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Woman hospitalized after Mercedes crashes into Amazon Fresh in Chevy Chase 11/17/2023 02:53pm • A woman was taken to the hospital after crashing into an Amazon Fresh grocery store in Chevy Chase, Maryland, on Friday afternoon. The incident started in a gated parking lot of "The Collection," a group of shops and restaurants that includes the Amazon Fresh. A woman who was in the lot told WTOP Police board votes to fire Chicago officer accused of dragging woman by the hair during 2020 unrest 11/17/2023 02:52pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� The Chicago Police Board voted to fire an officer accused of dragging a Black woman out of a car by her hair during unrest at a mall in 2020. The board voted unanimously Thursday to fire Officer David Laskus, finding he used excessive force and lied to investigators about the incide Thousands march through Athens to mark 50 years since a student uprising was crushed by dictatorship 11/17/2023 02:25pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� More than 25,000 people marched through central Athens on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of a pro-democracy student uprising that was violently put down by the military dictatorship ruling Greece in 1973. The demonstration was peaceful, although minor rioting broke out a Woman accused of involvement in death of child found in suitcase in Indiana makes a plea deal 11/17/2023 01:59pm • SALEM, Ind. (AP) ��� A Louisiana woman accused of involvement in the death of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana last year has reached a plea deal with prosecutors, news outlets reported. Dawn Coleman, 41, of Shreveport, will be sentenced Tuesday, at which time de Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/17/2023 01:35pm • 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 Prosecutors investigate Bulgarian soccer federation president in the wake of violent protests 11/17/2023 01:16pm • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) ��� Bulgaria���s chief prosecutor launched an investigation Friday into the country���s soccer management, with the focus on the actions of federation president Borislav Mihaylov. Bulgaria's prime minister also increased the pressure on Mihaylov by writing a letter to FIFA Presi DA says gun charge dropped against NYC lawmaker seen with pistol at protest because gun did not work 11/17/2023 12:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Charges have been dropped against a New York City lawmaker accused of bringing a gun to a protest because her gun was inoperable, prosecutors said Friday. City Council member Inna Vernikov, a strongly pro-Israel Republican, was arrested on Oct. 13 for bringing a handgun to a Brookl Maine lobsterman jumps from boat to help rescue a driver from a car submerged in a bay 11/17/2023 11:45am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� A lobsterman in Maine jumped from a boat into the water to help save a driver trapped in a sinking car, police said. The car drove into Casco Bay shortly after noon on Thursday, according to police in Portland, Maine. Police and fire crews were able to force entry into the California fugitive sentenced for killing Florida woman in 1984 11/17/2023 11:20am • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ��� A 65-year-old California fugitive who eluded authorities for nearly four decades before his arrest in June has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing a Florida woman. Donald Santini pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors to avoid a first-degr Matriarch is charged with arranging her ex-son-in-law's death, 1 week after son convicted of murder 11/17/2023 11:12am • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� The matriarch of a South Florida family who made their fortune practicing dentistry has been arrested at Miami International Airport on charges of orchestrating the hit-man murder of her ex-son-in-law, one week after her oral surgeon son was convicted on the same first Defeated Virginia candidate whose explicit videos surfaced says she may not be done with politics 11/17/2023 10:43am • HENRICO, Va. (AP) ��� Susanna Gibson lost her Virginia legislative race this month, but she may not be done with politics. Gibson, a Democrat whose House of Delegates campaign and personal life were rocked by news reports that she had livestreamed sex acts with her husband on a pornographic websi High-speed and regional trains involved in an accident in southern Germany, injuring several people 11/17/2023 10:12am • BERLIN (AP) ��� A high-speed train and a regional train were involved in an accident in southern Germany on Friday that left several people slightly injured, police said. Police wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that there was a ���lateral contact��� between the high-speed ICE train and the regional ser Pilot suffers minor injuries in small plane crash in southern Maine 11/17/2023 09:56am • LIMINGTON, Maine (AP) ��� A 62-year-old pilot suffered minor injuries when his plane crashed less than a mile from an airport following an engine failure, state police said. The yellow single-engine plane came to a rest nose-down in a thicket of woods Thursday afternoon, and Bradley Marson was walki Former Nigerian central bank chief arraigned and remanded in prison for alleged fraud 11/17/2023 09:22am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who was removed from office in June, was on Friday charged with procurement fraud at a local court, which remanded him in prison pending his bail ruling. In amended charges, the Nigerian goverment said Godwin Emefiele illega More than a million Afghans will go back after Pakistan begins expelling foreigners without papers 11/17/2023 09:11am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� About 1.3 million Afghans are expected to return to their country of origin from Pakistan, the U.N. health agency warned, weeks after authorities began expelling foreigners living in the country illegally. Thursday���s warning by the World Health Organization came amid such expul