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Former Argentine soccer player Ezequiel Lavezzi hospitalized in Uruguay with shoulder fracture 12/20/2023 11:46am • MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) ��� Former Argentine soccer player Ezequiel Lavezzi was hospitalized Wednesday in the beachfront Uruguayan city of Punta del Este with a shoulder blade fracture. A police report obtained by The Associated Press says the 38-year-old Lavezzi was found with the injury at 5 a.m. Montgomery Co. police arrest California man for 31-year-old rape case 12/20/2023 11:31am • Montgomery County, Maryland, police arrested a California man Tuesday in connection to a 31-year-old cold case. Xavier Battice, 62, was arrested and charged for a 1992 rape in Chevy Chase, Maryland. DNA evidence from the crime scene was submitted to the Combined DNA Index System by cold case d ���Smash-and-grab��� robberies fuel new laws, but Virginia critics question the need 12/20/2023 11:24am • Even before Virginia lawmakers passed a tough new law against organized retail crime earlier this year, Bradley Haywood, a public defender in Arlington, Virginia, challenged the rationale. The idea that retailers in the state had lost billions to organized theft was a myth manufactured by retailers Holiday drunken driving enforcement efforts are ramping up 12/20/2023 10:15am • For weeks, police departments all across the D.C. region have been issuing warnings to people about driving drunk. And as we count down the final days of 2023, those warnings are being amplified again after a rash of alcohol-related crashes to close out last year. Between Thanksgiving of 2022 and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina kicks off election campaign amid an opposition boycott 12/20/2023 10:08am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally kicked off her ruling Awami League party���s campaign Wednesday amid an election boycott by the country���s main opposition party. Addressing a massive rally in the northeastern city of Sylhet, Hasina strongly criticized the What we know about Texas' new law that lets police arrest migrants who enter the US illegally 12/20/2023 12:05am • McALLEN, Texas (AP) ��� How far can a state go to keep migrants out of the U.S.? The answer may soon come out of Texas, where a new law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott this week will allow police to arrest migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and give local judges the authori Ex-Proud Boys leader is sentenced to over 3 years in prison for Capitol riot plot 12/19/2023 11:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years behind bars for joining a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol nearly three years ago. Charles Donohoe was the second Proud Boy to plead guilty to conspiring with other group Police who make house calls: Takoma Park's vacant home checks 12/19/2023 10:25pm • Before heading out of town for the holidays, Takoma Park, Maryland, residents can sign up for a very targeted neighborhood watch: one where police swing by their homes to make sure not a creature is stirring ��� or stealing. The Takoma Park Police Department has been providing the free service si Homicide victim found dead in 1979 near Las Vegas Strip ID'd as missing 19-year-old from Cincinnati 12/19/2023 10:07pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A body discovered in an open field in 1979 near what is today a busy intersection of the Las Vegas Strip has been identified as a teenager from Ohio who had left home that year in search of her biological father, authorities announced Tuesday. She was 19-year-old Gwenn Marie Story Ex-New York Giants running back Derrick Ward arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of robbery 12/19/2023 10:06pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Derrick Ward, a former running back and one-time member of the 2008 Super Bowl-winning New York Giants team, has been arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of robbery. Ward, 43, was arrested Monday in the North Hollywood area, police said. He was being held Tuesday on $250,000 ba 'It���s a journey': Montgomery Co. police sergeant remains positive, on road to recovery after losing both legs 12/19/2023 10:00pm • Patrick Kepp knows his life is different now ��� he���s already experienced things he���s only read about or seen on TV. However, the veteran Montgomery County, Maryland, police sergeant never expected he would require a form of ���critical care��� or need to learn how to walk again. Early on the ���Unacceptable���: How DC business leaders are working together in response to crime 12/19/2023 09:12pm • Leaders from several local and national retail stores convened for a retail theft meeting Monday, discussing various ways they are responding to a rise in theft and other crime across the District. At-large Council member Kenyan McDuffie, who chairs the D.C. Council���s Committee on Business and DC police identify, charge man shot by officer near Capital One Arena 12/19/2023 08:25pm • D.C. police have identified the man shot by a police officer Monday night during what it says was an "investigative stop" in the Penn Quarter neighborhood. The department said its force investigation team was on a high visibility patrol around 8:30 p.m. when the incident happened along the 900 bl New York man who served 37 years in prison for killing 2 men released after conviction overturned 12/19/2023 08:10pm • ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) ��� A New York man who served 37 years in prison for the shooting deaths of two people in the 1980s has been released from prison after his conviction was overturned. The Democrat and Chronicle reports Michael Rhynes left the Attica Correctional Facility on Tuesday afternoon fo An earthquake in northwestern China kills at least 131 people and is the deadliest in 9 years 12/19/2023 08:09pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� A strong overnight earthquake rattled a mountainous region of northwestern China, authorities said Tuesday, reducing homes to rubble, leaving residents outside in a below-freezing winter night and killing 131 people in the nation���s deadliest quake in nine years. The magnitude 6.2