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Former soccer star Robinho starts 9-year prison sentence in Brazil for 2013 rape in Italy 03/21/2024 08:14pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Former soccer star Robinho started serving a nine-year prison sentence in his native Brazil on Thursday more than 10 years after he was first accused of raping a woman in Italy. The 40-year-old Robinho left his apartment building in the beachfront city of Santos, outside Sao Paulo As election nears, Venezuelan government keeps arresting opponents allegedly tied to criminal plots 03/21/2024 08:01pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� As Venezuela���s government would have it, President Nicol��s Maduro and members of his inner circle have been the target of several conspiracies since last year that could have left them injured or worse. Few details have been released about the alleged plots. But the governmen Do You Need a Lawyer to Fight a Speeding Ticket? 03/21/2024 08:00pm • After the flashing blue lights fade in the distance and the dreaded speeding ticket is in hand, drivers have two main options to consider. They can either deal with the ticket themselves or hire a lawyer to contest it. While speeding sounds like a minor infraction, it killed 12,330 people in 2021 al France's president pounds a punching bag on camera, and Europe notices 03/21/2024 07:16pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The teeth clench. The brow furrows. The bicep bulges. In moody black and white, photos of French President Emmanuel Macron pounding a punching bag arched eyebrows across Europe on Thursday after his official photographer posted them to social media in what was widely received as the In Japan, Ohtani's 'perfect person' image could take a hit with firing of interpreter over gambling 03/21/2024 07:06pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� Shohei Ohtani is referred to in Japan as ���kanpeki no hito��� ��� the perfect person ��� because of his manners and impeccable behavior. That image may have taken a hit when the Dodgers fired his good friend and interpreter Ippei Mizuhara on Wednesday over allegations he A fifth Albuquerque, New Mexico, police officer has resigned amid probe of unit 03/21/2024 06:43pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� A fifth Albuquerque police officer has resigned during an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by officers assigned to a unit charged with stopping impaired drivers, according to authorities. City Police Chief Harold Medina said Joshua Monta��o submitted his resignation The Latest | Blinken says he'll talk with Israelis about alternatives to Rafah ground assault 03/21/2024 06:38pm • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he will share alternatives to Israel's planned ground assault into the southern Gaza town of Rafah when he meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his War Cabinet on Friday. Blinken and Arab leaders on Thursday discussed efforts for a cease-fire a The owner of a Vermont firearms training center is charged with aggravated assault during arrest 03/21/2024 06:15pm • RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) ��� The owner of a firearms training center in Vermont who was ordered arrested by a judge in December in a long-running legal battle with a town pleaded not guilty to felony aggravated assault Thursday stemming from a scuffle during his arrest the day before, authorities said. Dan A hot air balloon crashed into a power line and caused a fire, but everyone is OK 03/21/2024 06:03pm • ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) ��� Three people in a hot air balloon in Minnesota escaped largely unscathed after their basket clipped a power line, fell to the ground and caused a brush fire. A Minnesota Department of Transportation traffic camera captured the accident on video. It happened around 6:50 p.m. 3 arrested after welfare call leads to removal of 86 dogs, girl and older woman from California home 03/21/2024 05:52pm • CERES, Calif. (AP) ��� An anonymous call this week led California authorities to find 86 dogs and several people living in a house where conditions were described as deplorable and unlivable. The discovery Tuesday in the Central Valley city of Ceres came after the caller requested a welfare check on Lawsuit from family of Black man killed by police in Oregon provides additional details of shooting 03/21/2024 05:45pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Police officers in Oregon shot and killed a 24-year-old Black man in the back and then instead of providing medical care, mocked his lifeless body, threw explosives at him and sent a dog to attack his corpse, his family alleges in an updated lawsuit filed Thursday with additi A third man is now charged with murder in the Kansas City Super Bowl rally shooting 03/21/2024 05:37pm • A third man was charged with second-degree murder Thursday in connection with the shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl rally that killed a woman and injured nearly two dozen others. Terry Young, 20, of Kansas City, Missouri, was also charged with unlawful use of a weapon and two counts Fairfax County police name suspect in fatal shooting of teen ��� but haven't made arrest 03/21/2024 05:34pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, have identified the teen suspect they say fatally shot another teen following a fight in a parking lot Wednesday afternoon ��� but they are still working to track him down. Police identified the suspect as 18-year-old Ismael Cruz-Delcid, of Herndon. He is wante Virginia governor vetoes 22 bills, including easier path for certain immigrants to work as police 03/21/2024 05:33pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vetoed nearly two dozen pieces of crime and law enforcement legislation, including measures that would have expanded credits for inmates to get out of prison early and allowed some immigrants who are not U.S. citizens to become police officers. Fifth suspect charged in Philadelphia bus stop shooting that wounded 8 03/21/2024 05:23pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� A fifth suspect has been charged in a shooting that wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus stop earlier this month. Jeremiah Jefferson, 15, of Philadelphia, faces counts of attempted murder, aggravated assault, conspiracy, reckless endangerment and weapons cha