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New Mexico governor signs bill that bans some guns at polls and extends waiting period to 7 days 03/04/2024 07:14pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� Some guns will be banned at voting locations and the waiting period for purchasing firearms is being extended to seven days under measures signed into law Monday by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The second-term Democrat was surrounded by city leaders and others inside a hi Authorities say man who killed 2 in small Minnesota town didn't know his victims 03/04/2024 07:11pm • CLOQUET, Minn. (AP) ��� The man who fatally shot a Super 8 hotel clerk and a guest in a small Minnesota town doesn't appear to have any connection with the victims, authorities said. Cloquet police said Monday that it doesn't appear that 32-year-old Nicholas Elliot Lenius, of Ramsey, knew either of There's chaos in Haiti. Powerful gangs are attacking key targets like prisons as alliances shift 03/04/2024 06:54pm • Increasingly powerful gangs have attacked prisons and the airport serving Haiti's capital in recent days, forcing businesses and schools to close as hundreds of people fled. Heavily armed gangs have grown more powerful than Haiti's weak government and now control some 80% of the capital, according t Graphic body cam video shows officer fatally shoot man seconds after entering Suitland apartment 03/04/2024 06:50pm • Newly released body cam video shows a Prince George's County police officer shooting a man within seconds of entering an apartment in Suitland, Maryland. The shooting happened Feb. 1 in the 5100 block of Suitland Road. The officer who fired his weapon was responding to a 911 call about a reported Metro increasing special police officer patrols on buses, trains 03/04/2024 06:35pm • Special police officers wearing vests have started patrolling Metro trains and buses during trips as part of the transit agency's push to increase security. During the agency's board meeting last month, WMATA General Manager and CEO Randy Clarke said the use of special police officers enables the Utah governor mulls measure that would fund firearms training for teachers 03/04/2024 06:21pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Gun violence prevention advocates who gathered Monday at the Utah State Capitol called on Gov. Spencer Cox to veto legislation that they said could place children in harm's way by training more teachers to carry firearms on campus. The bill funding tactical training for Utah Fans gather to say goodbye to Flaco the owl in New York City memorial 03/04/2024 06:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Dozens of mournful fans of Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl gathered in New York City on Sunday to say goodbye to the beloved celebrity creature who became an inspiration and joy to many as he flew around Manhattan after someone let him out of his zoo enclosure. A memorial featuring sp How clean is the dirt on Hunter Biden? A key Republican source is charged with lying to the FBI 03/04/2024 05:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Alexander Smirnov was cast by Republicans as one of the FBI���s most trusted informants, offering a ���highly credible��� account of brazen public corruption by Joe Biden that formed a pillar of the House impeachment investigation of the Democratic president. Then, last month, th Minnesota is poised to give school resource officers clearer authority to use force 03/04/2024 05:32pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ��� Minnesota lawmakers are on the verge of a compromise that will give police officers who work in schools clearer authority to use force. Minnesota reacted to the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer with a series of police accountability measures that inclu Philadelphia LGBTQ leaders arrested in traffic stop the mayor calls 'concerning' 03/04/2024 03:48pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� The arrest of two of Philadelphia's LGBTQ leaders by a state trooper during a fraught highway traffic stop is ���very concerning,��� the city's mayor said after a video showing some of what happened circulated on social media. Celena Morrison leads the city���s Office of LGBT A Police say former NFL player Braylon Edwards is a hero for saving a man during YMCA assault 03/04/2024 03:06pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� Former NFL player Braylon Edwards stepped in and saved the life of an 80-year-old man who was being attacked in the locker room at a suburban Detroit YMCA, police said Monday. ���If it wasn't for that intervention, we could very easily be talking about someone���s death,��� said Jef Man killed by Connecticut state trooper was having mental health problems, witnesses testify 03/04/2024 02:45pm • In the days before he was killed by a Connecticut state trooper, Mubarak Soulemane's mental health problems were worsening while his behavior turned erratic and paranoid ��� a situation his family had experienced before as they struggled to ensure he received the best medication and took it, witness New Hampshire man who triggered Amber Alert held without bail in death of his children's mother 03/04/2024 02:44pm • A New Hampshire man accused of abducting his children after killing their mother was ordered held without bail Monday. Dustin Mark Duren, 37, was charged with second-degree murder Friday in the death of Caitlyn Naffziger, 31. Police had issued an Amber Alert after finding Naffziger dead in an apartm Search for missing girl in South Africa ramps up as news of bloodied items found heightens emotions 03/04/2024 02:34pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� The South African navy was brought in Monday to help with a search for a 6-year-old girl who has been missing for two weeks in a case that has captured national attention, forcing police to ask people to give them space to work and stop encroaching on the operation a Train crews working on cleanup and track repair after collision and derailment in Pennsylvania 03/04/2024 01:39pm • BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) ��� Norfolk Southern crews and contractors are working on cleanup and track repair after a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania over the weekend involving three trains that left some railroad cars scattered along a riverbank and at least one partially in the river. Of