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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. The semi driver rescued dangling from a bridge had been struck by an oncoming vehicle: mayor 03/02/2024 05:03pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A tractor-trailer that was knocked dangling off a bridge over the Ohio River — prompting a dramatic rescue of the driver — was struck by a vehicle that had crossed into opposing traffic, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said Saturday. Breathtaking photos and video captur Three trains involved in 'collision and derailment' in eastern Pennsylvania; no injuries reported 03/02/2024 03:10pm • BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say three trains were involved in a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday morning that caused no reported injuries or evacuations but left some railroad cars scattered along a riverbank and at least one partially in the river. Officials in N Medical incident likely led to SUV crashing into Walmart store, authorities say 03/02/2024 02:18pm • CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A driver who crashed her sport-utility vehicle into a Walmart store in suburban Detroit was likely having a health incident at the time, authorities said Saturday. The woman and four other people who were taken to hospitals Friday did not have life-threatening injurie An arrest has been made and charges filed in Pennsylvania slaying of pregnant Amish woman 03/02/2024 01:57pm • SPARTANSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man was arrested Saturday and charged with the slaying of a pregnant Amish woman whose body was found last week. Shawn C. Cranston, 52, of Corry, has been charged with criminal homicide, criminal homicide of an unborn child, burglary and criminal trespass, a Former DC police officer sentenced after chokeholds 03/02/2024 12:51pm • A former D.C. police officer was sentenced Friday to six months in prison after two incidents where he performed prohibited chokeholds. Mark Lamont Clark, 57, received his sentence for two counts of deprivation of civil rights, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release. Clark was convi Navalny's mother brings flowers to his grave a day after thousands attended his funeral in Moscow 03/02/2024 11:15am • Lyudmila Navalnaya and Alla Abrosimova, the mother and mother-in-law of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, were among mourners who brought flowers to his grave in Moscow on Saturday, a day after thousands turned his funeral into one of the largest recent displays of dissent. Police kept a he Hard-liners are leading in vote count in Iran’s parliamentary election after record-low turnout 03/02/2024 11:12am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's hard-liners are leading in an initial vote count in the capital Tehran, state media reported Sunday, following a record-low turnout in a parliamentary election. State-run IRNA news agency and state TV said 1,960 from 5,000 ballots in Tehran had been count The Missouri governor shortens the DWI prison sentence of former Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid 03/02/2024 11:05am • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday shortened the prison sentence of former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid for a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a 5-year-old girl. Parson's commutation converted the remainder of Reid's three-year prison senten Body parts of 2 people found in Long Island park and police are trying to identify them 03/02/2024 10:35am • BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — Police on New York's Long Island were trying to identify human remains found in a popular suburban park that appear to be from a man and a woman. A girl walking to school Thursday morning found a severed arm on the side of the road at Southards Pond Park, about 25 miles (40 ki Truck driver pulled to safety after crash leaves vehicle dangling over bridge across Ohio River 03/02/2024 07:47am • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The driver of a semi-truck was pulled to safety Friday by firefighters following a crash that left the vehicle dangling over a bridge across the Ohio River. The three-vehicle crash on the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge connecting Louisville, Kentucky to southern Indiana 3 additional suspects charged in Md. teen’s death last fall ordered held without bond 03/02/2024 05:20am • Three more teenagers arrested and charged in the death of a 16-year-old girl last fall will stay behind bars after a Prince George’s County, Maryland, judge deemed all three threats to the community. Those suspects include 18-year-old Cameron Anderson, 18-year-old Ramon Richardson and a 17-year Federal officials will investigate Oklahoma school following nonbinary teenager's death 03/01/2024 11:40pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal officials are opening an investigation into the Oklahoma school district where a nonbinary 16-year-old high school student was in a fight before dying last month, according to a letter sent by the U.S. Department of Education on Friday. Nex Benedict, whose family says Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death in rare case against medical responders 03/01/2024 10:04pm • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison in a rare prosecution of medical responders following the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020. McClain was walking d Teen driver charged with manslaughter 3 months after fatal Fairfax Co. crash 03/01/2024 08:56pm • The teen driver in a suspected drunken driving crash in Fairfax County, Virginia, last year that killed a 14-year-old boy and left five other teens seriously injured, has now been charged with DUI-related manslaughter, police said Friday. The driver, who was 17 at the time of the November crash a