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Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's mother says she's resisting pressure to agree to a secret burial 02/22/2024 05:37pm • The mother of Russia���s late opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that she has seen her son's body and that she is resisting strong pressure by authorities to agree to a secret burial outside the public eye. Lyudmila Navalnaya said investigators allowed her to see her son���s body in the Denver police seek help finding a former funeral home owner after body kept in hearse for 2 years 02/22/2024 05:27pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Denver police are asking for the public���s help in finding a former funeral home owner who they say kept a woman���s body in a hearse for two years and kept the cremated remains of at least 30 people. In announcing an arrest warrant last Friday, police said Miles Harford was coopera A UK jury found that a boy who fell during a Scout outing was unlawfully killed 02/22/2024 04:44pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A jury in the U.K. found Thursday that a 16-year-old boy who died on a Scout trip in 2018 was unlawfully killed, and a coroner referred the Scout Association to British police for investigation. Ben Leonard suffered a serious head injury when he lost his footing on a cliff edge and f New Hampshire man convicted of killing daughter, 5, whose body has not been found 02/22/2024 04:22pm • MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) ��� A New Hampshire man was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, who police believe was killed nearly two years before she was reported missing in 2021 and whose body was never found. Adam Montgomery, 34, did not attend the trial Soccer star Dani Alves found guilty of rape, sentenced to four and a half years in prison 02/22/2024 04:15pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Dani Alves, one of the most successful soccer players of his generation, was found guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub and sentenced to four years and six months in prison on Thursday. The former Brazil and Barcelona right back was convicted in Spain under a n Afrofuturist opera `Lalovavi' to premiere in Cincinnati on Juneteenth 2025 02/22/2024 03:57pm • The Cincinnati Opera will present an Afrofuturist-themed production next year that commemorates the Juneteenth holiday and would mark the first of three commissions from the company to all-Black creative teams. ���Lalovavi" is composed by Kevin Day with Tifara Brown writing the libretto and Kimille Bail is set at $4 million for an Ohio woman charged in her 5-year-old foster son's suffocation death 02/22/2024 03:46pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� A judge Thursday set bail at $4 million for an Ohio woman charged with murder in the suffocation death of her 5-year-old foster son. Pammy Maye, 48, of Columbus, also faces kidnapping and child endangerment charges in the death of Darnell Taylor, whose body was found in a se Brazil���s Bolsonaro stays silent in meeting with police as part of coup investigation 02/22/2024 03:12pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his former top aides met Thursday with police as part of an investigation into allegations they plotted a coup to remove Bolsonaro's successor, Luiz In��cio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro arrived at Federal Police headquarters i Data from phone, Apple Watch help lead police to suspects in Iowa woman's death 02/22/2024 03:08pm • MARENGO, Iowa (AP) ��� Data from an iPhone and Apple Watch helped lead police to suspects after a woman's body was found in an Iowa lake, authorities said. Iowa County Sheriff Robert Rotter on Tuesday identified the victim as 20-year-old Melody M. Hoffman of Marion, Iowa. Her body was discovered Sun Olympic equestrian champ cleared of violence in domestic dispute case 02/22/2024 02:32pm • Former Olympic equestrian champion Kevin Staut was cleared by a French court on Thursday of assaulting his former partner, his lawyer told the Associated Press. Staut and Norwegian horse rider Marie Valdar Longem had accused each other of violence following an argument in a Bordeaux hotel room in Fe DeSantis calls takeover of Disney government a 'success' despite worker exodus, litigation 02/22/2024 02:25pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� Almost a year after state lawmakers passed a law giving Florida���s governor control over Walt Disney World���s governing district, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday called the takeover a success, despite an exodus of workers, ongoing litigation and scandal surrounding one of his Police: Missouri fire that killed a woman and her 4 children was a murder-suicide 02/22/2024 02:01pm • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) ��� A fire that killed a Missouri mother and four children was intentionally set by the mother, police said. St. Louis County police announced late Wednesday that a preliminary investigation ruled that the deaths of Bernadine ���Birdie��� Pruessner, her twin 9-year-old daughters I Maryland House panel reviews Freedom to Read Act in dramatic hearing 02/22/2024 01:35pm • A bill that proposes to protect library books, reading materials and other resources from would-be censors received a long and at times dramatic first public hearing Wednesday. The Freedom to Read Act stands atop a ���decency agenda��� championed by House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore Co Man who assaulted four officers during Capitol riot is sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison 02/22/2024 12:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A Minnesota man who repeatedly attacked police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot, wielded a police baton as a weapon and stole two riot shields was sentenced on Thursday to nearly three years in prison. Brian Mock, 44, helped remove two police barricades before he assaulte A Missouri woman was killed in 1989. Three men are now charged in the crime 02/22/2024 12:36pm • AVA, Mo. (AP) ��� Authorities in Missouri say a 35-year cold case killing has been solved, thanks to someone who came forward with information about the crime. Douglas County authorities announced Wednesday that three men have been arrested and indicted on first-degree murder, forcible rape and firs