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2 dead in Mozambique protests over local election results, watchdog says. Police say 70 arrested 10/27/2023 04:09pm • MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Protests in Mozambique over disputed local election results resulted in the deaths of a police officer and a civilian Friday, a corruption watchdog group said. Police reported a total of 70 arrests in four cities but not any fatalities. The unrest followed Thursday's off Nashville police chief has spent a career mentoring youths but couldn't keep his son from trouble 10/27/2023 03:56pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville Police Chief John Drake has spent much of his career trying to steer young people away from crime. Inspired by mentors who helped him as a young man, Drake has tried to pay it forward. But sadly, he was unable to keep his own son out of trouble. John C. Drake Jr. Nashville police chief's son, wanted in the shooting of 2 officers, found dead after car chase 10/27/2023 03:51pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The estranged son of Nashville’s police chief, who was wanted in the shooting of two police officers, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after leading police on a chase in a stolen car, authorities said. Nashville Police Chief John Drake issued a statement o From bomb threats to guns found on campus, Montgomery Co. students push schools for added security 10/27/2023 03:15pm • Sam Ross, a junior at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, told her local school board how a rash of bomb threats — three at her school alone — have helped to create "fear in the community." Ross told the Montgomery County Board that in addition to the bomb threats, a student was fo Lawyers spar over possibility of workers' compensation for teacher who was shot by 6-year-old 10/27/2023 03:11pm • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Lawyers sparred in a Virginia courtroom Friday over whether a teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student should get only workers' compensation for her serious injuries. Abby Zwerner is suing Newport News Public Schools for $40 million, alleging gross negligence agains 6 of 9 deputies charged in death of man beaten in Memphis jail plead not guilty 10/27/2023 03:09pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Six corrections deputies pleaded not guilty Friday to charges ranging from murder to aggravated assault in the beating and death of a Black man who was having a psychotic episode in a Memphis jail last year. In all, nine Shelby County deputies were charged in September in the Christian conservatives cheer one of their own as Mike Johnson assumes Congress' most powerful seat 10/27/2023 02:57pm • Evangelical Christian conservatives have long had allies in top Republican leadership in Congress. But never before have they had one so thoroughly embedded in their movement as new House Speaker Mike Johnson, a longtime culture warrior in the courthouse, in the classroom and in Congress. Religious DC Murder suspect who escaped police custody recaptured after seven weeks on the run 10/27/2023 02:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Police have recaptured a murder suspect who escaped custody in September, forcing an hours-long shelter-in-place order at George Washington University. Washington's Metropolitan Police Department announced that Christopher Haynes, 30, was arrested Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Se Police ID teen girl killed after 2 carjacked vehicles crash in Northeast DC 10/27/2023 02:21pm • Police in D.C. have identified the teen girl who was killed after two speeding carjacked vehicles crashed in the same block in Northeast D.C. earlier this week. Kendra Outlaw, 16, of Northeast, was driving a Honda Pilot SUV and speeding early Thursday morning when she crashed while turning at a t Retired Colombian army officer gets life sentence in 2021 assassination of Haiti's president 10/27/2023 02:12pm • MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami on Friday sentenced a retired Colombian army officer to life in prison for his role in plotting to kill Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, which caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation. Germán Alejandro Rivera García, 45, is the second of Movie review: This murder mystery is already a Best Picture favorite. Does it live up to the hype? 10/27/2023 01:59pm • It won the top prize of the international film community with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival back in May. This week, the French courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Fall" finally opens wider in D.C.-area theaters, giving local viewers a chance to see a major potential Oscar contender for Bes Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 10/27/2023 01:50pm • 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 Alliance of 3 ethnic rebel groups carries out coordinated attacks in northeastern Myanmar 10/27/2023 12:39pm • BANGKOK (AP) — An alliance of ethnic rebel groups on Friday launched a coordinated offensive in northeastern Myanmar to seize military targets in areas near the Chinese border, the groups and residents of the area said. The Arakan Army, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Ta’an 3 teens were shot and wounded outside a west Baltimore high school as students were arriving 10/27/2023 12:36pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Three teenagers were wounded in a shooting outside a west Baltimore high school around the time classes were starting Friday morning, officials said. The shooting adds to a recent uptick in youth violence plaguing the city this year, including several instances of Baltimore public NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 10/27/2023 11:53am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ A video circulating online doesn’t show the arrest of a suspect