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A North Dakota man is sentenced to 15 years in connection with shooting at officers 05/02/2024 07:13pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ��� A Williston, North Dakota, man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with credit for time served in connection with a December 2022 encounter with police in which prosecutors say he shot at the officers. U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor sentenced Eric Obregon Jr., 32, on I-95 in Connecticut will close for days after fiery crash damages bridge, governor says 05/02/2024 07:06pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� The major traffic artery linking New England with New York will be closed in Connecticut for days after a tanker fire damaged a bridge over Interstate 95, Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday. The tanker truck filled with gasoline burst into flames in a three-vehicle crash Thursday Jurors hear closing arguments in landmark case alleging abuse at New Hampshire youth center 05/02/2024 06:27pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) ��� Jurors heard closing arguments Thursday in a landmark case seeking to hold the state of New Hampshire accountable for abuse at its youth detention center. The plaintiff, David Meehan, went to police in 2017 and sued the state three years later alleging he was brutally beaten Student journalists are covering their own campuses in convulsion. Here's what they have to say 05/02/2024 06:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Ordered by police to leave the scene of a UCLA campus protest after violence broke out, Catherine Hamilton and three colleagues from the Daily Bruin suddenly found themselves surrounded by demonstrators who beat, kicked and sprayed them with a noxious chemical. On American campuses Maryland officials release timeline, cost estimate, for rebuilding bridge 05/02/2024 06:20pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in just over four years at an estimated cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion, a state transportation official said Thursday. The state plans to build a new span by fall of 2028, said David Broughton, a spokesperson Middle school focuses on recovery as authorities investigate shooting of armed student 05/02/2024 06:10pm • MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) ��� Wisconsin authorities on Thursday promised a thorough investigation of the fatal police shooting of a student who they say was armed outside a middle school, as families in the community gathered to comfort one another. Authorities did not release additional details on the Man charged with murder in fatal shooting of Chicago police officer 05/02/2024 06:06pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A 22-year-old man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was slain while off-duty and heading home from work, authorities said Thursday. Xavier L. Tate Jr. was charged with first-degree murder, the Cook County State���s Attorney���s Office Minnesota sports betting bill runs afoul of partisan rancor over state senator's burglary arrest 05/02/2024 05:40pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ��� A bill to legalize sports betting in Minnesota is in serious trouble, running afoul of the partisan rancor over the arrest of a state senator on a felony burglary charge. One of the lead authors, Democratic Sen. Matt Klein, of Mendota Heights, isn't ready to call sports bett Judge grants autopsy rules requested by widow of Mississippi man found dead after vanishing 05/02/2024 05:24pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� A Mississippi judge granted a request Thursday by the widow of a deceased man who vanished under mysterious circumstances to set standards for a future independent autopsy of her late husband's body. Hinds County Chancery Judge Dewayne Thomas formalized through a court order Exiled Belarus opposition leader says she hasn���t heard from her imprisoned husband for over 400 days 05/02/2024 04:58pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Belarus��� exiled opposition leader said Thursday that she hasn���t heard from her imprisoned husband for 421 days. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said holding her husband incommunicado is part of the government���s repressive policies. Siarhei Tsikhanouski has been behind bars s Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks in lawsuit filed by former Abu Ghraib prisoners 05/02/2024 04:23pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) ��� A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after a jury said it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago. The mistrial came in the jury���s The first wrongful-death trial in Travis Scott concert deaths has been delayed 05/02/2024 03:43pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� The start of the first civil trial stemming from the 2021 Astroworld festival, at which 10 people were killed in a crowd surge, has been delayed. Jury selection had been set to begin next Tuesday in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed the family of Madison Dubiski, a 23-year-old Housto GW students hold pro-Israel rally during 8th day of protests supporting Gaza 05/02/2024 03:18pm • A group of Jewish and pro-Israel students held a rally at The George Washington University in D.C. on Thursday "against campus antisemitism," as a pro-Palestinian protest and encampment continued on the campus for an eighth day. The rally began at 11 a.m. at G Street Park, with participants shout GW University protesters to rally as pro-Palestinian encampment continues 8th day 05/02/2024 02:54pm • A week into a pro-Palestinian encampment at George Washington University in D.C., protesters held separate rallies on Thursday in support of Palestine and Israel. The demonstrations come as police break up similar encampments at colleges around the U.S., at times deploying pepper spray and arrest Man who bragged that he 'fed' an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison 05/02/2024 02:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A Georgia business owner who bragged that he ���fed��� a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection. Jack Wade Whitton s