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Prince George's Co. leaders honor police divers who searched for survivors in Baltimore bridge collapse 04/04/2024 12:53pm • The divers who went into the dangerous waters after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore are being praised for their efforts. Prince George���s County Police Chief Malik Aziz honored the 12 member police dive team Thursday that went into the Patapsco River to search for possi Oklahoma executes man convicted of double slaying in 2002 04/04/2024 12:38pm • McALESTER, Okla. (AP) ��� A man convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago was executed Thursday morning. Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m., Oklahoma De Home stadium of Hajduk Split is closed while fan violence investigated 04/04/2024 12:22pm • ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) ��� The home stadium of Hajduk club in Split was closed to supporters on Thursday, a day after fan violence left police injured. More than 50 people were also detained after chaos erupted when Hajduk lost to Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 in a Croatian Cup semifinal. Police said Hajduk fans Serbia police arrest 2 men accused of hitting a 2-year-old girl with their car and dumping her body 04/04/2024 11:06am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� A 2-year-old Serbian girl whose disappearance last month gripped the nation died after being hit by a car and her body was dumped in a landfill by the people in the vehicle, police said Thursday. Police have arrested two men suspected of hitting Danka Ilic with their vehicl 12-year-old hospitalized after being hit by car while walking to Montgomery Co. school 04/04/2024 10:57am • A 12-year-old boy has suffered serious injuries after being hit by a car on his way to school Thursday morning in Damascus, Maryland. Montgomery County police told WTOP they were called to the area of Ridge Road and Oak Drive around 7:45 a.m. for reports of a pedestrian hit by a vehicle. The J Police arrest 22 in EU raids linked to suspected theft of Italy's pandemic funds worth $650 million 04/04/2024 09:49am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Police in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia arrested 22 people Thursday as part of an investigation into the suspected siphoning of hundreds millions of euros in post-pandemic relief funds from the European Union. The 600 million euros ($650 million) were part of Italy's post-pa Former South Africa speaker of parliament is arrested on bribery allegations and released on bail 04/04/2024 08:56am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� The former South African speaker of parliament was arrested on Thursday over allegations that she received about $135,000 in bribes, in the latest corruption scandal to face the governing African National Congress party. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula turned herself in to police in th South African footballer and Olympian Luke Fleurs killed in hijacking 04/04/2024 08:46am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� South African footballer and Olympian Luke Fleurs has been killed in a hijacking in Johannesburg, his Kaizer Chiefs club said on Thursday. The 24-year-old defender was shot while waiting to be attended to at a petrol station in the Honeydew suburb in Johannesburg, according to Cruise ship stuck in Spain will resume sailing after Bolivian passengers with visa problems removed 04/04/2024 06:18am • MADRID (AP) ��� A cruise ship stuck in the northeastern Spanish port of Barcelona will be able to resume its route after a group of Bolivian passengers with visa problems were taken off the vessel on Thursday, authorities said. The Spanish government said in a statement it had reached an agreement w Tonga's prime minister says he's open to Chinese help with security support at an upcoming summit 04/04/2024 04:57am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Tonga���s prime minister said on Thursday he is open to Beijing���s offer of security support when the South Pacific kingdom hosts a major regional leaders��� summit, raising concerns in the United States as it strives to counter China���s growing influence. Prime Minis In the aftermath of the Moscow concert hall attack, is a harsher era under Putin in the works? 04/04/2024 01:16am • Video and photos of suspects in a mass shooting show them apparently being brutalized by Russian security forces ��� without any rebuke from authorities. A top Kremlin official urges that hit squads be sent to assassinate Ukrainian officials. Senior lawmakers call for restoring capital punishment, a Netflix docuseries on abuse allegations at New York boarding school prompts fresh investigation 04/04/2024 12:05am • A Netflix docuseries spotlighting abuse allegations at a long-shuttered boarding academy for teens in rural northern New York has prompted dozens of new complaints to the local prosecutor and a fresh investigation. ���The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping��� started streaming last month. The three Today in History: April 4, Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis at age 39 04/04/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Thursday, April 4, the 95th day of 2024. There are 271 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee; hi Burglars steal $30 million in cash from Los Angeles money storage facility, police say 04/03/2024 10:16pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Thieves stole as much $30 million in an Easter Sunday burglary at a Los Angeles money storage facility in one of the largest cash heists in city history, police said Wednesday. The burglary occurred Sunday night at an unnamed facility in the Sylmar area of the San Fernando Vall WATCH: Fairfax Co. police 'narrowly escaped line-of-duty death' in chaotic 'street takeover,' chief says 04/03/2024 10:00pm • WATCH: Four ppl facing criminal charges in this chaotic incident over the weekend in Springfield, Virginia. Fairfax County police chief says he thinks they ���narrowly escaped a line of duty death.��� He says people tried to drag an officer out of her car. @WTOP pic.twitter.com/NXv8Ozmzsz ��� Nic