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After FBI raid, defiant Oakland mayor says she did nothing wrong and will not resign 06/24/2024 06:59pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� In her first public remarks since federal authorities raided her home last week, a defiant and furious mayor of Oakland, California, said she did not do anything wrong and she has no plans to resign from office. Mayor Sheng Thao read from a prepared statement and took no que Former pro surfer known for riding huge Pipeline waves dies in shark attack while surfing off Oahu 06/24/2024 06:16pm • A well-known Hawaii lifeguard who was killed in a shark attack while surfing off Oahu���s North Shore was a former professional surfer with acting credits to his name, including a role in one of the ���Pirates of the Caribbean" movies. Tamayo Perry, 49, was killed Sunday near Goat Island, Shayne Enr Disputed verdict draws both sides back to court in New Hampshire youth detention center abuse case 06/24/2024 05:59pm • Brentwood, N.H. (AP) ��� Both sides in a landmark trial over abuse at New Hampshire���s youth detention center returned to the courtroom Monday, seven weeks after jurors delivered what remains an unsettled verdict. A jury awarded $38 million to David Meehan in May but found the state liable for only Mass shootings across the US mark the first weekend of summer 06/24/2024 05:59pm • The first weekend of summer brought a tragic yet familiar pattern for American cities wracked by gun violence as mass shootings left dozens dead or wounded at a party in Alabama, an entertainment district in Ohio and a grocery store in Arkansas. It was the second straight weekend that saw an outbrea Teen girl pleads guilty to manslaughter in death of Toronto homeless man 06/24/2024 05:27pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� A fourth teenage girl accused in the fatal stabbing of a Toronto homeless man two years ago pleaded guilty on Wednesday. The girl, who was 14 at the time of the incident, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of 59-year-old Kenneth Lee. Police have alleged that Lee, who was l A shooter who entered a Tennessee office building and caused a lockdown has died, police say 06/24/2024 05:19pm • CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) ��� A suspect died and a neighborhood in Tennessee was locked down briefly Monday in response to reports of a shooter inside an office building near a shopping mall. Police in Chattanooga said reports about the man with a gun starting coming in just after 2 p.m. local time. � Kenyan police are leaving for a controversial deployment in Haiti to take on powerful, violent gangs 06/24/2024 05:10pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Hundreds of Kenyan police officers were leaving Monday for Haiti, where they will lead a multinational force against the powerful gangs whose deadly violence spiked this year and helped bring about a change in government. The deployment is controversial. The government of Ken Colombia launches talks with rebel group led by fighters who returned to arms after 2016 peace deal 06/24/2024 04:56pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� Colombia launched peace talks with the Second Marquetalia rebel group on Monday as the administration of leftist President Gustavo Petro tries to pacify rural areas of the country that have seen rising violence despite efforts to broker ceasefires with various armed groups. Iowa receiver Kaleb Brown arrested for operating a vehicle under the influence, fake license 06/24/2024 04:44pm • IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) ��� Iowa receiver Kaleb Brown was arrested for operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and possessing a fake driver's license early Sunday, police said. Iowa City police said in a report that Brown, 20, was seen driving a heavily damaged SUV that had a wheel tur Police ask Texas prosecutors to treat attempted drowning of 3-year-old child as a hate crime 06/24/2024 04:29pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� A Texas woman allegedly tried to drown a 3-year-old at an apartment complex pool in suburban Dallas after making racist remarks toward the child's mother in a case investigators are asking to be treated as a hate crime, a police spokeswoman said Monday. Elizabeth Wolf, 42, has been c Discarded bottle at Dulles helped lead to suspect in Montgomery Co. cold-case killing, documents say 06/24/2024 04:24pm • Forensic genetic genealogy testing, a 20-year-old tip buried in police files and a discarded water bottle at Dulles International Airport culminated in a break in the cold-case killing of a Montgomery County, Maryland, woman, police say. Eugene Gligor, 44, of D.C., made his first appearance Monda $2 million bail set for man charged with trying to drown 2 children at Connecticut beach 06/24/2024 04:22pm • MILFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� A New York man has been charged with attempted murder after authorities said he tried to drown two young children at a Connecticut beach over the weekend. Romney Desronvil, 41, of the Queens section of New York City, was arraigned Monday in Milford Superior Court, where a jud Book Review: Iris Mwanza goes into 'The Lions' Den' with a zealous, timely debut novel for Pride 06/24/2024 03:20pm • Grace Zulu clawed her way out of her village and into college to study law in the Zambian capital Lusaka. Now, at the end of 1990 and with AIDS running rampant, her first big case will test her personally and professionally: She must defend dancer Willbess ���Bessy��� Mulenga, who is accused of ���c DC launches drone program, new police helicopter 06/24/2024 02:59pm • D.C.���s mayor and police chief believe a key to ���driving down crime��� involves new airborne technology, which was unveiled Monday morning. The District���s new $6.2 million Airbus H-125 helicopter took a test flight from the D.C. police heliport, a few hundred yards from Audi Field, in So Plane with 2 on board makes emergency beach landing on New York's Fire Island. No injuries reported 06/24/2024 02:46pm • BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) ��� A small plane made an emergency landing on the beach on New York's Fire Island on Monday and the two people on board were uninjured, authorities said. The single-engine Piper PA-28 landed in Atlantique at about 12:15 p.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Tammy L