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Gunmen kill 11 people, wound 8 others in an attack on a police station in Iran, state TV says 12/15/2023 04:51am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Suspected members of a separatist group killed 11 people and wounded eight others in a nighttime attack on a police station in southeastern Iran, state TV said Friday. The deputy governor of Sistan and Baluchestan province, Ali Reza Marhemati, said senior police Suspected separatists kill 11 people in a nighttime attack on a police station in southeastern Iran, state TV says 12/15/2023 01:15am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Suspected separatists kill 11 people in a nighttime attack on a police station in southeastern Iran, state TV says. The Vatican's 'trial of the century,' a Pandora's box of unintended revelations, explained 12/15/2023 12:10am • VATICAN CITY (AP) — Verdicts are expected Saturday for a cardinal and nine other defendants in the most complicated financial trial in the Vatican's modern history: a case featuring a Hollywood-worthy cast of characters, unseemly revelations about the Holy See and questions about Pope Francis ’ Today in History: December 15, the Bill of Rights takes effect 12/15/2023 12:05am • Today in History Today is Friday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2023. There are 16 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, went into effect following ratification by Virginia. On this date: In 1890, Si Grand jury declines to indict Mississippi police officer who shot 11-year-old boy 12/14/2023 11:11pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict a police officer who responded to a call, and shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old boy inside the home. The grand jury found that Indianola Police Sgt. Greg Capers did not engage in criminal conduct when he shot Aderrien Murr Black child, 10, sentenced to probation and a book report for urinating in public 12/14/2023 10:14pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A 10-year-old Black child who urinated in a parking lot must serve three months’ probation and write a two-page book report on the late NBA star Kobe Bryant, a Mississippi judge has ordered. Tate County Youth Court Judge Rusty Harlow handed down the sentence Tuesday after Hong Kong offers awards for arrests of activists abroad for breaching national security law 12/14/2023 09:20pm • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police accused five overseas-based activists of violating a harsh national security law imposed by Beijing and offered rewards of 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($128,000) on Thursday for information leading to each of their arrests. The bounties further intensify the Hong Captains of smuggling boat that capsized off California, killing 3, sentenced to federal prison 12/14/2023 09:12pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — The captains of a boat that capsized off the California coast last year while smuggling migrants out of Mexico, killing three people, were sentenced Thursday to federal prison. Jorge Armando Preciado-Vasquez, 30, and Alexis Martinez-Preciado, 20, were given more than 4 years each Youngkin pledges to seek mental health legislation in honor of Irvo Otieno 12/14/2023 08:37pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia families would have the right to be near a relative who is having a medical, mental health or substance-use emergency, and that person could be given previously prescribed medications, under legislation Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Thursday he'll pursue in the GOP lawmakers sink aid to Penn as statehouses watch how universities are handling Israel-Hamas war 12/14/2023 08:00pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania defeated legislation to send $33.5 million to the University of Pennsylvania's veterinary school over criticism that the school has tolerated antisemitism, as statehouses across the U.S. eye how higher ed is handling tensions around the I Fuming over setback to casino smoking ban, workers light up in New Jersey Statehouse meeting 12/14/2023 07:10pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — With prospects for a smoking ban in Atlantic City's casinos looking hazier than ever, workers who want smoking banned took matters into their own hands, lips and lungs Thursday. Members of the United Auto Workers union disrupted a meeting of a state Assembly committee th A Navy officer jailed in Japan over a deadly car crash is transferred to US custody, his family says 12/14/2023 07:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy officer jailed in Japan over a car crash that killed two Japanese citizens has been transferred into American custody and was returned Thursday to the United States, where he was booked into a federal detention center. Lt. Ridge Alkonis had been serving a three-year prison 3 hospitalized after being hit by car near Montgomery Co. courthouse; suspect identified 12/14/2023 06:36pm • Three people were injured after they were hit by a vehicle Thursday afternoon near a courthouse in Rockville, Maryland. Police said the crash happened around 2:30 p.m. on East Montgomery Avenue near the Montgomery County Circuit Courthouse. Rockville City Police say all three people — a 79-y Denmark and Germany announce arrests of terror suspects, including suspected Hamas members 12/14/2023 05:09pm • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark and Germany announced Thursday arrests of several terror suspects, including alleged Hamas members suspected of plotting attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions in Europe over the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The announcements were issued separately and it was uncl Female soccer fans in Iran allowed into Tehran stadium for men's game. FIFA head praises progress 12/14/2023 04:31pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Female soccer fans in Iran claimed a small win Thursday in their long campaign to be allowed into stadiums to watch men’s games after decades of near total exclusion and harassment. A photograph was posted on social media by the campaign group Open Stadiums of three female fa