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Former Colombian soldier pleads guilty in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president 12/22/2023 01:24pm • MIAMI (AP) — A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, which plunged the Caribbean nation into violence and political turmoil. Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, 45, pleaded guilty to three charges, including conspi Police seek a motive as Prague mourns the 14 people killed in the nation's worst mass shooting 12/22/2023 01:16pm • PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police investigated Friday why a student went on a dayslong violent rampage culminating in a shooting at the university he attended in Prague that left 14 dead and dozens wounded. Investigators believe the gunman in the mass shooting Thursday in a philosophy department building New video: Maine police feared confronting Lewiston shooter prior to attack would throw ‘dynamite on a pool of gas' 12/22/2023 01:13pm • LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — New video: Maine police feared confronting Lewiston shooter prior to attack would throw ‘dynamite on a pool of gas.' Jury clears 3 Washington officers in death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who said he couldn't breathe 12/22/2023 12:46pm • TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A jury cleared three Washington state police officers of all criminal charges Thursday in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained face-down on a Tacoma sidewalk as he pleaded for breath. Two of the officers — Matthew Collins, 40, an Lone gunman in Czech mass shooting had no record and slipped through cracks despite owning 8 guns 12/22/2023 12:36pm • PRAGUE (AP) — Czech politicians tend to boast that their country is one of the safest in the world from gun violence. But the worst mass killing in the nation’s history this week — along with other shootings over the last decade — suggest that might not be true. At the Faculty of Arts depart A serial killer set Detroit on edge. Police missteps over 15 years allowed him to roam free 12/22/2023 11:23am • DETROIT (AP) — The serial killer lured women one by one into vacant homes to be murdered, posing their nude or partially clothed corpses amid cheap booze pints, crumbling sheetrock and hypodermic needles. The slayings set Detroit on edge, prompting authorities to dispatch crews on overtime to scou New Hampshire newspaper publisher fined $620 over political advertisement omissions 12/22/2023 11:19am • DERRY, N.H. (AP) — A judge has fined the New Hampshire publisher of a weekly community newspaper $620 after finding her guilty of five misdemeanor charges that she ran advertisements for local races without properly marking them as political advertising. The judge had acquitted Debra Paul, publis Police launch probe into alleged abduction of British teen Alex Batty who went missing 6 years ago 12/22/2023 10:28am • LONDON (AP) — A criminal investigation was launched into the alleged abduction of British teenager Alex Batty, who was found last week in France six years after his mother and grandfather took him on a vacation and never returned home, Greater Manchester police said Friday. Batty, 17, returned to One person was injured in shooting at a Virginia hospital. A suspect is in custody 12/22/2023 10:12am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One person was injured at a hospital in Virginia when a man who had come to the facility for a mental health evaluation Friday began shooting, police said. Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards told reporters that a 911 call came in at 4:11 a.m. of shots fired at Chippenham Hospi 'It's Columbine all over again': WTOP's Lauryn Ricketts describes Prague after university shooting 12/22/2023 08:55am • A student opened fire at a university in the Czech capital, Prague, shooting dead 14 people before killing himself, authorities said Friday. It was the worst mass shooting in Czech history. Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said police in Prague all the 14 who died in Thursday’s attack have been id Man dies after rescue from car submerged in Potomac River, police say 12/22/2023 07:24am • A man is dead after a vehicle was found in the Potomac River early Thursday morning, according to U.S. Park Police. The federal agency said officers arrived at Ohio Drive SW in the area of the Memorial Bridge at about 12 a.m., after a car was found in the Potomac River. D.C. police and DC Fire an Turkey detains 304 people with suspected links to Islamic State group in simultaneous raids 12/22/2023 03:50am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish security forces have rounded up 304 people suspected of links to the Islamic State extremist group in simultaneous raids across Turkey, the interior minister said Friday. Ali Yerlikaya said the suspects were detained in 32 provinces but the majority of them were in Tu Live updates | Israeli strikes hit Gaza. The UN says half a million people there are starving 12/21/2023 11:44pm • Israel kept up its blistering campaign of airstrikes and ground operations across the Gaza Strip, where the United Nations says more than half a million people are starving because not enough food has entered the besieged territory. That's roughly one in four people in Gaza. Tens of thousands of dis A weekly food distribution event gets a festive touch — and a visit from Santa 12/21/2023 11:13pm • Trucks with hams, vegetables and other groceries rolled up one after the other to the offices of The Upcounty Hub on Thursday morning. The nonprofit provides weekly food distributions to families in need in Germantown, Gaithersburg, and other locations in northern Montgomery County, Maryland, Jeep Cherokee believed to be linked to quadruple DC shooting found burned in Prince George's Co. 12/21/2023 11:13pm • The white Jeep Cherokee believed to be the same one used in a shooting in D.C. Thursday morning was found burned in Suitland, Maryland, according to officials. D.C. police said they could not confirm this was the same car used in the shooting but they do believe it may be, officials told WTOP Thu