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Jury ends second day of deliberations without reaching verdict in fraud trial roiled by bag of cash 06/05/2024 07:48pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A jury ended a second day of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict in the trial of seven Minnesotans accused in a scheme to steal more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic, while FBI agents try to establish who left 3 killed in shooting at Montgomery grocery store 06/05/2024 07:31pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� Three people were killed Tuesday night at a small grocery store in Montgomery, an outburst of violence that comes after a string of robberies targeting Latino-owned businesses in Alabama���s capital city. The shooting at Tienda Los Hermanos, a grocery store on the south si Pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at Stanford University after occupying president's office 06/05/2024 07:25pm • STANFORD, Calif. (AP) ��� Police arrested 13 people at Stanford University after pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the school president and provost���s offices early Wednesday, causing what officials described as ���extensive��� vandalism inside and outside the building. The takeover began arou Latino advocacy group asks judge to prevent border proposal from appearing on Arizona���s ballot 06/05/2024 05:56pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� A day after lawmakers voted to put a border proposal on Arizona���s Nov. 5 ballot, a Latino advocacy group and a Democratic legislator filed a lawsuit challenging the measure because it contains an alleged constitutional defect. In the challenge filed Wednesday, the group Living Uni 15-year-old faces misdemeanor charge after little girl accidentally shoots self in Montgomery Co. apartment 06/05/2024 05:56pm • A 15-year-old is facing a misdemeanor charge after Montgomery County police said a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot herself inside a Maryland apartment. The teenager has been charged with possessing ammunition by a prohibited person and has been released to the teenager's parents. Police said in Ship at full throttle in harbor causes major South Carolina bridge to close until it passes safely 06/05/2024 05:51pm • A large cargo ship lost control of its engines and went nearly full throttle through a South Carolina harbor Wednesday, prompting the closure of one of the busiest bridges in the state. Harbor pilots were able to help the nearly 1,000-foot (300-meter) ship, which was going nearly 20 mph (32 kmh), g A Colorado woman who was handcuffed in a police car hit by a train receives an $8.5M settlement 06/05/2024 05:06pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A Colorado woman who was seriously injured when a freight train hit the parked police vehicle in which she sat handcuffed has reached an $8.5 million settlement, a lawyer representing two of the involved police officers said Wednesday. The city of Fort Lupton and nearby town of Platt Governor halts plan to charge most drivers entering Manhattan $15 for transit and traffic fixes 06/05/2024 05:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York Gov. Kathy Hochul halted a plan to charge most motorists $15 to enter the core of Manhattan, upending the nation���s first ���congestion pricing��� system on Wednesday just weeks before it was set to launch. The announcement dealt a stunning blow to a program, years in the No arrests yet in street party shooting that killed 1, injured 27 in Ohio 06/05/2024 04:44pm • AKRON, Ohio (AP) ��� Police investigating a shooting at a street party in Akron that left one dead have increased the number injured by three, bringing the total to 27 people. Two remained in critical condition, Akron���s police chief said Wednesday. No arrests have been made in the shooting last w Texas county to pay female constable deputies $1.5 million to settle sexual misconduct lawsuit 06/05/2024 04:29pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A Texas county has agreed to pay a group of female deputies $1.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed they were abused and harassed when a constable's office turned undercover operations into a drunken ���playground for sexual exploitation.��� Harris County commissioner Thousands pay tribute to Connecticut state trooper killed during highway traffic stop 06/05/2024 03:52pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� Thousands of people including police officers from throughout the Northeast and beyond gathered Wednesday for the funeral of a Connecticut state trooper killed by a hit-and-run driver during a traffic stop last week. Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier, 34, was remembered as DC needs more cameras, traffic stops to make streets safer, official says 06/05/2024 03:31pm • The goal of Vision Zero DC was ambitious ��� to have zero traffic fatalities or serious injuries in the District by 2024. A new report��shows improvements are underway, but more work remains to achieve the safety goal. "We, like frankly every other city across the country, have not gotten even cl The fatal stabbing of 3-year-old outside an Ohio supermarket took just seconds, police say 06/05/2024 03:14pm • A woman who fatally stabbed a 3-year-old boy sitting in a grocery cart outside an Ohio supermarket attacked him and his mother in less than five seconds before walking away, police said. Police said witnesses had no time to stop the stabbing that investigators believe was random. Officers arrested Israeli nationalists march in Jerusalem as a far-right minister boasts of Jewish prayer at key site 06/05/2024 03:01pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Thousands of ultranationalist Israelis marched through a sensitive Palestinian area of Jerusalem on Wednesday in an annual procession, chanting racist slogans as the country���s far-right national security minister boasted that Jews had prayed freely at a key holy site in the city 1 dead, 6 hurt after crash on Capital Beltway, causing delays for morning commute 06/05/2024 02:04pm • Listen to WTOP for traffic updates on the 8s. A man is dead and six others hurt after a three-vehicle crash on the inner loop of the Capital Beltway near Georgia Avenue in Montgomery County, Maryland, early Wednesday. The overnight crash investigation prompted hourslong closures on the interst