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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 Michigan to pay $1.75 million to innocent man after 35 years in prison 01/12/2024 04:03pm • The state of Michigan has agreed to pay $1.75 million to an innocent man who spent 35 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of sexual assault. Louis Wright was released in November after authorities said DNA tests ruled him out as the perpetrator in an attack on an 11-year-old girl in Albion What's at stake in Taiwan's elections? China says it could be a choice between peace and war 01/12/2024 03:03pm • Taiwan is holding a presidential election on Saturday that neighboring China has warned could mean the difference between peace and war on the island, which Beijing claims as its territory even though Taiwan has governed itself for nearly three-quarters of a century. The election is believed to be a Ukrainian trucker involved in deadly crash wants license back while awaiting deportation 01/12/2024 02:53pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A commercial truck driver from Ukraine who faces a deportation order is trying to get his driving privileges back now that he's been acquitted of causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire. ���I would like to request a hearing to get my license back,��� Volody Russian opposition activist placed in custody on charges linked to online comment 01/12/2024 02:51pm • A Russian left-wing opposition activist who criticized the Kremlin but backed the war in Ukraine was ordered Friday to remain in custody pending his trial on charges linked to his online comment. Moscow's Basmanny District Court ruled to keep Sergei Udaltsov in custody until Feb. 15 on charges of �� Elmore Nickleberry, a Memphis sanitation worker who marched with Martin Luther King, has died at 92 01/12/2024 02:18pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� Elmore Nickleberry, a longtime Memphis sanitation worker who participated in the pivotal 1968 strike that brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the city where the civil rights leader was killed, has died at age 92. Nickleberry died on Dec. 30 in Memphis, according to an Police in Puerto Rico capture a rhesus macaque monkey chased by a crowd at a public housing complex 01/12/2024 01:26pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Police in Puerto Rico captured a rhesus macaque monkey on Friday that was being chased by a crowd of people at a public housing complex near the U.S. territory���s north coast. The monkey was found injured and exhausted in the laundry room of an apartment within the Be Belarusian journalist goes on trial for covering protests, faces up to 6 years in prison 01/12/2024 01:11pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� A Belarusian journalist went on trial Friday on charges linked to his professional work covering protests, the latest move in a relentless government crackdown on dissent. Photojournalist Alyaksandr Zyankou faces up to six years in prison if convicted on charges of ���parti Italy's justice minister nixes extradition of priest sought by Argentina in murder-torture cases 01/12/2024 12:55pm • ROME (AP) ��� Italy's justice minister has ruled against the extradition of a former chaplain sought in Argentina on charges of murder and torture during the South American country's last military dictatorship, human rights advocates said Friday. In October, Italy���s top criminal court had approved 3 Austin officers are cleared in a fatal shooting during a standoff where an officer was killed 01/12/2024 11:56am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� A grand jury has cleared three Texas police officers who fatally shot a man who shot and killed another officer and is believed to have killed his mother and brother. The man also wounded an additional officer during the standoff. The Travis County grand jury declined to indi West Virginia Senate OKs bill to allow veterans, retired police to provide armed security in schools 01/12/2024 11:32am • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� County education boards in West Virginia could contract with military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to provide armed security at K-12 public schools under a bill passed Friday by the Republican-controlled state Senate. Republican Sen. Eric Tarr of Putnam C What's streaming now: A gaggle of TV sleuths, the foul-mouthed bear 'Ted' and a Kevin Hart heist 01/12/2024 11:15am • Seth MacFarlane's filthy teddy bear character Ted and Martin Scorsese���s true-crime epic ���The Killers of the Flower Moon��� are some of the new television, music and movies available on a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press��� en Somali president's son reportedly testifies in Turkey as he is accused of killing motorcyclist 01/12/2024 11:08am • ISTANBUL (AP) ��� The son of Somalia's president testified at an Istanbul court on Friday about the death of a motorcycle courier in the city, Turkish media reported. An arrest warrant had been issued for Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud after a diplomatic car he was driving allegedly hit Yunus Emre G