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Man gets life sentence for killing 2 officers and wounding 5 in South Carolina ambush 10/19/2023 06:04pm • FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) ��� A 79-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for fatally ambushing police at his South Carolina home. Frederick Hopkins killed two officers, including the lead investigator in a sexual abuse case involving his son, and wounded five others in 2018. Anne Kirkpatrick, a veteran cop but newcomer to New Orleans, gets city council OK as police chief 10/19/2023 05:59pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Anne Kirkpatrick, a veteran police official who has served as chief of departments in Spokane, Washington, and Oakland, California, won City Council approval as New Orleans' new police chief Thursday on a 6-1 vote. Kirkpatrick had been serving as interim chief after Mayor LaToya Montgomery Co. officer who fatally shot knife-wielding teen indicted on Jan. 6 Capitol riot charges 10/19/2023 05:39pm • A Montgomery County, Maryland, police officer who shot and killed a teenager accused of stabbing several people in July has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot. Montgomery County police suspended officer Justin Lee after the department found out b New Jersey police capture man accused of shoving woman into moving NYC subway train 10/19/2023 05:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A man accused of shoving a woman into the side of a moving New York City subway train was captured in New Jersey on Thursday, police said. Sabir Jones, 39, was detained by Newark police and transferred to the U.S. Marshals Service, Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Frag�� said in No gun, no car, no living witnesses against man charged in Tupac Shakur killing, defense lawyer says 10/19/2023 05:07pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A lawyer speaking for the former street gang leader charged with killing Tupac Shakur in 1996 said Thursday he sees ���obvious defenses��� in the murder case in Las Vegas. ���There���s no gun, there���s no car and there���s no witnesses from 27 years ago,��� attorney Ross Goodman Trial of a man accused of killing a New Hampshire couple on a hiking trail nears conclusion 10/19/2023 04:50pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Prosecutors in the case of a man charged with fatally shooting a retired New Hampshire couple on a hiking trail argued Thursday that his repeated lies, bid to flee and a gun in his backpack offered a trail of evidence to show he was guilty. Defense attorneys for Logan Clegg, 2 TV equipment stolen from Pan Am Games' opening ceremony site in Chile, boosting security concerns 10/19/2023 04:35pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) ��� Television crews at the Pan American Games had equipment stolen this week from the compound of the National Stadium, the site of Friday's opening ceremony, heightening concerns about crime at the tournament hosting over 6,800 athletes. Harold Mayne-Nicholls, the executive-di A 19-year-old was charged in the death of a fellow Mississippi college student 10/19/2023 03:14pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� A 19-year-old has been arrested and charged with killing a fellow college student in Mississippi on Sunday. Joshua Brown of Columbia, Mississippi, was arrested Wednesday in the death of 21-year-old Jaylen Burns. Brown was charged with murder and illegal possession of a firear Georgia sheriff releases video showing a violent struggle before deputy shoots exonerated man 10/19/2023 02:53pm • WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) ��� A Georgia deputy fatally shot a Black man at point-blank range during a traffic stop after the man, who had been wrongfully imprisoned years ago, grabbed the officer by the neck and was forcing his head backward, according to video released by a sheriff Wednesday. The family o More than 300 are arrested in a Capitol Hill protest urging a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war 10/19/2023 02:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� More than 300 people were arrested for illegally demonstrating and three people were charged with assaulting police after protesters descended on Capitol Hill to call for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Hundreds of demonstrators from Jewish advocacy groups, including J Months after 2 killed in shooting-stabbing in Fairfax Co., family's au pair charged with murder in 1 of the slayings 10/19/2023 01:56pm • It was a puzzling double killing in Fairfax County: A man shot to death inside the same Herndon, Virginia, home where one of the residents, a 37-year-old mother, was found stabbed to death in her bedroom. At the time it happened in February, Fairfax County police said the husband of the stabbing 14 cows killed, others survive truck rollover crash in Connecticut 10/19/2023 01:55pm • NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) ��� A tractor-trailer carrying 44 dairy cows crashed on a Connecticut highway exit ramp early Thursday, killing eight of the animals immediately while another six had to be euthanized because of their injuries, state police and agriculture officials said. Police and firefighters Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 10/19/2023 01:30pm • 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 Teen reaches $1.9 million settlement after officer shot him in gun battle with bank robbery suspect 10/19/2023 12:59pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A teenager who was shot and wounded during a 2019 shootout between suburban Chicago police and a bank robbery suspect inside a music school has reached a $1.9 million settlement with the city of Des Plaines. Rylan Wilder signed off this week on the settlement, nearly four years afte Juventus expresses 'full support' for Nicol�� Fagioli after midfielder banned for betting 10/19/2023 12:20pm • TURIN, Italy (AP) ��� Juventus expressed its ���full support��� for Nicol�� Fagioli on Thursday, two days after the midfielder was banned for seven months by the Italian soccer federation for betting violations. Fagioli agreed to a plea bargain with the federation that stipulates he undergo therapy