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Police investigation finds Colorado U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert didn���t punch ex-husband as he claimed 01/10/2024 02:48pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Police investigation finds Colorado U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert didn���t punch ex-husband as he claimed. NC--Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 01/10/2024 01:34pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Sentencing postponed again for Mississippi police officers who tortured two Black men 01/10/2024 01:32pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� A federal judge has, for the second time, postponed sentencing for six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men. Sentencing had been set to begin on Jan. 16, but a court hearing sch Couple found dead in blazing hot South Carolina home where furnace appeared to overheat 01/10/2024 01:24pm • SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) ��� An elderly couple found dead in their South Carolina home where the temperature was about 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius) had trouble with their furnace days before their deaths, their family told police. Family members called Spartanburg police Saturday after Judge: Lawsuit against Parkland school deputy over 2018 massacre can go to trial 01/10/2024 01:01pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� A lawsuit filed by families of the 17 people killed and other victims of the Parkland, Florida, school massacre against a former sheriff's deputy who failed to intervene can go forward, a judge ruled, rejecting his motion to dismiss the case before trial. Circuit Judg Trial to begin for woman accused of helping to cover up killing of Connecticut mother of 5 01/10/2024 12:51pm • Michelle Troconis insists she did not know her boyfriend, Fotis Dulos, was doing anything nefarious as she watched him toss garbage bags into random bins, or as she helped him write up a timeline of their whereabouts on the day his estranged wife disappeared. Those actions, authorities allege, were 3 police and a civilian killed in a pre-dawn militant attack in northwest Pakistan 01/10/2024 11:51am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� About a dozen armed militants attacked a Pakistani police checkpoint on a northwestern highway before dawn Wednesday, killing three police officers and a civilian before fleeing the scene, authorities said. The attack on the Lachi checkpoint on the Indus Highway in Kohat, A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced in the hit-and-run death of a retired police officer 01/10/2024 11:16am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after pleading guilty in a hit-and-run crash that killed a retired Chicago police officer in 2022. Ted Plevritis, of Palatine, Illinois, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of failure to report the crash and Hundreds of UK postal workers wrongly accused of fraud will have their convictions overturned 01/10/2024 09:49am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday he will introduce measures to overturn the convictions of more than 900 post office branch managers who were wrongly accused of theft or fraud because of a faulty computer system. Sunak said the scandal, which saw hundreds of postm Islamic State claims responsibility for explosion in the Afghan capital Kabul that kills at least 3 01/10/2024 09:32am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a minivan explosion in the Afghan capital that killed at least three people. The militant group said in a statement that it detonated an explosive late Tuesday hidden on a vehicle belonging to employees of Afghanistan���s main pri A spiritual leader in Nepal known as 'Buddha Boy' arrested on charges of rape and kidnapping 01/10/2024 09:07am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) ��� A controversial Nepalese spiritual leader known as ���Buddha Boy��� was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a minor and involvement in the disappearance of at least four of his followers from his camps, police said Wednesday. Ram Bahadur Bamjan is believed by many Ne Man accused of stabbing a South Korean politician wanted to stop him from becoming president: police 01/10/2024 07:08am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� The man accused of stabbing South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung in the neck told investigators that he wanted to kill him to prevent him from becoming the country���s president, police said Wednesday. Lee, 59, was released Wednesday from the hospital after eight Heavy winds, rain batter DC area: 80 mph wind gusts clocked at Bay Bridge prompting 4-hour shutdown 01/10/2024 04:57am • Heavy wind and drenching rain hammered the D.C. region Tuesday, shutting down both sides of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge for four hours, inundating roadways and knocking out power to thousands. Here's what you need to know. Wind gusts as high as 80 mph were clocked at the Chesapeake Bay Bridg Armed attack during live broadcast at Ecuadorian TV station. What's behind the spiraling violence? 01/10/2024 12:00am • GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) ��� A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country's spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape. The imprisoned leader of a drug gang mysteriously vanish Armed men storm an Ecuador TV studio during a live broadcast as attacks in the country escalate 01/09/2024 10:58pm • GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) ��� Masked men broke onto the set of a public television channel in Ecuador waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast Tuesday, and the president issued a decree declaring that the violence-plagued country had entered an ���internal armed conflict.��� The men armed wi