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Haiti's former capital seeks to revive its hey-day as gang violence consumes Port-au-Prince 04/20/2024 12:20am • CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) ��� They call it Okap, home to Haiti���s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries. Sitting on the shimmering north coast, the city of Cap-Ha��tien was abandoned as a capital during the waning years of the French colonial era and again when the Kingdom of Haiti fell after A man escaped Sudan's bloody civil war. His mysterious death in Missisippi has sparked suspicion 04/20/2024 12:14am • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� As a child, Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan and built a new life in Mississippi. This month, fishermen found the body of the 33-year-old Mabil floating in a river, prompting calls for a federal investigation into his disappearance and death. Mabil, who lived in Jackson with Lawsuits under New York's new voting rights law reveal racial disenfranchisement even in blue states 04/20/2024 12:11am • FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) ��� Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island's Nassau County. Its Asian American population alone had grown by 60% since the 2010 census. Why then, he wondered, did he not see anyone who looked like him on the county's local governing body, the Today in History: April 20, 2 students kill 12 at Columbine High School 04/20/2024 12:00am • Today is Saturday, April 20, the 111th day of 2024. There are 255 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On April 20, 1999, the Columbine High School massacre took place in Colorado as two students shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives. On thi School safety comes into focus in Montgomery Co. after arrest of student accused of planning shooting 04/19/2024 11:08pm • The coordination between law enforcement and school officials in Montgomery County ��� along with the initial report from a witness ��� was credited for averting a potential catastrophe after an 18-year-old student was charged with making a threat of mass violence targeting Thomas S. Wootton High Sc USC cancels graduation keynote by filmmaker amid controversy over decision to drop student's speech 04/19/2024 10:43pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The University of Southern California further shook up its commencement plans Friday, announcing the cancelation of a keynote speech by filmmaker Jon M. Chu just days after making the controversial choice to disallow the student valedictorian from speaking. The private universit 5 teens shot, injured at 'senior skip day' gathering in Greenbelt park 04/19/2024 09:42pm • Five young people, ages 16 to 18, were shot and injured during a "senior skip day" gathering at a Greenbelt, Maryland, park on Friday afternoon. Police said officers were called to Schrom Hills Park on the 6900 block of Hanover Parkway, responding to reports of hundreds of high school students wh 4/20 grew from humble roots to marijuana's high holiday 04/19/2024 07:58pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Saturday marks marijuana culture���s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather ��� at 4:20 p.m. ��� in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers with discounts. This year���s edition provides an occasion for activists to reflect 2 mayoral candidates killed in Mexico, bringing the number slain so far to 17 04/19/2024 07:50pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Two mayoral candidates in Mexico were found dead Friday, bringing to 17 the number of contenders slain in the lead-up to the June 2 election. One candidate was killed Friday in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas. No�� Ramos Ferretiz was running for a coalition of th What we know about the shooting of an Uber driver in Ohio and the scam surrounding it 04/19/2024 07:47pm • It was a common scam that ended with an uncommon outcome, tragically in an Ohio driveway. William J. Brock fatally shot an Uber driver because he wrongly assumed she was part of a scheme to extract $12,000 in supposed bond money for a relative, authorities said this week. Lo-Letha Hall was a victim The Latest | World leaders call on Iran and Israel to avoid allowing conflict to worsen 04/19/2024 07:36pm • World leaders called on Iran and Israel to try to avoid escalating tensions following the apparent Israeli airstrike on Friday near an Iranian air base and nuclear facility. Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting in Italy warned of new sanctions against Iran for its drone and missile attack on Isr Five shot at high school student gathering in Maryland park 04/19/2024 07:02pm • GREENBELT, Md. (AP) ��� Five young people were shot Friday afternoon when gunfire broke out during a high school ���senior skip day��� gathering in a park in Greenbelt, a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., according to police. The victims were hospitalized, with one in critical condition and the o South Africa man convicted in deaths of 2 Alaska Native women faces revocation of U.S. citizenship 04/19/2024 06:45pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� Federal prosecutors want to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a South Africa man convicted of killing two Alaska Native women for allegedly lying on his naturalization application for saying he had neither killed nor hurt anyone. Brian Steven Smith, 52, was convicted earlier Ex-Philadelphia police officer pleads guilty in shooting death of 12-year-old boy 04/19/2024 06:32pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� A fired Philadelphia police officer pleaded guilty Friday to murder in the shooting of a fleeing 12-year-old boy, who prosecutors have said was on the ground and unarmed when the officer fired the fatal shot. Edsaul Mendoza also pleaded guilty to possession of an instrument of Former resident of New Hampshire youth center describes difficult aftermath of abuse 04/19/2024 06:17pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) ��� A man who says he was beaten and raped as a teen at New Hampshire's youth detention center testified Friday that he both tried to take his own life and plotted to kill his abusers years later before speaking up. David Meehan, who spent three years at the Youth Development Ce