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Man with samurai sword making threats arrested in Walmart, police say 02/05/2024 08:24pm • VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) ��� A man wielding a samurai sword and threatening to hurt people was arrested after he entered a Walmart store in southwest Washington state, police said. Multiple people called 911 around 5:30 p.m. Sunday about a man walking in Vancouver traffic with the sword while screamin Family of Black girls handcuffed by Colorado police, held at gunpoint reach $1.9 million settlement 02/05/2024 08:05pm • DENVER (AP) ��� The four Black girls lay facedown in a parking lot, crying ���no��� and ���mommy��� as a police officer who had pointed her gun at them then bent down to handcuff two of their wrists. The youngest wore a pink tiara as she held onto her teenage cousin���s hand. The 6-year-old Lovely w Illinois man gets 5 years for trying to burn down planned abortion clinic 02/05/2024 07:59pm • URBANA, Ill. (AP) ��� A 73-year-old Illinois man was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for driving a car into a planned abortion clinic and trying to set the building on fire last year. Philip J. Buyno of Prophetstown also was ordered to serve three years of supervised release and to pay $327 Pennsylvania Capitol protest against state investing in Israel bonds ends with arrests 02/05/2024 07:50pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Police took into custody more than 100 people protesting the Pennsylvania state government's investments in Israel on Monday, shutting down a demonstration on the steps of the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg. A spokesperson for the Department of General Services, which include A timeline of the Hockey Canada sexual assault allegations that have led to charges 02/05/2024 07:25pm • A timeline of events that led to Michael McLeod, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart, Dillon Dube and Cal Foote being charged in connection to sexual assault allegations involving Canada���s 2018 world junior hockey team. Their attorneys have said all five are not guilty. Jan. 5, 2018 ��� Canada���s world j 1st Russians are fined or jailed over rainbow-colored items after LGBTQ+ 'movement' is outlawed 02/05/2024 07:05pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� The first publicly known cases have emerged of Russian authorities penalizing people under a court ruling that outlawed LGBTQ+ activism as extremism, Russian media and rights groups have reported, with at least three people who displayed rainbow-colored items receiving jail What to Do if You Get Evicted 02/05/2024 07:00pm • Moving can be a stressful experience in even the best of circumstances. However, having to pack up after an eviction is something no one wants to endure. "Evictions are a result that landlords try hard to avoid," says Samuel M. Sherry, a Maine attorney specializing in landlord representation. Still, Northwest DC Safeway installs security gates to deter shoplifting 02/05/2024 06:24pm • A Safeway supermarket in Northwest D.C. has installed new security gates as part of a plan to deter shoplifting. At the store off Columbia Road between Lanier Heights and Adams Morgan, there is now a security gate near the self-checkout line. Shoppers have to scan a bar code on their receipt, and US Rep. Lauren Boebert granted temporary restraining order against her ex-husband 02/05/2024 06:00pm • DENVER (AP) ��� U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert now has a temporary restraining order against her ex-husband after accusing him of threatening to harm her and entering the family's home without permission, the latest in a series of flare-ups between her and Jayson Boebert. Congresswoman Boebert, a far-righ Moroccan authorities plan new laws to combat art forgeries in growing market 02/05/2024 05:39pm • RABAT, Morocco (AP) ��� Morocco is planning on passing new laws and strengthening penalties to combat art forgeries in order to protect a multimillion dollar art market that officials believe will continue to grow. The North African nation's chief prosecutor on Monday kicked off a series of meetings Bob Beckwith, retired firefighter in famous image with Bush after 9/11, dies at 91 02/05/2024 05:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Bob Beckwith, a retired firefighter whose chance encounter with the president amid the rubble of ground zero became part of an iconic image of American unity after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has died. He was 91. Beckwith died Sunday night in hospice care after dealing with can After GOP walkout, Oregon lawmakers reconvene to focus on housing and drugs 02/05/2024 05:23pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) ��� Oregon lawmakers began a new legislative session Monday, hoping to turn a fresh page after a record-long Republican walkout last year ground the Capitol to a halt for six weeks and disqualified 10 GOP state senators from reelection. All Republican senators were present for the o McDonald's franchisee agrees to pay $4.4M after manager sexually assaulted teen 02/05/2024 05:22pm • A franchisee of fast food giant McDonald's has agreed to pay a teenage girl $4.4 million to settle her lawsuit over having been sexually assaulted by a Pittsburgh-area restaurant manager who was a registered sex offender, the victim's lawyers announced on Monday. The deal between the girl, who was 1 4 bus and taxi drivers shot to death in violent southern Mexico city 02/05/2024 05:10pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Four bus and taxi drivers were killed Monday following apparently coordinated attacks by gunmen in the city of Chilpancingo, the capital of the southern Pacific coast state of Guerrero. Drug gangs battling for control in the state have long been known to kill people for not pay No verdict after first day of deliberations in trial of Michigan school shooter's mom 02/05/2024 05:09pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� A Michigan jury went home Monday after a full day of deliberations in a novel trial against a school shooter's mother who could go to prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the deaths of four students in 2021. The jury will return Tuesday for a second day. Prosec