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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 6 people are dead including a suspect in a Sydney shopping center stabbing attack, police say 04/13/2024 04:24am • SYDNEY (AP) — 6 people are dead including a suspect in a Sydney shopping center stabbing attack, police say. Media reports say multiple people have been stabbed, and one person has been shot by police, at a Sydney shopping center 04/13/2024 03:12am • SYDNEY (AP) — Media reports say multiple people have been stabbed, and one person has been shot by police, at a Sydney shopping center. How a Fairfax Co. school is making prom season more affordable for students across the DC region 04/12/2024 11:00pm • About 20 years ago, Miranda Schick was teaching fashion marketing at Centreville High School when her students started to complain. First, Schick said, they started talking about how much money they were spending on prom. She asked if they'd tallied exactly how much they were spending on the Prince George's Co. passed new restrictions on cannabis dispensaries — but how long will it last? 04/12/2024 10:00pm • The Prince George’s County Council passed new restrictions aimed at limiting where cannabis dispensaries can operate. But one state lawmaker from a neighboring jurisdiction is unhappy with the new ordinance and the council that passed it. The county law might not stand for very long anyway. The North Carolina welcomes a historic visitor in Japan's Prime Minister Kishida 04/12/2024 07:19pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cemented economic links and cultural amity with North Carolina on Friday, following up time in Washington during his official U.S. visit by checking up on benchmark Japanese companies building in the ninth-most populous state and meeting w Blake Snell returns to Tropicana Field for first time as a visiting player with Giants 04/12/2024 06:42pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Blake Snell returned to Tropicana Field for the first time as a visiting player and took notice of the familiar surroundings, especially the place that stood out most. “The barber shop,” the San Francisco Giants pitcher said with a smile Friday. “A lot of new addi Three killed in Ethiopia shootout as regional rebellions spill into the capital 04/12/2024 09:53am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A shootout between militiamen and police officers killed three people Friday in the Ethiopian capital in a rare case of the country's many regional rebellions spilling into the city. The violence occurred near Millenium Hall in Addis Ababa’s downtown as officers tried to ap What to know about the real estate tycoon sentenced to death in Vietnam's largest fraud case 04/12/2024 06:22am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Vietnamese real estate tycoon was sentenced to death Thursday in the country's biggest ever financial fraud case, a shocking development in an intensifying anti-corruption drive in the southeast Asian nation. Truong My Lan, a high-profile businesswoman who chaired a sprawli German parliament approves payment cards for asylum-seekers to limit cash payments 04/12/2024 05:44am • BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament on Friday approved legislation introducing payment cards for asylum-seekers, a system that is meant to limit benefits paid in cash and make the country less attractive for migrants. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Germany's 16 state governors agreed in principle to i Vietnam sentences real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death in its largest-ever fraud case 04/12/2024 12:29am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced Thursday to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam in the country's largest financial fraud case ever, state media Vietnam Net said. The 67-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was formally c DC’s plans to redesign Connecticut Avenue won’t include bike lanes 04/11/2024 08:52pm • D.C.’s Department of Transportation isn’t moving forward with a project that would have installed bike lanes along a stretch of Connecticut Avenue in Northwest. At a council hearing Thursday, DDOT acting director Sharon Kershbaum said changes to the busy road won’t include bike lanes. �