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Lawyers say a trooper charged at a Philadelphia LGBTQ+ leader as she recorded the traffic stop 03/07/2024 07:20pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� A Philadelphia city official arrested during a traffic stop said she started recording because she feared for her husband's life as a trooper handcuffed him on a rainy elevated highway. The trooper then charged at her ���like a linebacker," knocking the cellphone away and endi San Francisco mayor touts possibilities after voters expand police powers, gets tough on drug users 03/07/2024 07:10pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Mayor London Breed on Thursday pledged even more improvements under a pair of controversial public safety proposals voters approved this week that expand police powers and force some welfare recipients into drug treatment, marking a shift from the city's staunchly progressive Tennessee lawmakers advance bill to undo Memphis' traffic stop reforms after Tyre Nichols death 03/07/2024 06:19pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Republican Tennessee House lawmakers on Thursday advanced a bill to undo the reforms to police traffic stops made by the city of Memphis in response to the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers last January. Republicans held the vote as Democrats accused Memphis Republi NYC public servants accused of stealing identities of homeless in pandemic fraud scheme 03/07/2024 06:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Several New York City employees were arrested Thursday for their alleged role in a scheme to steal the identities of homeless shelter residents and defraud a pandemic-era relief program. Manhattan prosecutors brought charges against 18 people, including five employees of the city� 'They messed it up': Biden's backing for Haiti's unpopular leader digs US into deeper policy hole 03/07/2024 06:11pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� When Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry filled the void left by the assassination of the country���s president in 2021, he did so over the protest of wide segments of the population but with the full-throated support of the Biden administration. Now, almost three years later, Henry��� 6 dead after mass stabbing at Ottawa home, student who lived with family arrested 03/07/2024 06:04pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� A 19-year-old student from Sri Lanka is accused of stabbing and killing six people he lived with, including a 2 1/2-month-old baby girl and three other kids from a Sri Lankan family, Ottawa police said Thursday. Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs said an ���edged weapon��� or ���knife- Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti is in trouble with Spain's tax office. He joins an illustrious list 03/07/2024 05:49pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has become the latest high-profile soccer figure to come under scrutiny of Spanish authorities for allegedly not paying his fair share in taxes. While the Italian manager can still win his case in court, or make a deal to avoid trial, Spain Teen rapper 'Baby K' to be tried as adult in attempted killing on Md. school bus 03/07/2024 05:25pm • A 16-year-old known as "Baby K" will be tried as an adult on charges connected to the attempted killing of a student on a Prince George's County, Maryland, school bus in May 2023, a judge ruled Thursday afternoon. Police said Kaeden Holland was 15 when he burst onto a school bus with a gun and tr A timeline of Haiti's gang violence and how the country got to where it is 03/07/2024 05:10pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Haiti is once again facing a wave of chaos fueled by ongoing gang wars, which have spiraled since the 2021 assassination of the country���s president. Gang leaders have grown increasingly violent and empowered, taking advantage of power vacuums in the Caribbean nation Houston police chief apologizes for department not investigating 264K cases due to staffing issues 03/07/2024 05:04pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Houston���s police chief pledged on Thursday to restore public trust in his department following revelations that more than 264,000 cases, including over 4,000 involving sexual assault, were dropped in the past eight years due to a lack of personnel. Last month Chief Troy Finner ann Nothing to sniff at: Bill would help pay to retire Ohio drug-detecting K9s under legal cannabis 03/07/2024 04:43pm • WHITEHALL, Ohio (AP) ��� Two Ohio lawmakers are looking to ease a looming financial burden on law enforcement agencies in their state that will have to replace marijuana-sniffing dogs after voters approved a plan last year to legalize recreational marijuana use. Nearly 400 police dogs in Ohio traine Additional child neglect charges filed against the mother of a missing Wisconsin boy 03/07/2024 04:39pm • MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) ��� Prosecutors filed additional child neglect charges Thursday against the mother of a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy who vanished last month, and a judge rejected her request for a bond reduction. Katrina Baur's son, Elijah Vue, was last seen Feb. 20 at a residence in Two Rivers whe Indiana man pleads guilty to assaulting police with baton and makeshift weapons during Capitol riot 03/07/2024 04:36pm • An Indiana man pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges that he used a metal baton, a lamp and other makeshift weapons to assault police officers who were protecting the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Donald Trump supporters. Curtis Logan Tate, 32, struck at least two officers with the baton that he bro 3 escaped inmates from Grenada charged with murder after US sailing couple vanishes 03/07/2024 04:10pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Three escaped inmates from the eastern Caribbean island of Grenada were charged in the killing of a U.S. couple whose catamaran they hijacked, police said Thursday. Ron Mitchell, a 30-year-old sailor; Atiba Stanislaus, a 25-year-old farmer; and Trevon Robertson, a 2 State of the Union: What to watch as Biden addresses the nation 03/07/2024 03:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The State of the Union speech is one of the biggest pieces of political theater every year. It's rooted in a simple requirement in the U.S. Constitution that directs the president to ���give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Considerati