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2 critically injured, 4 others hurt in series of stabbings, hit-and-run crashes, Prince George's Co. police say 01/25/2024 11:37pm • A woman is in custody after being considered a person of interest in a series of stabbings and hit-and-run crashes that left at least six people injured, some of them critically, on Thursday evening, according to police in Prince George's County, Maryland. The series of violent crimes, that appea Gang violence is surging to unprecedented levels in Haiti, UN envoy says 01/25/2024 11:25pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An unprecedented surge in gang violence is plaguing Haiti, with the number of victims killed, injured and kidnapped more than doubling last year, the U.N. special envoy for the conflict-wracked Caribbean nations said Thursday. In a grim briefing, Maria Isabel Salvador told th Family of Ricky Cobb II says justice is within reach following Minnesota trooper's murder charge 01/25/2024 08:55pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Family, lawyers and activists for Ricky Cobb II — who was fatally shot by a Minnesota state trooper in a July 2023 traffic stop — said Thursday that justice for Cobb is within reach now that the trooper has been charged with murder. The county attorney's office announced th Man arrested outside Taylor Swift's NYC home held without bail for violating protective order 01/25/2024 08:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A Seattle man who police say has been stalking and harassing Taylor Swift was ordered held without bail Thursday after he was arrested three times in recent days in front of the pop star's home in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood. David Crowe, 33, was arraigned in Manhattan Crimin Brazil's police investigate Bolsonaro's intelligence boss over alleged political spying 01/25/2024 07:59pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police are investigating the country's former intelligence chief as part of a wider probe into alleged spying on political opponents under former President Jair Bolsonaro, court records showed Thursday. The former intelligence chief, Alexandre Ramagem, was Israel vows to fight Hamas all the way to Gaza's southern border. That's fueling tension with Egypt 01/25/2024 07:54pm • CAIRO (AP) — Israel faces a growing risk of damaging its peace with neighboring Egypt as its military pushes the offensive against Hamas further south in the Gaza Strip. Already, the two sides are in a dispute over a narrow strip of land between Egypt and Gaza. Israeli leaders say that to complete Police defend response, say yellow flag law limited them before Army reservist killed 18 in Maine 01/25/2024 07:40pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Law enforcement officers spoke Thursday of the difficulty in implementing the state’s yellow flag law that allows guns to be confiscated from someone in a mental health crisis, describing a cumbersome and time-consuming process in testimony to an independent commission that Report: Colts executive called 911, concerned that owner Jim Irsay had congestive heart failure 01/25/2024 07:06pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — First responders arrived at the home of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay on Dec. 8 after longtime team executive Pete Ward placed a 911 call, concerned that Irsay was suffering from congestive heart failure, The Indianapolis Star reported Thursday. The newspaper obtained a re New England Patriots WR Kayshon Boutte charged in illegal sports gaming scheme 01/25/2024 06:45pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — New England Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte was arrested Thursday on charges related to illegal online gaming while he was under age and played at Louisiana State University, authorities said. Boutte is accused of creating an online betting account under a fake name a Seattle will pay $10 million to protesters who said police used excessive force during 2020 protests 01/25/2024 06:38pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department’s heavy-handed response to racial justice protests in 2020, in a settlement announced by attorneys from both sides Wednesday. The protesters were among tens of thousands who rallied down A California man is found guilty of murder for killing a 6-year-old boy in a freeway shooting 01/25/2024 06:06pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted a California man of murder for shooting to death a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back of his mother's car on a busy freeway. Jurors in Orange County found 26-year-old Marcus Eriz guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Aiden Leos, Death penalty charges dismissed against man accused of killing Indianapolis officer 01/25/2024 05:02pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A judge on Thursday granted the state's motion to dismiss death penalty charges against a man charged with fatally shooting an Indianapolis police officer in 2020 because doctors have found him to be mentally ill. The Marion County Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday filed a motio Alexandria police investigating after toddler dropped off on the street by unknown person 01/25/2024 04:54pm • Police in Alexandria, Virginia, say a man apparently dropped off a toddler on the street Wednesday night and then took off — and they still are investigating what happened and why. As of Thursday, police said the young girl is in the custody of the City of Alexandria Child Protective Services a Four Las Vegas high school students plead not guilty to murder in deadly beating of schoolmate 01/25/2024 04:19pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four high school students in Las Vegas pleaded not guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the fatal beating of their schoolmate that was caught on cellphone video and shared widely across social media. A grand jury in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, returned an indictm Trump White House official Peter Navarro gets a 4-month sentence for defying a House Jan. 6 subpoena 01/25/2024 03:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump White House official Peter Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced on Thursday to four months behind bars. He was the second Trump aide