in college bribery case 12/21/2022 06:26pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� A former Harvard fencing coach was acquitted Wednesday of charges that he accepted more than $1.5 million in bribes in exchange for designating a wealthy businessman's two sons as recruits to help secure their admission to the elite university. Jurors found Peter Brand not guilty of Teen pleads guilty to attempted murder of friend's stepdad 12/21/2022 05:42pm • LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) ��� A 14-year-old Idaho girl has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after prosecutors said she and a friend both tried to kill her friend's stepfather. Chloe Marks, of Lewiston, entered the guilty plea on Tuesday, The Lewiston Tribune reported. She faces up to 25 years in juveni South Dakota universities reviewing events after drag show 12/21/2022 04:58pm • SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ��� South Dakota's Board of Regents on Wednesday ordered a review of university campus events and its policy on minors attending them after a drag show at South Dakota State University last month faced criticism from conservative lawmakers for being advertised as family-friend Warren Jeffs' nephew charged with kidnapping girl in Utah 12/21/2022 04:30pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Utah has filed kidnapping charges against the nephew of imprisoned polygamous leader Warren Jeffs, saying that he and his sister���s 10-year-old daughter have gone missing, apparently to keep the girl from her mother upon orders Jeffs issued from prison in Texas. In court do