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Trucker describes finding 'miracle baby' by the side of a highway in Louisiana 07/12/2024 02:41pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Reginald Walton had just rolled his 18-wheeler into Louisiana, eastbound on Interstate 10 after making a Texas delivery, when he spotted what looked like a discarded baby doll sitting on the embankment. Then he saw movement. “I noticed that it moved and I called 911 and told Prosecutors in Karen Read case argue against dismissing any charges 07/12/2024 01:47pm • BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors in the Karen Read murder case filed a motion Friday, arguing against dropping any charges after her mistrial. Read was accused of ramming into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowstorm in January 2022. Her two-month trial end On NYC beaches, angry birds fight drones patrolling for sharks and struggling swimmers 07/12/2024 01:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A fleet of drones patrolling New York City’s beaches for signs of sharks and struggling swimmers is drawing backlash from an aggressive group of seaside residents: local shorebirds. Since the drones began flying in May, flocks of birds have repeatedly swarmed the devices, forcing Kenya police boss resigns in latest fallout from deadly protests 07/12/2024 01:30pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s police boss resigned Friday, the latest attempt by the country's president to respond to growing concerns of police brutality in response to protests triggered by a proposed tax hike. Protesters stormed parliament on June 25 after a bill was passed that proposed tax Police ID woman killed by falling tree limb in Capitol Hill park; witnesses heard 'loud pops' before it came crashing down 07/12/2024 01:02pm • Police in D.C. have identified the woman who was killed after being struck by a falling tree limb in a Capitol Hill park on Wednesday. Sarah Noah, 35, of Southeast D.C. was struck by the limb, which fell from a tree in Garfield Park just before 7:30 a.m., and became pinned underneath it. T The Latest | Israel says it will reopen border crossing with hard-hit northern Gaza 07/12/2024 12:13pm • Israel says it's taking steps to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, including reopening a key border crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the plans early Friday, just hours after President Joe Biden told him that UK police say human remains found in 2 suitcases discovered in southwestern England are from 2 men 07/12/2024 11:18am • LONDON (AP) — Human remains found in two suitcases discovered near a bridge in the southwestern England city of Bristol are from two adult men, police said Friday. A manhunt for a man seen behaving suspiciously before the discovery Wednesday has widened. He is believed to have traveled from London An Ohio mom was killed while trying to stop the theft of a car that had her 6-year-old son inside 07/12/2024 11:16am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio mother who tried to stop two men from stealing her car with her 6-year-old son inside was killed when the vehicle struck her. The boy was unharmed, police said, and no other injuries were reported. Alexa Stakely, 29, of Pickerington, was at an apartment complex in Co UK's new justice secretary outlines emergency measures to relieve prison overcrowding 07/12/2024 10:43am • LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new justice secretary on Friday outlined emergency plans to relieve prison overcrowding, clearing the way for early release of thousands of prisoners to ensure the beleaguered system continues to function. Shabana Mahmood, who took over after the left-leaning Labour Party Suspect charged in shooting death of a Houston-area deputy who responded to pizzeria assault 07/12/2024 10:36am • HOUSTON (AP) — A suspect was arrested and charged with the fatal shooting of a Houston-area sheriff’s deputy who had joined a search for a man who pistol-whipped a Little Caesars Pizza worker over a mistaken order, authorities said. Deputy Fernando Esqueda, 28, was killed early Thursday morning 2 buses carrying more than 50 people were swept into a river by a landslide in Nepal 07/12/2024 09:48am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A landslide swept two passenger buses carrying more than 50 people into a swollen river in central Nepal early Friday, while continuous rain and more landslides were making rescue efforts difficult. Three survivors apparently swam to safety, but rescuers by late morning had New York law couldn't be used to disarm reservist before Maine shooting, Army official says 07/12/2024 09:34am • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Army couldn’t use New York’s red flag law to disarm a reservist experiencing a mental health crisis before a mass shooting in Maine because he was not a New York resident, a nurse practitioner told an independent commission. Maj. Matthew Dickison testified that Robert Man sentenced to life over plot to kidnap, rape and murder UK TV personality Holly Willoughby 07/12/2024 09:18am • LONDON (AP) — A man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for plotting to kidnap, rape and murder Holly Willoughby, one of Britain’s most high-profile television personalities. At the sentencing hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court, around 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of London, Judge Edward Murr A fourth person dies after truck plowed into a July Fourth party in NYC 07/12/2024 08:59am • NEW YORK (AP) — A fourth person has died after a driver crashed his pickup truck into a Fourth of July gathering in New York City, police said. Emily Ruiz, 30, died Tuesday of injuries she sustained when a truck plowed into a group celebrating the holiday in a park on Manhattan's Lower East Side, British police arrest man on suspicion of crossbow murders of 3 women near London 07/12/2024 07:48am • LONDON (AP) — British police said Friday that they have arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of killing two sisters and their mother in a crossbow attack. In a statement Friday, Hertfordshire Police said that they arrested the suspect on Thursday evening. He remains in a serious condition in a