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14-year-old shot in Hyattsville after refusing to give up his jacket, police say 01/05/2024 05:09pm • A 14-year-old boy was shot and critically injured in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Friday afternoon after three teens tried to take his high-end winter jacket, according to police. Hyattsville Police Chief Jarod Towers said during a news conference Friday the 14-year-old was walking with two other yo Harry Dunn, officer who defended the US Capitol on Jan. 6, is running for Congress in Maryland 01/05/2024 04:56pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A former police officer who defended the U.S. Capitol against rioters on Jan. 6 announced Friday that he is running for Congress in Maryland. Harry Dunn announced his candidacy a day before the third anniversary of the violent attack at the Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump su Guam investigates fatal shooting of Korean visitor and offers $50,000 reward for information 01/05/2024 04:16pm • HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Authorities in the U.S. territory of Guam on Friday vowed to bring to justice those who fatally shot a South Korean visitor in a tourist district. The shooting occurred shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday when the traveler and his wife were walking toward Tsubaki Towers, a hotel on The teacher shot by a 6-year-old still worries, a year later, about the other students in the room 01/05/2024 03:47pm • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A year after she was shot by her 6-year-old student in a Virginia classroom, former teacher Abby Zwerner said she still worries about the other children who saw it happen, and wonders how they're faring. Wounded by a bullet that struck her hand and chest and punctured a lu Illinois man charged in Fourth of July parade shooting rehires lawyers weeks after dismissing them 01/05/2024 03:45pm • WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The man charged with killing seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago asked to again be represented by public defenders after firing them last month and insisting on handling his own case. Robert Crimo III is charged with 21 counts of first-degree murder †Texas father and son arrested in the killings of a pregnant woman and her boyfriend face new charges 01/05/2024 02:44pm • SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas father and son arrested in the killings of an 18-year-old pregnant woman and her boyfriend are facing new evidence tampering charges, authorities said Friday as they announced that investigators have recovered the gun used to shoot the couple who disappeared before Chris Nashville is reassigning 10 officers following the leak of a school shooter's writings, police say 01/05/2024 02:12pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ten officers with the Nashville police department's specialized investigative unit will be reassigned following an unauthorized release of writings from the shooter who killed six people, including three children, at The Covenant School last year. A spokesperson for Metro N Hundreds of convictions, but a major mystery is still unsolved 3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot 01/05/2024 01:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of far-right extremist groups. Former police officers. An Olympic gold medalist swimmer. And active duty U.S. Marines. They are among the hundreds of people who have been convicted in the massive prosecution of the Jan 6, 2021, riot in the three years since the stunned n Track star, convicted killer, now parolee. A timeline of Oscar Pistorius's life 01/05/2024 01:51pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Major moments in the life of Oscar Pistorius, the South African double-amputee Olympic runner who was released from prison on parole Friday having served nearly nine years of a murder sentence for the 2013 killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, 37, will ha US actor Christian Oliver and his 2 daughters died in a plane crash in the Caribbean, police say 01/05/2024 01:40pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. actor Christian Oliver and his two daughters died in a plane crash near a tiny private island in the eastern Caribbean, according to police in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The crash occurred Thursday just west of Petit Nevis island near Bequia as the plane h Strays land in doghouse after causing an estimated $350K in damage to cars at Houston dealership 01/05/2024 01:35pm • HOUSTON (AP) — A pair of strays have landed in the doghouse after being caught on video causing more than a quarter-million dollars' worth of damage at a Houston car dealership. One dog, described as a bull terrier mix, was captured in early December, and the second, whose breed was not immediatel Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 01/05/2024 01:29pm • 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 A man charged with punching a flight attendant also allegedly kicked a police officer in the groin 01/05/2024 01:22pm • DALLAS (AP) — A man accused of punching a flight attendant later kicked a police officer in the groin and spit on officers who were removing him from the plane in Texas, according to a newly released report by an FBI agent. Keith Edward Fagiana faces charges of interfering with a flight crew and c Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius freed after serving nearly 9 years in prison for killing girlfriend 01/05/2024 01:17pm • PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee who became a global star competing at his sport's highest level while running on carbon-fiber blades, was released from prison on Friday after serving nearly nine years for killing his girlfriend, the model Reeva Stee US biotech company halts sales of DNA kits in Tibet, as lawmakers mull more export controls on China 01/05/2024 12:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. biotech company has halted sales of its DNA testing products in the Chinese ethnic region of Tibet, as lawmakers mull export controls to keep Beijing from using American products to conduct massive surveillance of its own citizens. Thermo Fisher, based in Waltham, Mass., s