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Former New Hampshire youth center leader defends tenure after damning trial testimony 05/21/2024 04:28pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� The former head of New Hampshire���s youth detention center is defending himself against claims that he either encouraged physical abuse or was ��� willfully blind��� to it during his nearly 40 years at the facility. Ron Adams didn���t testify during the landmark trial in whic Judge hears wrongful conviction claim of Missouri inmate in prison for 33 years 05/21/2024 04:09pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� Christopher Dunn has spent 33 years in prison for a murder he has claimed from the outset that he didn't commit. A hearing this week will determine if he should go free. St. Louis prosecutors are now convinced Dunn is telling the truth, but lawyers for the Missouri Attorney Genera The bodies of 4 men and 2 women were found strangled, piled up in Mexican resort of Acapulco 05/21/2024 03:48pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� The bodies of four men and two women were found strangled and dumped in a pile in Mexico���s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero said Tuesday. The bodies were found late Monday on a street with their hands tied behind their backs. The Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice won't face charges from person over alleged assault, Dallas police say 05/21/2024 03:38pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice won't face charges from the injured person over his reported involvement in an alleged assault a little over a month after Rice was one of the speeding drivers in a chain-reaction crash that led to multiple charges. Dallas police said Tuesday t Parole delayed for former LA police detective convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986 05/21/2024 03:37pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A chance for parole was delayed this week for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986. Stephanie Lazarus was convicted in 2012 of killing Sherri Rasmussen, a 29-year-old nurse who w Detroit officer placed on administrative duties after telling protester to 'go back to Mexico' 05/21/2024 02:55pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� A Detroit police lieutenant has been placed on administrative duties after a shouting match in which he told a pro-Palestinian protester to ���go back to Mexico.��� The encounter Sunday outside Huntington Place in downtown Detroit where President Joe Biden was giving the keynote dur Woman found living in Michigan store sign told police it was a little-known 'safe spot' 05/21/2024 02:52pm • MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) ��� A woman who was living inside a sign on the roof of a Michigan grocery store told police it was an ���old safe spot��� known to her family, though she didn't explain why she chose to stay there for a year, according to video of the encounter. The 34-year-old woman, whose name 2 suspects in DC shooting that wounded officer charged with firearms offenses in Prince George's Co. 05/21/2024 02:13pm • Two men suspected in a shooting Monday that wounded a police officer in D.C. are now facing firearms offenses in Prince George's County, Maryland. Police arrested Rasheed Thorne and William Walker IV, both 21, on Monday after they crashed the car they were in on Landover Road near Kent Town Place AP Sports Week in Pictures: Caitlin Clark debut, Fury on the ropes, golf's winning shot and mug shot 05/21/2024 01:37pm • The Associated Press photographers were there when the Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark made her WNBA debut against the Connecticut Sun. The sharp-shooting guard who led Iowa to the NCAA title game is drawing huge crowds at home and on the road to start the the league's 28th season. In soccer, Manchest Politically motivated crimes in Germany reached their highest level in 2023 since tracking began 05/21/2024 12:23pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� Politically motivated crime in Germany last year reached its highest level since the government started tracking it more than 20 years ago, with the greatest threat coming from people with far-right motivations, the country's top security official said Tuesday. Overall, Germany regis Scheffler back to work at Colonial and Stricker returns to Senior PGA in Michigan 05/21/2024 11:48am • PGA TOUR CHARLES SCHWAB CHALLENGE Site: Fort Worth, Texas. Course: Colonial CC. Yardage: 7,289. Par: 70. Prize money: $9.1 million. Winner's share: $1,638,000. Television: Thursday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS). Defending champion: Emiliano EU reprimands Kosovo's move to close down Serb bank branches over the use of the dinar currency 05/21/2024 11:27am • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) ��� The European Union reprimanded Kosovo Tuesday over the unilateral closure of six branches of a Serbia-licensed bank, saying the move would negatively impact the life of the ethnic Serb minority living in northern Kosovo and damage Kosovo-Serbia normalization talks. Kosovo p Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia amid deadly unrest and indigenous frustration 05/21/2024 11:00am • PARIS (AP) ��� French President Emmanuel Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia, the French Pacific territory that has been gripped by days of deadly unrest and where indigenous people have long sought independence. ���He will go there tonight,��� government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot s A Christian group allows Sunday morning access to a New Jersey beach it closed to honor God 05/21/2024 10:54am • OCEAN GROVE, N.J. (AP) ��� A Christian religious group that has closed its beaches on Sunday mornings for generations to honor God is relenting temporarily, allowing beachgoers onto the sand while it fights a court case with New Jersey over whose rules are paramount. The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Ass Police raid the headquarters of the Milan-Cortina Olympics organizers in sponsors inquiry 05/21/2024 10:53am • MILAN (AP) ��� Italy's financial police raided the headquarters of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics local organizing committee on Tuesday as part of an investigation into alleged irregularities over the way digital sponsors for the games were selected. ���The checks underway are aimed at proce