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Man pleads guilty in theft of bronze Jackie Robinson statue from Kansas park 05/10/2024 06:18pm • WICHITA, Kan. (AP) ��� A 45-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in Kansas. Ricky Alderete entered the plea during his arraignment Thursday. A judge signed off on i Federal judge orders Florida man held without bond in his estranged wife's disappearance in Spain 05/10/2024 06:05pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� A federal judge ordered the Florida man charged with his estranged wife's disappearance in Spain held without bond on Friday, rejecting his lawyer's argument that the prosecution case is entirely circumstantial and shouldn't be tried in the United States. Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres State trooper who arrested LGBTQ+ leaders in Philadelphia no longer works for state police 05/10/2024 05:50pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� The state trooper who arrested two LGBTQ+ leaders after a contentious traffic stop in Philadelphia is no longer employed by the Pennsylvania state police, officials said Friday. Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Adam Reed said the trooper, who has not been named, no longer works f Family connected to house where Boston police officer's body was found outside in snow testifies 05/10/2024 05:49pm • DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� A highly anticipated trial involving a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank outside a home entered its ninth day on Friday in Massachusetts. John O���Keefe died in the Boston suburb of Canton on Jan. Seattle man is suspected of fatally shooting 9-month-old son and is held on $5 million bail 05/10/2024 05:47pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� A Seattle man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of his 9-month-old son. Officers responded to reports of a shooting in the Magnolia neighborhood Wednesday evening, the Seattle Police Department said in a post on its website. A woman told officers her baby had b Teen pleads guilty in Colorado rock-throwing spree that killed 20-year-old driver 05/10/2024 04:59pm • Getty Images - STOCK(GOLDEN, Colo.) -- One of three Colorado teenagers charged in connection with a rock-throwing spree that killed a 20-year-old driver last year has pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal, officials said Friday.Seven vehicles were hit by large landscaping rocks on the night of April In reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools 05/10/2024 04:54pm • A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names were removed amid nationwide protests calling for a reckoning over racial injustice. In a reversal experts believe was the first of its kin The Latest | UN General Assembly votes to give Palestine more rights by a wide margin 05/10/2024 04:22pm • The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday to give Palestine more ���rights and privileges��� and called on the Security Council to favorably reconsider Palestine's request to become the 194th U.N. member. In Gaza, heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian milita Police: Theft suspect stole 2 police vehicles while handcuffed, survived 11 officers' gunfire 05/10/2024 04:21pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� A man who crashed a stolen police vehicle, survived gunfire from 11 police officers and then drove off and crashed another police cruiser ��� all while wearing handcuffs in a hospital gown ��� is in no mental capacity to appear before a judge right now, his lawyer said Frida Illinois basketball star Terrence Shannon Jr. ordered to stand trial on a rape charge in Kansas 05/10/2024 04:08pm • LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) ��� A Kansas judge on Friday ordered University of Illinois basketball standout Terrence Shannon Jr. to stand trial on a rape charge following testimony from a woman who said she was ���terrified��� as she was being assaulted. Shannon, 23, of Champaign, Illinois, is accused of co How some colleges have de-escalated campus protests and negotiated with students 05/10/2024 03:58pm • Getty Images - STOCK(NEW YORK) -- As anger over Israel's military operations in Gaza mounted, students from Columbia University's Apartheid Divest coalition assembled on the university's South Lawn on April 17, demanding that school officials disclose its financial investments.A day later, at least For Israel���s contestant, the Eurovision Song Contest comes with tight security, boos and cheers 05/10/2024 03:35pm • MALMO, Sweden (AP) ��� Eden Golan is in Sweden for the Eurovision Song Contest, but she isn't seeing much of the country. The 20-year-old Israeli singer is surrounded by security as she travels between hotel and the contest venue in the city of Malmo. According to Israel���s public broadcaster, she AP Indianapolis newsman Ken Kusmer dies at 65 after a short illness 05/10/2024 02:55pm • Ken Kusmer, whose long award-winning career with The Associated Press included exposing flaws in efforts to privatize Indiana's welfare system, died Thursday at his Indianapolis home after a short illness. He was 65. Kenneth Doyle Kusmer began his AP career as a reporter and writer in Indianapolis i A bus plunges off a bridge in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, killing 7 people 05/10/2024 02:34pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) ��� A bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a river on Friday in St. Petersburg, Russia���s second-largest city, killing seven people, officials said. The Investigative Committee, Russia���s top criminal investigations body, reported the death toll. It did not state ho NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 05/10/2024 02:27pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ No, France did not deploy troops to fight with Ukraine against Russi