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6 former Mississippi law officers sentenced in state court for torture of 2 Black men 04/10/2024 03:31pm • BRANDON, Miss. (AP) ��� Already sentenced to many years in federal prison, six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men were sentenced Wednesday in state court. The state sentences did not add time t Desperate young Guatemalans try to reach the US even after horrific deaths of migrating relatives 04/10/2024 01:51pm • COMITANCILLO, Guatemala (AP) ��� Every night for nearly two years, Glendy Aracely Ram��rez has prayed by the altar in her parents��� mud-brick bedroom where, under a large crucifix, is a picture of her sister Blanca. The 23-year-old died alongside 50 other migrants in a smuggler���s tractor-trailer Ex-guard at NYC federal building pleads guilty in sex assault of asylum seeker 04/10/2024 01:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A former security guard at a federal building in New York City where the FBI has its offices pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge related to the sexual assault of an asylum seeker. Jimmy Solano-Arias, 42, of the Bronx, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court to making a Town creates public art ordinance after free speech debate over doughnut mural 04/10/2024 01:22pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A New Hampshire town's new ordinance that was pitched as ���a path forward��� for public artwork hasn't resolved a bakery owner's First Amendment dispute over a large pastry painting, and his lawyer predicts it will only lead to more litigation as town officials become ���spee Kansas deputy fatally shoots woman holding a knife and scissors 04/10/2024 11:18am • ATTICA, Kan. (AP) ��� A Kansas deputy fatally shot an Oklahoma woman who was wielding a knife and scissors and lunged at another officer, investigators said. A Harper County deputy responded to a report just before 7 a.m. Tuesday of a car stopped in the middle of U.S. Highway 60 near the town of Att North Dakota woman who operated unlicensed day care is sentenced to 19 years in baby's death 04/10/2024 11:15am • A judge sentenced a North Dakota woman Tuesday to about 19 years in prison in connection with the death of a baby and injury of another boy that authorities tied to her unlicensed home child care center. Patricia Wick, of Jamestown, was charged last year. She pleaded guilty in January to felony char Denmark wants court to dissolve Danish arm of Bandidos motorcycle club, citing violence 04/10/2024 10:06am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Denmark���s government said Wednesday it wants a court to formally dissolve the Danish arm of the Bandidos motorcycle club, citing the group���s violent behavior. Under Denmark���s constitution, an organization that promotes or incites violence can be dissolved by court Italy opens new slander trial against Amanda Knox. She was exonerated 9 years ago in friend's murder 04/10/2024 10:06am • FLORENCE, Italy (AP) ��� Amanda Knox was back on trial for slander Wednesday for wrongly accusing a Congolese man of murdering her roommate while the young women were exchange students in Italy. Knox herself was convicted of the slaying before being exonerated in a case that grabbed the global spotl Russia extends deadline for preliminary probe into Kremlin foe Navalny's death in prison, ally says 04/10/2024 09:59am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Russian authorities have extended the deadline for a preliminary probe into the still unexplained death of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, his ally said Wednesday. Ivan Zhdanov, director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, said on the messaging ap Muslims worldwide celebrate Eid al-Fitr in the shadow of Gaza's misery 04/10/2024 09:49am • ISTANBUL (AP) ��� Muslims around the world celebrated the Eid al-Fitr holiday Wednesday, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. But events were overshadowed by the worsening crisis in Gaza and Israel���s expected military offensive in Rafah city after six months of war. ���We should not forge Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her 04/10/2024 07:44am • MILAN (AP) ��� Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her, nine years after Italy���s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate. Knox, who was a 20-year-old student when s Thieves caught on surveillance camera stealing thousands from Md. Buddhist temple 04/10/2024 07:07am • It took all but 12 minutes on Sunday for Wat Thai Washington, D.C., a temple located on Layhill��Road in Silver Spring, Maryland, to be burglarized in broad daylight. In surveillance video footage, three men can be seen casually climbing the side steps into the Thai Buddhist temple around 10:55 a Who's who in the triple-murder trial of Chad Daybell 04/10/2024 06:26am • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� Chad Daybell, a self-published doomsday fiction author, is on trial in Idaho in the deaths of his wife and his new girlfriend���s two children. It���s a complex triple-murder trial that investigators say involves unusual claims that the victims were possessed by evil spirits �� 'We cross the finish line victorious': Md. father celebrates passing of state's Purple Alert program 04/10/2024 05:25am • Jimmy Hall, the father of a man with intellectual disabilities who recently went missing, says now, families like his "will have a voice." Maryland lawmakers have just passed legislation creating a "Purple Alert" that would create large-scale alerts when adults with intellectual disabilities go miss Tennessee Senate advances bill to arm teachers a year after deadly Nashville school shooting 04/10/2024 12:49am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Republican lawmakers in Tennessee advanced a proposal Tuesday to allow some teachers to carry handguns on public school grounds, a move that would mark one of the state���s biggest expansions of gun access since a deadly shooting at a private elementary school last year.