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Vandals strike Montgomery Co. synagogue's menorah just before 1st day of Hanukkah 12/08/2023 04:27am • Members of a Montgomery County, Maryland, synagogue jumped into action to repair a bent menorah they said was vandalized hours before the first light was set to be lit for Hanukkah. Rabbi Bentzy Stolik said it happened Thursday at the Chabad of Olney ��� which has been located on 17320 Georgia Av High-profile attacks on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar put spotlight on violence in federal prisons 12/08/2023 01:08am • Derek Chauvin was stabbed nearly two dozen times in the law library at a federal prison in Arizona. Larry Nassar was knifed repeatedly in his cell at a federal penitentiary in Florida. The assaults of two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners by fellow inmates in recent months have renewed co AP PHOTOS: 2023 images show violence and vibrance in Latin America 12/08/2023 01:05am • A little girl perches on the shoulder of her mom, whose eyes fill with trepidation as she wades through waist-deep water in the jungle of the Darien Gap. Another woman sits beside railroad tracks as she and her husband head north through central Mexico. Covering her eyes with her fingers, the woman Myanmar's army is facing battlefield challenges and grants amnesty to troops jailed for being AWOL 12/08/2023 12:39am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Myanmar���s military government has been freeing soldiers and police who had been jailed for desertion and absence without leave, seeking to get them to return to active duty, a police officer and an army officer said Thursday. The releases follow an an amnesty plan announced earli UNLV gunman had list of targets at the university and 150 rounds of ammunition, police say 12/08/2023 12:19am • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� The 67-year-old gunman who killed three faculty members and wounded a fourth in a roughly 10-minute rampage at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, had a list of targets at the school and more than 150 rounds of ammunition, police said Thursday. Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill How a Fairfax Co. community is responding to teenager's deadly overdose 12/07/2023 10:35pm • A Fairfax County, Virginia, high school community is in mourning after a student���s deadly overdose earlier this week. Fairfax County police said they are investigating the overdose, which happened in Seven Corners on Monday. When they got to an apartment in the 2900 block of John Marshall Drive A St. Paul, Minnesota, police officer and a suspect were both injured in a shooting 12/07/2023 10:21pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ��� A St. Paul police officer was shot in a leg and a suspect was critically injured in a shooting Thursday afternoon, authorities said. It happened around 2 p.m., St. Paul Police Sgt. Mike Ernster said at a news conference Thursday night. The officer was treated at a hospital a Ex-Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut plane���s engines is released from jail; must avoid aircraft 12/07/2023 08:20pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� An ex-Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut the engines of a passenger flight while off-duty and riding in an extra seat in the cockpit was released from jail pending trial Thursday, after an Oregon judge approved it with conditions that include keeping away from air Mother of Florida boy accused of football practice shooting now charged with felony 12/07/2023 08:09pm • APOPKA, Fla. (AP) ��� A Florida woman whose 11-year-old is accused of shooting two teenagers at a football practice in October was charged with a felony Thursday after authorities say she left a loaded gun in a worn and tattered cardboard box in her car. Sharelle Johnson, 33, did not have the box se Man fires shotgun outside Jewish temple in upstate New York as Hanukkah begins, no one injured 12/07/2023 08:04pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� A man fired a shotgun twice outside a Jewish temple in upstate New York, hours before the start of Hanukkah on Thursday, then said ���Free Palestine��� as he was taken into custody, police said. No one was injured. The episode in the state capital of Albany took place amid risi Live updates | Widening Israeli offensive in southern Gaza worsens dire humanitarian conditions 12/07/2023 07:36pm • The Israeli military hit Rafah in southern Gaza twice overnight, residents said, as United Nations officials warned there are no safe places left in the besieged territory. The center of Gaza's second-largest city, Khan Younis, has also seen fighting amid Israel���s widening air and ground offensive US Sen. Kevin Cramer's son charged with manslaughter in crash that killed North Dakota deputy 12/07/2023 07:25pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ��� The 42-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer was charged Thursday with manslaughter and fleeing an officer after a police pursuit ended in a crash that killed a North Dakota sheriff's deputy who had just laid a tire deflation device on the road and was taking cover behind hi Greek policeman severely injured in attack by fans during Athens volleyball match 12/07/2023 06:28pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� A Greek policeman was severely injured late Thursday when a mob of volleyball fans poured out of an Athens arena and attacked riot police outside. State ERT television said a flare shot by a rioter severed a thigh artery in the 30-year-old officer, who was reported in critica Texas deputies confronted but didn't arrest fatal shooting suspect in August, a month before new law 12/07/2023 06:15pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� A man suspected of killing six people in a shooting rampage through two major Texas cities was confronted by sheriff���s deputies in August during a mental health crisis and could have been arrested on a violation for cutting off an ankle monitor. Instead, deputies left Shane Jonathan Majors' accuser breaks down on witness stand as footage shows actor shoving her 12/07/2023 06:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The woman who accused Jonathan Majors of assaulting her in the backseat of a car broke down multiple times on the witness stand Thursday as the actor���s attorney repeatedly played a surveillance video that showed Majors lifting her up and thrusting her into the vehicle. ���I reall