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A Colorado man is dead after a pet Gila monster bite 02/21/2024 09:37am • A Colorado man has died after being bitten by his pet Gila monster in what would be a rare death by one of the desert lizards if the creature's venom turns out to have been the cause. Christopher Ward, 34, was taken to a hospital shortly after being bitten by one of his two pet Gila monsters on Feb. Alexei Navalny's mother files lawsuit with a Russian court demanding release of her son's body 02/21/2024 09:28am • The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has filed a lawsuit at a court in the Arctic city of Salekhard contesting officials��� refusal to release her son���s body, Russia���s state news agency Tass reported Wednesday. A closed-door hearing has been scheduled for March 4, the report sa 'I'm here to rescue you': A Maryland CHART driver describes a day at work 02/21/2024 07:27am • A Maryland State Highway Administration truck was stolen Friday night, and the suspect led police on a chase that sped across two counties and hit more than a dozen vehicles before he was ultimately arrested. The aerial shots of the chase were described as ���unnerving��� by WTOP traffic reporter Property tax bills in Fairfax Co. would go up under budget proposal 02/21/2024 05:10am • Under the Fairfax County executive's budget proposal, the property tax rate would go up for the first time in six years, raising annual bills by hundreds of dollars on average when coupled with increased real estate assessments for 2024. County Executive Bryan Hill is proposing a 4-cent increase Man arrested after setting off homemade firework near Southern California shopping center 02/21/2024 12:40am • TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) ��� A man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly setting off a homemade firework near a Southern California shopping center, police said. Reports of an explosion at The Village at Tustin Legacy prompted authorities to evacuate several businesses, including Chipotle, said Eric David Food deliveries into northern Gaza are halted because of the war's chaos, increasing famine risk 02/20/2024 11:28pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� The World Food Program said Tuesday it has paused deliveries of food to isolated northern Gaza because of increasing chaos across the territory, hiking fears of potential starvation. A study by the U.N. children���s agency warned that one in six children in the north are a A widow and 2 powerful officials indicted: Takeaways from the probe into Haiti president's slaying 02/20/2024 10:56pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� A judge who investigated the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Mo��se has indicted some 50 suspects in the case, including the slain president's widow, the former prime minister and the former head of Haiti's national police force. The long-awaited report Saturated California gets more rain and snow but so far escapes severe damage it saw only weeks ago 02/20/2024 10:55pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Much of saturated California faced the threat of flooding Tuesday with winter storms blowing through, but so far the state has escaped the severity of damage from mudslides, wind and rain spawned by an atmospheric river only weeks ago. While the rainfall was focused on Southern Flint man becomes first person charged under Michigan's new gun storage law 02/20/2024 10:34pm • FLINT, Mich. (AP) ��� A Michigan man was charged Tuesday under the state's new law requiring safe storage of guns after his 2-year-old daughter shot herself in the head with his revolver the day after the law took effect. The 44-year-old Flint man became the first person to be charged with violatin 'Without us, you don���t eat': Greek farmers drive tractors to parliament to demand financial help 02/20/2024 09:56pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Scores of bright-colored tractors were parked outside Greece's parliament Tuesday, horns blaring, as thousands of farmers angry at high production costs shifted their protests to Athens. ���Without us, you don���t eat," one banner said. Some farmers carried mock coffins and Man suspected in killing of woman in NYC hotel room arrested in Arizona after two stabbings there 02/20/2024 09:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A man suspected in the death of a woman who was fatally bludgeoned in a New York City hotel room earlier this month has been arrested in Arizona, where police say he is a suspect in two stabbings in recent days. New York City police officials said at a news conference Tuesday that Mexico's army takes over yet another civilian role ��� filling potholes 02/20/2024 09:20pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico���s president acknowledged Tuesday that the armed forces have taken over yet another civilian role: fixing the nation���s highways. Filling potholes has now been added to a long list of projects ranging from planes, trains and policing that the armed forces now control. Governor says carjackers ���will spend a long time in jail��� as lawmakers advance harsher punishment 02/20/2024 07:51pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� In the moments before Linda Frickey was dragged to her death during a fatal carjacking, the 73-year-old had been sitting in her parked vehicle in New Orleans when she was surrounded by four teenagers. The teens, who ranged in age from 15 to 17 during the time of the crime i Man suspected in killing of woman in NYC hotel room arrested in Arizona after two stabbings there 02/20/2024 07:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A man suspected in the death of a woman who was fatally bludgeoned in a New York City hotel room earlier this month has been arrested in Arizona, where police say he is a suspect in two stabbings in recent days. New York City police officials said at a news conference Tuesday that Judge sets $5M bond for Colorado student accused of killing his dorm roommate and another person 02/20/2024 07:23pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A judge on Tuesday raised the bond for a student being held in the deaths of two people shot in a dorm room at a Colorado college to $5 million after a prosecutor said there were indications he tried to flee and had a gun when he was arrested. The bond for Nicholas Jordan, 25, had be