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Retired Virginia police officer sentenced in deaths of wife and stepdaughter 06/01/2024 01:16pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� A retired Virginia police officer has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for killing his estranged wife and stepdaughter and firing gunshots at law enforcement officers. Richard Colon Crowder of Henrico was sentenced Friday in Henrico County Circuit Court. Diane Crowder was LGBTQ+ Pride Month is starting to show its colors around the world. What to know 06/01/2024 12:49pm • Pride Month, the worldwide celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and rights, kicks off Saturday with events around the globe. But this year���s festivities in the U.S. will unfold against a backdrop of dozens of new state laws targeting LGBTQ+ rights, particularly transgender young people. Here are things t Prince George's Co. man 'forgot' he had loaded gun at Reagan National Airport, officials say 06/01/2024 12:47pm • A Capitol Heights, Maryland, man is facing a federal fine after Transportation Security Administration officers at Reagan National Airport said they found a loaded gun in his carry-on Thursday. The TSA said the man told agents he "forgot" that he had a loaded gun with him. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLA German court orders man born in Afghanistan held after knife attack at an anti-political Islam event 06/01/2024 11:27am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ��� A German court on Saturday ordered a 25-year-old man born in Afghanistan held on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with a knife attack at an event organized by a group opposing ���political Islam��� that left six people injured. The victims included a police of European vote could tip the balance on Meloni's far-right agenda in Italy 06/01/2024 11:20am • MILAN (AP) ��� While Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni adopts a reassuring Western-allied foreign policy, cultural wars at home are preserving her far-right credentials heading into a European parliamentary election, where her neo-fascist-rooted Brothers of Italy party is projected to secure significan Three Maryland family members fatally shot, another wounded, suspect takes own life, police say 06/01/2024 11:19am • ELKRIDGE, Md. (AP) ��� A Maryland man killed three family members and critically wounded his son before taking his own life, police said. The motive for Thursday night���s shootings at a townhouse in the Baltimore suburb of Elkridge was unknown, Howard County Police spokesperson Sherry Llewellyn sai From collapsed plea deal to trial: How Hunter Biden has come to face jurors on federal gun charges 06/01/2024 10:54am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden's son was in federal court, prepared to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses. The culmination of a sprawling investigation, the deal between Hunter Biden and prosecutors was going to spare him a politically explosive trial in the middle of his father���s r Florida sheriff's office fires deputy who fatally shot airman at home 06/01/2024 09:56am • A Florida Panhandle sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot an airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground, saying the deputy's life was never in danger and he should not have fired his weapon. Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who fatally sh Louisiana law that could limit filming of police hampers key tool for racial justice, attorneys say 06/01/2024 09:53am • A new Louisiana law that makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances is an affront to the movement for racial justice and violates the First Amendment, civil rights attorneys say. Critics have said the law ��� signed this week by Republica Meet the candidates: DC's primary election headlined by several contested council races 06/01/2024 09:29am • D.C. is guaranteed at least one new council member when the dust settles from this election cycle, and there are several other contested council races. In Ward 7, longtime council member and former Mayor Vince Gray is stepping down, and a crowded field has emerged to fill his seat. In Wards 4 A climate activist in Paris stuck a protest poster on Monet's 'Poppy Field' 06/01/2024 09:00am • PARIS (AP) ��� An environmental activist was detained Saturday after sticking a protest sign to a Monet painting in Paris��� famed Orsay Museum. It was the latest of several actions by protesters with the group Food Riposte to target artworks in France in calls for action to protect food supplies fr Black leaders call out Trump's criminal justice contradictions as he rails against guilty verdict 06/01/2024 08:32am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� As Donald Trump lambasted the guilty verdict of his hush money trial this week, he stood inside a Manhattan courthouse that was the site of one of the most notorious examples of injustice in recent New York history. And he had a part in that. It's the same courthouse where five Bla Who is Alvin Bragg? District attorney who prosecuted Trump says he was just doing his job 06/01/2024 07:42am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When Alvin Bragg took office as Manhattan district attorney in 2022, he stunned the public and his own staff by pausing an investigation into former President Donald Trump that appeared to be hurtling toward an indictment. Two top prosecutors were so upset with the decision, they q National Asian Heritage Festival to shut down some DC streets Saturday 06/01/2024 06:13am • To round out Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, D.C. will be hosting a massive festival celebrating everything the culture has to offer. The annual National Asian Heritage Festival in D.C. has been celebrating the diversity of Asian heritage and culture since 2006. This year, the event wi Today in History: June 1, the Beatles release 'Sgt. Pepper���s Lonely Hearts Club Band' 06/01/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, June 1, the 153rd day of 2024. There are 213 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On June 1, 1967, the Beatles released ���Sgt. Pepper���s Lonely Hearts Club Band,��� for years considered by many to be the greatest rock ���n��� roll album of a