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In Ecuador, the global reach of Mexico's warring drug cartels fuels a national crisis 01/13/2024 12:05am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s two main drug cartels have long taken their deadly rivalry with them as they expand into distant markets from Asia to Australia to Africa, but never before with such intensive street gang violence and a presidential declaration of a state of “internal armed conflict Today in History: January 13, Trump becomes first president to be impeached twice 01/13/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2024. There are 353 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 13, 2021, President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House over the violent Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol, becoming the only president to be twice impea A Florida hotel cancels a Muslim conference, citing security concerns after receiving protest calls 01/12/2024 11:26pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida Marriott Hotel canceled a Muslim group's conference at the last minute after a protest group claimed the coalition was promoting Hamas, terrorism and antisemitism. The South Florida Muslim Federation, a coalition of about 30 mosques and Islamic groups, Fairfax Police: Thieves adopt high-tech car theft methods, but old-school prevention methods can help 01/12/2024 09:31pm • The latest strategy some car thieves are using to steal your car right from your driveway involves a tool that locksmiths have been using for years. Fairfax County, Virginia, police say they are seeing an uptick in the use of key fob programmers by area car thieves. According to a release from Los Angeles police chief announces retirement after tumultuous tenure marked by pandemic, protests 01/12/2024 09:18pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles police chief announced his retirement from the head of one of the nation's largest law enforcement agencies Friday, concluding a tenure marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, protests over racial injustice and greater scrutiny into excessive force and police killings o After-school employee in Howard Co. charged with sexual abuse of 11-year-old 01/12/2024 09:04pm • An after-school employee in Howard County, Maryland, has been charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old, according to police. Dameon Patterson, 31, of Elkridge, who worked at Glenwood Country Day School in Woodbine was arrested late Thursday. He faces multiple counts of sex offenses. Police State trooper plunges into icy Vermont pond to save 8-year-old girl 01/12/2024 08:21pm • CAMBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont state trooper plunged into a frigid pond and pulled out an 8-year-old girl who had fallen through the ice while playing with siblings. The child survived and fully recovered after a brief hospital stay. The girl and her younger sister fell through the thin ice on th Los Angeles man pleads not guilty to killing wife and her parents, putting body parts in trash 01/12/2024 08:19pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles man accused of killing his wife and her parents and then stuffing their dismembered body parts into trash bags pleaded not guilty Friday to murder. Samuel Bond Haskell IV, 35, entered pleas to three counts of murder with special circumstances of committing multiple Prosecutors urge rejection of ex-cop's bid to dismiss civil rights conviction in George Floyd murder 01/12/2024 07:46pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors urged a judge Friday to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin's attempt to overturn his civil rights conviction in the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Chauvin filed his motion in federal court in November, saying new evidence shows that he didnâ A Proud Boys member who wielded an axe handle during the Capitol riot gets over 4 years in prison 01/12/2024 07:21pm • A jailed member of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison for his role in a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol three years ago, court records show. William Chrestman, a U.S. Army veteran from Olathe, Kansas, brandished an axe handle and threated polic Two arrested on gun and drug charges after police find cocaine, heroin at Delaware day care center 01/12/2024 07:00pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) — Two people, including the operator of a Delaware child care facility, have been arrested on gun and drug charges following an investigation focused on the business, authorities said Friday. Dover police arrested Cameron Christmas, 33, and Jessica Cooper, 29, on Thursday after ex Biden administration asks Supreme Court to tell Texas to stop blocking US border agents from patrols 01/12/2024 06:10pm • McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to order Texas to stop blocking Border Patrol agents from a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border where large numbers of migrants have crossed in recent months, setting up another showdown between Republican Gov. Greg Abbot Truck driver sentenced to a year in prison for crash that killed New Hampshire trooper 01/12/2024 05:43pm • A Connecticut truck driver will serve at least 12 months behind bars after pleading guilty to charges Friday related to a highway crash that killed a New Hampshire state trooper. Jay Medeiros, of Ashford, Connecticut, pleaded guilty to negligent homicide and reckless conduct in the crash that killed A 4th person has died after fiery crash near western New York concert, but motive remains a mystery 01/12/2024 05:23pm • ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A fourth person has died nearly two weeks after a driver crashed an SUV packed with gas cans near a crowd of New Year's concertgoers in western New York, but authorities said Friday they may never know the motive for what they call an intentional attack. Rochester police re Former Connecticut mayoral candidate pleads guilty to Jan. 6 Capitol breach charge 01/12/2024 05:02pm • A former Connecticut city alderman who won a Republican primary for mayor while facing charges related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Friday to a misdemeanor for his actions in Washington. Gino DiGiovanni Jr., who lost the November election for Derby mayor, plead