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US Attorney for DC is prosecuting more cases as promising crime trends emerge 03/15/2024 06:00am • The U.S. Attorney for D.C. prosecuted more cases in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 than it did in the last quarter of fiscal 2023, according to new data released Thursday. In the last three months of 2023, the office prosecuted 55% of cases. That's up from the 53% of cases it prosecuted from Ju Baseball superstar Ohtani and his wife arrive in South Korea for Dodgers-Padres MLB opener 03/15/2024 05:46am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� Shohei Ohtani and his wife arrived in South Korea with his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates on Friday ahead of their season-opening games with the San Diego Padres next week. Ohtani, wearing a black training suit and a cap backwards, was the first Dodgers player who showed u Ohio police confirm 2 dead in fierce storm that damaged homes and businesses in parts of Ohio and Kentucky 03/15/2024 03:51am • BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) ��� Ohio police confirm 2 dead in fierce storm that damaged homes and businesses in parts of Ohio and Kentucky. A plan to find new leadership for Haiti is moving forward, Caribbean officials say 03/15/2024 01:39am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� A plan to create a transitional presidential council is moving forward after a majority of Haitian parties and coalitions submitted the names of those charged with finding new leaders for the country, Caribbean officials said Thursday. The names were provided to a regi Police say 'many significant injuries' after tornado tore through community of Winchester, Indiana 03/15/2024 12:33am • WINCHESTER, Ind. (AP) ��� Police say 'many significant injuries' after tornado tore through community of Winchester, Indiana. The Latest | Egypt appeals for more aid deliveries by land to Gaza as Israel warns of Rafah push 03/15/2024 12:14am • Egypt���s top diplomat made an emotional appeal Thursday for an urgent increase in humanitarian aid going into Gaza by land, even as an aid ship loaded with some 200 tons of food was on its way to the enclave, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are on the brink of starvation. The push to ge Kenyan doctors strike nationwide. Patients left unattended or turned away at public hospitals 03/14/2024 11:43pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Doctors at Kenya���s public hospitals began a nationwide strike Thursday, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care. The Kenya Medical Man shot with his own gun, critically wounded in fight aboard New York City subway, police say 03/14/2024 10:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A man was shot multiple times and critically wounded on a New York City subway train as it arrived at a busy station in downtown Brooklyn on Thursday, panicking evening rush hour passengers. The shooting came a week after Gov. Kathy Hochul sent the National Guard into the subway s Driver charged in deadly Arizona crash after report cast doubt on his claim that steering locked up 03/14/2024 09:33pm • GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) ��� A driver who said his pickup's steering locked up right before he hit a group of bicyclists near Phoenix a year ago has been charged in connection with the deadly crash, authorities said Thursday. Prosecutors in the city of Goodyear announced their decision to prosecute Ped Man used 'Jaws of Life' to rob Prince George's Co. convenience store ATMs of hundreds of thousands 03/14/2024 08:50pm • An arrest has been made in a series of armed robberies where police say the suspect used a hydraulic spreader ��� often called "the Jaws of Life"��� to steal money out of convenience store ATMs in Prince George's County, Maryland, earlier this year. On Wednesday, 31-year-old Stefan Janey, of Uppe Louisiana truck driver charged after deadly 2023 pileup amid 'super fog' conditions 03/14/2024 08:05pm • RESERVE, La. (AP) ��� A Louisiana truck driver has been charged with negligent homicide for his role in a fiery highway pileup that left eight dead last year after a ���super fog��� of marsh fire smoke and dense fog snared more than 160 vehicles, authorities said. On Oct. 23, Ronald Britt was operat Mississippi ex-police officer pleads guilty after making man lick urine off jail floor 03/14/2024 07:48pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� A former Mississippi police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal misdemeanor charge after authorities said he forced a man he had arrested to lick urine off the floor of a jail cell. Michael Christian Green, 26, lost his job as a Pearl Police Department patrol offi Key moments surrounding the Michigan high school shooting in 2021 03/14/2024 07:41pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� The father of a Michigan school shooter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, a second conviction against the parents of the teenage boy who killed four classmates and wounded others. It is the latest development in the shooting that occurred Nov. 30, 2021, i Tractor-trailer goes partly off the New York Thruway after accident 03/14/2024 07:09pm • HENRIETTA, N.Y. (AP) ��� A tandem tractor-trailer was left partly hanging over the edge of a New York State Thruway bridge Thursday after an accident. No serious injuries were reported. The eastbound FedEx tractor-trailer sideswiped a disabled vehicle on a stretch of Interstate 90 in the Rochester, St. Patrick's parade will be Kansas City's first big event since the deadly Super Bowl celebration 03/14/2024 07:09pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� Hundreds of thousands of people are expected at this weekend's St. Patrick���s Day parade in Kansas City, where they should expect much tighter security measures than in past years due to last month's deadly mass shooting at the Chiefs��� Super Bowl celebration. The parade