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Pro bowler who was arrested during a tournament gets prison time for child sex abuse material 06/07/2024 12:40pm • A professional bowler who was arrested while he was competing in a tournament has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to child sexual abuse material. Brandon Novak, 35, of Chillicothe, Ohio, was taken into custody Feb. 1 by U.S. Marshals at the 202 Texas sheriff says 7 suspects arrested, 11 migrants hospitalized after sting near San Antonio 06/07/2024 11:38am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Eleven people were hospitalized and seven smuggling suspects were arrested Thursday after authorities found more than two dozen migrants who had been driven from the border packed in a secret compartment of a trailer with little water and in sweltering heat. Acting on a tip ab Mistrial declared for man charged with using a torch to intimidate at white nationalist rally 06/07/2024 10:47am • CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) ��� A Virginia judge declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked on charges against a man accused of using a flaming torch to intimidate counterprotesters during a 2017 gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville. The trial for Jacob Joseph Dix of Clarksville, Ohi Swedish police detained 19 pro-Palestinian activists who barricaded themselves inside a university 06/07/2024 10:35am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Swedish police detained 19 pro-Palestinian activists who barricaded themselves in the country's main technical education and research university on Friday. After two hours, police carried out the masked activists from the third floor of a Royal Institute of Technology bu Police won't bring charges after monster truck accident injures several spectators 06/07/2024 09:35am • TOPSHAM, Maine (AP) ��� A police investigator concluded no criminal charges were warranted after a lobster-themed monster truck clipped a power line, causing some scary moments with live wires falling to the ground. Two people were taken to hospitals. Several people were injured Saturday when utilit Worries grow for British doctor and TV presenter who went missing in Greece 06/07/2024 09:16am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Greek police say an ongoing major search and rescue operation on the small eastern Aegean island of Symi has still not located British doctor and television presenter Michael Mosley, who went missing on Wednesday afternoon after reportedly going for a walk. Police said Friday Hundreds of asylum-seekers are camped out near Seattle. There's a vacant motel next door 06/07/2024 08:59am • KENT, Wash. (AP) ��� Kabongo Kambila Ringo stood outside the tent where he has been staying with his pregnant wife and ate from a clear plastic tray of Girl Scout cookies melting in the midday sun. He was one of around 240 asylum-seekers camping in a grassy lot along a highway south of Seattle, won Amanda Knox vows to 'fight for the truth' after Italian court convicts her again of slander 06/07/2024 08:36am • MILAN (AP) ��� Amanda Knox told Italian TV on Thursday that she was surprised by a Florence appeals court's decision to find her guilty of slander in light of a European court ruling that police who took her confession had violated her human rights. ���I will fight for the truth,������ Knox told Sk Russian court begins trial of US soldier arrested on theft charges 06/07/2024 08:32am • MOSCOW (AP) ��� A court in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok on Thursday began the trial of an American soldier arrested earlier this year on charges of stealing. Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, flew to Vladivostok, a Pacific port city, to see his girlfriend and was arrested after she accused h Malaysian state officials defend demolitions that left hundreds of 'sea gypsies' homeless in Borneo 06/07/2024 07:29am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� Rights activists have slammed the displacement of hundreds of sea nomads after their stilt homes in a Malaysian marine park on Borneo island were demolished. But the state government Friday defended its move to tear down the unauthorized settlements, saying it was aim Sweden's foremost opera and ballet theater fined $300,000 for 2023 fatal fall of stage technician 06/07/2024 05:54am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Sweden���s national theater for opera and ballet, the Stockholm-based Royal Swedish Opera, has been fined 3 million kronor ($300,000) after a stage technician died last year when he fell around 13 meters (more than 40 feet) from a balcony as he was carrying out work insi 3 dead after being struck by train in Springfield 06/07/2024 05:50am • Three people have died after being struck by a train in Springfield, Virginia, on Wednesday night. Fairfax County Police say their preliminary investigation shows that two adults and a child were walking on the elevated railroad tracks near Accotink Park Road in Springfield around 8:20 p.m. when Woman who says she's the real Martha from 'Baby Reindeer' sues Netflix for defamation 06/07/2024 04:25am • A woman who says she is the inspiration for the relentless stalker at the center of Netflix's ���Baby Reindeer��� sued the streaming giant Thursday for defamation and is seeking at least $170 million in damages. Fiona Harvey, a Scottish attorney living in England who says the character Martha on th Samoan author accused of killing Samoan writer who was aunt of former US politician Tulsi Gabbard 06/07/2024 02:10am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� An author in Samoa has been charged with murdering another prominent Samoan writer, who was also the aunt of former U.S. congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, authorities in the South Pacific island nation said. Papalii Sia Figiel, 57, is accused of killing Caroline Sinavaia Virginia woman suspected of 'heinous' killing of 3 roommates arrested after high-speed chase in New York 06/06/2024 10:10pm • A 23-year-old woman suspected of killing her three older roommates in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, earlier this week was taken into custody following a high-speed chase and cash on a New York highway Thursday. Alyssa Jane Venable, of Spotsylvania, is charged with three counts of second-degree m