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Attorney general won't file criminal case against LA officer in 2021 shooting that killed teen 04/18/2024 12:56am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Attorney General declined to file criminal charges against a Los Angeles police officer who fired a rifle at a suspect inside a clothing store in 2021, killing a 14-year-old girl in a dressing room, authorities said Wednesday. Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr. fire Communications breakdown left authorities in the dark and residents without alerts amid Maui fire 04/18/2024 12:50am • HONOLULU (AP) — As unpredictable wildfires roared across Maui last August, the head of the emergency management agency dragged his heels about returning to the island amid the unfolding crisis, while a broad communications breakdown left authorities in the dark and residents without emergency aler One Tech Tip: What to do if your personal info has been exposed in a data breach 04/18/2024 12:01am • LONDON (AP) — Data breaches like the recent one involving millions of AT&T customers are becoming an almost regular occurrence. As more of our lives move online, our personal data like email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates and even passcodes are becoming ever more vulnerable to theft or Oklahoma man arrested after authorities say he threw a pipe bomb at Satanic Temple in Massachusetts 04/17/2024 08:51pm • BOSTON (AP) — An Oklahoma man was arrested Wednesday after authorities accused him of throwing a pipe bomb at the Massachusetts headquarters of a group called The Satanic Temple. The Salem-based group says on its website that it campaigns for secularism and individual liberties, and that its membe Hugh Grant says he took 'enormous sum' to settle suit alleging illegal snooping by The Sun tabloid 04/17/2024 08:33pm • LONDON (AP) — Hugh Grant accepted “an enormous sum of money" to settle a lawsuit accusing The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him, the actor said Wednesday after the agreement was announced in court. Grant said he reluctantly se Bond denied for 4 'God's Misfits' defendants in the killing of 2 Kansas women 04/17/2024 06:19pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge ordered public defenders to represent four members of an anti-government group who appeared in court Wednesday on charges of kidnapping and killing two Kansas women. The judge also entered not-guilty pleas and denied bail for Tifany Adams, 54, and her boyfrie Uber is helping investigators look into account that sent driver to Ohio home where she was killed 04/17/2024 04:30pm • Uber is helping investigators look into an account that sent a driver to the Ohio home where an 81-year-old man allegedly shot the woman to death because he erroneously believed she was part of a scam that targeted him, the ride-hailing company said Wednesday. The March 25 shooting death of Lolet A vehicle backfiring startled a circus elephant into a Montana street. She still performed Tuesday 04/17/2024 03:57pm • The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte, Montana, leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping noontime traffic on the city's busiest street before being loaded back into a trailer. Viola, an Asian e Book Review: 'Nothing But the Bones' is a compelling noir novel at a breakneck pace 04/17/2024 03:35pm • Nelson “Nails” McKenna isn’t very bright, stumbles over his words and often says what he’s thinking without realizing it. We first meet him as a boy reading a superhero comic on the banks of a river in his backcountry hometown in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia. There, a bully pick Florida's Bob Graham dead at 87: A leader who looked beyond politics, served ordinary folks 04/17/2024 03:30pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A leader like Bob Graham would be a unicorn in the hyper-partisan politics of today. The former Florida governor and U.S. senator wasn't a slick, slogan-spouting politician. He didn't have an us-against-them mentality. Sometimes, he even came across as more of a kind-heart Convicted scammer who victims say claimed to be a psychic, Irish heiress faces extradition to UK 04/17/2024 02:37pm • A woman accused by scam victims of crisscrossing the U.S. claiming to be an Irish heiress is expected to learn next month whether she will be extradited to the United Kingdom. Marianne Smyth, a 54-year-old American, will be in federal court in Maine for the hearing that relates to allegations she st Jade Carey and Leanne Wong are hoping their path to the Olympics goes through the NCAA Championships 04/17/2024 02:18pm • Jade Carey and Leanne Wong watched as the elite gymnasts they grew up with left college last summer so they could turn their attention to the Paris Olympics. Suni Lee headed home to Minnesota after two years at Auburn. Jordan Chiles returned to Texas following a decorated stint at UCLA. Kayla DiCell Man charged in transport of Masters golf tournament memorabilia taken from Augusta National 04/17/2024 01:08pm • A man has been charged in federal court in Illinois in the transport of millions of dollars worth of Masters golf tournament merchandise and memorabilia stolen from Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. A document filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois accuses Ri Myanmar's ousted leader Suu Kyi moved from prison to house arrest due to heat, military says 04/17/2024 09:42am • BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave, the military government said as it freed more than 3,000 prisoners under an amnesty to mark this week's traditional New Year holiday. Those released New leader of Jesse Jackson's civil rights organization steps down just months on the job 04/16/2024 11:27pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A Dallas pastor who took over leadership of the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s longtime civil rights organization resigned Tuesday just months after he took the job. The Rev. Frederick Haynes III told The Associated Press that he submitted a letter with his resignation as head of the Chica