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Second channel opened allowing some vessels to bypass wreckage at the Baltimore bridge collapse site 04/02/2024 06:57pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Crews opened a second temporary channel on Tuesday allowing a limited amount of marine traffic to bypass the mangled wreckage of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which had blocked the vital port’s main shipping channel since its destruction one week ago. Work Illinois Republicans propose overhaul for Gov. Pritzker's 'anti-victim' parole board after stabbing 04/02/2024 06:54pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate's minority leader proposed legislation Tuesday to overhaul Gov. J.B. Pritzker's Prisoner Review Board after it released a convicted domestic abuser who then attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son. Republi Kansas City Chiefs' Rashee Rice leased Lamborghini involved in Dallas crash, company's attorney says 04/02/2024 06:50pm • DALLAS (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was leasing a Lamborghini sport utility vehicle that authorities say was one of two speeding sports cars that caused a chain-reaction crash on a Dallas highway, an attorney for the company that owns the vehicle said Tuesday. Dallas police Video shows California deputies fatally shooting abducted teen as she surrenders 04/02/2024 05:56pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A teenage girl who had been kidnapped by her father was following a sheriff's deputy's instructions and appeared to be surrendering when other deputies fatally shot her during a gun battle on a Southern California highway, according to recently released video and audio. Savannah Judge tosses lawsuit filed by man who served nearly 40 years for rape he may not have committed 04/02/2024 05:40pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled against a man who sued Delaware officials for wrongful imprisonment after spending nearly 40 years in prison for a rape he may not have committed. In a decision issued Monday, Judge Stephanos Bibas found that Elmer Daniels failed to prove his argument t Only on WTOP: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says state is still mourning 1 week after Baltimore bridge collapse 04/02/2024 05:00pm • Tuesday marks one week since tragedy forever changed the landscape in Baltimore and Maryland. In the overnight hours last Tuesday, a huge container ship hit the Key Bridge causing most of it to fall like a deck of cards into the Patapsco River. Six construction workers were killed in the colla This mob-era Las Vegas casino is officially closed. Here are some big moments in its 67 years 04/02/2024 04:44pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — From its lavish opening in 1957 on a Las Vegas Boulevard surrounded by wide-open desert, to its sleepier years amid a boom in megaresorts, the Tropicana Las Vegas has been a familiar landmark home to colorful events in a city known for constant reinvention. Now it's a jewel of Sin Man pleads guilty to attacking Muslim state representative in Connecticut 04/02/2024 04:41pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man who attacked a Muslim state representative outside a prayer service in Connecticut pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted sexual assault and other crimes in a plea deal that calls for a five-year prison sentence. Andrey Desmond, 30, appeared in Hartford Superior Court in Cyprus president asks EU Commission chief to get Lebanon to stop migrants from leaving its shores 04/02/2024 04:26pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of Cyprus said on Tuesday that he has personally asked the head of the European Union’s executive arm to intercede with Lebanese authorities to stop boatloads of Syrian refugees from heading to the east Mediterranean island nation. President Nikos Christodoul Turkey denies newly elected pro-Kurdish mayor the right to hold office in country's east 04/02/2024 03:38pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s electoral authorities on Tuesday denied the newly elected mayor from a pro-Kurdish political party the right to hold office in an eastern city and replaced him with his runner-up in the race — a candidate from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party. Sun Navy veteran accused of ramming vehicle into barrier at front gate of FBI Atlanta office 04/02/2024 03:25pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Federal authorities have charged a U.S. Navy veteran who's accused of ramming an SUV into a barrier at the front gate of the FBI's Atlanta office. Ervin Lee Bolling faces a federal charge of destroying government property stemming from the crash that happened shortly after noon on Body camera footage shows officers take down rabid coyote that attacked 2 in Montgomery Co. 04/02/2024 03:20pm • The Maryland-National Capital Park Police have released body camera footage from officers killing a rabid coyote that they said attacked people who were out walking last Thursday. The video shows several officers with handguns and rifles drawn looking for the animal on a trail near Dustin Roa Portugal’s new minority government aims to outmaneuver its radical right populist rivals 04/02/2024 02:33pm • LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s new center-right minority government took office Tuesday, days after its first test in parliament exposed both the pitfalls and the opportunities it faces following a radical right populist party’s sudden surge in support in a recent general election. Only on Uvalde mayor resigns citing health issues in wake of controversial report on 2022 school shooting 04/02/2024 02:18pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — City of Uvalde Mayor Cody Smith has resigned effective immediately, vacating his post the same week the police chief of the small Texas city is expected to depart, two years after one of deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Smith said in a statement Monday that he neede A woman was killed just after asking police for protection from an ex-partner. Greece is asking why 04/02/2024 02:02pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities on Tuesday ordered an urgent investigation into a woman's fatal stabbing outside an Athens police precinct where she had just requested protection from an ex-boyfriend. The 28-year-old's death triggered new calls by left-wing opposition parties for femicide