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Massachusetts police bust burglary ring that stole $4 million in jewels over six years 04/27/2024 03:39pm • BOSTON (AP) — A burglary ring that allegedly stole more than $4 million worth of jewelry mostly from the homes of South Asians in over two dozen communities has been broken up, the Massachusetts State Police said. Four people, including two brothers, were indicted April 18 after a nine-month inve 3 children in minivan hurt when it rolled down hill, into baseball dugout wall in Illinois 04/27/2024 03:35pm • WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — Three children were hurt when the minivan they were in rolled down a hill Saturday morning into a concrete baseball dugout in northern Illinois' Woodstock. The children, ages 12 and 13, were hospitalized with mild to moderate injuries. They were among four children in the pa Iraqi authorities are investigating the killing of a social media influencer 04/27/2024 03:25pm • BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities on Saturday were investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer, who was shot by an armed motorcyclist in front of her home in central Baghdad. Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi, known as “Um Fahad," was popular on the social media sites TikTok and Instagra 1 woman dead, another in critical condition after Rockville Pike crash that shut down roadway 04/27/2024 01:20pm • A woman is dead and another woman is seriously injured after a car crash early Saturday morning on Rockville Pike in Montgomery County, Maryland, which closed the road for several hours, the county's fire and rescue officials said. Around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, police said they responded to a crash Teen accidentally kills his younger brother with a gun found in an alley 04/27/2024 12:22pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A 14-year-old Florida boy told police he accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old brother after finding a gun in an alley near their home, authorities said. St. Petersburg police responded to the family's home shortly after noon on Friday and found Amir Williams suf A suspect is in custody after 6 people were shot outside a club in the nation's capital, police say 04/27/2024 11:17am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixc people were shot late Friday outside a nightclub in the nation’s capital, police said. The shootings happened around 11:30 p.m. in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington. Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Ramey Kyle said officers were called after a disp Arrest warrant issued for man in fatal shooting of off-duty Chicago police officer 04/27/2024 10:56am • CHICAGO (AP) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a 22-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was heading home from work. Chicago police said Saturday in a community alert that the warrant was issued Friday and that the department is seeking information that will lea From pop to politics, what to know as Sweden prepares for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest 04/27/2024 10:48am • LONDON (AP) — It’s springtime in Europe — time for the annual blossoming of spectacle and sound known as the Eurovision Song Contest. Taking place in May in Malmö, Sweden, the 68th annual competition will see acts from 37 countries vie for the continent’s pop crown in a feelgood extravaganz Police: Suspect charged in DC nightclub shooting that 'spilled into the street,' injuring 6 04/27/2024 10:30am • Police shut down Connecticut Ave as they investigated a shooting at a nightclub by Dupont Circle, in a popular nightlife spot. (Courtesy 7News) A Prince George's County, Maryland, man has been arrested and charged in a Dupont Circle nightclub shooting stemming from a dispute late Friday night, a National Prescription Drug Take Back Day: Where to safely discard your medications in the DC area 04/27/2024 09:33am • People across the D.C. area are being encouraged to remove medications no longer necessary from their homes and dispose them at a National Prescription Drug Take Back Day location between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday. The Drug Enforcement Administration's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day i Migration roils US elections. Mexico sees mass migration too, but its politicians rarely mention it 04/27/2024 09:03am • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Republican activists gathered in a school lunchroom last month to hear political pitches from candidates and agreed on the top issue in the Denver suburbs these days: immigration. The area has been disrupted by the arrival of largely Venezuelan migrants coming north through Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police 04/27/2024 06:21am • Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The 43-year-old was surrounded by police who arrested him after responding to a trespassing call in a Wisconsin parking lot. Officers had shocked him with a Taser and pinned him as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. Now Pro-Palestinian students have peacefully evacuated prestigious Paris university campus building 04/27/2024 06:03am • PARIS (AP) — Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States peacefully evacuated a campus building at a prestigious French university late on Friday after days of tensions. The head of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po, said Paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with ketamine before his death avoids prison 04/27/2024 01:27am • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison Friday and was sentenced to 14 months in jail with work release and probation in the killing of the Black man that helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests. Jeremy Cooper had faced Class of 2024 reflects on college years marked by COVID-19, protests and life's lost milestones 04/27/2024 01:04am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — On a recent afternoon, Grant Oh zigzagged across the University of Southern California campus as if he was conquering an obstacle course, coming up against police blockade after police blockade on his way to his apartment while officers arrested demonstrators protesting the Isra