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4 elections offices in Washington are evacuated due to suspicious envelopes, 2 containing fentanyl 11/08/2023 08:03pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Four county elections offices in Washington state were evacuated Wednesday after they received envelopes containing suspicious powders ��� including two that field-tested positive for fentanyl ��� while workers were processing ballots from Tuesday���s election. The elections offices Costa Rica's $6 million National Bank heist was an inside job, authorities say 11/08/2023 07:24pm • SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) ��� Little by little an employee of Costa Rica���s National Bank took advantage of a surveillance blindspot to slip more than $6 million worth of currency into envelopes and casually walk out of the country���s largest bank, authorities said Wednesday. First announced last Tennessee's long rape kit processing times cut in half after jogger's 2022 killing exposed delays 11/08/2023 06:59pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Tennessee's lead investigative agency says it now takes less than half the time it took to process rape kits in August 2022, not long before the high-profile killing of a jogger shone a light on the long delays and prompted a funding boost. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Colorado funeral home stockpiled bodies for 4 years, gave families remains that weren't their loved ones, police say 11/08/2023 06:48pm • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ��� Colorado funeral home stockpiled bodies for 4 years, gave families remains that weren't their loved ones, police say. Massachusetts to begin denying shelter beds to homeless families, putting names on a waitlist 11/08/2023 06:35pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� The number of homeless families seeking emergency shelter in Massachusetts is nearing a 7,500-family threshold, past which Democratic Gov. Maura Healey says the state can no longer accommodate them and will instead place families on a waitlist, prioritizing those with the highest nee Nashville DA seeks change after suspect released from jail is accused of shooting college student 11/08/2023 06:28pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� The Nashville district attorney called on Wednesday for the Tennessee legislature to make it easier to commit someone to a mental institution after a man who was previously released for incompetence to stand trial was accused of shooting an 18-year-old college student in th 8 people died after police chased a suspected human smuggler who crashed with another vehicle, Texas officials say 11/08/2023 06:09pm • BATESVILLE, Texas (AP) ��� 8 people died after police chased a suspected human smuggler who crashed with another vehicle, Texas officials say. Robert Saleh says there's no 'conspiracy theory' in Jets' decision to stick with Zach Wilson at QB 11/08/2023 06:08pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) ��� Zach Wilson appeared on the verge of taking the major step for which so many around the New York Jets ��� and their frustrated fans ��� have been waiting. The third-year quarterback outplayed Patrick Mahomes in a 23-20 loss to Kansas City in front of a national audience o Court cites clergy-penitent privilege in dismissing child sex abuse lawsuit against Mormon church 11/08/2023 06:07pm • An Arizona judge has dismissed a high-profile child sexual abuse lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruling that church officials who knew that a church member was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse to police or social service agencies because 7 Nashville officers on 'administrative assignment' after Covenant school shooter's writings leaked 11/08/2023 05:41pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Seven Nashville police officers have been placed on ���administrative assignment��� amid an investigation into the unauthorized release of some writings by the shooter who killed six people, including three children, at a private elementary school in March, authorities said UN convoy stretching 9 kilometers ends harrowing trip in Mali that saw 37 peacekeepers hurt by IEDs 11/08/2023 05:16pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� A 9-kilometer-long U.N. convoy withdrawing from a rebel stronghold in northern Mali arrived at its destination after a harrowing 350 kilometer (220-mile) journey that saw vehicles hit six improvised explosive devices and injure 37 peacekeepers, the United Nations said Wednesd Perjury case against former top Baltimore prosecutor heads to a federal jury 11/08/2023 04:48pm • GREENBELT, Md. (AP) ��� A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and lied to improperly access retirement funds, using the money to purchase two Florida vacation homes, a federal prosecutor argued Wednesday at the close of the ex-official's trial. Mid Atlantic Daybook 11/08/2023 04:31pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Wednesday, Nov. 08. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Mid-Atlantic bureau is reachable at 202-641-9660 Suspect in custody in recent fatal stabbing of Detroit synagogue leader 11/08/2023 04:17pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� Police said a suspect was in custody Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of a Detroit synagogue leader whose recent death had raised questions about whether it was motivated by antisemitism. ���It does not represent the conclusion of our work in this case,��� police Chief James White sa The Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting was the first test of Biden's new gun violence prevention office 11/08/2023 04:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The first thing Greg Jackson did when he arrived in Lewiston, Maine, was to drive through the city, into its neighborhoods, past the crime scene tape and the boarded-up windows, to get a feel for a community reeling from a mass shooting. The deputy director of the new White House