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Louisiana governor declares state of emergency due to police shortage 02/16/2024 03:46pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana GOP Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency due to a police officer shortage. Landry's executive order issued Thursday lifts limits on how many new employees Louisiana sheriffs can hire and on payroll increases for their departments. Landry, who previo How busy was Prince George’s County’s police accountability board in year one? 02/16/2024 03:05pm • Calls for police oversight have grown louder in recent years, leading the state of Maryland to mandate the creation of police accountability boards in 2022. But after all the fiery rhetoric, just how often were cops in Prince George’s County actually going rogue? In 2023, the county's Police Ac 2 teenage boys charged with murder in fatal shooting of Md. toddler 02/16/2024 03:01pm • Two Maryland teenagers have been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting death of a toddler in the Langley Park neighborhood of Prince George's County earlier this month. A 15-year-old boy from Takoma Park and a 16-year-old boy from Hyattsville are charged as adults with first- and s Biden plans to welcome Kenyan president to White House for state visit in May 02/16/2024 02:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to welcome Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House in May, hosting a state visit after reneging on his promise to visit Africa last year. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Friday that the visit set for May 23 will mark th American woman goes missing in Madrid after helmeted man disables cameras 02/16/2024 02:31pm • MADRID (AP) — Ana Maria Knezevic traveled from South Florida to Spain in December to get away for a while. Her family and friends say the naturalized American originally from Colombia has been going through a nasty divorce from her Serbian husband, but the trip was also a chance to explore new pla Florida deputy mistakes falling acorn for gunshot, fires into patrol car with Black man inside 02/16/2024 02:25pm • FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff's deputy mistook the sound of an acorn hitting his patrol vehicle for a gunshot and fired multiple times at the SUV where a handcuffed Black man was sitting in the backseat, officials said. The man, who was being questioned about stealing his girlfr Imprisoned former Pakistani premier Khan appeals 3 recent convictions 02/16/2024 02:14pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) — The legal team of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday appealed his recent convictions and sentences in three controversial legal cases, a defense lawyer said. Khan was sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison on charges of corruption, revealing off Meghan Agosta, a 3-time Olympic hockey champion with Canada, announces her retirement 02/16/2024 02:01pm • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Meghan Agosta, who won three gold medals representing Canada at the Olympics, announced Friday she is retiring from hockey. Agosta, 37, played for more than a decade and a half, also winning two International Ice Hockey Federation world championship gold medals a In the chaos of the Kansas City parade shooting, he's hit and doesn't know where his kids are 02/16/2024 01:56pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jacob Gooch was having what was sure to be the best day of his year, hanging out with his wife and children and friends in the massive, happy, high-fiving crowd of fellow Kansas City Chiefs fans at the parade celebrating their Super Bowl victory. Then he heard “pop, pop, Pennsylvania magistrate judge is charged with shooting her ex-boyfriend as he slept 02/16/2024 01:46pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A suspended magistrate judge in Pennsylvania shot her estranged boyfriend in the head as he slept last weekend, police said Thursday in filing attempted murder and aggravated assault charges against her. Tests showed Magisterial District Judge Sonya M. McKnight, 57, had guns Nikki Haley's request for Secret Service protection one step away from final approval 02/16/2024 01:41pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group of top congressional leaders has recommended that Republican candidate Nikki Haley receive protection from the U.S. Secret Service after she reported a growing number of threats during her presidential campaign, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Pr Philadelphia traffic stop ends in gunfire; driver fatally wounded, officer injured 02/16/2024 01:31pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A traffic stop in a Philadelphia neighborhood ended in gunfire when authorities say the driver backed into the officer's cruiser and then pinned him against a wall, spurring the officer to fire several shots into the vehicle. The driver sped off but was soon found wounded in t Tribes in Washington are battling a devastating opioid crisis. Will a multimillion-dollar bill help? 02/16/2024 01:25pm • BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Evelyn Jefferson walks deep into a forest dotted with the tents of unhoused Lummi Nation tribal members and calls out names. When someone appears, she and a nurse hand out the opioid overdose reversal medication naloxone. Jefferson, a tribal member herself, knows how crit NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 02/16/2024 12:39pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Posts share erroneous information about suspect identification in Kan A man is charged in a car accident that killed 2 Chicago women in St. Louis for a Drake concert 02/16/2024 11:22am • ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old man in the deaths of a mother and daughter from Chicago who were fatally struck by a Jeep after leaving a Drake concert. Monte Henderson of suburban St. Louis was charged Thursday with two counts of first-degree involuntary manslaug