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Scrutiny of Arkansas governor's $19,000 lectern deepens after new records are released 10/10/2023 06:50pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� New public records have widened questions over when Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' office planned to use Republican Party funds to reimburse the state for a $19,000 lectern, which was bought in June using a government credit card. The Arkansas GOP paid for the lect Virginia's Democratic members of Congress ask for DOJ probe after voters removed from rolls in error 10/10/2023 06:28pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� The Democratic members of Virginia's congressional delegation have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate after an apparent administrative error led to at least 275 people being improperly removed from the state's voter rolls. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin Bowie State cancels classes following homecoming shooting as police implore the public for tips 10/10/2023 06:15pm • Officials in Bowie State University in Prince George's County, Maryland, have canceled classes for the rest of the week following the shooting the happened on campus over homecoming weekend. This comes as Maryland State Police said they need help finding the people responsible for the shooting th Jamaican politician charged with abducting and raping a 16-year-old girl 10/10/2023 05:44pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� A government official in Jamaica was arrested and charged with abducting and raping a 16-year-old girl, police said Tuesday. Tyrone Guthrie, 45, is councilor of the Truro division in the parish of Westmoreland and was charged after turning himself into police on Monday What's behind recent violence in Prince George���s County? High school students share their ideas with county leaders 10/10/2023 05:24pm • Leaders in Prince George���s County, Maryland, on Tuesday met with students at Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Springdale, fielding concerns about recent acts of violence in the community. County Executive Angela Alsobrooks and State���s Attorney Aisha Braveboy said they���re launching a s Gunmen abduct 4 students of northern Nigerian university, the third school attack in one month 10/10/2023 05:21pm • Associated Press (AP) ��� Gunmen abducted four university students in northern Nigeria during an attack early Tuesday, police said, the latest in a series of school abductions that have raised security concerns under the nation���s new president. The gunmen invaded a lodge for students of the Nasara 'Ambushed': Maryland woman fatally shot in car at her apartment complex parking lot 10/10/2023 05:15pm • A woman was fatally shot while inside her vehicle at the parking lot of her Laurel, Maryland, apartment complex. The Laurel Police Department said that Tjai "TJ" Farmer, 42, of Laurel was "ambushed by a lone gunman" while she was sitting in her vehicle inside her apartment complex parking lot at 'We're just doing everything we can to stay safe': Md. families caught in the conflict in Israel 10/10/2023 05:13pm • A man who lives in Montgomery County, Maryland, has several close family members who live in Israel, and one of them had to hide during the attacks Sunday morning. Hamas militants stormed into Israel, slaying hundreds of residents in homes and streets near the Gaza border and bringing gun battles Rome buses recount story of a Jewish boy who avoided Nazi deportation by riding tram. He's now 92 10/10/2023 02:56pm • ROME (AP) ��� Residents and visitors in Italy's capital can ride a city bus this month that recounts how a 12-year-old boy escaped Nazi deportation from Rome's Jewish neighborhood 80 years ago thanks to sympathetic tram drivers. The traveling exhibit is a highlight of events commemorating the 80th a Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 10/10/2023 02:17pm • 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 Labour Party leader Keir Starmer makes his pitch to UK voters with a speech vowing national renewal 10/10/2023 01:18pm • LIVERPOOL, England (AP) ��� U.K. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer delivered a speech on Tuesday that amounted to a public job interview for the post of prime minister, promising to restore Britain���s battered institutions and end an ���age of insecurity��� afflicting its people. Starmer told the op 16-year-old boy fatally shot in Prince George's County 10/10/2023 01:01pm • A 16-year-old boy has died after being shot in Fort Washington, Maryland, on Monday evening, police said. Elijah Fletcher, of Fort Washington, was fatally shot in the 8300 block of Indian Head Highway at around 5:40 p.m., Prince George's County police said in a news release. Fletcher was found Bulgaria arrests 12 people for violating EU sanctions on exports to Russia 10/10/2023 12:15pm • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) ��� Bulgarian police have arrested 12 people accused of illegally exporting dual-use goods to Russia that can be used by the Russian military in the war in Ukraine. The Interior Ministry chief secretary, Zhivko Kotsev, told reporters Tuesday the suspects included citizens of Bul NATO equips peacekeeping force in Kosovo with heavier armament to have ���combat power��� 10/10/2023 11:52am • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) ��� A NATO top commander said Tuesday the alliance equipped its peacekeeping force in Kosovo with weapons of "combat power��� following a recent shootout between masked Serb gunmen and Kosovo police that left four people dead and sent tensions soaring in the region. Adm. Stuart US senators see a glimmer of hope for breaking a logjam with China over the fentanyl crisis 10/10/2023 10:16am • BEIJING (AP) ��� A group of U.S. senators visiting Beijing expressed hope Tuesday that they had opened the door ever so slightly to government talks with China on its role in the fentanyl crisis ravaging America. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is heading the group of three Democrats and t