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Authorities arrest man allegedly running 'likely world's largest ever' cybercrime botnet 05/29/2024 08:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least $99 million in profits by reselling access to criminals who used it for identity theft, child exploitation, and fin Four dead after vehicles collide on Virginia road, police say 05/29/2024 07:16pm • SHEPPARDS, Va. (AP) ��� Four motorists were killed when a car crossed the center line of a Virginia road and struck vehicles going in the opposite direction, state police said on Wednesday. The multi-vehicle crash occurred shortly before noon on Tuesday south of the Sheppards community in Buckingham New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances 05/29/2024 07:05pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� Critics of a new Louisiana law, which makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances, fear that the measure could hinder the public���s ability to film officers ��� a tool that has increasingly been used to hold poli Ohio man gets probation after pleading guilty to threatening North Carolina legislator 05/29/2024 06:47pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� An Ohio man received supervised probation after pleading guilty to threatening to kill a North Carolina state senator in a social media message last year. Nicolas Alan Daniels, of West Portsmouth, Ohio, entered a plea to one felony count of threatening a legislative officer l Massachusetts fugitive dubbed the 'bad breath rapist' captured in California after 16 years at large 05/29/2024 06:41pm • DANVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� A fugitive dubbed the ���bad breath rapist��� has been arrested in the San Francisco Bay Area more than 16 years after he fled following his conviction for sexually assaulting a coworker in Massachusetts, authorities said this week. Tuen Kit Lee was found guilty at a 2007 State trial underway for man sentenced to 30 years in attack against Nancy Pelosi's husband 05/29/2024 06:25pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� The man sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for bludgeoning Nancy Pelosi���s husband with a hammer inside their San Francisco home returned to a courtroom Wednesday to face state charges, including attempted murder. A federal jury found David DePape, 44, guilty of attempti New Jersey police union calls for 'real consequences' for drunk, rowdy teens after boardwalk unrest 05/29/2024 05:07pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� New Jersey's statewide police union said Wednesday there needs to be ���real consequences��� for drunken, rowdy teens and adults who create mayhem in public places following a series of disturbances at Jersey Shore towns over the Memorial Day weekend that included the st Charges against world's top golfer Scottie Scheffler dropped after arrest outside PGA Championship 05/29/2024 04:52pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Criminal charges against Scottie Scheffler have been dismissed, ending a legal saga that began with images of the world���s top golfer being arrested and handcuffed in Louisville during the PGA Championship. Jefferson County Attorney Mike O���Connell asked a judge Wednesday Haiti's new prime minister vows to seek unity after he is selected by transitional council 05/29/2024 04:16pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Haiti's newly chosen Prime Minister Garry Conille vowed to seek unity Wednesday in his first statement since a transitional council selected him to head the government in the troubled Caribbean country under siege by criminal gangs. Conille thanked the civil society gr Remains found at base of Flagstaff's Mount Elden identified as man reported missing in 2017 05/29/2024 04:01pm • FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) ��� Human remains found at the base of Mount Elden in Flagstaff nearly five years ago have been identified as a Phoenix man reported missing in 2017, authorities said Wednesday. Coconino County Sheriff���s officials said a DNA profile showed the skeletal remains were those of M Murder trial ordered in Michigan killing that stoked anti-immigrant campaign rhetoric 05/29/2024 03:02pm • GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) ��� A man accused of killing his Michigan girlfriend after returning to the U.S. following deportation was ordered Wednesday to stand trial for murder. The case against Brandon Ortiz Vite, a Mexican citizen, became a political flashpoint in April when former President Donald New Orleans mystery: Human skull padlocked to a dumbbell is pulled out of water by a fisherman 05/29/2024 02:28pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� A human skull padlocked to an exercise dumbbell has been fished out of a New Orleans waterway, leaving police with a mystery on their hands. The skull was found earlier this month by a man using a red rope and a magnet the size of a hockey puck on a bridge to pull things out of Hungary's foreign minister visits Belarus despite EU sanctions, talks about expanding ties 05/29/2024 02:13pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Hungary's top diplomat visited Belarus on Wednesday for talks on expanding ties despite the European Union's sanctions against the country. Hungarian Foreign Minister P��ter Szijj��rt�� declared that "our position is clear: the fewer sanctions, the more cooperation!��� The Are other bridges at risk of collapsing after a ship collision? New Johns Hopkins study aims to find them 05/29/2024 01:15pm • A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University has launched a study, evaluating the risk of collapse at bridges nationwide following the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The team plans to develop modern risk models and identify which bridges are vulnerable to a cat Building explosion kills bank employee and injures 7 others in Youngstown, Ohio 05/29/2024 12:10pm • YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) ��� A massive explosion blew out much of the ground floor of an apartment building, killing a bank employee and injuring several other people. Police and emergency officials initially blamed natural gas, but the fire chief later said the cause is under investigation. The blast