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Nashville school shooting families accuse senator of using bill to get his way in records lawsuit 04/10/2024 05:48pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Family members representing the six people killed in a Nashville school shooting last year have filed an ethics complaint against a Tennessee state senator, arguing he is being self-serving by both suing for the release of the shooter���s writings and filing legislation to Ex-worker at New Hampshire youth detention center describes escalating retaliation for complaints 04/10/2024 05:46pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) ��� A woman who worked at New Hampshire���s youth detention center three decades ago testified Wednesday that supervisors and staff were dismissive at best and menacing at worst when she reported suspected abuse. Karen Lemoine was the first witness in the first trial seeking to In triple-murder trial, prosecutor says Chad Daybell built 'alternate reality' to gain sex and money 04/10/2024 05:40pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� An Idaho man charged with three murders in an unusual doomsday-focused case crafted an alternate reality so that he could fulfill ���his desire for sex, money and power,��� a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday morning. ���When he had a chance at what he considered his rightful de Florida GOP leader apologizes for trashing hotel room and says he'll seek help for alcoholism 04/10/2024 05:37pm • KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) ��� A leader of the Republican Party of Florida has apologized for being excessively drunk and urinating and vomiting all over his room at a hotel last week, saying he has been dealing with alcoholism and mental health issues. George Riley, executive director of the state GOP, s Iowa governor signs bill that gives state authority to arrest and deport some migrants 04/10/2024 05:29pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� It will be a state crime for a person to be in Iowa if previously denied admission to or removed from the United States under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday. The law, which takes effect July 1, has elevated anxiety in Iowa's immigrant communities a Argentina's police step up their response to growing anti-government protests 04/10/2024 05:25pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� A confrontation between Argentine authorities and anti-government protesters angered by President Javier Milei's spending cuts escalated on Wednesday, as protesters blocking the capital's key thoroughfare were forcibly dispersed and eight of the movement���s particip Agency probes Philadelphia fatal crash involving Ford that may have been running on automated system 04/10/2024 05:18pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a March crash near Philadelphia that killed two people and involved a Ford electric vehicle that may have been operating on a partially automated driving system. A Mustang Mach E sport utility vehicle hit two stationary passe Man arrested in connection with device that exploded outside Alabama attorney general's office 04/10/2024 05:15pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� Federal authorities have arrested a man they said placed a homemade explosive device ��� made with nails and firecrackers ��� outside the Alabama attorney general���s office in February. Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, of Irondale, Alabama, was arrested Wednesday on cha Creation of transitional council that will select Haiti's next prime minister is imminent, US says 04/10/2024 04:59pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� The creation of a transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti���s next leaders is imminent, a U.S. diplomat said Wednesday during a heated forum about Haiti���s spiraling crisis. The nine-member council could be formally established in Haiti as early as this we Tractor-trailer fire in Frederick Co. causes massive I-270 southbound delays 04/10/2024 04:57pm • Listen to WTOP online��and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM for traffic and weather news on the 8s. A massive tractor-trailer fire caused traffic delays for hours Wednesday morning on Interstate 270 in Frederick County, Maryland. All southbound lanes were closed for around eight hours South Carolina's top officer not releasing details on 2012 hack that stole millions of tax returns 04/10/2024 04:23pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� Twelve years after a hacker stole personal data from more than 3.6 million people in South Carolina by obtaining Social Security numbers and credit card information from tax returns, the state's top police officer said Wednesday he thought he knew who did it but wasn't ready First Muslim American appellate court nominee faces uphill battle to salvage nomination 04/10/2024 04:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The nominee who could become the first Muslim American to serve as a federal appellate court judge is fighting back against characterizations of his work by law enforcement groups that are jeopardizing his nomination. The White House and Senate are doubling down on their efforts New Jersey officials say they are probing hate crime after Islamic center is vandalized at Rutgers 04/10/2024 04:05pm • NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) ��� An Islamic center at New Jersey's Rutgers University was vandalized on the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr, according to authorities who said they are investigating it as a hate crime. A building at the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University had its windows shatter What to know about the latest trial involving Amanda Knox 04/10/2024 03:40pm • FLORENCE, Italy (AP) ��� Amanda Knox is again defending herself in an Italian court in a slander case that has the potential to remove the last legal stain against her, following her exoneration nine years ago in the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Despite a murder conviction Child in critical condition, 2 others injured in crash on I-95 in Prince George's Co. 04/10/2024 03:38pm • Listen to WTOP online��and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM for traffic and weather news on the 8s. A child is in critical condition and two adults are injured after a multivehicle crash on Interstate 95 near Beltsville in Prince George's County, Maryland, Wednesday afternoon, officials say.