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Winter arrives in Northern Europe, with dangerous roads in Germany and record lows in Scandinavia 11/28/2023 01:14pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� Winter's early onset has brought heavy snowfall and icy roads to Northern Europe, creating disruptions and dangerous driving conditions, with German media reporting Tuesday at least two deaths and children stuck overnight in a school. To the north, Scandinavia was also experiencing u Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/28/2023 01:09pm • 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 No. 4 Florida State heads to ACC title game looking to add to 'Sod Cemetery' and 'finish for 13' 11/28/2023 12:41pm • Kneeling in the south end zone at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Florida State running back Trey Benson tried to cut out a chunk of grass with scissors. It wasn���t working on the orange-painted turf, so teammate Jared Verse stepped in to help. Together, and despite a police officer trying to dissuade th UN warns that gang violence is overwhelming Haiti's once peaceful central region 11/28/2023 12:11pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Gangs are invading Haiti���s rural central region, suffocating a once peaceful area that served as the country���s food basket but that is now plagued by kidnappings, killings and rapes, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday. Only a handful of powerful gangs oper Michigan police arrest 12-year-old boy after youth drives away on forklift, officers follow 11/28/2023 11:57am • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ��� Police in Michigan have arrested a 12-year-old boy who they said led them on a chase in a stolen forklift. Police were called to Forsythe Middle School at about 6:45 p.m. Saturday on a report of a stolen forklift, MLive.com reported. Officers found the forklift heading sout Person arrested with gun after reports of gunshots at Virginia's Christopher Newport University 11/28/2023 11:52am • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) ��� A person suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken into custody following reports of a shooting at Virginia's Christopher Newport University early Tuesday morning, the school said in a news release. University police said they responded to a student union after Wisconsin mother, teenage son found dead in Maryland wooded area in apparent murder-suicide 11/28/2023 11:41am • Police in Prince George's County said that a mother killed her teenage son and then herself in a wooded area in Maryland. They were found on Saturday on the 10400 block of Greenbelt Road in Lanham. Prince George's County police said officers responded to reports of two dead people just after 2 p. Street closures for US Capitol Christmas Tree lighting Tuesday 11/28/2023 11:39am • Listen live to WTOP Traffic on the 8s The annual U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree lighting ceremony will take place Tuesday on the West Front Lawn, and evening commuters should be aware of some D.C. road closures. The lighting will start at 5 p.m. The tree will be there through Jan. 1, 2024, accord 13 Sierra Leone military officers are under arrest for trying to stage a coup, a minister says 11/28/2023 11:28am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Attacks on Sierra Leone���s main military barracks and prisons were a failed coup attempt and have resulted in the arrest of 13 military officers, the government���s spokesman said Tuesday. The attackers attempted to ���overthrow the elected government of Sierra Leone,��� Inf Belarus raids apartments of opposition activists as part of sweeping probe called latest crackdown 11/28/2023 11:05am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Belarus' criminal investigation agency said Tuesday that it has conducted raids as part of a sweeping probe into an alleged attempt by the opposition to seize power three years ago. Critics called it the latest move in authorities' crackdown on dissent. Belarus was rocked b Philippine government and communist rebels agree to resume talks on ending their protracted conflict 11/28/2023 09:21am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� The Philippine government and the country���s communist rebels have agreed to resume talks aimed at ending decades of armed conflict, one of Asia's longest, Norwegian mediators announced Tuesday. High-ranking delegations from both sides met in the Norwegian capital of O 14-year-old dies days after Fairfax Co. crash that left 5 other teens hospitalized 11/28/2023 08:25am • A 14-year-old has died and four other teens remained in the hospital Monday after a crash last week near the Idylwood area in Fairfax County, Virginia, according to police. Six teens were initially sent to the hospital after the Nov. 20 crash at the intersection of Pioneer Lane and Shreve Road. Man United set for another fiery match against Galatasaray with Champions League hopes in peril 11/28/2023 07:45am • If it wasn���t the ���Welcome to Hell��� signs at the airport, it was the bell boy at the team hotel performing a throat-slitting gesture as the players arrived. Or the deliberately timed phone calls during the night to disrupt sleep, and the mud and flags thrown at the bus to the stadium. Or the ri 127 Malaysians, suspected to be victims of job scams, rescued from Myanmar fighting 11/28/2023 03:25am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� More than 120 suspected victims of job scams have been rescued after being stranded by fighting in northern Myanmar between the military and armed ethnic groups, Malaysia's government said. The number of Malaysians rescued surged from an initial 26 to 127 in the past Suspect in shooting of 3 men of Palestinian descent near the University of Vermont pleads not guilty 11/27/2023 10:30pm • BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) ��� Three college students of Palestinian descent out for a walk in Vermont were seriously injured over the weekend when a man shot them at close range on a city street ��� an attack being investigated as a possible hate crime, authorities said Monday. Jason J. Eaton, 48, made h