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As a new scam targets owners of lost pets, a local shelter offers a heads up 07/12/2024 08:05pm • The Fairfax County Animal Shelter wants pet owners to know that someone is posing as shelter staff in an attempt to get money from owners of lost pets. Reasa Currier, director of Fairfax County's Department of Animal Sheltering, told WTOP how the scam works. When a pet owner posts about their Police say 22 students were killed when a school collapsed during morning classes in Nigeria 07/12/2024 08:00pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Police say 22 students were killed when a school collapsed during morning classes in Nigeria. A US judge is reining in the use of strip searches amid a police scandal in Louisiana's capital city 07/12/2024 07:00pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� The use of strip searches by police in Louisiana's capital city was reined in Friday by a federal judge who said the policy under which Baton Rouge officers perform such searches on people who haven't been arrested is ���unconstitutional on its face.��� U.S. District Judge Shell Canadian officer says Alice Munro claimed her daughter was lying about being abused by stepfather 07/12/2024 06:50pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� A retired police detective involved in the arrest 20 years ago of the husband of Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, said Friday he was disturbed by the writer's reaction 20 years ago when she learned her husband would be charged for sexually assaulting her daughter. Retired Ontari One woman escaped a 'dungeon��� beneath a Missouri home, another was killed. Here's a look at the case 07/12/2024 06:46pm • LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) ��� A Missouri man facing trial on kidnapping and sexual assault charges after a woman said she escaped weeks in his captivity was arraigned Friday on a new charge of murder. Authorities say they linked him to the remains of a woman found in a barrel by the Missouri River. The case Man gets 226 years in deaths of 2 Alaska Native women. He filmed the torture of one 07/12/2024 06:44pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� A man who killed two Alaska Native women and was heard while videotaping the torture death of one say that in his movies ���everybody always dies��� was sentenced Friday to 226 years in prison. Brian Steven Smith received 99-year sentences each for the deaths of Kathleen H Small wildfire leads to precautionary evacuation of climate change research facility in Colorado 07/12/2024 05:47pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) ��� A small wildfire started Friday on a trail near a Colorado facility where scientists research climate change, including worsening wildfires, leading officials to evacuate the building. The fire started late Friday morning in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near Boulder a Retired Massachusetts pediatrician pleads not guilty to abusing young patients 07/12/2024 05:38pm • BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) ��� A retired pediatrician in Massachusetts pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he sexually abused at least 15 children who were his patients. Dr. Richard Kauff, who appeared in Plymouth Superior Court, is charged with 11 counts of rape of a child with force, and nine cou Uruguay coach Marcelo Bielsa says players deserve apology, not sanctions after Copa America fight 07/12/2024 05:23pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Uruguay coach Marcelo Bielsa thinks his players deserve an apology, not sanctions, for going into the stands at Bank of America Stadium and participating in a fight with Colombia fans following his team���s 1-0 Copa America semifinal loss. An angry Bielsa criticized tourname Mother and son charged in grandmother's death at Virginia senior living facility 07/12/2024 04:22pm • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) ��� An Indiana woman held down her 81-year-old mother while her son used the strap of his bag to strangle his grandmother at a Virginia senior living facility, investigators allege in court documents. The documents state that Cleo Loizides was found unresponsive in her room at C Ex-NYPD officer is convicted of assault for punching a man 6 times 07/12/2024 04:02pm • A former New York City police officer has been convicted of assault for punching a man in the face several times and breaking his nose while on patrol in 2021. Former officer Juan Perez was found guilty Thursday following a two-day bench trial of assaulting Borim Husenaj in the Greenwich Village nei Things to know about the Karen Read murder case, which could go to a retrial 07/12/2024 03:27pm • DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� Prosecutors in Massachusetts say they plan to retry Karen Read for the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. She���s accused of striking him with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowstorm. The judge declared a mistrial after jurors said they couldn't agree. Karen R Road closures around Washington Convention Center lifted after NATO summit 07/12/2024 03:14pm • Drivers who frequent downtown D.C. can breathe a sigh of relief Friday, as road closures related to this week's NATO summit were lifted. Closures around the White House were lifted Thursday, and closures around the Washington Convention Center, where the summit was held, started to disappear Frid Young person in Canada dies from Hurricane Beryl���s remnants 07/12/2024 03:13pm • HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) ��� A young person has been found dead after being swept away by floodwaters in Canada's Atlantic coast province of Nova Scotia as the remnants of Hurricane Beryl swept through the province, police said Friday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they received a call ju The son of Asia���s richest man is set to marry in the year's most extravagant wedding 07/12/2024 03:07pm • MUMBAI, India (AP) ��� Global celebrities, business tycoons and politicians began arriving in India���s financial capital on Friday to attend the wedding of the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, Asia���s richest man, highlighting the billionaire's staggering wealth and rising clout. Anant Ambani, 29, i