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Pilot killed as small plane crashes and burns on doorstep of shopping center in Plano, Texas 11/21/2023 09:22pm • PLANO, Texas (AP) — A small plane crashed and burned Tuesday on the doorstep of a strip mall in Texas, killing the pilot and causing a nearby car to catch fire, but nobody on the ground was injured, authorities said. The single-engine Mooney M20, with just the pilot aboard, went down at about 6 p. Police: Kentucky bank shooter wrote in journal about ease of buying assault weapon before killings 11/21/2023 08:40pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The man who fatally shot five coworkers at a Louisville bank in April wrote in his journal that he wasn’t sure if his mental health struggles would preclude him from purchasing a gun and then later, after acquiring one just days before carrying out the mass shooting, remar A baby dies and a Florida mom is found stabbed to death, as firefighters rescue 2 kids from blaze 11/21/2023 08:35pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Firefighters discovered a woman stabbed to death when they rushed to extinguish a blaze early Tuesday at an apartment in Daytona Beach, while her three young children were taken in critical condition to a hospital where the youngest, an infant, died. Authorities have not Voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution, judge rules 11/21/2023 08:20pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution, a judge ruled Tuesday, continuing to block it from taking effect and casting fresh doubt over the future of the embattled measure. The law, one of the toughest in the nation, was among the first gun rest Authorities capture man accused of killing 3 in simmering Colorado property dispute 11/21/2023 07:57pm • DENVER (AP) — A man was captured Tuesday after 25 hours on the run after police say he fatally shot three people and critically wounded a fourth in his latest property dispute with neighbors in rural Colorado, authorities said. The suspect, Hanme K. Clark, 45, was arrested by New Mexico State pol Capitol rioter who berated a judge and insulted a prosecutor is sentenced to 3 months in jail 11/21/2023 06:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A New York massage therapist who joined the mob of Trump supporters attacking the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Tuesday to three months in jail, capping a case in which he skipped court hearings, profanely insulted a prosecutor and berated the judge who punished him. Frank Rocco Montgomery County sees a second high school principal leave midyear 11/21/2023 06:03pm • The plan, said Seneca Valley High School principal Marc Cohen, was to retire at the end of the year from the Maryland school. But that's not how the Montgomery County educator will be wrapping up his 30-year career in education. In a recent letter, Cohen announced to the school community that Slick roads, heavy holiday traffic: Big backups leading to airports ahead of Thanksgiving 11/21/2023 05:40pm • Listen to WTOP online and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM for traffic and weather news on the 8s. Halloween has passed, but it looks like Thanksgiving is going to be the new nightmare — at least as far as getting around the D.C.-area is concerned. Heavy rain all day Tuesday has slickened ar Liberia's president-elect cancels victory celebrations after vehicle rams into crowd, killing 3 11/21/2023 05:38pm • MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian President-elect Joseph Boakai 's party announced Tuesday it was cancelling all remaining victory celebrations, a day after authorities said a driver sped into a crowd killing at least three people and injuring 17 others. "Our thoughts and condolences go out to the Man wounded in road rage shooting in Arlington 11/21/2023 05:22pm • Arlington County police say a man was shot Monday evening in the 3100 block of Langston Boulevard in Virginia. Officers responded shortly before 8 p.m. Police say they found a man in the passenger seat of a parked vehicle suffering from gunshot wounds. According to initial reports, both the Shooting that wounded 4 in Ohio is the second to occur at a Walmart in 24 hours 11/21/2023 05:03pm • A gunman opened fire Monday evening inside a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself -- the second shooting in 24 hours to take place at a store operated by the retail giant. The attack at the Walmart in Beavercreek, a suburb of Dayton, just days before Thanksgiving injured fo Officials identify man fatally shot on a freeway by California Highway Patrol officer 11/21/2023 04:04pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who was fatally shot by a California Highway Patrol officer in a struggle on a freeway that was captured on video was a 34-year-old from Los Angeles, officials said Tuesday. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office said Jesse Dominguez's cause of death on Sunday af Woman sentenced to 25 years after pleading guilty in case of boy found dead in suitcase in Indiana 11/21/2023 03:43pm • SALEM, Ind. (AP) — A Louisiana woman was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for her involvement in the death of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found last year in a suitcase in rural southern Indiana. A Washington County judge sentenced Dawn Elaine Coleman, 41, of Shreveport, Louisian Man agrees to plead guilty to firebombing Wisconsin anti-abortion group office in 2022 11/21/2023 03:07pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of firebombing an anti-abortion office in Wisconsin last year has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of damaging property with explosives. Online court records show Hridindu Roychowdhury, of Madison, filed a signed plea agreement Monday in the Western Dis Deaths from gold mine collapse in Suriname rise to 14, with 7 people still missing 11/21/2023 03:03pm • PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — The number of people killed when an illegal gold mine collapsed in Suriname rose to 14 on Tuesday, with seven others missing in what is considered the South American country’s worst mining accident. Rescue crews combed through mounds of earth in hopes of finding survi