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Spanish police suspect bullet-riddled body may be Russian who defected with army helicopter 02/20/2024 11:14am • MADRID (AP) ��� Police said Tuesday they suspect the bullet-riddled body of a man found in Spain is that of a Russian defector who escaped across the front line and into Ukraine last year with an army helicopter. The body was found Feb. 13 in La Cala, near the eastern port city of Alicante, accordin Officials offer few details about death of Maryland state employee in Annapolis office building 02/20/2024 10:08am • Maryland officials are releasing few details about the death of a state employee inside a state government office building in Annapolis 10 days ago. Police and emergency medical crews were called to the Attman-Glazer building at 45 Calvert St. in Annapolis for reports of an employee who was found The Vatican's problematic process to address clergy sex abuse cases, explained 02/20/2024 09:04am • VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� One afternoon in mid-December, Pope Francis had a meeting that wasn���t on his official agenda or otherwise recorded, that underscored the utter dysfunction of the Catholic Church���s response to the global clergy sex abuse scandal. In the main reception room of the Vatican hot Montgomery Co. youth rugby team loses thousand of dollars to hackers 02/20/2024 05:47am • Maryland Exiles Youth Rugby Club are raising funds for new gear and a trip to a rugby festival in North Carolina. (Courtesy Dan Soso) A youth rugby club is still trying to play catch-up after someone stole $17,000 from its bank account last year. Maryland Exiles Youth Rugby Club head coach Da Car crash in southern Serbia kills 3 migrants; driver is suspected of people smuggling 02/20/2024 05:14am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� A car crash in southern Serbia has killed three migrants and injured 11 others, and the driver was detained for suspected people smuggling, police in the Balkan country said on Tuesday. The 43-year-old Serbian driver had no driver's license and was among those injured in th 75th George Polk Awards honor coverage of Middle East and Ukraine wars, Supreme Court and Elon Musk 02/20/2024 04:46am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The New York Times was honored Monday with George Polk Awards for Foreign Reporting and Photojournalism for its coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas. Photographers Samar Abu Elouf and Yousef Masoud captured ���gripping and unforgettable images��� as they chronicled the con Tribal bloodshed shines spotlight on instability in strategically vital Papua New Guinea 02/20/2024 02:44am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� A tribal clash in Papua New Guinea���s remote highlands in which at least 26 people were killed has put a growing internal security problem under the microscope in the strategically vital South Pacific island nation that has garnered closer military attention from the U Welcome to the 'Hotel California' case: The trial over handwritten lyrics to an Eagles classic 02/20/2024 12:09am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song. On a lined yellow pad, Don Henley, with input from band co-founder Glenn Frey, jotted thoughts about ���a dark desert highway" and ���a lovely place��� with a luxurious surface and ominous undertones. And som As the Ukraine war enters a third year, Putin waits for Western support for Kyiv to wither 02/20/2024 12:07am • When the invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, some analysts predicted it might take as few as three days for Russian forces to capture the capital of Kyiv. With the war now entering its third year, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to be trying to turn that initial failure to his advanta Navalny's widow vows to continue his fight against the Kremlin and punish Putin for his death 02/19/2024 11:27pm • The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny vowed on Monday to continue his fight against the Kremlin, while authorities denied his mother access to a morgue where his body is believed to be held after his death last week in an Arctic penal colony. With her voice cracking at times in a vid Missouri House votes to ban celebratory gunfire days after Chiefs' parade shooting 02/19/2024 08:20pm • COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) ��� Missouri's Republican-led House on Monday passed a bill to ban celebratory gunfire in cities less than a week after a deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs��� Super Bowl parade left some attending lawmakers hiding in bathrooms. Kansas City police have said the shooting app Student arrested on murder charges after 2 found dead in a Colorado college dorm 02/19/2024 08:00pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A student was arrested Monday on murder charges over the shootings of two people who were found dead in a dorm room last week at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, police said. The Colorado Springs Police Department said they arrested Nicholas Jordan, 25, without incident 3 workers hospitalized after being shocked by power lines at Alexandria construction site 02/19/2024 07:41pm • Three men were taken to the hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, Monday after suffering electrical shocks when they came into contact with a power line at a construction site, authorities said. Two of the men have life-threatening injuries, police said. It happened Monday at 6336 Stevenson Ave. a Loudoun house explosion: Fallen firefighter mourned, nonprofit funnels aid to families 02/19/2024 07:30pm • Help is on the way to families of the firefighters killed and injured in last week's house explosion in Sterling, Virginia. The Loudoun First Responders Foundation, an all-volunteer nonprofit, is providing financial assistance to the families in coordination with the Loudoun County Combined Fire Cyclist in Washington state sustains injuries after a cougar 'latched onto' her 02/19/2024 06:20pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� A woman suffered injuries to her face and neck after a cougar leapt out and ���latched onto��� her while she was cycling with a group on a trail in Washington state, authorities said. The incident happened Saturday on a trail northeast of Fall City, a community about 25 miles (40 ki