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Maryland leaders promise more accountability regarding juvenile crime 01/31/2024 02:46pm • Maryland leaders, including Gov. Wes Moore, unveiled legislation Wednesday that they said would help to crack down on juvenile crime across the state. It would require police officers to write a report each time they arrest someone who is under 18, something that doesn't currently happen in e 6 activists convicted of illegally blocking abortion clinic in Tennessee 01/31/2024 02:45pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� A Tennessee jury has convicted six anti-abortion protesters of violating federal laws after they blocked the entrance of a reproductive clinic outside Nashville nearly three years ago. The jury's decision, handed down late Tuesday after a weeklong trial, marks the latest d Man who killed 2 women near the Las Vegas Strip is sentenced to life in prison 01/31/2024 02:30pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A man convicted of fatally shooting two Northern California women near the Las Vegas Strip almost eight years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Omar Talley, 38, was sentenced Tuesday after a judge reprimanded him for his lack of remorse, a Cyprus-led sting operation busts illegal European immigration ring that arranged sham marriages 01/31/2024 02:11pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� Cyprus officials said Wednesday they led a Europol-organized sting operation that dismantled an international criminal ring facilitating illegal immigration and residency in European Union countries using dozens of sham marriages on the east Mediterranean island nation. Poli Days of Darkness: How one woman escaped the conspiracy theory trap that has ensnared millions 01/31/2024 12:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� At first his stories seemed harmless. Tales about secret organizations plotting to take over the world, about the good guys working to save it, and about the proof that, if you knew where to look, was hiding in plain sight. To Ramona, her boyfriend Don's tales of conspiracy theor Minnesota man accused of assembling an arsenal to attack police is sentenced to nearly 7 years 01/31/2024 11:49am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A Minnesota man who was accused of assembling an arsenal of illegal weapons to use against police has been sentenced to nearly seven years in federal prison. River William Smith, 21, of the Minneapolis suburb of Savage, pleaded guilty last May to one count of possession of a mac Teary ex-Scottish leader admits to feeling 'overwhelmed' during COVID-19 pandemic 01/31/2024 11:16am • LONDON (AP) ��� The former Scottish leader in office during the COVID-19 pandemic choked up Wednesday as she admitted to a public inquiry into the outbreak that she sometimes doubted whether she wanted to be first minister at such a consequential time. Nicola Sturgeon told the United Kingdom���s pub 'Greed and revenge' drove 2 men accused of killing Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay, prosecutors say 01/31/2024 11:09am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Two men accused of killing Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay were both close to the trailblazing DJ, but were driven by ���greed and revenge��� over a failed drug deal when they ambushed him at his recording studio more than 20 years ago, prosecutors argued as the men's trial began Monday. Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: 'What happens when no one believes anything anymore?' 01/31/2024 10:38am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Days after Maui's wildfires killed scores of people and destroyed thousands of homes last August, a shocking claim spread with alarming speed on YouTube and TikTok: The blaze on the Hawaiian island was set deliberately, using futuristic energy weapons developed by the U.S. milita Norway prepares for biggest storm in 30 years 01/31/2024 10:05am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Norway's central Atlantic coast battened down Wednesday as authorities warned that the country could see its most powerful storm in three decades and urged people to stay indoors. Hurricane-force winds were expected to hit the region, as air traffic companies and ferry l Massachusetts man shot dead after crashing truck, approaching officer with knife 01/31/2024 09:52am • FRYEBURG, Maine (AP) ��� A Massachusetts motorist who led police on a chase in two states was fatally shot after crashing in Maine and emerging from the pickup truck with a knife, police said Wednesday. Kenneth Ellis, 52, left his disabled pickup truck with a knife on Main Street and approached a Fr Va. man who murdered co-worker over stolen food is sentenced to 70 years 01/31/2024 09:22am • A man who brutally killed a co-worker over a lunch stolen from the office fridge in Fairfax County, Virginia, will spend the next 70 years in prison. The sentencing was announced Tuesday. During his sentencing hearing, 25-year-old Bazen Berhe, of Alexandria, threatened to kill or hurt other peopl Massachusetts troopers were charged with taking bribes to pass commercial drivers 01/31/2024 09:15am • BOSTON (AP) ��� Two current and two former Massachusetts State Police troopers were among six people charged Tuesday in a scheme to allegedly take bribes including a new snowblower and driveway in exchange for giving passing scores on commercial driving tests, the U.S. attorney���s office said. The 'It made it very real': Prince George's Co. council members share personal experiences with carjacking 01/31/2024 06:17am • The issue of carjackings was in the spotlight during Tuesday's meeting of the Prince George's County Council. "Carjackings in 2023: we're investigating 508 cases. ��� We've arrested 115 adults and 147 juveniles; 35 of those juveniles were charged as adults," Police Chief Malik Aziz said as he gav Auschwitz survivor decries rise of the far right and increased antisemitism in Germany 01/31/2024 06:02am • BERLIN (AP) ��� A Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death camp told Germany's parliament Wednesday that she is appalled by the rising strength of the far right in the country and increasing antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip. Eva Szepesi, 91,