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The 4 officers killed in North Carolina were tough but kind and loved their jobs, friends say 04/30/2024 05:09pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� The four officers killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016 include three members of a fugitive task force and a local police officer who rushed to try to help when the others came under fire. Friends and co-wor Grandparents and a grandchild are among those killed in a police chase in Canada 04/30/2024 04:59pm • TORONTO, Ontario (AP) ��� Two grandparents and their infant grandchild were killed on a highway east of Toronto when a van being chased by police crashed while going the wrong way, causing a six-vehicle collision, Canadian police said Tuesday. The chase late Monday was triggered by an alleged liquo The ship that brought down a Baltimore bridge to be removed from collapse site in the coming weeks 04/30/2024 04:59pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� At the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, crews plan to refloat and remove the grounded Dali container ship within roughly the next 10 days, allowing more maritime traffic to resume through Baltimore���s port. The ship, which lost power and crashed into one of the b Fugitive task forces face dangerous scenarios every day. Here's what to know about how they operate. 04/30/2024 04:27pm • WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) ��� A fugitive task force attempting to serve a warrant Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, ended in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement in a single incident since 2016. Four officers were killed and four more were wounded after the suspect began firing from an upstairs Book Review: Novelist Amy Tan shares love of the natural world in 'The Backyard Bird Chronicles' 04/30/2024 04:15pm • Birdwatching has become a cherished pastime for many since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when people stuck at home for months looked out their windows for entertainment and immersed themselves into the natural world, many of them for the first time. Best-selling novelist Amy Tan of ���The Joy 'Please come forward': $25K reward offered after DC teen gunned down in Prince George's Co. 04/30/2024 04:14pm • A $25,000 reward is being offered and police are pleading for tips from the public after a D.C. teen was gunned down in Prince George's County, Maryland, earlier this month. De'Marco Bradford, 16, was found shot and wounded along with another man in the 1000 block of Kennebec Street in Oxon Hill Father of former youth detention center resident testifies against him in New Hampshire trial 04/30/2024 04:10pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) ��� The father of a man who says he was regularly raped and beaten as a teen at New Hampshire���s youth detention center briefly testified Tuesday, saying his son had a reputation for dishonesty. Daniel Meehan was the first witness called by the state, which is defending itself Focus turns to demeanor of girlfriend charged in Boston officer's death on second day of trial 04/30/2024 03:57pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� The demeanor of a Massachusetts woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend and the words she uttered at the crime scene were the focus Tuesday on the second day of her trial. Karen Read has been charged with second degree murder and other charges in the 2022 d Life sentence for gang member who turned northern Virginia into 'hunting ground' 04/30/2024 03:40pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) ��� Even in the violent world of the MS-13 street gang, the killings in northern Virginia in the summer of 2019 stood out. In that year, ���the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area became an MS-13 hunting ground,��� in the words of prosecutors. Law enforcement had become accus The little backpack Prince George's Co. police say is 'as valuable as any tool' they have 04/30/2024 03:03pm • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, are wrapping up Autism Awareness Month with a big donation that will allow them to continue celebrating the month well beyond the end of April. They're called Autism Support Kits. To most of us, it looks just like a backpack filled with something Migration agency chief warns that even more Syrians will leave Lebanon as donors cut back on aid 04/30/2024 03:00pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� The number of Syrian refugees leaving Lebanon is likely to keep rising as donors cut back on aid, the head of the U.N.'s migration agency warned Tuesday, as pressure builds over their arrival on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Amy Pope, director general of the International Org Deepfake of principal's voice is the latest case of AI being used for harm 04/30/2024 02:19pm • The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged last week from a Maryland high school, where police say a principal was framed as racist by a fake recording of his voice. The case is yet another reason why everyone ��� not just politicians and celebrities ��� should be conce The Georgia Supreme Court has thrown out an indictment charging an ex-police chief with misconduct 04/30/2024 02:12pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� Georgia's highest court on Tuesday threw out an indictment that charged a former police chief and a top aide with felonies for failing to investigate allegations of misconduct within their department. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the 2021 indictment against former Glyn WADA defends pick of Swiss prosecutor under scrutiny in review of Chinese swimmers case 04/30/2024 02:06pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� The World Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday defended the ���strong reputation��� of its choice of veteran Swiss prosecutor Eric Cottier to review how it handled the case of positive doping tests by 23 Chinese swimmers. Cottier is ���entirely independent��� of WADA and international sport Kazakhstan arrests a former interior minister over crackdown on unrest that left 238 dead 04/30/2024 01:56pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Authorities in Kazakhstan have arrested a former interior minister in connection with a deadly police crackdown on unrest that gripped the country in 2022, local media reported Tuesday. The prosecutor general's office announced on Monday that Erlan Turgumbayev was detained