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Idaho police force loses millions worth of gear and vehicles in fire 06/11/2024 05:11pm • COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) ��� Police in northern Idaho lost millions of dollars worth of law enforcement equipment and vehicles in a fire that tore through a department building over the weekend, Coeur d���Alene police said. No one was injured in the fire that broke out early Sunday, but everything Maryland man found guilty in shooting, stabbing death of Prince George's Co. police officer's son 06/11/2024 05:10pm • A Maryland man was found guilty of murdering the son of a Prince George���s County police detective in a shooting and stabbing that happened at a park last fall. Last week, a jury found Kenneth Smith, 54, of Fort Washington, guilty of several charges, including the first-degree murder in the kill Investigators probe the killings of 4 women and 2 children in central Mexico 06/11/2024 05:04pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico���s President Andr��s Manuel L��pez Obrador said Tuesday that investigators are looking into the killings of four women and two children in central Mexico, where National Guard officers were present. The murders occurred Sunday in Le��n, an industrial city in the state of Mentally ill man charged in Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting can be forcibly medicated 06/11/2024 04:56pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A mentally ill man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services can be forcibly medicated, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruling upheld an order issued by Fairfax Co. police cracking down on illegal street takeovers 06/11/2024 04:03pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, are cracking down on street takeovers as part of a summer crime prevention initiative aimed at being proactive and keeping communities safe. The first wave of the program, which started earlier this month, is focused on street takeovers and bars and restaurants Minneapolis police officer killed while responding to a shooting call is remembered as a hero 06/11/2024 03:56pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A Minneapolis police officer who was killed by a man he was trying to help at the site of a shooting was memorialized Tuesday as a hero who exemplified the type of public servant the city's police force has been trying to recruit amid years of tumult. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fr Prison inmate accused of selling ghost guns through site visited by Buffalo supermarket shooter 06/11/2024 03:19pm • A former Louisiana prison inmate has been charged with selling ghost guns while behind bars through a social media operation uncovered in the wake of a white supremacist's massacre of 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, New York City authorities said Tuesday. Hayden Espinosa, 24, is charged wi A New York county with one of the nation's largest police forces is deputizing armed residents 06/11/2024 03:09pm • MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) ��� A suburban New York county with one of the largest police forces in the nation is training dozens of armed residents who could be called up during natural disasters and other major emergencies, sparking worry that the new volunteer unit amounts to an unsanctioned local militia Gaggle of geese escorted along 395 Express Lanes in Virginia 06/11/2024 02:17pm • There was plenty of honking on the northbound 395 Express Lanes Tuesday morning in Northern Virginia, but it wasn't just drivers stuck in traffic ��� it was also due to six geese on the roadway. A gaggle of geese got its own police and Virginia Department of Transportation escort toward Edsal DOJ, Tennessee school reach settlement after racial harassment investigation 06/11/2024 01:26pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� A school district in eastern Tennessee has agreed to implement changes after a federal investigation found several incidents of race-based harassment, including students holding a mock ���slave auction��� to sell Black students to their white classmates. The Department of J For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes 06/11/2024 12:24pm • WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) ��� Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America's most storied river. Flooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher ra Police in Ohio fatally shoot man who they say charged at officers with knife 06/11/2024 12:07pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� Officers shot and killed a man who they say charged at them with a knife after they first tried to stop him with a Taser, police in Ohio said. Police in Columbus received multiple calls Monday night about a man in the middle of the street running at vehicles with a knife, sai Malawi's vice president and 9 others are confirmed dead after their plane's wreckage is found 06/11/2024 11:08am • BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) ��� Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people died when the small military plane they were traveling in crashed in bad weather in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the president said Tuesday. Chilima was 51. President Lazarus Chakwera announce Change the behavior of givers: Prince William Co. proposal suggests not handing money to panhandlers 06/11/2024 09:07am • Homelessness and panhandling often go together. On Tuesday, Prince William County supervisors will be briefed on a new proposal to address the issue of panhandling. Among the suggestions: rather than hand money to panhandlers, well-intentioned residents would contact a panhandling team to provide 'I am not quite myself,' Danish PM in first TV interview since assault that gave her whiplash 06/11/2024 08:31am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� In her first television interview since she was assaulted last week, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday "I am not quite myself,��� but will continue to work mostly from her office. Frederiksen, who suffered a minor whiplash after a man had assaulted her