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Reagan National Airport reaches record for guns carried on, caught at security 10/25/2023 08:21am • More guns are being found in carry-on luggage and stopped at airport checkpoints this year at Reagan National Airport, reflecting a troublesome national trend recorded by the Transportation Security Administration. As of Nov. 23, TSA officers say they have stopped 30 guns from getting through DCA Feuding Serbia and Kosovo leaders set for talks Thursday on the sidelines of an EU summit 10/25/2023 08:02am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have been invited to meet with top European Union officials on Thursday to try to breathe life into talks aimed at normalizing their relations, just as the 27-nation bloc���s leaders gather in Brussels for a two-day summit. Serbian President Aleksan Security tensions running high in Belgium on eve of EU summit 10/25/2023 07:49am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Security tensions were running high on Wednesday ahead of a European Union summit in Brussels, with police launching a search for a man they wanted to question over reports of unspecified threats. The Brussels prosecutor's office later said authorities had detained a man in the cas 12-year-old shot in Fairfax County; multiple suspects at large 10/25/2023 06:10am • A 12-year-old child was shot Tuesday afternoon in Lincolnia, Virginia, according to Fairfax County police. The shooting took place in the 4600 block of North Chambliss Street shortly before 4:20 p.m., Sgt. Jacob Pearce said during a news conference Tuesday. The child was found with multiple gu Off-duty pilot said 'I'm not OK' before trying to cut engines midflight, charging documents say 10/25/2023 06:06am • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� An off-duty airline pilot riding in an extra cockpit seat on a Horizon Air flight said ���I���m not OK��� just before trying to cut the engines midflight and later told police he had been struggling with depression, according to charging documents made public Tuesday. State p LA police commission says officers violated lethal force policy in struggle with man who later died 10/25/2023 01:03am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A teacher who died after a struggle in which he was repeatedly shocked with a Taser by Los Angeles police didn't pose a deadly threat, and two officers who subdued him violated departmental policy on the use of lethal force, the police chief said in a report made public Tuesday. Recovering from attack that killed Illinois boy, Palestinian American mother urges prayers for peace 10/25/2023 12:36am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A Palestinian American woman whose 6-year-old son was killed in what police are calling a hate crime in a Chicago suburb has asked the public to ���pray for peace��� as she recuperates from her injuries. Hanaan Shahin issued a statement Tuesday through the Chicago chapter of the Co After gun found in school, Montgomery Co. officer urges parents, students to speak up 10/24/2023 09:50pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, police are encouraging more students to say something, if they see something after a student at Walter Johnson High School was arrested Monday for bringing a gun to school. Security was notified by another student that Akram Nassir, 17, of Bethesda, had a gun while in Poison specialist and former medical resident at Mayo Clinic is charged with poisoning his wife 10/24/2023 09:15pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A poison specialist and former medical resident at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is charged with fatally poisoning his wife, a 32-year-old pharmacist who died days after she went to a hospital in August with stomach distress. Authorities say Connor Bowman, 30, tried to stop the autop Miners from a rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground in South Africa, police say 10/24/2023 09:12pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� A group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of their colleagues underground for a second day at a gold mine in South Africa over a union dispute, police and mine officials said Tuesday. Some 15 miners have been injured in scuffles, the head of the m Anchor of Chinese container vessel caused damage to Balticconnector gas pipeline, Finnish police say 10/24/2023 08:31pm • HELSINKI (AP) ��� Finnish investigators said Tuesday they believed an anchor of a Chinese container ship was dislodged and caused the damage to the undersea Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia on the Baltic Sea earlier this month. The National Bureau of Investigation, a branch o 84-year-old Montgomery Co. woman scammed out of over $100k 10/24/2023 08:21pm • Joy Boone can't believe what happened to her 84-year-old mother. Boone said scammers convinced her mom who lives in Montgomery County, Maryland, to give them $120,000. Montgomery County police confirmed to WTOP that the incident was reported, and said detectives are investigating. "I just f How Lawyers Can Navigate the Ethical Minefield of Legal Advertising 10/24/2023 08:00pm • Attorney advertising is vital to law firm success and profitability, but marketing continues to pose legal ethics issues that must be addressed at every turn. In the decades since the Supreme Court issued its 1977 opinion of Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, which legalized attorney advertising, states Off-duty DC Housing Authority officer shot in Ivy City; roads reopen 10/24/2023 07:55pm • An off-duty D.C. Housing Authority officer was shot in Northeast, with the ensuing police investigation temporarily closing a stretch of New York Avenue. Police said it happened around 5:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of New York Avenue near the intersection with Montana Avenue. A "secondary scene" in European tour creates another option for PGA Tour players who lose their cards 10/24/2023 07:46pm • PGA Tour players who finished out of the top 125 on the FedEx Cup now have another option where to play: the European tour. The DP World Tour is offering full membership to PGA Tour players who finish between Nos. 126 and 200 this year, although there is a caveat. Only five players who accept Europe