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2 police horses on the lam cause traffic jam on I-90 in Cleveland area 03/03/2024 02:00pm • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Drivers on an Ohio interstate came upon an unusual traffic hazard over the weekend ��� a pair of police horses trotting against traffic on the highway. The two animals on the lam caused an unusual traffic jam Saturday afternoon as they wove through slowing traffic and then stopped Organized crime attacks on local candidates raise fears Mexico may face its bloodiest elections ever 03/03/2024 01:48pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� As Mexico prepares for the largest elections in its history, organized crime is once again preying on local candidates across swaths of the country where cartels dominate, raising concerns among experts that these could be Mexico���s bloodiest elections ever. Juli��n L��pez, coo Alleged IS militants in Russia's North Caucasus were killed in a shootout with security services 03/03/2024 12:00pm • Six alleged members of the Islamic State group were killed in a shootout in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, in what the country's National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) described Sunday as a ���counterterrorism operation." According to a statement by the NAC, late on Saturday the six men b Maryland, Florida among states considering menthol cigarette bans as feds delay action 03/03/2024 09:57am • It was just after sunset, and the evening traffic was buzzing on Highway 50 as 24-year-old Elijah Kinlaw popped into his local Walgreens to pick up some smokes. He had just finished a long day working at a local roofing company, and he was still wearing his neon green work T-shirt and a red beanie. Landover man accused of shooting DC Housing Authority police officer held without bond 03/03/2024 09:14am • A D.C. Superior Court Judge has ordered detention without bond for a Prince George���s County, Maryland, man accused of shooting a D.C. Housing Authority police officer last week. Victor Terrill, 40, of Landover, Maryland, is charged with assaulting a police officer while armed and possessing a f Texas police arrest suspect in abduction of 12-year-old girl who was found safe after 8 days 03/03/2024 09:03am • COLUMBUS, Texas (AP) ��� Police in Texas have arrested a man suspected in the disappearance of a girl who was missing for eight days before she was safely located. Sirterryon Preston, 27, of Houston was charged with evading authorities after he attempted to flee from officers on Friday, the Columbus Trump endorses Mark Robinson for North Carolina governor and compares him to Martin Luther King Jr. 03/03/2024 08:59am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Donald Trump has endorsed North Carolina Lt. Gov Mark Robinson for governor, fulfilling a pledge the former president made several months ago. At a rally Saturday in Greensboro, Trump compared Robinson, who is Black, to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the famed civil rights l Prisoners with developmental disabilities face unique challenges. One facility is offering solutions 03/03/2024 05:52am • ALBION, Pa. (AP) ��� ���You are the Lighthouse in someone���s storm,��� reads the message above a mural of a sailboat bobbing on ocean waves under a cloud-studded azure sky. It's an unexpected slogan for a prison wall. On a nearby door painted deep blue, a bright yellow Minion character offers ���Wa Today in History: March 3, Rodney King beaten by Los Angeles police 03/03/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Sunday, March 3, the 63rd day of 2024. There are 303 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On March 3, 1991, motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video. On this date: In 1791, Congress pa Police in Haiti struggle against gangs storming prison in latest surge of violence 03/02/2024 10:05pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Police in Haiti urgently appealed for help Saturday night as they struggled to hold back gangs trying to storm the country's main prison in a major escalation of violence sweeping the troubled Caribbean nation. ���They need help,��� a union representing Haitian police Iceland���s Blue Lagoon evacuated ahead of ���imminent��� volcanic eruption 03/02/2024 08:40pm • (CNN) ��� Iceland has evacuated its world-famous Blue Lagoon due to nearby seismic activity that suggests an ���imminent��� volcanic eruption, the country���s public broadcaster R��V reported Saturday. Magma has begun flowing after ���intense seismic activity��� in the area around the lagoon, a p Trump escalates his immigration rhetoric with baseless claim about Biden trying to overthrow the US 03/02/2024 08:36pm • GREENSBORO, North Carolina (AP) ��� Former President Donald Trump on Saturday further escalated his immigration rhetoric and baselessly accused President Joe Biden of waging a ���conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America" as he campaigned ahead of Super Tuesday's primaries. Trump has a l Bowser, DC police chief huddle with grassroots leaders to combat crime problem 03/02/2024 06:33pm • Facing a continuous threat of violent crime ��� and in particular, juvenile violent crime ��� D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and police Chief Pamela Smith led a public safety summit Saturday with grassroots leaders of the city. ANC commissioners from across the city sat down with Bowser and Smith at th Oregon may revive penalties for drug possession. What will the change do? 03/02/2024 05:23pm • Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law with a new measure approved by the state Senate that would reinstate criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of some drugs. The law, which took effect in 2021, decriminalized possession and personal use of Oregon lawmakers pass bill to recriminalize drug possession 03/02/2024 05:16pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) ��� A bill recriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs was passed by the Oregon Legislature on Friday, undoing a key part of the state���s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law as governments struggle to respond to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history.