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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 Thousands of Indian farmers protest in New Delhi demanding a law guaranteeing minimum crop prices 03/14/2024 07:02pm • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Thousands of farmers protested in India's capital on Thursday to press their demand for a new law that would guarantee minimum crop prices, after weeks of being blocked from entering the city. They rode crowded buses and trains instead of their tractors to New Delhi after authorit A nonbinary student's death after a high school fight has been ruled a suicide. Here's what to know 03/14/2024 06:57pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� Police in Oklahoma say they still haven't finished their investigation into the death of a 16-year-old nonbinary student the day after a high school fight, which has been ruled a suicide by the state medical examiner's office. A summary autopsy report was released on Wednesda Maryland Senate votes for Gov. Wes Moore's gun violence prevention center 03/14/2024 06:48pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland would create a new center to foster a statewide partnership with federal and local agencies to reduce gun violence, under a bill approved by the state Senate on Thursday. The measure, proposed by Gov. Wes Moore, would put the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention Honduras ex-first lady says presidential bid not meant to protect herself after husband's conviction 03/14/2024 06:39pm • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) ��� Former Honduras first lady Ana Garc��a de Hern��ndez said Thursday that her decision to seek the presidency next year is about showing the world the injustice that was done to her recently convicted husband and defending Honduras' reputation, not an attempt to protect Delaware Democrats give final approval to handgun permit-to-purchase bill 03/14/2024 06:11pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) ��� Senate Democrats in Delaware gave final approval Thursday to a bill requiring anyone wanting to buy a handgun to first be fingerprinted, undergo training and obtain permission from the state. The bill cleared the Senate on a straight party-line vote Thursday and now goes to Dem Woman's 'illegal buying spree' armed killer of 3 Minnesota first responders, prosecutor says 03/14/2024 06:00pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A woman's ���illegal buying spree��� armed a man with the high-powered firearms that he used to kill three Minnesota first responders during a standoff at a home where seven children were inside, federal authorities said Thursday. The guns bought by Ashley Anne Dyrdahl included Tennessee House advances bill requiring local officers to aid US immigration authorities 03/14/2024 05:52pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� The Republican-led Tennessee House advanced a proposal Thursday that would require law enforcement agencies in the state to communicate with federal immigration authorities if they discover people are in the the country illegally, and would broadly mandate cooperation in th 2 Michigan officers on leave after video shows officer kicking Black man in head during arrest 03/14/2024 05:24pm • STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) ��� Two suburban Detroit police officers are under investigation after police video of officers arresting a Black man accused of domestic violence shows one officer kicking him in the head during a chaotic arrest the man's attorney calls ���a gang-style beating.��� The S A 1-year-old boy in Connecticut has died after a dog bit him several times 03/14/2024 05:16pm • EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� A 1-year-old boy died in Connecticut after a dog attacked the child while he was on a trampoline with his mother, police said. Police responded just after 3 p.m. Wednesday to a home in East Hartford where the child had been bitten several times, Officer Marc Caruso, a p Oklahoma's push to weaken penalties for cockfighting is frustrating opponents of the bloodsport 03/14/2024 05:14pm • WILSON, Okla. (AP) ��� Before Oklahoma became one of the last places in the U.S. to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, it wasn't uncommon to see hundreds of spectators packed into small arenas in rural parts of the state to watch roosters, often outfitted with razor-sharp steel blades, fight until a blood