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Sentence overturned in border agent's killing that exposed 'Fast and Furious' sting 08/09/2024 07:03pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� An appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction and life sentence of a man found guilty of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose death exposed the botched federal gun operation known as ���Fast and Furious��� has been overturned, a U.S. appeals court said Friday. The 9th U.S Judge enters not guilty plea for escaped prisoner charged with killing a man while on the run 08/09/2024 06:37pm • LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) ��� An Idaho judge has entered a not guilty plea on behalf of an escaped prisoner charged with killing a man while he was on the lam for 36 hours. Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty if Skylar Meade, 32, is convicted of the murder charge in connection wi Michael Brown's death 10 years ago sparked change in Ferguson 08/09/2024 06:30pm • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) ��� Michael Brown once told his father the ���world is going to know my name,��� words Michael Brown Sr. still takes to heart. Friday marks 10 years since the 18-year-old was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, turning the St. Louis suburb into the focal point of the Bodycam video shows Baltimore officers opening fire on fleeing teen moments after seeing his gun 08/09/2024 05:54pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Newly released body-camera footage shows three Baltimore police officers unleashing a barrage of gunfire on a fleeing teenage suspect almost immediately after spotting a gun in his hand. William Gardner, 17, was shot a dozen times, officials said at a news conference Friday aft Medical examiner determines dead woman found entangled in O'Hare baggage machinery died by suicide 08/09/2024 05:54pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� The dead woman who was found entangled in a baggage conveyor belt at Chicago���s O���Hare International Airport died by suicide, authorities said Friday. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office concluded following an autopsy that the 57-year-old woman died by asphyxiation from han Travis Scott is arrested at a Paris hotel after altercation with a security guard, prosecutors say 08/09/2024 05:53pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Rapper Travis Scott was arrested at a Paris hotel after an altercation with a security guard, French prosecutors said Friday. The arrest occurred after police were called to the Georges V hotel early Friday to arrest a man ���nicknamed Travis Scott for violence against a security gua Things to know as CrossFit Games resume in Texas a day after a competitor died during a swim event 08/09/2024 05:25pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� The CrossFit Games resumed Friday, a day after competitor Lazar Dukic died after going underwater and not resurfacing during a swimming event in a Texas lake. In a post on the social platform X, CrossFit Games officials said that they and the entire CrossFit community were ���shatte Olivia Reeves wins the United States' first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in 24 years 08/09/2024 05:05pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Olivia Reeves tried treating the Olympics like just another competition. It didn't work. It didn't matter, either. Nerves or no nerves, Reeves won the United States' first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in 24 years at the Paris Games on Friday. ���Feeling the weight of this compe UN refugee agency urges Cyprus government to process asylum seekers pushed into a UN buffer zone 08/09/2024 04:51pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� The United Nations refugee agency on Friday said government authorities in ethnically divided Cyprus have rounded up dozens of migrants and pushed them back inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone that they crossed to seek asylum. UNHCR spokeswoman Emilia Strovolidou said that All 4 Milwaukee hotel workers charged with murder in Black man's death now in custody 08/09/2024 04:01pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� The last of four hotel workers charged in connection with D���Vontaye Mitchell���s death was taken into custody Friday, more than five weeks after he and the others allegedly piled onto the Black man while trying to remove him from a Milwaukee hotel. Herbert Williamson was taken i Man pleads guilty to murdering his wife in decades-old Fairfax Co. cold case 08/09/2024 03:43pm • A man who avoided authorities for decades after being accused of murdering his wife in Fairfax County, Virginia, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of second-degree murder. Prosecutors said Jose Lazaro Cruz, who is now 60 years old, stabbed and killed his wife, Ana Jurado, back in 1991 on Gouthier Man who attacked police with poles at US Capitol gets 20 years in prison, one of the longest sentences in Jan. 6 riot 08/09/2024 02:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Man who attacked police with poles at US Capitol gets 20 years in prison, one of the longest sentences in Jan. 6 riot. Man who encouraged torching hotels for asylum seekers in Britain gets 3 years in prison 08/09/2024 02:14pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A man who used social media to stoke racial hatred during the far-right violence that erupted in Britain last week and encouraged people to torch hotels housing asylum seekers was sentenced Friday to more than three years in prison. The term handed down to Tyler Kay, a 26-year-old fa Marathon swimmer ends his quest to cross Lake Michigan after two days 08/09/2024 02:08pm • GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) ��� A 60-year-old swimmer who crossed Lake Michigan in 1998 apparently has ended his effort to repeat the feat. An online tracking device shows Jim Dreyer appeared to turn around and return to shore by boat Thursday in western Michigan, two days after he began swimming to Wis Body camera footage shows local police anger at Secret Service after Trump assassination attempt 08/09/2024 01:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� In the chaotic aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally last month, a local police officer told a fellow officer he had warned the Secret Service days earlier that the building where the 20-year-old gunman opened fire needed to be secured.