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Klete Keller, Olympic gold medalist swimmer, gets 6 months in home detention for Jan. 6 Capitol riot 12/01/2023 05:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Olympic gold medalist swimmer Klete Keller, who threw his USA team jacket in a trash can after he stormed the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced on Friday to six months of home detention for joining the mob's Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the seat of American democracy. At 6-foot-6, Keller to Dead longhorn found on Oklahoma State fraternity lawn the day before championship game with Texas 12/01/2023 05:47pm • Police say a dead longhorn cow was found on the lawn of an Oklahoma State University fraternity on Friday, the day before the school���s football team plays the University of Texas Longhorns in the Big 12 championship game. Police were notified just after 6:30 a.m. of the dead animal on the lawn of Mississippi sheriff changes policies after violent abuse. Victims say it's to escape accountability 12/01/2023 05:20pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Attorneys for the victims of a racist episode of police torture say new policies unveiled by a Mississippi sheriff's department this week were introduced so the sheriff can escape liability in a civil lawsuit and forestall a new federal probe. With criminal sentencing for si Indiana coroner identifies remains of teen girl found buried on land of man charged in her death 12/01/2023 04:31pm • ARLINGTON, Ind. (AP) ��� An Indiana coroner has identified the remains of a 17-year-old girl who vanished in June and whose body was found this week in a box buried on land owned by a man now charged in her slaying. The remains discovered Tuesday on suspect Patrick Scott's property were positively i Fairfax Co. to expand license plate reader program 12/01/2023 04:25pm • More automatic license plate readers are coming to Fairfax County, Virginia, as part of a program expansion that police said has helped them close hundreds of cases. The county's Board of Supervisors recently approved a Department of Justice grant worth over $136,000 to fund some of the additiona 5 takeaways from AP's Black attorneys general interviews about race, justice and politics 12/01/2023 04:23pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� At a moment of record visibility and influence for Black attorneys in the United States, debates over race, criminal justice and democracy are increasingly at the center of the public conversation. Many of these Black litigators and law enforcement officials have made history, from t Chicago and other northern US cities scramble to house migrants with coldest weather just ahead 12/01/2023 03:51pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Chicago is scrambling to house hundreds of asylum-seekers who are still sheltering on sidewalks, at police stations and at the city's busiest airport as the cold weather sets in and with winter just around the corner. The country's third-largest city announced a partnership with rel Man pleads guilty to 2022 firebombing of Wisconsin anti-abortion office 12/01/2023 03:45pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty Friday to firebombing the office of a prominent anti-abortion group last year. Hridindu Roychowdhury, 29, admitted to throwing two Molotov cocktails through the window of Wisconsin Family Action's Madison office on May 8, 2022, less than a week a Philadelphia votes to ban ski masks to decrease crime. Opponents worry it'll unfairly target some 12/01/2023 03:43pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Philadelphia City Council passed legislation to ban ski masks in some public spaces, a measure supporters say will increase public safety amid high violent crime, but opponents argue it will unfairly target people without proof of any wrongdoing. The legislation passed on Thurs Iowa court affirms hate crime conviction of man who left anti-gay notes at homes with rainbow flags 12/01/2023 03:38pm • The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed the hate crime conviction Friday of a man who posted hand-written notes at homes with rainbow flags and emblems, urging them to ���burn that gay flag.��� The majority rejected the claim by Robert Clark Geddes that his conviction for trespassing as a hate crime violate 17-year-old shot in targeted attack near DC school, police say 12/01/2023 03:36pm • A 17-year-old was hospitalized after a shooting Friday morning near KIPP DC College Preparatory School in Northeast, according to police. D.C. police said a car pulled up at around 10:28 a.m. on Brentwood Parkway near the school and opened fire, hitting the teenage boy and leaving him with injuri 3 men arrested, charged in killing of Norfolk State U. student from Prince George's Co. 12/01/2023 03:28pm • Three men have been arrested and charged with murder in the deadly September shooting of a Norfolk State University student from Prince George's County, Maryland. Norfolk State University student Jahari George, who was from Accokeek in Prince George���s County, Maryland, was shot and killed near Authorities in Haiti hold former rebel leader Guy Philippe after the US repatriated him 12/01/2023 03:23pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Authorities in Haiti held former rebel leader Guy Philippe on Friday at a police station where he remained a day after the the United States repatriated him to Haiti, his lawyer said. Philippe is a convicted money launderer who played a key role in the 2004 rebellion a Illinois appeals court affirms actor Jussie Smollett's convictions and jail sentence 12/01/2023 03:19pm • An appeals court upheld the disorderly conduct convictions Friday of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lying about it to Chicago police. Smollett, who appeared in the TV show ���Empire,��� challenged the role of a special prosec AP Exclusive: America's Black attorneys general discuss race, politics and the justice system 12/01/2023 03:08pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� The American legal system is facing a crisis of trust in communities around the country, with people of all races and across the political spectrum. For many, recent protests against police brutality called attention to longstanding discrepancies in the administration of justice. For