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Funeral held in Houston for 12-year-old girl whose body was found in a creek 06/27/2024 08:54pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A 12-year-old Texas girl who was found dead in a creek not far from her home was remembered on Thursday for her love of reading and animals. Among those attending funeral services for Jocelyn Nungaray were Democratic Houston Mayor John Whitmire and Cecilia Abbott, wife of Texas Gov Kenya slammed by new protests despite president���s pledge to scuttle controversial tax bill 06/27/2024 08:39pm • Deadly weeklong protests across Kenya are more lethal than previously known. President William Ruto said in an address Tuesday, June 25 that five people had been killed. It was later reported 20 people had died protesting the controversial tax bill. But new information suggests dozens more people First officer is convicted of murder since Washington state law eased prosecution of police 06/27/2024 07:54pm • A jury found a suburban Seattle police officer guilty of murder Thursday in the 2019 shooting death of a homeless man outside a convenience store, marking the first conviction under a Washington state law easing prosecution of law enforcement officers for on-duty killings. After deliberating for thr Prague-to-Budapest train collides with a bus in Slovakia, killing 7 people and injuring 5 06/27/2024 07:44pm • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ��� A train traveling from the Czech capital of Prague to the Hungarian capital of Budapest collided with a local bus in southern Slovakia on Thursday, leaving at least seven people dead and five injured, officials said. Some 200 people were aboard the Eurocity train when t Former Uvalde school police chief and officer indicted over slow response to shooting that killed 21 people, reports say 06/27/2024 07:14pm • UVALDE, Texas (AP) ��� Former Uvalde school police chief and officer indicted over slow response to shooting that killed 21 people, reports say. Investigation into fatal motorcycle crash closes Route 28 near Dulles 06/27/2024 07:00pm • A fatal crash between a motorcycle and a truck closed a section of Route 28 in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Dulles International Airport. It happened just before 2 p.m. Thursday on northbound Route 28 and McLearen Road between Herndon and Chantilly. The man on the motorcycle died at the scene, Mass shooting shutters Arkansas town's only grocery store ��� for now 06/27/2024 06:59pm • FORDYCE, Ark. (AP) ��� A steady rain was falling outside Fordyce High School, but that didn't deter an army of volunteers who raced to hand out jugs of milk and bags of groceries to a line of cars snaked around the parking lot. In the days since a shooter killed four people and injured 10 others at Texas judge dismisses civil lawsuit by woman who alleged sexual assault by Dak Prescott 06/27/2024 06:47pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� A district court judge in Texas has dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by a woman against Dak Prescott that accused the Dallas Cowboys quarterback of sexual assault. The judge's decision this week came just less than two months after police in Dallas decided against pursuing criminal c Judge sentences man to life in prison for killing St. Louis police officer 06/27/2024 06:25pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� A man convicted of killing a St. Louis police officer in 2020 was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday. Judge Elizabeth Hogan ordered Thomas Kinworthy Jr., 46, to serve two consecutive life sentences for first-degree murder and first-degree assault, adding dozens Pennsylvania Senate passes bill to bar universities and pension funds from divesting from Israel 06/27/2024 06:14pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Pennsylvania���s state Senate approved legislation Thursday that would block state aid from going to any university that boycotts or divests from Israel, following pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses across the country that included demands for divestment. The measu DNA experts identify a Jane Doe found shot to death in an Illinois ditch in 1976 06/27/2024 06:08pm • MORRIS, Ill. (AP) ��� DNA experts have identified the remains of a woman found shot to death in an Illinois ditch almost 50 years ago. The DNA Doe Project said in a news release Thursday that their investigators had identified the woman as JoAnn ���Vickie��� Smith of Ohio. Smith was found in a dit Delaware lawmakers approve a $1.1 billion capital budget for the fiscal year starting Monday 06/27/2024 06:02pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) ��� Delaware lawmakers on Thursday unanimously approved a $1.1 billion capital budget for construction, transportation, maintenance and economic development projects in the fiscal year that starts Monday. The spending plan is about $300 million less than this year���s capital budget Feds investigating violence during pro-Palestinian protest outside Los Angeles synagogue 06/27/2024 05:41pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that federal officials are investigating a weekend demonstration against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza that spiraled into violence outside a Los Angeles synagogue. Fighting between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and counterprote The Latest | Gaza families bid a tearful goodbye to critically ill kids leaving for treatment abroad 06/27/2024 05:38pm • Families bid a tearful goodbye to over a dozen critically ill children who left Gaza for treatment abroad on Thursday. It���s the first medical evacuation since the territory���s sole travel crossing shut down in early May after Israeli forces captured it, Palestinian officials say. Kamela Abukweik Harvard looks to combat antisemitism, anti-Muslim bias after protests over war in Gaza 06/27/2024 05:33pm • CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ��� Two task forces charged with proposing ways to combat anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian bias and antisemitism at Harvard University have delivered preliminary recommendations to the school's interim president Alan Garber. The recommendations issued Wednesday foc