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Israel received coffin of missing hostage handed over to Red Cross, prime minister's office says 10/17/2025 07:11pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Israel received the remains of another hostage from Gaza on Friday, the prime minister���s office said, a handover from Hamas as the militant group worked to shore up a ceasefire by using bulldozers in a search for bodies under the rubble in the war-scarred enclave Chantilly man sentenced to 10 years in prison after breakthrough in 27-year-old cold case 10/17/2025 07:05pm • A Chantilly, Virginia, man was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting a jogger in 1998. Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano announced in a news release that Edward Pottmyer, 60, was determined as a suspect in the 27-year-old cold case after DNA evidence po Fourth person is charged in Alabama shooting that killed 2 and injured 12 10/17/2025 06:50pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� A fourth person was arrested and charged Friday in connection with a shooting that killed two people and injured 12 others in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama���s capital city in early October, police said. Kemontae Hood, 21, is charged with one count of cap Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow deployment of National Guard in Chicago area 10/17/2025 06:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area, escalating President Donald Trump's conflict with Democratic governors over using the military on U.S. soil. The emergency appeal to the high court cam Mark Sanchez remains sidelined from Fox Sports NFL booth after stabbing incident 10/17/2025 05:52pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Former NFL quarterback and sports analyst Mark Sanchez isn't expected to return to the Fox Sports NFL booth anytime soon. The 38-year-old Sanchez will miss his third straight week of games on Sunday as he continues to recover after police said he was stabbed during a fight with Fairfax County schools deny allegation social worker arranged, funded student abortions 10/17/2025 05:49pm • Fairfax County Public Schools is denying allegations made by one of its teachers that a social worker employed by the school system facilitated student abortions, and said its investigation has determined the teacher fabricated the accusation, likely as retaliation against the social worker. The Philadelphia officials seek tips about Kada Scott, who disappeared 2 weeks ago 10/17/2025 05:27pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Authorities in Philadelphia said Friday that they are no closer to locating a missing 23-year-old woman who disappeared from her nursing home job nearly two weeks ago, urging residents to come forward with even the smallest of potential clues. District Attorney Larry Krasner us Two men arrested in Beltsville theft and burglary spree of power tools, lawn equipment 10/17/2025 05:17pm • Two Beltsville, Maryland, men were arrested and charged this week after police said they made��dozens of thefts and burglaries in which the pair reportedly targeted sheds and vehicles to take power tools and lawn equipment. According to police, 27-year-old Paul Moegel III and 31-year-old Christop After years of socialist rule, Bolivia���s presidential runoff tests how far and fast it veers right 10/17/2025 04:30pm • EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) ��� After nearly two decades of one-party rule, three years of an accelerating currency crisis and too many months of mind-numbing fuel lines, Bolivia is lurching to the right. For the first time since Bolivia���s Movement Toward Socialism party, or MAS, rocketed to power in 20 Man sentenced to life without parole in 'heinous' murder of Greenbelt teacher 10/17/2025 04:22pm • A man was sentenced Friday to life without parole in the killing of a teacher from Greenbelt, Maryland, who went missing in July 2023. Harold Landon III, 35, was convicted in June of first-degree murder in the death of Mariame Toure Sylla, 59, after prosecutors shared testimony that included Police in Afghanistan accuse Pakistan of cross-border strikes after ceasefire ends 10/17/2025 03:38pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Pakistan's military carried out strikes in southeastern Afghanistan on Friday just hours after a two-day ceasefire between the neighboring countries expired, an Afghan police official said. The bombings struck southeastern Paktika province and two other areas close to the Pakista South Carolina schedules execution for man who taunted police with message in victim's blood 10/17/2025 02:17pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� A South Carolina inmate who killed a man, burned his eyes with cigarettes and then painted ���catch me if u can��� on the wall with the victim's blood more than 20 years ago has been scheduled to be executed next month. The state Supreme Court issued the death warrant Friday Stampede at the funeral of Kenya's former Prime Minister Raila Odinga kills 2 10/17/2025 02:16pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� A stampede at a soccer stadium Friday during the state funeral service for Kenya���s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga killed two people and injured more than 100 others. Kenyans had turned out in large numbers to mourn Odinga after the democratic reformer's death on Wednesd French police arrest 4 in alleged plot targeting exiled Russian activist and Putin critic 10/17/2025 02:01pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Police in France detained four people suspected in a plot targeting exiled Russian rights activist Vladimir Osechkin, who exposes abuses in Russian prisons, France's national anti-terror prosecution office said. In an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Osechkin, who founded UK police face pressure to reverse ban on Israeli soccer fans at Birmingham match 10/17/2025 01:31pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Pressure mounted Friday on police authorities in the English city of Birmingham to reverse a ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans attending a Europa League game at Aston Villa next month over security concerns, a decision that drew widespread condemnation. Behind the scenes, the gover