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Colorado jury convicts paramedics in death of Elijah McClain, a Black man injected with ketamine after police neck hold 12/22/2023 07:50pm • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) ��� Colorado jury convicts paramedics in death of Elijah McClain, a Black man injected with ketamine after police neck hold. DC Council chairman introduces bill aimed at reducing violent crime 12/22/2023 07:18pm • As shootings continue to plague the District, city lawmakers are looking for ways to keep its residents safe ��� and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson wants to lead the charge against violent crime in the city. Mendelson introduced legislation this week called "Evidence-Based Gun Violence Redu Chicago man exonerated in 2011 murder case where legally blind eyewitness gave testimony 12/22/2023 07:17pm • Darien Harris spent more than 12 years in an Illinois prison, convicted of murder in part on the testimony of an eyewitness who was legally blind. Harris, who was released from prison on Tuesday, was convicted in 2014 for the 2011 fatal shooting of a man at a gas station on Chicago's South Side. Hi Authorities knew Maine shooter was a threat but felt confronting him was unsafe, video shows 12/22/2023 07:15pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Police who declined to confront an Army reservist in the weeks before he killed 18 people in Maine's deadliest mass shooting feared that doing so would ���throw a stick of dynamite on a pool of gas,��� according to video released Friday by law enforcement. The video, which w Live updates | UN Security Council calls for Gaza aid, but stops short of demanding a cease-fire 12/22/2023 06:30pm • The U.N. Security Council passed a new resolution that calls for speeding up humanitarian aid deliveries into Gaza, but without the original insistence on an ���urgent suspension of hostilities��� between Israel and Hamas. The United States and Russia abstained from Friday's vote, which was delayed Police: 2 victims identified in quadruple Southwest DC shooting 12/22/2023 04:04pm • D.C. police have identified the two people killed in Thursday morning's shooting in Southwest, which officials continue to investigate. Patricia Harris, 35, and Tyrone Jacobs, 24, were both killed in the shooting in the 1300 block of Half Street Southwest. Harris died at the scene, while Jacobs d Man, police dog killed in shooting involving Connecticut State Police troopers 12/22/2023 03:52pm • A man wanted on felony charges and a police dog were killed in a shooting involving Connecticut State Police troopers on Thursday evening, authorities said. State police said troopers went to the Pawcatuck section of Stonington, near the Rhode Island state line, at about 7:30 p.m. to serve the warra 1 still missing a week after St. Louis' largest nursing home closed abrubtly 12/22/2023 03:31pm • COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) ��� One person is still missing a week after the abrupt closure of St. Louis' largest nursing home left roughly 170 residents scattered at new facilities throughout the city, a state health department spokeswoman confirmed Friday. Many patients left with nothing but the clothes t Mentally disabled Indiana man wrongfully convicted in slaying reaches $11.7 million settlement 12/22/2023 03:26pm • ELKHART, Ind. (AP) ��� A mentally disabled man who was wrongfully convicted in the slaying of a 94-year-old woman has reached an $11.7 million settlement with a northern Indiana city and former police officers, his attorneys said Friday. The settlement for Andrew Royer, who spent 16 years in prison France grounds flight carrying Indian passengers on suspicion of human trafficking 12/22/2023 02:43pm • PARIS (AP) ��� French authorities grounded a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Nicaragua carrying 303 Indian passengers after receiving a tip that it could be carrying victims of human trafficking, prosecutors said Friday. Special investigators are questioning all those aboard and two people a Residents of Iceland village near volcano that erupted are allowed to return home 12/22/2023 02:41pm • GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) ��� Residents of the small Icelandic fishing village near where a volcano erupted were told Friday they could return home. The regional police chief said residents, business owners and employees could enter Grindavik beginning Saturday and could stay overnight. The town of Truck carrying gas hits railroad bridge and explodes as a train passes overhead 12/22/2023 02:31pm • GLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) ��� A tractor-trailer loaded with what authorities believe were gas containers slammed into the bottom of an overhead railroad bridge in upstate New York and exploded Thursday night as a freight train was traveling on the tracks above. The crash seriously injured the truck drive Missouri school board that previously rescinded anti-racism resolution drops Black history classes 12/22/2023 02:30pm • O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) ��� A conservative-led Missouri school board has voted to drop elective courses on Black history and literature, five months after the same board rescinded an anti-discrimination policy adopted in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. The Francis Howell School Board voted A British sea monitoring agency says another vessel has been hijacked near Somalia 12/22/2023 02:20pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� Another vessel has been hijacked near the coast of Somalia, a British sea trade monitoring agency said Friday, raising more concerns that Somali pirates are active again, nearly a decade after they caused chaos for international shipping. A dhow trading vessel was se 'This dog is fast': Loose pup caught after shutting down I-95 lanes in Va. 12/22/2023 02:16pm • It was a "doggone" scary scene on Interstate 95 in Virginia on Friday morning. A small white dog took to the northbound lanes of I-95 before "ruffing" its way to Route 3 in Fredericksburg. Animal control, police and a man in a flatbed truck tried to get the little dog to come their way.