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Lawsuit accuses Portland police officer of excessive force in 2022 shooting of unarmed Black man 03/11/2024 06:41pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� A police officer in Portland, Oregon, has been accused in a federal lawsuit of excessive force over a 2022 fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man. The officer shot Immanueal ���Manny��� Clark in the back as he ran away from officers who were responding to an attempted armed r DC���s mayor says crime is falling, as she signs sweeping anti-crime bill into law 03/11/2024 06:29pm • Touting already improving crime trends, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed a sweeping anti-crime bill Monday, signaling a crackdown on violent crime that plagued the city last year. The package, called Secure D.C., was unanimously approved by the Council last week, with Council member Trayon White v Arkansas police identify suspect, victims in weekend shooting that left 3 people dead 03/11/2024 06:04pm • JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) ��� A 20-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man were killed in a weekend shooting in Arkansas that also left the 32-year-old suspected shooter dead, police said Monday. Jonesboro Police identified Amari Giles and Dwight Starks as the two killed in the shooting that also sent sever How Black women coined the 'say her name' rallying cry before Biden's State of the Union address 03/11/2024 05:59pm • Marjorie Taylor Greene wore a T-shirt to Thursday night's State of the Union address that carried a seemingly simple message: Say Her Name. The hard-line Republican congresswoman from Georgia, who was decked out in a red MAGA hat and other regalia, borrowed the phrase from Black racial justice activ A US man is sentenced to life in prison for murder and rape in attack on 2 American women in Germany 03/11/2024 05:45pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� An American man was convicted of murder and other charges on Monday for brutally attacking two American women near Germany���s famed Neuschwanstein castle last summer and pushing them into a ravine, fatally injuring one of them. He was sentenced to life in prison. The Kempten state c Man pleads guilty to murdering University of Utah football player Aaron Lowe 03/11/2024 05:40pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� The man accused of fatally shooting University of Utah football player Aaron Lowe pleaded guilty to murder charges on Monday, more than two years after police say he killed the cornerback outside a rowdy house party in Salt Lake City. Buk Mawut Buk, now 25, pleaded guilty to State police say 3 children and 2 adults have died after a school bus collided with a semitrailer in western Illinois 03/11/2024 04:54pm • RUSHVILLE, Ill. (AP) ��� State police say 3 children and 2 adults have died after a school bus collided with a semitrailer in western Illinois. Deputy dies during altercation in upstate New York casino, man charged in death 03/11/2024 04:36pm • BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) ��� A veteran sheriff's sergeant died after being attacked in a western New York casino, and a patron has been charged with manslaughter, police said Monday. Genesee County Sheriff���s Sgt. Thomas Sanfratello, 54, died early Sunday morning after trying to escort a man and a woman Georgia bill would impose harsher penalties on more 'swatting' calls 03/11/2024 04:00pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia would strengthen penalties against false reports of shootings and bomb threats at homes, known as swatting, under a bill passed Monday by the state House. The measure would also define a drive-by shooting as a separate crime. The House voted 162-2 for Senate Bill 421, sendi Italy abuse case highlights how scandal slowly beginning to come to light in pope's backyard 03/11/2024 03:59pm • ROME (AP) ��� The clergy sexual abuse scandal is slowly gathering steam in Italy with increasing media coverage, criminal convictions and the launch Monday of an investigative podcast dedicated to a case that tangentially involved Pope Francis. A Sicilian court last week convicted a priest of sexual Pakistan swears in newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's 19-member Cabinet 03/11/2024 03:44pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� The 19-member Cabinet of Pakistan���s newly elected Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif was sworn into office on Monday and held its first meeting. The prime minister appointed several top government posts and promised to tackle the country's unrelenting economic crisis. Pakistani Presi Brother of LSU guard Flau'jae Johnson arrested after SEC Tournament championship fight 03/11/2024 03:33pm • GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) ��� The brother of LSU guard Flau'jae Johnson was arrested and charged with assault and battery and disorderly conduct by the Greenville Police Department for his role in a fight after his sister was shoved to the court by South Carolina forward Kamilla Cardoso during a Southea More eyes, more scrutiny: South Carolina-LSU scrap seen as a bad look for growing women's game 03/11/2024 03:20pm • GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) ��� More eyes, more fans and more scrutiny. The good and the bad of the game has all come into sharper focus as women's college basketball continues to grow in popularity. What fans saw Sunday in the Southeastern Conference tournament championship was No. 1 South Carolina and L Minnesota court affirms rejection of teaching license for ex-officer who shot Philando Castile 03/11/2024 02:50pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ��� A Minnesota board was justified when it rejected a substitute teaching license for a former police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in 2016, an appeals court ruled Monday. The Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed the findings of the Minnesota Profess Private jet was short on approach to Virginia runway when it crashed, killing 5, police say 03/11/2024 01:49pm • HOT SPRINGS, Va. (AP) ��� A small private jet was short on its approach to a rural Virginia airport���s runway when it struck trees and crashed into a hillside and burned, killing all five people aboard, state police said Monday. The twin-engine IAI Astra 1125 left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and w