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South African police arrest man who says he started a fire that left 76 dead to hide another killing 01/23/2024 06:58pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� A man was arrested Tuesday and will face 76 counts of murder after telling an inquiry that he started a deadly building fire in South Africa last year while trying to get rid of the body of someone he had strangled in the apartment complex on the orders of a drug dealer. The s Man suspected of killing 8 people in suburban Chicago was related to most of the victims, police say 01/23/2024 06:55pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago this weekend was related to most of the victims, authorities said Tuesday, a day after the 23-year-old fatally shot himself during a confrontation with law enforcement in Texas. The Illinois authorities provide Lawsuit says Minnesota jail workers ignored pleas of man before he died of perforated bowel 01/23/2024 06:49pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Minnesota jail workers ignored the pleas of a 41-year-old man who died of a perforated bowel after spending days begging to be taken to a hospital, with pain so severe that he was forced to crawl on the floor of his cell, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Lucas Bellamy was t Murder charges filed against Illinois man accused of killing wife and 3 adult daughters 01/23/2024 06:14pm • TINLEY PARK, Ill. (AP) ��� Murder charges were filed Tuesday against a suburban Chicago man accused of killing his wife and three adult daughters in what police have described as a domestic-related shooting. Maher Kassem, 63, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and made his first co A pastor and a small Ohio city tussle over the legality of his 24/7 homeless ministry 01/23/2024 06:07pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� A Christian church in Ohio filed a federal lawsuit this week after its pastor was charged with violating city ordinances when he opened up the sanctuary around the clock for homeless people and others to find shelter. Police this month filed 18 criminal charges against Dad's Martin Luther King's daughter recalls late brother as strong guardian of their father's legacy 01/23/2024 06:06pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter remembered her late brother on Tuesday as a fierce and visionary steward of their father's legacy. The Rev. Bernice King choked back tears at times as she shared memories of her childhood and recent visits with Dexter Scott King, who died M Families sue Kentucky gun shop that sold AR-15 used in 2023 bank shooting that killed 5 01/23/2024 06:02pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� The Kentucky gun shop that sold an AR-15 to a man who used it to kill five co-workers and wrote in his journal the gun was ���so easy��� to buy is facing a lawsuit filed Monday from survivors and families of the victims. The civil suit filed in Louisville alleges River City Elderly man shoots wife, self at Florida assisted living facility, police say 01/23/2024 05:57pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) ��� An elderly man fatally shot his wife and then himself at an assisted living facility in Florida, police said Tuesday. Staff at the Addington Place at College Harbor facility found the couple dead in the woman's room around 10 a.m., the St. Petersburg Police Department s Bills GM backs McDermott and dismisses notion of team plateauing after latest division-round loss 01/23/2024 05:54pm • ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) ��� Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane backed the job coach Sean McDermott did in the face of criticism and a midseason slump on Tuesday, while dismissing the notion the team has plateaued after being eliminated in the divisional playoff round for a third consecutive US unions flexed their muscles last year, but membership rates fall to all-time low 01/23/2024 05:51pm • Unions commanded big headlines last year, but that didn���t translate into higher membership rates, according to government data released Tuesday. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said 10% of hourly and salaried workers were members of unions in 2023, or around 14.4 million people. That is an all Trial starts in Amsterdam for 9 suspects in the 2021 slaying of a Dutch investigative journalist 01/23/2024 05:49pm • AMSTERDAM (AP) ��� Suspects accused of involvement in the fatal 2021 shooting in Amsterdam of prominent Dutch investigative reporter Peter R. de Vries repeatedly refused to answer questions from judges and lawyers as their trial opened Tuesday with judges showing video of the attack and the fatally Nearly 14,000 fentanyl pills found during search of Prince George's Co. home 01/23/2024 05:19pm • Nine men were arrested after a police search inside a Prince George's County, Maryland, home on Thursday turned up nearly 14,000 fentanyl pills, cocaine and guns, authorities said. The Prince George's County Police Department's Gang Unit and Emergency Services Team executed the search warrant for Memphis, Tennessee, police chief to serve in interim role under new mayor 01/23/2024 05:14pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� The Memphis police chief who was in charge when Tyre Nichols was fatally beaten by five officers will serve on an interim basis under a newly elected mayor, officials said Tuesday. The Memphis City Council had been set to vote Tuesday on whether to retain or replace Memphis P Minneapolis suburb where Daunte Wright was killed rejects police reform policy on traffic stops 01/23/2024 04:59pm • BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) ��� The city council of the Minneapolis suburb where Daunte Wright, a Black man, was killed by police in a 2021 traffic stop has rejected a resolution that would have limited when officers can pull over drivers. The Brooklyn Center City Council rejected the measure on a Man sentenced to life in prison for the fatal shooting of a deputy U.S. marshal in Arizona in 2018 01/23/2024 04:29pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) ��� A man convicted of fatally shooting a federal agent in Tucson in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison, authorities said Tuesday. Ryan Phillip Schlesinger, 31, was not in court for Monday���s sentencing as his lawyers argued for a prison term of less than 50 years. Schlesi