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A notorious Ecuadorian gang leader vanishes from prison and authorities investigate if he escaped 01/08/2024 09:50pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A convicted leader of one of Ecuador's most powerful drug gangs has vanished from the prison where he was serving his sentence, and authorities were investigating whether he escaped like he did a decade ago from another facility. Ecuadorian authorities reported Sunday that A Thousands forced from homes by a deadly Japan earthquake on New Year's face stress and exhaustion 01/08/2024 08:53pm • WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — Thousands of people made homeless by a powerful earthquake on the western coast of Japan were coping with weariness and uncertainty a week after the temblor left at least 180 dead and dozens missing. The rescue effort since the magnitude 7.6 New Year’s Day quake has drawn th Brazil observes anniversary of the anti-democratic uprising in the capital 01/08/2024 07:37pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil on Monday observed the anniversary of last year's uprising in the capital when thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded government buildings and called for a military intervention to remove President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from office. Sev 911 transcripts reveal chaotic scene as gunman killed 18 people in Maine 01/08/2024 07:05pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Callers who dialed 911 after Maine's deadliest mass shooting described hiding behind trees, scrambling to find their glasses, searching for loved ones and fearing for their lives as shots rang out first at a bowling alley, then minutes later at a bar. Transcripts of the 911 Memphis judge maintains $1 million bond for man charged with firing shots at Jewish school 01/08/2024 07:00pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge on Monday declined to reduce a $1 million bond for a man charged with shooting at a contractor at a Jewish school in Memphis, after his attorney requested a lower amount to allow him to secure his release and get proper mental health treatment outside of jail. Shelby Chicago woman pleads guilty, to testify against own mother accused of cutting baby from teen's womb 01/08/2024 06:30pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A 29-year-old Chicago woman has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder after authorities said she helped her mother kill a pregnant teenager whose baby was cut from her womb. Desiree Figueroa's plea was made Monday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. It stipulates that she testi US Supreme Court declines to hear 2nd Illinois case challenging state's ban on semiautomatic weapons 01/08/2024 06:04pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a second Illinois case challenging the state's ban on semiautomatic weapons, which took effect Jan. 1. Decatur Republican state Rep. Dan Caulkins appealed last summer's ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court upholding the pr US fugitive accused of faking his death to avoid rape charges is booked into a Utah jail 01/08/2024 06:03pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A U.S. fugitive known as Nicholas Rossi, who is accused of faking his own death and fleeing the country to avoid rape charges, is in a Utah jail after he was extradited from Scotland last week, jail records showed on Monday. Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, is Nevada judge attacked by defendant in viral court video finishes sentencing him 01/08/2024 06:00pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who leaped over a judicial bench and attacked a Nevada judge on video last week was shackled and closely watched Monday as he appeared before the same judge and was sentenced to up to four years in state prison. The punishment was handed down in connection with an attempted A 5-year-old boy was shot and killed while getting his hair cut, Alabama police say 01/08/2024 05:17pm • BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy was killed when someone shot into a home where he was getting his hair cut, according to Alabama police. The shooting happened at about 10 a.m. Sunday in Bessemer. The child was identified as Brandon Jamal Nation, III, of Fairfield, according to the Jefferson French bulldog puppy reportedly stolen in DC — yes, again 01/08/2024 05:14pm • A French bulldog puppy was stolen in Northwest on Sunday amid a series of dognappings that D.C. police have investigated over the past several weeks. Dax, a 10-week-old French bulldog was last seen in his owner's parked vehicle on Sunday night, according to D.C. police. His owner left the vehi Florida Republicans oust state party chairman facing rape allegations in critical election year 01/08/2024 05:06pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Republican Party of Florida ousted Chairman Christian Ziegler and elected his replacement in a special vote on Monday as police investigate a rape accusation against him. The turmoil was an unwelcome distraction for the state’s top Republican, Gov. Ron DeSantis, who New Mexico justices hear challenge to public health ban on guns in public parks and playgrounds 01/08/2024 04:45pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Advocates for gun rights urged the New Mexico Supreme Court on Monday to block emergency orders by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham restricting people from carrying guns at public parks and playgrounds in the state's largest metro area and address gun violence as a public health c 25 killed and 6 injured in collision between minibus and truck in Brazil's northeast 01/08/2024 04:44pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A crash between a minibus transporting tourists and a truck in Brazil's northeastern Bahia state left 25 dead, the state's firefighters corps said Monday on its official Instagram account. The accident occurred Sunday night around 10:30 p.m. local time on a highway near the Federal investigators can't determine exact cause of 2022 helicopter crash near Philadelphia 01/08/2024 04:41pm • UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Federal investigators say they have been unable to determine what caused a medical flight to go haywire before the helicopter crash-landed without losing any lives nearly two years ago. The pilot somehow avoided a web of power lines and buildings as it came out of a nose-di