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Man suspected of killing 4, including a 1-year-old, at a Dallas home kills self during police chase 12/04/2023 07:02pm • DALLAS (AP) — A man suspected of killing four people, including a 1-year-old boy, and injuring a 15-year-old girl in a shooting at a Dallas home fatally shot himself during a chase with law enforcement several hours later, authorities said Monday. Byron Carrillo, 21, fled the home after the shooti Texas prosecutor drops charges against 17 Austin police over tactics used during 2020 protests 12/04/2023 06:57pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor whose office oversaw indictments against more than 20 Austin police officers for tactics used during the 2020 protests that followed George Floyd's killing said Monday he was dropping most of the cases and would ask the Justice Department to investigate inst Gloria Allred is representing the family of girl involved in Josh Giddey's case 12/04/2023 06:49pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gloria Allred is representing the family of the girl with whom Oklahoma City Thunder guard Josh Giddey is accused of having an improper relationship, the famed attorney confirmed Monday. Allred has been an advocate for women in cases against powerful men and celebrities for de Minnesota prosecutors won't charge officers in the death of a man who drowned after fleeing police 12/04/2023 06:46pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — No law enforcement officers will face criminal charges in the death of a man who fled a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Robbinsdale. The death was ruled an accidental drowning, prosecutors said Monday. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a statement that her Takoma Park man arrested weeks after shooting death at a Montgomery Co. restaurant 12/04/2023 06:10pm • A man has been arrested in the shooting death of a Maryland man at a restaurant last month. U.S. Marshals arrested 33-year-old Markus Tyrell Dowdy in Takoma Park on Saturday. He is accused of shooting and killing Marvin Jefferson, 34, of Silver Spring, at the America's Best Wings restaurant on Ne Detroit on track to record fewest homicides since 1966, officials say 12/04/2023 05:34pm • The city of Detroit is on-track to see its fewest yearly homicides in nearly six decades, officials said Monday. Through Nov. 30, Detroit had recorded 228 homicides — an 18% decrease over the same period last year. In 2018, Detroit had 261 homicides, the fewest number since 1966, when there were 2 Man receives maximum sentence for random stabbing attacks in Montgomery Co. 12/04/2023 05:34pm • A man who fatally stabbed a man and wounded another last year in Montgomery County, Maryland, was sentenced to 65 years in prison Friday. Two separate juries convicted 33-year-old Scorpio Alexander Stanfield in May on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree assault connected to the stabb Man who posed as agent and offered gifts to Secret Service sentenced to nearly 3 years 12/04/2023 05:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A man accused of pretending to be a federal agent and offering gifts and free apartments to Secret Service officers has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison. Arian Taherzadeh, 41, was sentenced to 33 months in prison Friday. He and a second man, Haider Ali, were indi Illinois halts construction of Chicago winter migrant camp while it reviews soil testing at site 12/04/2023 05:25pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration halted construction Monday of a temporary winter camp for migrants in Chicago while the state reviews the removal of soil contaminants at the former industrial site. The review, which a spokesperson for the governor said wouldn't take lo US tourist from Boston killed in shark attack in Bahamas, police say 12/04/2023 05:15pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A female tourist from Boston was killed Monday by a shark while paddleboarding in the Bahamas, police told reporters. The victim, who was not identified, was attacked less than a mile off the western end of New Providence island, where the capital, Nassau, is located. Man suspected of shoplifting stabs 2 security guards at Philadelphia store, killing 1 12/04/2023 05:14pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man who had tried to steal merchandise from a department store in Philadelphia returned 15 minutes later and stabbed two security guards, killing one and injuring the other, city police said. The attack at the Macy’s store occurred shortly after 11 a.m. Monday. Security gua With a month left, crash deaths on Md. roads surpass 5-year average 12/04/2023 05:05pm • So far this year, 554 people have died in car crashes in Maryland, including 135 pedestrians and 15 people who were on bikes. According to preliminary data on the state's dashboard, 38 people were killed in November alone. The data, provided by Maryland's Department of Transportation, show 76ers' Kelly Oubre Jr. scoffs at questions about legitimacy of his injury, calls hit-and-run serious 12/04/2023 05:04pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kelly Oubre Jr. wanted to set the record straight — yes, a vehicle struck him as he walked near his home and the driver fled. Yes, he suffered a traumatic injury and no — he doesn't care for anyone who questioned his account of what happened on that Philadelphia street last Heavy snowfall drops tree branches onto power lines, causing outages in New England 12/04/2023 04:51pm • A storm dropped a mix of rain and snow on parts of New England with some locations recording more than a half-foot (15 centimeters) of snowfall on Monday, knocking out power for tens of thousands of customers and causing slick roads that contributed to a fiery propane truck crash in Vermont. Evacuat A deer broke into a New Jersey elementary school. Its escape was caught on police bodycams 12/04/2023 04:45pm • TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey elementary school had an unexpected visitor over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend: A deer jumped through a small window and knocked over items in a classroom before fleeing the building. A man walking his dog around 10 p.m. on Nov. 25 saw the young deer smash t