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Haitian leaders oust police chief and appoint a new one as gang violence claims officers��� lives 06/15/2024 01:04pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Haitian leaders have ousted Frantz Elb��, the beleaguered director of Haiti���s National Police, following months of criticism that he wasn���t doing enough to protect officers under assault by gangs. A government official not authorized to speak to the media told The UK government demands an explanation after police ram a runaway cow with a squad car 06/15/2024 12:44pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s interior minister on Saturday demanded an ���urgent explanation��� after police officers were filmed ramming a runaway cow with their car. The Surrey Police force said it had referred itself to the police ethics watchdog over the incident. The force said officers responde Malfunctioning steam room sets off alarm, prompts evacuation at Rhode Island YMCA 06/15/2024 12:42pm • MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (AP) ��� A malfunctioning steam room at a YMCA in Rhode Island pumped out so much steam that it triggered an a sprinkler system alarm on Saturday morning, prompting an evacuation. In a statement, the Middletown Police Department said officials rushed to the Newport County YMCA in M Dutch tourist found dead on Greek island and 4 other foreign tourists are missing on 3 islands 06/15/2024 12:36pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� A missing Dutch tourist was found dead early Saturday on the eastern Greek island of Samos, local media reported, the latest in a string of recent cases in which tourists in the Greek islands have died or gone missing. Some, if not all, had set out on hikes in blistering hot Haitian leaders appoint a new police chief to fight gangs as the number of officers killed grows 06/15/2024 11:04am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Haitian leaders appoint a new police chief to fight gangs as the number of officers killed grows. 4-year-old boy found dead inside SUV in Northeast DC 06/15/2024 11:02am • A 4-year-old boy was found dead inside a vehicle in Northeast on Friday evening, according to D.C. police. Police told WTOP officers were called to Galloway Street and South Dakota Avenue NE in the Fort Totten neighborhood shortly after 5 p.m., for the report of an unconscious child in a car. German police shoot to death an Afghan man who killed a compatriot, then attacked soccer fans 06/15/2024 10:14am • BERLIN (AP) ��� German police shot to death an Afghan man after he fatally attacked a compatriot and later wounded three people watching the televised opening game of the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in eastern Germany, police said Saturday. The 27-year-old Afghan citizen first attacked a 23-year-old Juneteenth 2024: Your guide to celebrations in DC, Maryland and Virginia 06/15/2024 05:45am • On Wednesday, June 19, the United States will observe Juneteenth. A little history: In 1865, a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved African Americans that they were free and that the Civil War had ended. This news came two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Many Senate Republicans were done with Trump after Jan. 6. Now they want him back in the White House 06/15/2024 12:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Three years ago, Donald Trump had few friends left in the Senate. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell declared in a speech that Trump was ���practically and morally responsible��� for the violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by spreading ���wild falsehoods��� about el Victims cited in DOJ report on Phoenix police brutality call on city to implement mandated reforms 06/14/2024 09:34pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Phoenix residents who have spoken out against police brutality hailed on Friday a scathing U.S. Justice Department report outlining a pattern of excessive force and racial discrimination, saying it lays blame not just at the feet of law enforcement but the leaders of the nation���s Second suspect arrested in abduction of 2 Louisiana children and death of one of them 06/14/2024 06:51pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� A second suspect was arrested Friday in connection with the abduction and death of a 4-year-old Louisiana girl who was found in Mississippi, Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said. Wade told WJTV-TV that the suspect, a 32-year-old woman, is an acquaintance of a 36-year-old ma Why it's challenging to prosecute certain elder fraud cases 06/14/2024 06:50pm • Scams targeting older adults are becoming increasingly common, and if scammers get caught, prosecuting those cases brings a distinct set of challenges, according to two attorneys in the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. In some instances, it's challenging to prosecute scams because perpetrators may Trooper with checkered FBI past convicted of child rape in Alabama 06/14/2024 06:50pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� A former FBI agent was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while serving as an Alabama state trooper ��� a law enforcement job he landed even after he was kicked out of the FBI amid earlier claims that he raped a co-worker at knifepoint. Christopher Prosecutor says ATF agent justified in fatal shooting of Little Rock airport director during raid 06/14/2024 06:32pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� An Arkansas prosecutor on Friday said a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent was justified when he fatally shot the Little Rock airport director during a raid at his house in March. Pulaski County Prosecutor Will Jones said in a letter to ATF that no c 3 charged in shooting death of Southern Mississippi defensive back Marcus 'MJ' Daniels Jr. 06/14/2024 06:27pm • HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) ��� Three people were arrested Friday and charged with capital murder in the death of Southern Mississippi defensive back Marcus ���MJ��� Daniels Jr., police said. Daniels, 21, was killed Tuesday at an apartment complex in Hattiesburg. Hattiesburg Police Chief Hardy Sims sai