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Swiss elect their parliament on Sunday with worries about environment and migration high in minds 10/21/2023 11:40am • GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters this weekend elect a parliament that could reshape Switzerland’s executive branch at a time when key concerns include migration, rising health care costs and climate change, which has shrunk the country's Alpine glaciers. Final ballots will be collected Sunday morning Cows that survived Connecticut truck crash are doing fine, get vet's OK to head on to Ohio 10/21/2023 11:38am • This photo, provided by the Sandy Hook, Conn., Volunteer Fire & Rescue, shows a tractor-trailer rollover carrying 44 cows, on Interstate 84 in Newtown, Conn., Thursday, October 19, 2023. It was determined that 14 of the cows perished as a result of the accident, six were were euthanized on scen Ex-Philadelphia police officer sentenced to 15 to 40 years after guilty pleas in sex assault cases 10/21/2023 11:15am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Philadelphia police officer has been sentenced to 15 to 40 years in state prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting women and girls — often while in uniform and in the back of his police vehicle. Patrick Heron, 54, entered the pleas Friday after reaching an Americans' faith in institutions has been sliding for years. The chaos in Congress isn't helping 10/21/2023 08:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) — For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country's core institutions. The lack of faith extends beyond Congress, Cyprus police arrest 4 people after a small explosion near the Israeli Embassy 10/21/2023 07:30am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Police in Cyprus said Saturday they arrested four Syrians on suspicion of setting off a small explosive device that caused no damage not far from Israeli Embassy in the capital Nicosia. Police said the four, ranging in ages between 17 and 21, face charges of attempted destr Police ID suspect killed in Southeast DC shooting of 1 officer, 2 others 10/21/2023 07:23am • The suspect who was fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire with police in Southeast D.C. on Thursday afternoon has been identified. Arthur Porter, 33, of Northwest D.C., was shot and killed by police who responded to the 2800 block of Gainesville Street SE for reports of an armed man arguing with Businesses are the biggest targets of financial crimes. Help is being offered in Prince George's Co. 10/21/2023 04:40am • October isn’t even over yet and already fraud and scams have cost Prince George’s County, Maryland, residents and businesses more than $10 million. With the holiday shopping season almost upon us, there’s concern that the number will go up even more. “Because of their large balance she Maryland's US attorney charges out-of-state police chiefs, firearms dealers with machine gun conspiracy 10/21/2023 03:49am • Former police chiefs in North Dakota and North Carolina are facing charges in Maryland in connection with a conspiracy to illegally acquire machine guns and other firearms — and court records indicate the case could reach into other states as well. The charges are similar to those faced by Fre Maui County police find additional remains, raising Lahaina wildfire death toll to 99 10/21/2023 12:15am • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — The death toll for the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century has increased by one, to 99, after Maui County police found additional remains. The remains were recovered on Oct. 12 in Lahaina, police spokesperson Alana Pico said in an email Friday. An autopsy and fore Houston's next mayor has big city problems to fix. Familiar faces want the job 10/21/2023 12:00am • HOUSTON (AP) — The challenges facing Houston’s next mayor are familiar to many big cities: crime, crumbling infrastructure, budget shortfalls and a lack of affordable housing. But in November’s marquee mayoral election in the U.S., the top candidates promising to turn Houston around are two De Police arrest 2 in connection with 2021 Lake Tahoe-area shooting that killed a man, wounded his wife 10/20/2023 09:13pm • ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Police arrested two people, including a former professional baseball player, Friday in Nevada in connection to a Lake Tahoe-area attack that left a man dead and his wife in critical condition. After a two-year investigation, Danny Serafini, 49, and Samantha Scott, 33, were Denver wants case against Marlon Wayans stemming from luggage dispute dismissed 10/20/2023 08:42pm • DENVER (AP) — Denver prosecutors asked a judge on Friday to dismiss a case against Marlon Wayans stemming from a luggage dispute with an airline employee who the actor and comedian said targeted him because of his race. The city attorney's office's request comes a day after Wayans, who is Black, Chicago and police union reach tentative deal on 20% raise for officers 10/20/2023 08:22pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago and the union representing its rank-and-file police officers have reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract that would provide about a 20% raise for officers, the two sides announced Friday. The deal, which would extend the current contract by two yea Thousands in Muslim countries and beyond demonstrate over Israeli airstrikes 10/20/2023 08:16pm • Thousands of people in Muslim countries and beyond held demonstrations Friday in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. They called for an end to Israel's blockade and airstrikes following a brutal incursion into southern Israel by fighters from the Hamas militant group that rules Gaza. Dem Mother of slain Alabama woman files suit against Hornets' Brandon Miller, 2 others 10/20/2023 06:49pm • BIIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The mother of a woman killed near the University of Alabama has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court against current Charlotte Hornets rookie Brandon Miller and two other men. Decarla Raietta Heard filed the suit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Norther