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Behind the Lens: Chronicling years-long abuse �����with care 12/16/2022 09:39pm • Associated Press photographers talk about their 2022 assignments, and share some of the stories behind the images. ___ THE PLACE: Bisbee, Arizona, United States THE STORY: Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Dario Lopez-Mills ___ ON HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH SOMETH Former Virginia first lady 'Jinks' Holton dies at 97 12/16/2022 06:56pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Virginia ���Jinks��� Rogers Holton, a former first lady of Virginia, died Friday morning at her home, her family said in a statement. She was 97. Holton was the wife of the late Republican Gov. A. Linwood Holton Jr., who served in the 1970s and declared an end to ���Massive Father of July 4 shooting suspect charged with 7 felonies 12/16/2022 06:32pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� The father of an Illinois man charged with killing seven people in a mass shooting at a July 4 parade in a Chicago suburb has been charged with seven felony counts of reckless conduct, prosecutors announced Friday. Lake County State's Attorney Eric Rinehart said Robert Crimo Jr. su Twitter chaos too much? There are plenty of other options 12/16/2022 05:45pm • Twitter has been engulfed in chaos since billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the helm, cutting the company���s workforce in half, upending the platform���s verification system, reinstating previously banned accounts ��� including those of white nationalists ��� and suspending journalists who've bee FTC didn't stop Facebook-Instagram. How about Meta-Within? 12/16/2022 05:36pm • SAN JOSE, California (AP) ��� Facebook parent Meta is sparring with government regulators in federal court over its pending acquisition of a virtual reality fitness company Within Unlimited CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify as a witness at the trial in San Jose, California. At issue is whe Phoenix airport 1st to offer self-driving ride service Waymo 12/16/2022 05:14pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� As Phoenix gets ready to host the Super Bowl, Mayor Kate Gallego announced Friday that Sky Harbor International Airport will be the first to offer the self-driving ride-hailing service Waymo. ���The future is here," Gallego said at a news conference in front of the airport���s sky t 2-year-old boy rescued after being 'swallowed' by hippo, Uganda police say 12/16/2022 03:00pm • A 2-year-old was safely rescued after being partially swallowed by a hippopotamus in Uganda, authorities say. The toddler, who police identified as Iga Paul, was attacked by the hippopotamus on the afternoon of Dec. 12. Paul had been playing at his home in Uganda's Katwe-Kabatoro town, which is l Behind the Lens: On migration paths in Latin America 12/16/2022 02:54pm • Associated Press photographers talk about their 2022 assignments, and share some of the stories behind the images. ___ THE PLACE: Darien Gap, on the border of Colombia and Panama THE STORY: Tracking the path of migration THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Fernando Vergara ___ ON WHO HE ENCOUNTERED: The first time w 2 cities pursued more school for kids. Only 1 pulled it off. 12/16/2022 12:08pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Jonathan Oliva is in third grade, but struggles to read and write. ���His teacher said he���s like a kindergartner. He doesn���t know anything,��� his mother, Veronica Lucas, said in Spanish, standing in the parking lot outside his elementary school. So many obstacles stand b AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Danielle Deadwyler goes all in 12/16/2022 11:12am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Just the idea of playing Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, was enough to make Danielle Deadwyler pause to consider the toll such a role might take. ���You go: What���s going to happen to me?��� Deadwyler says. ���What are the steps that you need to take to make sure you In 2022, AP photographers captured pain of a changing planet 12/16/2022 11:02am • In 2022, Associated Press photographers captured signs of a planet in distress as climate change reshaped many lives. That distress was seen in the scarred landscapes in places where the rains failed to come. It was felt in walloping storms, land-engulfing floods, suffocating heat and wildfires no 2 cities pursued more school for kids. Only 1 pulled it off. 12/16/2022 10:04am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Jonathan Oliva is in third grade, but struggles to read and write. ���His teacher said he���s like a kindergartner. He doesn���t know anything. And she can���t help because her class is too big,��� his mother, Veronica Lucas, said in Spanish, standing in the parking lot outsid MCPS parents urged to learn about fentanyl to reduce overdoses 12/16/2022 08:27am • Parents with students in Montgomery County Public Schools are being urged to educate themselves about the dangers of drug use, specifically fentanyl, because it's responsible for more than 70% of all overdoses in the Maryland county. In a letter to the school community, MCPS Medical Officer Dr. P 2-year-old rescued after being swallowed by hippo 12/16/2022 08:08am • A hippo has attacked a 2-year-old boy in Uganda, swallowing half of his body before spitting him out, a statement from the Uganda Police Force said on Friday.The child was attacked on December 4 at around 3 p.m. local time (7 a.m. ET) in the Katwe-Kabatoro district, in the southwest of the country, Virginia colleges work with local school systems to address staffing challenges 12/16/2022 05:45am • Welcome to the School Zone, WTOP���s weekly feature about the latest topics and trends in education across the D.C. region. WTOP���s Scott Gelman takes a closer look at the issues and how they affect your kids. If you have story ideas or suggestions, email Scott at��sgelman@wtop.com. 9 Va. colleges