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NTSB finds operator error likely caused fatal crash of medical helicopter 12/13/2023 01:44pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ��� Operator error likely caused a medical helicopter to break apart mid-flight and crash during a training exercise last year, killing the pilot and flight instructor, National Transportation Safety Board investigators said in their final report. The Mercy Flight helicopter was o South Carolina���s top education official wants online digital maps as part of $38M school safety ask 12/13/2023 01:35pm • GILBERT, S.C. (AP) ��� South Carolina���s top education official plans to ask lawmakers for $5 million to put a digital map of every school in the state online and make those maps immediately available on police officers��� mobile devices as they respond to a shooting or other emergency at a given s Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 12/13/2023 01:11pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Father of July 4th Illinois parade shooting suspect released early from jail for good behavior 12/13/2023 11:00am • WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) ��� The father of the suspect in a deadly 2022 Fourth of July parade shooting in suburban Chicago has been released early from jail after serving part of a 60-day sentence for sponsoring a firearm application for his son. Robert Crimo Jr. was released Wednesday for good behavior, Man shot to death at large Minneapolis homeless encampment that has been slated for closure 12/13/2023 10:58am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A man was shot to death at a large Minnesota homeless encampment, days before it was scheduled to be removed. The shooting was reported around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday at the encampment known as Camp Nenookaasi in Minneapolis. The 45-year-old victim suffered several gunshot wounds and Turkish soccer matches to resume on Dec. 19 after suspension caused by attack on referee 12/13/2023 09:37am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� Turkish soccer league matches, suspended after a referee was attacked by the president of a top-flight club, will resume on Dec. 19, the head of the Turkish Football Federation said Wednesday. Mehmet Buyukeksi also told reporters that the federation's disciplinary board would 6 killed in reported shootout between drug cartels in northern Mexico state of Zacatecas 12/13/2023 09:36am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Six people have been killed in a shootout between drug cartel gunmen in the northern Mexico state of Zacatecas, authorities said late Tuesday. The Zacatecas state security council said the bodies were found in a rural area known as Boquilla del Carmen. It said the dead appeared Thai police seize a record haul of 50 million methamphetamine tablets near border with Myanmar 12/13/2023 09:02am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Thai police have seized what is being called a record haul of methamphetamine tablets in the western province of Kanchanaburi, close to the Myanmar border. Officers found an estimated 50 million tablets hidden in sacks in a six-wheeler truck they stopped at a joint police-military c Body in Philadelphia warehouse IDed as inmate who escaped in 4th city breakout this year 12/13/2023 09:01am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� A body found inside a Philadelphia warehouse has been identified as an inmate who walked away from a work detail almost two weeks ago in the fourth breakout from a city lockup this year, police announced late Tuesday. The Philadelphia Medical Examiner���s Office identified the Editor says Myanmar authorities have arrested 2 local journalists for an online news service 12/13/2023 08:53am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Myanmar���s military government has arrested two journalists with a local online news service, their editor said Wednesday, in its latest crackdown on media freedom since seizing power nearly three years ago. The chief editor of Dawei Watch, who spoke on condition of anonymity for f Analysis: It's uncertain if push to 'Stop Cop City' got enough valid signers for Atlanta referendum 12/13/2023 05:59am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Opponents of an Atlanta police and fire training center exulted as they marched into City Hall in September with 16 boxes of petitions to force a referendum on the issue. ���116,000 signatures ��� can you hear us now?��� they asked, confident they had enough. But an analysis by four Bomb blast damages commercial area near Greece���s largest port but causes no injuries 12/13/2023 05:35am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� A powerful bomb explosion damaged a commercial apartment block housing stores and businesses early Wednesday near the port of Piraeus, southwest of Athens, authorities said. Police confirmed the night-time blast was caused by a bomb. The explosion resulted in no injuries but Indian police arrest 4 intruders for breaching security in the Parliament complex 12/13/2023 04:50am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Police arrested two people who jumped from the visitors��� gallery into the lower house of India���s Parliament on Wednesday, the speaker said, in a major security breach on the anniversary of a deadly 2001 attack on the complex. Two accomplices also were arrested outside the cham Congo's presidential election spotlights the deadly crisis in the east that has displaced millions 12/13/2023 04:35am • GOMA, Congo (AP) ��� Elisha Manishimwe longs to return to his village in eastern Congo to vote in this month���s presidential election. But for two years he has lived in a displacement camp with thousands of others after fleeing for his life. His fatigue is compounded by despair. Many of the displac Ethiopia arrests former peace minister over alleged links to an outlawed rebel group 12/13/2023 03:55am • ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) ��� Ethiopia���s peace minister has been fired and arrested for having alleged links to an outlawed rebel group after he made a series of social media posts criticizing the government. Federal police released a statement Tuesday accusing Taye Dendea of ���collaborating wit