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Safety concerns generate community discussion at Montgomery County's Kennedy High School 05/08/2024 06:00pm • Concerns about safety and reports of drug use on campus at Kennedy High School in Montgomery County caused the Parent Teacher Student Association to call for a community meeting to discuss ways the school system and county officials can do more to keep the Maryland school safe. Last month, Kenned Slow to expand, internet casino gambling is the future of US betting, industry execs say 05/08/2024 05:54pm • SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) ��� Internet casino gambling is legal in only a handful of states, but the industry is convinced it is the future of betting, even as some worry about cannibalizing physical casinos. Speaking Wednesday at the SBC Summit North America, a major gambling industry conference, industr As Patrick Beverley calls his actions 'inexcusable,' police announce they've opened an investigation 05/08/2024 05:52pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Indianapolis police announced Wednesday they've opened an investigation into an ���NBA player and citizen��� altercation that happened at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on the night Bucks guard Patrick Beverley threw a ball at a fan in the final minutes of a season-ending loss to the Pa A woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend was framed, her attorneys say 05/08/2024 05:44pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� A highly anticipated trial began in Massachusetts last week involving a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank. John O���Keefe died in the Boston suburb of Canton on Jan. 29, 2022. The case has garnered nation The Rev. Al Sharpton calls for justice in eulogy for Ohio man who died last month in police custody 05/08/2024 05:03pm • The Rev. Al Sharpton and family members of an Ohio man who died in police custody told mourners at his funeral on Wednesday that they and the community must fight to see that he gets justice. Sharpton gave the eulogy for Frank Tyson, a 53-year-old East Canton resident, during the service at the Hear Man indicted in killing of Laken Riley, a Georgia case at the center of national immigration debate 05/08/2024 04:07pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A Georgia man has been indicted on murder charges by grand jurors who said he intended to rape a nursing student whose body was found near a running trail on the University of Georgia campus. It is the first time such a motive has been revealed in the February killing of Laken Hope Retired pro wrestler who ran twice for Congress pleads not guilty in Las Vegas murder case 05/08/2024 02:44pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate in Nevada and Texas pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a murder charge in the death of a man last year at a Las Vegas Strip hotel. Daniel Rodimer, 45, appeared in court for a brief arraignment. His attorneys, Richard Dozens still missing after South African building collapse; 7 confirmed dead 05/08/2024 01:45pm • GEORGE, South Africa (AP) ��� Rescue teams used underground cameras and sniffer dogs Wednesday to search for nearly 40 construction workers still missing in rubble two days after the collapse of an apartment building under construction in coastal South Africa. Seven workers have been confirmed dead, 64 people charged in sexual abuse investigations in Canada, Ontario police say 05/08/2024 01:38pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� More than 60 people were arrested and hundreds of charges were filed in a series of investigations into child sexual abuse in Ontario, Canadian police said Wednesday. Provincial Police Det. Staff Sgt. Tim Brown said the investigations were carried out over 10 days in February and le Scores of Syrians return home after years at camp housing people linked to the Islamic State group 05/08/2024 12:59pm • AL-HOL CAMP, Syria (AP) ��� Scores of Syrian women and children linked to the Islamic State group left a sprawling camp in northeast Syria Wednesday and headed home to the eastern province of Deir el-Zour following mediation by tribal leaders. The latest batch of people to leave al-Hol camp, which h Ahead of Md. Senate primary, former Gov. Hogan speaks with WTOP on abortion, campus protests and being called a 'RINO' 05/08/2024 12:43pm • Former Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has often referred to "dysfunction in Washington" as he talks about political gridlock on Capitol Hill. When asked why Hogan, who is now running for the U.S. Senate, would want to be a part of that, he responded by saying, "I really don't want to." " Bomb in northeastern Afghanistan kills 3 officers who were part of convoy handling poppy eradication 05/08/2024 12:36pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� A sticky bomb exploded in northeastern Afghanistan, killing at least three police officers on Wednesday, officials said. Abdul Mateen Qani, a spokesman for the Taliban���s interior ministry, said the bomb which was ���attached to a motorcycle, exploded in Faizabad, the capital of The Latest | Israel forces block Gaza's Rafah border crossing. UN says it's running out of fuel 05/08/2024 12:10pm • Israeli forces have seized the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, pressing their offensive into the southern city on Tuesday. The closed border means U.N. humanitarian teams in Gaza will run out of diesel fuel by Wednesday, a senior humanitarian official said, leaving them unable to Man dead after car hits pedestrian in Rockville 05/08/2024 11:58am • A man is dead after being struck and killed by a vehicle in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Wednesday morning, police said. Around 5:30 a.m., Montgomery County Fire Rescue personnel and Montgomery County police officers responded to reports of a pedestrian struck on the westbound side of Norbeck PHOTOS: See the GW University pro-Palestinian protest evolve 05/08/2024 11:37am • Police cleared the the pro-Palestinian encampment on George Washington University’s campus in D.C. on May 8, arresting 33 protesters.�� As final exams neared and the war in Gaza raged on, the protests on the D.C. campus lasted for two weeks. Universities nationwide are contending with encamp