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As Mardi Gras nears, a beefed-up police presence and a rain-scrambled parade schedule in New Orleans 02/02/2024 07:00pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� New Orleans' annual Carnival celebration entered its high-intensity home stretch Friday with a beefed-up police presence and a weather forecast that threatened to disrupt the first of two weekends of elaborate parades. Three parades were scheduled to roll Friday night with no w A London judge acquits climate activist Greta Thunberg of refusing to leave oil industry conference 02/02/2024 06:51pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Climate activist Greta Thunberg was acquitted Friday of a charge of refusing to follow a police order to leave a protest blocking the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year. The courtroom gallery erupted with applause as Judge John Law told Thunberg a A Vermont mom called police to talk to her son about stealing. He ended up handcuffed and sedated 02/02/2024 05:36pm • A Vermont mother wanted to teach her then-14-year-old son a lesson after he came home with electronic cigarettes he stole from a gas station. So she called the police. What happened next that evening in May 2021 is the basis for a lawsuit by the mother alleging that Burlington police used excessive 3 DC stores were firebombed last summer. An unsealed indictment uncovers a 4th in Maryland 02/02/2024 05:13pm • Federal indictments against two men accused of detonating explosives at four different businesses around the D.C. region last summer have been unsealed after one of the men was extradited to D.C. this week. Three D.C. businesses ��� a bank in Northeast���s Brentwood neighborhood, a Nike store on North Carolina woman sitting in car with dog fatally shot in Prince William County 02/02/2024 04:59pm • A North Carolina woman sitting in her car with her dog near a Dale City, Virginia, apartment complex was fatally shot early Friday morning, according to authorities. Around 2:00 a.m. Prince William County police responded to reports of the shooting in the area of Brickwood Drive and Bronson Cour Suspect accused of killing and beheading his father bought a gun the previous day, prosecutor says 02/02/2024 04:58pm • DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) ��� The man accused of decapitating his father in their home northeast of Philadelphia and posting a video of the severed head online first shot him with a gun he bought the previous day, the county prosecutor said Friday. Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said at Massachusetts targets 26 commercial drivers in wake of bribery scandal 02/02/2024 04:35pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� More than two dozen commercial drivers have had their licenses downgraded in the wake of a scandal involving State Police troopers allegedly taking bribes in exchange for passing test scores, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles announced Friday. The RMV said it identified 2 NHL to wait for 2018 Canada world junior sexual assault case to finish before considering next moves 02/02/2024 04:35pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� The NHL will wait for the judicial process to play out before making any decisions about four players facing sexual assault charges in a 2018 case involving Canada���s world junior team that year, Commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday. Addressing the situation at All-Star Weekend da 3 killed as a small plane crashes into a Florida mobile home 02/02/2024 04:20pm • CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) ��� About 10 people had enjoyed a day of golf and were having drinks inside a woman's mobile home moments before a small plane crashed and obliterated the property, an eyewitness said Friday. The pilot and two people on the ground were killed, the Federal Aviation Administratio A beheading video was on YouTube for hours, raising questions about why it wasn't taken down sooner 02/02/2024 03:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A graphic video from a Pennsylvania man accused of beheading his father that circulated for hours on YouTube has put a spotlight yet again on gaps in social media companies' ability to prevent horrific postings from spreading across the web. Police said Wednesday that they charged Judge rules escape charge against convicted murderer Cavalcante can proceed to trial 02/02/2024 03:23pm • KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) ��� A district judge said Friday that Pennsylvania prosecutors have sufficient grounds to continue to press escape and other charges against a convicted murderer captured last year after two weeks on the run. The judge found there is enough evidence to forward to county cour These are their stories: Sam Waterston to leave 'Law & Order' later this month after 400 episodes 02/02/2024 02:55pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Sam Waterston, who has played the spiky, no-nonsense district attorney on ���Law & Order��� since the mid-1990s, is stepping down from his legal perch. The last episode for Waterston's Jack McCoy will be Feb. 22, NBC said Friday. He has been in more than 400 episodes of the pol Federal authorities investigate suspected arson at offices of 3 conservative groups in Minnesota 02/02/2024 02:53pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Federal authorities in Minnesota are investigating a suspected arson fire that heavily damaged the offices of three conservative groups, which are calling the blaze an act of political terrorism. The fire happened early Sunday in the Minneapolis suburb of Golden Valley at the of Towering over the Grammys is a Los Angeles high-rise tagged with 27 stories of graffiti 02/02/2024 02:29pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Graffiti has risen to high art in downtown Los Angeles: Taggers have covered at least 27 stories of an unfinished high-rise development. The vandalism is the latest twist in the saga of the three-tower project across the street from where the Grammy Awards will be hosted Sunday, A fire set off by a gas explosion in Kenya kills at least 3 people and injures 280 others 02/02/2024 01:47pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Liquid petroleum gas cylinders exploded in an illegal depot in a residential area of the Kenyan capital, officials said Friday, setting off a late-night inferno that killed at least three people and injured 280 others. The death toll was expected to rise. The depot in Nairobi