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The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023 12/31/2023 06:30pm • Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia. Prigozhin's Aug. 23 death put an exclamatio Former Ugandan steeplechase Olympian Benjamin Kiplagat found fatally stabbed in Kenya 12/31/2023 03:27pm • ELDORET, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya are investigating the slaying of three-time Ugandan Olympian Benjamin Kiplagat, whose body was found with stab wounds inside his brother's car on Sunday morning, a local official said. Kiplagat had been driving the car before his body was discovered in the ve Surfer dies after shark "encounter" in Hawaii 12/31/2023 03:27pm • PAIA, Hawaii (AP) — A surfer in Hawaii has died after being injured in a shark encounter off Maui's northern shore, according to the Maui Police Department. Authorities stopped short of calling the event an attack and didn't describe the man's injuries. Ocean Safety Officers grabbed and transporte Embezzlement of Oregon weekly newspaper's funds forces it to lay off entire staff and halt print 12/31/2023 03:01pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon weekly newspaper has had to lay off its entire staff and halt print after 40 years because its funds were embezzled by a former employee, its editor said, in a devastating blow to a publication that serves as an important source of information in a community that, l Off-duty police officer is killed in North Carolina after witnessing a crime 12/31/2023 01:53pm • GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — An off-duty police officer was shot and killed in North Carolina after witnessing a crime at a gas station and approaching the two suspects, officials said. The police sergeant, Philip Dale Nix, was a 23-year veteran of the Greensboro Police Department, according to a Sunda German officials detain 3 more suspects in connection with a Cologne Cathedral attack threat 12/31/2023 01:04pm • BERLIN (AP) — Three more people were detained Sunday in connection with a reported threat of an attack on the Cologne Cathedral over the holidays, German authorities said. The detentions came only days after a 30-year-old Tajik man was detained in relation to an alleged plot to attack the world-fa Woman, child seriously injured in crash on I-95 in Fairfax Co. 12/31/2023 12:45pm • A woman and a child were seriously injured in a crash on Interstate 95 in Fairfax County, Virginia, early Sunday morning. A spokesperson with Virginia State Police told WTOP that officers went to the northbound lanes of I-95 at the 165-mile marker where the crash occurred at 1:50 a.m. Upon arr Bills pass rusher Von Miller inactive against Patriots 12/31/2023 12:06pm • ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills edge rusher Von Miller was listed as inactive for Buffalo’s game against New England on Sunday in the latest setback for a player underperforming on the field and facing legal issues off it. This marks the first game Miller will miss since appearing in 11 straight Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi is declared winner of election that opposition wants redone 12/31/2023 11:29am • KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has won reelection with more than 70% of the vote, the country's election commission said Sunday as opposition candidates and their supporters questioned the validity of the results. The preliminary results of the Dec. 20 election were ann German chancellor tours flooded regions in the northwest, praises authorities and volunteers 12/31/2023 11:08am • BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz took a helicopter flight Sunday to check the flooded regions in the northwest of the country, where rivers have swelled and overflowed homes, roads and fields after weeks of heavy rain. In recent days, hundreds of people have been evacuated from affected Maine state official who removed Trump from ballot was targeted in swatting call at her home 12/31/2023 09:37am • A fake emergency call to police resulted in officers responding Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just a day after she removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause. She becomes t Michigan home explosion heard for miles kills 4 and injures 2, police say 12/31/2023 08:38am • DETROIT (AP) — Four people died and two others were injured Saturday in a Michigan house explosion that could be heard miles away, police said. The explosion happened before 4 p.m. in Northfield Township, about 45 miles (72.4 kilometers) west of Detroit. The structure was destroyed, leaving onl In a crisis-ridden world, Germany's chancellor uses his New Year's speech to convey confidence 12/31/2023 02:59am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's chancellor used his New Year's speech to call on his country's citizens not to lose confidence in the future as they adapt to a world experiencing multiple crises and changing at an ever-faster pace. “So much suffering; so much bloodshed. Our world has become a more unset Zach Anderson scores 21 as Florida Gulf Coast beats No. 7 Florida Atlantic 72-68 12/30/2023 10:07pm • FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Dunk City has pulled off another surprise. A decade or so removed from making the Sweet 16 of the 2013 NCAA Tournament as a No. 15 seed, Florida Gulf Coast made a splash again Saturday night — this time taking down a Florida Atlantic team that made the Final Four last sea Family of 4 found dead in apparent murder-suicide by New York police sergeant 12/30/2023 06:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A husband and wife and their two sons, ages 10 and 12, were found dead in a suburban New York home Saturday in what authorities described as a murder-suicide by a police sergeant. Police officials said Watson Morgan, a sergeant with the Bronxville Police Department, fatally shot hi