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Arkansas grocery store reopens in wake of mass shooting that left 4 dead 07/02/2024 06:31pm • FORDYCE, Ark. (AP) — The sounds that filled the Mad Butcher grocery store on Tuesday — the beeping barcode scanners, the rattle of shopping carts and cash register drawers opening — were familiar ones for customers and employees of the only grocery store in the small Arkansas town of Fordyce. What to know about Fourth of July celebrations along DC’s National Mall 07/02/2024 06:30pm • As hundreds of thousands of people are expected to pack the National Mall for Fourth of July festivities Thursday, the National Park Service and U.S. Park Police said they’re working to ensure it’s a safe celebration. During a news conference Tuesday, officials urged those who plan to be outs Delaware judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit stemming from fatal police shooting of mentally ill woman 07/02/2024 05:40pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss a lawsuit involving the death of a mentally ill woman who was killed by a state trooper in 2021 after she fired a shotgun at him. Raymond Rooks contends that state police used excessive force in shooting his 51-year-old sister, Kell Montgomery Co. man dies 2 weeks after fight with neighbor over loose dogs turns physical 07/02/2024 05:33pm • A Montgomery County, Maryland, man has died two weeks after police said an argument with a neighbor over dogs running loose through their rural neighborhood turned physical. Montgomery County police said 40-year-old Marvin Rolando Guevara Guevara, of Boyds, died Sunday at a hospital. He was hu French candidates make hurried deals to try to stop far-right National Rally from leading government 07/02/2024 04:57pm • PARIS (AP) — French opposition parties made hurried deals Tuesday to try to block a landslide victory for Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally in Sunday's second round of legislative elections, as she said her party would lead the government only if it wins an absolute majority — or close to 2 dead, 1 injured in Maryland police chase that ended in fiery DC crash 07/02/2024 04:30pm • Listen to WTOP Traffic on the 8s for the latest on road conditions.  Two people are dead and a third is hurt after a police chase Tuesday afternoon crossed through multiple jurisdictions and ended when the vehicle being pursued crashed and went up in flames along Southeast D.C.'s border with Mar A look at stampedes and crowd disasters in India over the years 07/02/2024 04:13pm • More than 100 people were killed in a stampede Tuesday in northern India following a Hindu religious gathering, making it one of the deadliest such accidents in recent years. Thousands had gathered at a makeshift tent for a religious event led by a Hindu preacher in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh Clashes between police and protesters disputing Mauritania's presidential election result kill 3 07/02/2024 03:35pm • NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP (AP) — Clashes in Mauritania between security forces and protesters rallying against the reelection of President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani left three people dead, authorities said Tuesday. An unspecified number of people were reported injured. Following the clashes, mobile Oklahoma St RB Ollie Gordon II, who won Doak Walker Award last season, arrested for suspicion of DUI 07/02/2024 03:25pm • Oklahoma State running back and Doak Walker Award winner Ollie Gordon II was arrested Sunday morning for suspicion of driving under the influence, police said. A state trooper in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, reported seeing Gordon swerving in his black 2024 Cadillac. The vehicle was clocked at 82 mil Former Iowa police chief sentenced to 5 years in prison in federal gun case 07/02/2024 02:56pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former small-town Iowa police chief has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for lying to authorities to acquire machine guns that prosecutors said he sold for his own profit. Former Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt was convicted in February of making false stateme Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier denied parole for 1975 killings of 2 FBI agents serving warrants 07/02/2024 01:50pm • Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has been denied parole. The U.S. Parole Commission said in a statement Tuesday announcing the decision that he won't be eligible for another par Protests continue in Kenya as some are now calling for the president to step down 07/02/2024 01:42pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Protests continued in Kenya's capital and elsewhere Tuesday over a finance bill that would raise the cost of living, even after the president said he would not sign it in the wake of the storming of parliament last week. Police fired tear gas at protesters in Nairobi as many Supreme Court refuses to hear bite mark case 07/02/2024 01:33pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the case of an Alabama man who has spent decades in prison for a murder conviction supported by recanted and discredited testimony about bite marks. Charles M. McCrory was convicted of murder for the 1985 killing of his wife 2 teens charged in fatal shooting of 14-year-old in Annandale 07/02/2024 01:23pm • A pair of teenagers are being held at the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center on charges stemming from a deadly shooting in Annandale, Virginia, on Friday night. Fairfax County police said Tuesday morning that detectives arrested two teenagers in connection with the shooting in the 4100 bloc Officer who killed Tamir Rice leaves new job in West Virginia 07/02/2024 12:21pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 has resigned from a police force in West Virginia, the third time in six years he left a small department amid backlash shortly after he had been hired. White Sulphur Springs City officials said T