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Montgomery County Executive defends vetting process while search for new Fire Chief continues 03/06/2024 07:31pm • Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich wanted a veteran of the county's Fire and Rescue Service to become the next chief. But 34-year veteran and MCFRS Division Chief Charles Bailey saw his name abruptly withdrawn from consideration this week. It's not the first time a pick for a top job in t Politicians seek new alliances to lead Haiti as gangs take over and premier tries to return home 03/06/2024 06:35pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian politicians started pursuing new alliances Wednesday, seeking a coalition that could lead the country out of the gang violence that has fueled lawlessness, closed the main airport and prevented embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry from returning home. Haiti rem Chicago's top cop says police are getting training to manage protests during the DNC 03/06/2024 05:33pm • chicagos-top-cop-says-police-are-getting-training-to-manage-protests-during-the-dnc Georgia House passes bill requiring jailers to identify and hold immigrants after student's killing 03/06/2024 05:03pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House Republicans are backing a bill that would require every eligible police and sheriff’s department to help identify undocumented immigrants and detain them for possible deportation. The House voted 97-74 on Thursday for House Bill 1105 after police accused a Venezuelan 4 are charged with concealing a corpse, evidence tampering in Long Island body parts case 03/06/2024 04:37pm • BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — Four people were charged Wednesday with concealing a human corpse and tampering with evidence in connection with the discovery of body parts in parks on Long Island. The four — Amanda Wallace, 40, Jeffrey Mackey, 38, Steven Brown, 44, all of Amityville, and Alexis Nieves, 33 Mourners honor woman who was raped and killed in Poland's capital after fleeing Belarus 03/06/2024 04:28pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Mourners in Poland paid tribute Wednesday evening to a young Belarusian woman who died after being attacked and raped on the streets of Warsaw last month, a crime that has shocked the country. In recent years, the Polish capital has become a hub for Belarusians fleeing repres Activists and members of Serbia's LGBTQ+ community protest reported police harassment 03/06/2024 03:00pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Rights activists and members of LGBTQ+ community in Serbia on Wednesday held a protest following a reported case of police harassment of a young gay man and a bisexual woman. The protest in Serbia's capital Belgrade was called after police rejected a complaint against the How Putin's crackdown on dissent became the hallmark of the Russian leader’s 24 years in power 03/06/2024 02:45pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin in February 2015, more than 50,000 Muscovites expressed their shock and outrage the next day at the brazen assassination. Police stood aside as they rallied and chanted anti-govern New attacks by IS-linked group in Mozambique leave over 70 children missing. Thousands have fled 03/06/2024 02:41pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province has left more than 70 children missing, with fears they may have drowned in a river or been kidnapped by militants as thousands of families fled, local authorities and a No video voyeurism charge for ousted Florida GOP chair, previously cleared in rape case 03/06/2024 02:10pm • SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The ousted former chair of the Republican Party of Florida will not face a video voyeurism charge for recording a sexual encounter with a woman who accused him of rape, a case in which he was also not charged, prosecutors said Wednesday. The woman made inconsistent statements Workers expressed concern over bowed beams, structural issues before Idaho hangar collapse killed 3 03/06/2024 01:57pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Workers had expressed concerns about bending or bowed beams and structural issues before a steel airport hangar under construction in Idaho collapsed in January, killing three people and injuring nine others, a newspaper reported. Some employees told the site’s supervisor of Texas sheriff who was under scrutiny following mass shooting loses reelection bid 03/06/2024 01:24pm • COLDSPRING, Texas (AP) — A Texas sheriff whose office drew national scrutiny and an FBI investigation following a shooting last year in which a man is accused of killing five of his neighbors lost his reelection bid on Tuesday. Greg Capers had sought a fourth term as sheriff in San Jacinto County, Oklahoma panel denies clemency for death row inmate, paves way for lethal injection 03/06/2024 01:17pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state panel on Wednesday denied clemency for an Oklahoma death row inmate convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago, paving the way for his lethal injection next month. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole voted 4-1 to deny recommendin DC road closures announced for Thursday's State of the Union 03/06/2024 12:55pm • WTOP will have live coverage of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address starting at 9 p.m.  As comes the State of the Union address from President Joe Biden, so too come the road closures for D.C. Here's the street shutdown breakdown (pun perhaps intended) from the U.S. Capitol Pol Woman survives bear attack outside her home; mother bear killed and 3 cubs tranquilized 03/06/2024 12:10pm • BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — A woman was injured in a bear attack while letting her dog outside, and Pennsylvania game commission employees killed the mother bear and tranquilized her three yearling cubs, authorities said. Butler Township police said the 55-year-old woman was attacked after letting her dog