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Owners of a Colorado funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were found are charged with COVID fraud 04/15/2024 07:39pm • DENVER (AP) — A couple who owned a Colorado funeral home where authorities last year discovered 190 decaying bodies were indicted on federal charges that they misspent nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds on vacations, cosmetic surgery, jewelry and other personal expenses, according to court d Hochul announces budget outline as lawmakers continue to hash out details 04/15/2024 07:39pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday announced the framework of a $237 billion budget that includes broad plans to drive new housing construction, address the influx of migrants and crack down on illegal marijuana shops. Hochul, a Democrat, described the announcement as the � Retail sales surge 0.7% in March as Americans seem unfazed by higher prices with jobs plentiful 04/15/2024 10:24am • NEW YORK (AP) — Americans boosted spending at a hotter-than-expected pace in March, underscoring how shoppers remain resilient despite inflationary pressures and other economic challenges. Retail sales rose 0.7% last month — almost double what economists had forecast — after rising 0.9% in Fe Sydney attack victims include a mother who saved her baby, a Chinese grad student and an architect 04/15/2024 09:19am • SYDNEY (AP) — The people killed and wounded by an assailant at a Sydney shopping mall were mostly women. A police officer shot and killed the man who had attacked people at the busy Westfield Bondi Junction mall, and his family said he had a long history of schizophrenia, lacked social skills and Australian police probe why man who stabbed 6 people to death in a Sydney mall targeted women 04/15/2024 08:48am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall and injured more than a dozen others targeted women while avoiding men, a police commissioner said on Monday. The killer's father blamed his son's frustra DC family cashes in on great-grandfather’s real estate advice 04/15/2024 01:17am • Patrick and Christine Campbell grew up in Southeast D.C. listening to stories about their great-grandfather, Wesley Plater: a sharecropper, unofficial lawman and homeowner in Charlotte Hall, Maryland. Mixed in with the many stories was one piece of business advice that stuck with the siblings: "R AI-generated models could bring more diversity to the fashion industry — or leave it with less 04/14/2024 10:43pm • CHICAGO (AP) — London-based model Alexsandrah has a twin, but not in the way you’d expect: Her counterpart is made of pixels instead of flesh and blood. The virtual twin was generated by artificial intelligence and has already appeared as a stand-in for the real-life Alexsandrah in a photo shoot Airline Credit Card vs. Flexible Points: Which One is Best? 04/14/2024 08:00pm • Earning airline miles, hotel points and flexible points helps travelers save money when booking trips. There are dozens of travel rewards credit cards to choose from, so it can be challenging for people to decide between an airline credit card and flexible points cards. Both types of rewards cards h Shooting at Baltimore mall sends girl, 7, to hospital 04/14/2024 01:47pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — A 7-year-old girl was hospitalized Saturday after she was shot at a Baltimore shopping mall. Baltimore police say the girl was shot Saturday afternoon at Mondawmin Mall. According to police, two groups at the mall got into an altercation, and an unidentified male fired a shot a Officer, bystanders hailed for confronting and stopping a man who killed 6 at a Sydney shopping mall 04/14/2024 05:14am • SYDNEY (AP) — A police officer and several bystanders are being hailed for running “towards danger” to confront the attacker who stabbed and killed six people at a suburban Sydney shopping center. The shopping mall, one of the country’s busiest and near the world-famous Bondi Beach, was a hu Police in Australia identify the Sydney stabbing attacker who killed 6 people 04/14/2024 04:52am • SYDNEY (AP) — Police identified Sunday the assailant who stabbed and killed six people at a busy Sydney shopping center before a police officer fatally shot him. New South Wales Police said that Joel Cauchi, 40, was responsible for the Saturday afternoon attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in The craze for Masters gnomes is growing. Little golf-centric statue is now a coveted collector item 04/13/2024 03:59pm • AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Gnomes, those quirky statues that people put in their gardens, are flying off the shelves at Augusta National. The Masters golf-centric gnomes have been selling out within a couple of hours each morning after the tournament gift shop opens. Patrons are more than willing to wait McKenna Haase sold batteries door to door as a teen to buy her 1st sprint car. Now she'll race more 04/13/2024 03:43pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — McKenna Haase started her own racing team at age 13, and at one point she went door to door selling batteries when trying to raise money to buy her first sprint car. Now 27, Haase will be able to hire a crew chief and expand her racing schedule with help from that same bat 'Run, run, run': Chaos at a Sydney mall as 6 people stabbed to death, and the suspect fatally shot 04/13/2024 12:56pm • SYDNEY (AP) — A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured. New South Wales police said 'I don't take it for granted': DC native Rajah Caruth makes his mark in NASCAR’s Truck Series 04/13/2024 07:53am • Rajah Caruth is not your average 21-year-old. On a normal day, he wakes up early in the morning and hits the gym, and before he can think about his classes at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, the D.C. native heads to the car shop for a different kind of study hall: learning to impro