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'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. Videos show Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots over 41 seconds during fatal traffic stop 04/10/2024 12:42am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured, according to graphic video footage a police oversight agency released Tuesday. Five officers from a tactical unit who were in an un Today in History: April 10, The Titanic sets sail from England, bound for New York 04/10/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, April 10, the 101st day of 2024. There are 265 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On April 10, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, bound for New York on its ill-fated maiden voyage. On this date: In 186 Hong Kong police say a building fire has killed at least four people and injured 12 04/09/2024 10:53pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong police say a building fire has killed at least four people and injured 12. A mother releases video of her autistic son being hit by an aide on a school bus to raise awareness 04/09/2024 10:34pm • DENVER (AP) ��� In January, Jessica Vestal���s 10-year-old autistic son, who cannot speak, came home from school in suburban Denver with bruises all over his body. Other injuries followed, including a black eye in February, which she said a bus aide blamed on him hitting himself with a toy, and a br Fans welcome UConn's repeat champs back to the 'Basketball Capital of the World' 04/09/2024 10:01pm • STORRS, Conn. (AP) ��� UConn's men's basketball team returned Tuesday night to the campus the school has branded the ���Basketball Capital of the World.��� Fans lined the streets in Eastern Connecticut, cheering as the team's buses passed by on the hourlong journey from Bradley International Airport Missouri man executed for killing his cousin and her husband in 2006 04/09/2024 07:45pm • BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) ��� A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago in an attack that left the couple���s 4-year-old daughter home alone and unharmed. Brian Dorsey, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. after a single-dose injection of the sedat New Hampshire youth detention center treated teen like sex slave, punching bag, lawyer alleges 04/09/2024 07:16pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) ��� Workers at New Hampshire's youth detention center treated a teenage boy like a ���sex slave and a punching bag,��� and the state itself laid the groundwork for the abuse, an attorney argued Tuesday as the first of more than 1,000 lawsuits alleging similar horrors went to tri Prosecutors drop rape case against ex-Kansas player Arterio Morris, citing insufficient evidence 04/09/2024 06:57pm • LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) ��� Prosecutors dropped a felony rape case against former Kansas basketball player Arterio Morris on Tuesday, citing insufficient evidence while filing a motion in Douglas County District Court to seek its dismissal without prejudice. Morris was charged last August and dismissed LA police say woman threw her 2 girls, one of whom died, onto freeway after killing partner 04/09/2024 06:56pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� An infant girl and her 9-year-old sister who were found on a busy Los Angeles-area freeway were thrown from a moving SUV, and investigators believe their mother was responsible and died by suicide after also killing her partner, authorities said Tuesday. The 8-month-old was pro Champions League matches go ahead despite Islamic State terror threat 04/09/2024 06:54pm • NYON, Switzerland (AP) ��� This week���s Champions League games are going ahead as scheduled despite an Islamic State terror threat, the governing body of European soccer said Tuesday. Several posters circulated on social media alleging to be from the Al-Azaim Foundation ��� a media arm of ISIS-K �� Former Dodgers pitcher Julio Ur��as faces misdemeanor charges after domestic violence arrest 04/09/2024 06:49pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Ur��as has been charged with five misdemeanors stemming from his his arrest last September on suspicion of domestic violence, authorities said Tuesday. Urias, 27, faces charges including one count of spousal battery, two counts of domesti Former assistant principal charged with child neglect in case of 6-year-old boy who shot teacher 04/09/2024 06:20pm • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) ��� A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been charged with felony child neglect more than a year after a 6-year-old boy brought a gun to class and shot his first-grade teacher. A special grand jury in Newport News found that Ebony Parker showed a re Mexico releases video of Ecuador's raid on its embassy 04/09/2024 05:45pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico released security camera video Tuesday of the moments when Ecuadorian authorities forced their way into Mexico���s embassy, pushed a Mexican diplomat to the ground and carried out Ecuador���s former vice president who had been holed up there. The action Friday night great