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Juveniles charged with dousing acid on playground slides that injured 4 children 10/20/2023 02:00pm • LONGMEADOW, Mass. (AP) — Two juveniles have been charged after several slides at a Massachusetts park were doused with acid in this summer and four children were injured, the Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said. The juveniles, whose identities cannot be released due to their ages, have Baltimore to pay $48 million to 3 men wrongly imprisoned for decades in 'Georgetown jacket' killing 10/20/2023 12:53pm • Baltimore will pay $48 million to three Black men who each spent 36 years in prison for a high-profile killing they did not commit after police wrongly arrested them as teenagers, according to an agreement. The largest settlement in Maryland history was unanimously approved this week by the Baltimor Nigerians remember those killed or detained in the 2020 protests against police brutality 10/20/2023 12:46pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Many Nigerians on Friday remembered the victims of the historic protests against police brutality which took place three years ago, with Amnesty International reporting that at least 15 of the protesters are still being detained illegally. In October 2020, thousands of Nigeri Brazil police conduct searches targeting intelligence agency's use of tracking software 10/20/2023 12:46pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Brazil conducted searches and made two arrests Friday in an investigation targeting members of the country’s intelligence agency who were suspected of using spy technology to track cellphones without judicial authorization, the Federal Police said in a statement. Tonali and Zaniolo available to play for their Premier League teams despite betting probe in Italy 10/20/2023 12:19pm • NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Sandro Tonali and Nicolò Zaniolo will be available to play this weekend for their Premier League clubs despite the Italy internationals being involved in a betting investigation in their home country. Tonali, a midfielder who joined Newcastle from AC Milan in the offseas DC road closures for Howard University homecoming, Race for Every Child 10/20/2023 12:13pm • Before the District is hit with road closures next Sunday for the 48th Marine Corps Marathon, drivers will have to contend with two more events shutting down streets this weekend. The last of Howard University's Homecoming events will kick off road closures on Friday and Saturday, as a week of ce Florida man convicted of murdering wife in dispute over 'Zombie House Flipping' appearance 10/20/2023 11:04am • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been found guilty of murdering his wife after a dispute over whether they should appear together on a home-renovation television show. David Tronnes was found guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday for the 2018 death of Shanti Cooper-Tronnes, who prosecutors A stampede in Kenya leaves 6 dead and about 100 injured during an event marking an annual holiday 10/20/2023 10:36am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A stampede in Kenya during celebrations to mark an annual public holiday killed at least six people on Friday and injured 100 others, authorities said. The stampede happened when thousands of people struggled to get inside Kericho stadium in western Kenya at dawn, police said Maryland judge shot and killed at Hagerstown home 10/20/2023 09:45am • A Maryland Circuit Court judge died Thursday night after being found shot at his Washington County home. Authorities are now looking for a person of interest as they investigate his death. Judge Andrew Wilkinson was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the driveway of his Hagerstown home. He wa Dutch king and queen are confronted by angry protesters on visit to a slavery museum in South Africa 10/20/2023 09:19am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Angry protesters in Cape Town confronted the king and queen of the Netherlands on Friday as they visited a museum that traces part of their country’s 150-year involvement in slavery in South Africa. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima were leaving the Slave Lodg 2 San Antonio police officers shot and wounded during domestic disturbance call; suspect surrenders 10/20/2023 07:42am • SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — Two San Antonio police officers were shot and seriously wounded as they tried to stop a man from burning a home during a domestic dispute, authorities said. The officers were shot at around 7:30 p.m. Thursday while answering a disturbance call on the city's northeast side Rebel ambush in Indonesia’s restive Papua region kills a construction worker and injures 3 others 10/20/2023 05:49am • JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua province killed a construction worker and seriously injured three others in an attack at a construction site, police said Friday. Nineteen other workers were unharmed “but experienced trauma" from the attack, which occurred on Thur Marlon Wayans says he is being unfairly prosecuted after being racially targeted by gate agent 10/20/2023 05:14am • DENVER (AP) — Actor and comedian Marlon Wayans says he is being unfairly prosecuted for disturbing the peace over a dispute with an airline employee who he alleges targeted him because of his race. Attorneys for Wayans, who is Black, made the allegations in a court filing Thursday that asked for 3 officers injured, armed suspect killed in Southeast DC shooting, police say 10/20/2023 05:00am • D.C. police say a police officer is recovering in the hospital after shooting and killing an armed man on Thursday afternoon in Southeast. Acting police Chief Pamela Smith said nearby officers responded to a call in the 2800 block of Gainesville Street near the D.C.-Maryland border just before 5 Live updates | Israel bombards Gaza with airstrikes and readies troops for a ground assault 10/20/2023 01:23am • Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continue and Israel's defense minister has told troops to be ready for a ground assault on the Palestinian territory, although he has not said when that will begin. More than 1 million Palestinians, roughly half of Gaza’s population, have fled homes in the north and Gaza