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North Dakota lawmaker's district GOP echoes call on him to resign after slurs to police in DUI stop 12/29/2023 05:55pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Local Republican Party leaders of a North Dakota lawmaker's own district joined calls on Friday for him to step down after his vulgar comments to police earlier this month during his traffic stop and arrest on a charge of drunken driving. In a Facebook statement, the North Da Civil rights leader removed from movie theater for using his own chair 12/29/2023 05:31pm • A civil rights leader was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons, prompting an apology from the nation's largest movie theater chain. The incident occurred Tuesday in Greenville during a showing of “The Color Purple.†Air in Times Square filled with colored paper as organizers test New Year's Eve confetti 12/29/2023 05:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Visitors to Times Square got a small preview of New York City’s famed New Year’s Eve party on Friday, as the event's organizers heaved handfuls of colored paper skyward in a promotional event to test their confetti. With crowds of celebrants expected to pack into Times Square f Missing teenager found in man's bedroom under trap door 12/29/2023 05:30pm • STANFORD, Ky. (AP) — Police in Kentucky found a missing 16-year-old North Carolina girl under a trap door in the bedroom of a 34-year-old man after the man's mother called authorities to report a domestic dispute between the two, according to arrest reports. When deputies with the Lincoln County S Civil rights leader says AMC workers ignored his disability when they kicked him out of a North Carolina movie theater 12/29/2023 04:32pm • (CNN) — A civil rights leader who said he was asked to leave a movie screening because of a specialized chair he tried to use has called the incident a violation of his 14th Amendment rights. At a Friday news conference, Bishop William Barber, 60, said the situation with theater staff should ha Trump doesn't have immunity from U.S. Capitol officers' civil suit, court says 12/29/2023 04:26pm • ▶ Watch Video: Supreme Court declines to fast-track Trump immunity dispute Washington — A federal appeals court on Friday allowed a lawsuit brought by a group of U.S. Capitol Police officers against former President Donald Trump to move forward, ruling that Trump is not entitled to a Perspective: Children born poor have little margin for mistakes or bad decisions, regardless of race 12/29/2023 03:02pm • ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Alfred King was lying in the parking lot of a small apartment building, mortally wounded when police in Alexandria, Louisiana, got to the intersection of 12th and Magnolia streets shortly before 1:30 a.m., Jan. 20. The 34-year-old was the first fatal shooting of 2023 in the Burundi's president claims Rwanda is backing rebels fighting against his country 12/29/2023 02:33pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Burundi’s president on Friday accused Rwanda of funding and training rebels behind an attack last week on the village of Gatumba, close to Burundi’s border with Congo, that killed at least 20 people. A Burundian armed rebel group known as RED-Tabara and based in South Kiv Maine's deadliest shooting propels homicides to new high in the state 12/29/2023 01:28pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The deadliest mass shooting in Maine history propelled homicides to a new high in the state in 2023, topping 50 to shatter the previous record as the end of the year approaches, officials said. Eighteen people were killed and 13 injured in the Oct. 25 shootings in Lewiston, North Dakota governor declares emergency for ice storm that left thousands without power 12/29/2023 12:56pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum on Friday declared a statewide emergency in response to an ice storm that felled power lines, leaving more than 20,000 people without electricity around the Christmas holiday. Burgum also plans to seek a presidential disaster declaration that wou Trump is blocked from the GOP primary ballot in two states. Can he still run for president? 12/29/2023 12:46pm • DENVER (AP) — First, Colorado's Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump wasn't eligible to run for his old job in that state. Then, Maine's Democratic secretary of state ruled the same for her state. Who's next? Both decisions are historic. The Colorado court was the first court to Prince William Co. police seek suspect in Woodbridge shooting death 12/29/2023 12:39pm • Police are searching for a murder suspect after a woman was found shot dead in Prince William County, Virginia. Prince William County Police said officers responded to a wooded area behind businesses in the 1200 block of Easy Street, near Route 1 in Woodbridge just before 8 a.m. Thursday. A wave of cryptocurrency scams has Fairfax Co. Police on alert 12/29/2023 11:49am • Fairfax County Police are warning the community about a growing trend of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency scams. "In almost a dozen reported cases since the end of October, our investigators have observed a trend in scams involving cryptocurrency," the department stated in a press release. "Criminals a Texas police release new footage in murder investigation of pregnant woman, boyfriend 12/29/2023 11:43am • SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas police chief says investigators hope surveillance video will lead to answers in the killings of an 18-year-old pregnant woman who disappeared before Christmas and her boyfriend, both of whom were found shot in the head in a car and may have been dead for days. Police on 2 dead after truck hits several people in city in southern Germany, police say 12/29/2023 11:30am • BERLIN (AP) — Two people have died after a truck struck several people in southern Germany on Friday morning, police said. The 63-year old truck driver struck a group of five people close to the railway station in downtown Passau, police said in a statement. A 37-year-old woman died of her injurie