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Southern Mississippi defensive back Marcus "MJ" Daniels Jr. shot to death in Hattiesburg 06/12/2024 05:45pm • HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) ��� Marcus ���MJ��� Daniels Jr., a defensive back at Southern Mississippi, was shot to death Tuesday night at an apartment complex in Hattiesburg, a coroner said. Daniels' body was sent to a medical examiner for an autopsy, Forrest County Coroner Lisa Klem told news outlets. Armenian leader announces plan to leave Russia-dominated security alliance as ties with Moscow sour 06/12/2024 05:44pm • YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) ��� The leader of Armenia on Wednesday declared his intention to pull out of a Russia-dominated security alliance of several ex-Soviet nations as tensions rise between the two allies. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said his government will decide later when to leave th Federal Reserve sees some progress on inflation but envisions just one rate cut this year 06/12/2024 05:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Federal Reserve officials said Wednesday that inflation has fallen further toward their target level in recent months but signaled that they expect to cut their benchmark interest rate just once this year. The policymakers' forecast for one rate cut was down from their previous p '1,000 wounds': Sheets of paper with racial slur printed from Montgomery Co. school printer 06/12/2024 05:20pm • A Maryland teacher loaded sheets of paper into a Montgomery County classroom printer last month when she noticed a large number of pages being printed out in a single run. On the 1,000 sheets of paper was just one word -- a��racial slur against the Black community. "It was, like, just a contin Red vs. Blue at Nats Park Congressional Baseball Game 06/12/2024 05:00pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at��Today on the Hill. Congress is as divided as ever, but Republican and Democratic lawmakers will take part in a good-natured spring ritual at D.C.'s Nationals Park on Wednesday during the an 4 people, including 2 children, dead in apparent murder-suicide in Colorado, authorities say 06/12/2024 04:54pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Four people, including two children, were shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide late Tuesday in a small city in southeastern Colorado, authorities said. Two adults and two children were found shot in a home in La Junta, city of about 7,100 people in a farming and ranching are The fine for speeding in Md. work zones has doubled. How many people are getting caught? 06/12/2024 04:49pm • Thousands of drivers are being caught speeding in the Maryland work zones closest to the D.C. region ��� and fines for violators have just doubled under a new law that went into effect earlier this month. WTOP obtained the data on Maryland speeding tickets through a Freedom of Information Act After years of delays, scaled-back plans underway for memorial to Florida nightclub massacre 06/12/2024 04:44pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� Survivors and the families of victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre had hoped by now to have a permanent memorial in place for Wednesday's eighth anniversary of the attack by a lone gunman who killed 49 people at the gay-friendly club in Orlando, Florida. Instead, new, scale Jersey Shore cops, pols want to hold parents responsible for kids' rowdy actions after melees 06/12/2024 04:40pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� Parents should be held civilly or criminally responsible for the actions of their children that create disturbances or damage in public places, a group of New Jersey police chiefs and Republican lawmakers said Wednesday during a forum held after a second consecutive year A century ago, Cyril Walker won the U.S. Open. He died years later, penniless in a prison cell 06/12/2024 04:30pm • The course that greeted Cyril Walker a century ago for the U.S. Open was a beast, the longest yet in the history of the national championship, and upon seeing it, the diminutive Englishman predicted that the winner would be ���a big fellow with the physical strength to stand the strain.��� It turned Impaired driver who fatally struck 2 Nevada state troopers gets maximum prison sentence 06/12/2024 04:00pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A man who was driving while impaired when he fatally struck two state troopers last year on Nevada's busiest freeway has been sentenced to prison. Jemarcus Williams received the maximum sentence Tuesday of 16 to 40 years for two counts of DUI resulting in death, the Las Vegas Revi DC police cracking down on illegal mopeds 06/12/2024 03:40pm • There are more and more mopeds weaving their way in and out of traffic on D.C. streets, prompting authorities to get tough on those who operate them unsafely. Mopeds are seen as a faster and cheaper way to make deliveries, but they aren't always operated in the safest manner. The crackdown beg Top investigator in Karen Read murder case questioned over inappropriate texts 06/12/2024 03:28pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Defense attorneys for a woman accused of leaving her Boston police officer boyfriend for dead in a snowbank grilled the lead investigator Wednesday about a series of offensive and inappropriate texts he wrote about the suspect during the investigation. Massachusetts State Trooper Mic Argentine police use water cannons to disperse protesters ahead of a vote that���s key to President Milei���s government 06/12/2024 03:17pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� Argentine police use water cannons to disperse protesters ahead of a vote that���s key to President Milei���s government. Dogs search for missing Kentucky baby whose parents and grandfather face drug, abandonment charges 06/12/2024 02:29pm • REYNOLDS STATION, Ky. (AP) ��� Cadaver dogs searched Tuesday for a missing western Kentucky baby whose parents and grandfather face child abandonment and drug charges, police said. Kentucky State Police announced last week that troopers were searching for 8-month-old Miya Rudd. Trooper Corey King sa