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Juvenile justice among criminal justice reform topics up for discussion in upcoming Md. legislative session 01/02/2024 10:47am • The Maryland General Assembly passed a juvenile justice reform measure last year to restructure how the state deals with young people involved in certain crimes by providing them resources versus detaining them behind bars and prosecuting them in court. Juvenile justice was a major topic in 2023 Missing Chinese exchange student found safe in Utah following cyber kidnapping scheme, police say 01/02/2024 08:16am • RIVERDALE, Utah (AP) ��� A foreign exchange student from China who was reported missing last week in Utah has been found in what authorities said was an apparent ���cyber kidnapping��� scheme to extort $80,000 from the student's family. The 17-year-old student was reported missing Friday, a day a An incoming Virginia delegate wants to expand use of speed cameras 01/02/2024 08:16am • When they reconvene this month, Virginia lawmakers will consider a proposal to allow local governments to install speed cameras wherever they deem them necessary, with penalties of up to $100 for violations. Bill patron Del.-elect Mike Jones, D-Richmond, said the legislation is intended to increa Spaniard imprisoned in Iran after visiting grave of Mahsa Amini arrives home after release 01/02/2024 08:11am • MADRID (AP) ��� A Spaniard who spent 15 months in an Iranian prison after visiting the tomb of Mahsa Amini returned home to Madrid on Tuesday after being released. ���I can���t believe it. This has been very hard, but I am here. We have no idea how fortunate we are to have been born in his country,� DC police ask for public's help in finding puppy stolen during burglary 01/02/2024 08:05am • A dog is missing from a D.C. home following a burglary, and police are asking for the public's help in finding the animal. Just before 7:30 p.m. on New Year's Eve, two people knocked on a door in the 100 block of Atlantic Street in Southeast, according to D.C. police. The two suspects then "pu What does a total abortion ban look like in Dominican Republic? 01/02/2024 08:02am • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) ��� The Dominican Republic is one of four Latin American nations that criminalizes abortion without exceptions. Women face up to 2 years in prison for having an abortion, while the penalties for doctors or midwives range from 5 to 20 years. Abortion rights acti A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe 01/02/2024 07:18am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person���s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The person died in 2015 at a nursing home not remembering much, including their own name. They went by Seven. Now A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe 01/02/2024 07:17am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person���s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The person died in 2015 at a nursing home not remembering much, including their own name. They went by Seven. Gunmen kill 6 barbers in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border 01/02/2024 02:15am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� Unidentified gunmen shot and killed six barbers before dawn on Tuesday in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country's northwest near the Afghanistan border, police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the killings in Mir Ali, a town in the Fiery New Year's Day crash kills 2, injures 5 following upstate NY concert, police investigating 01/01/2024 11:27pm • ROCHESTER, New York (AP) ��� Police were investigating after a fiery two-vehicle collision killed two people and injured five others in Rochester, New York, early on New Year's Day, officials said. The crash happened shortly before 1 a.m. Monday as officers were directing traffic after a concert le 3 killed and several wounded in separate shootings early New Year's Day in Los Angeles area 01/01/2024 08:20pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Two people were killed and eight others were wounded in a shooting early New Year's Day at a party in a commercial neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, authorities said. Officers responding to reports of a shooting around 1 a.m. Monday heard gunfire and found a crowd fleeing t A Colorado mother suspected of killing 2 of her children makes court appearance in London 01/01/2024 07:51pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A Colorado mother suspected of killing two of her young children and injuring a third made an initial court appearance Monday in London, where she was arrested over the weekend. Kimberlee Singler, 35, was held after her initial appearance in Westminster Magistrates��� Court. She h Klee Benally, Navajo advocate for Indigenous people and environmental causes, dies in Phoenix 01/01/2024 07:09pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Klee Benally, a Navajo man who advocated on behalf of Indigenous people and environmental causes, has died, his sister said. He was 48 years old. Benally died Saturday at a Phoenix hospital, Jeneda Benally said. His cause of death was not disclosed. Klee Benally was among the NJ mayor says buses of migrants bound for NY are being dropped off at NJ train stations 01/01/2024 07:04pm • SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) ��� A New Jersey mayor says buses of migrants bound for New York City have been stopping at the train station in his town and others in an apparent effort to evade an executive order by New York's mayor trying to regulate how and when migrants can be dropped off in the city. Seca Access to busy NYC airport's international terminal restricted due to pro-Palestinian protest 01/01/2024 05:57pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Access to a busy terminal at New York���s John F. Kennedy International Airport was restricted Monday as pro-Palestinian protesters converged on the airport for the second time in a week. Videos posted online show heavy traffic and a slow-moving line of cars, some flying Palestinia