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Theater Review: Not everyone will be 'Fallin' over Alicia Keys' Broadway musical 'Hell's Kitchen' 04/21/2024 01:06am • If you were to close Alicia Keys ’ big semi-autobiographical musical on Broadway with any of her hit songs, which would it be? Of course, it has to be “Empire State of Mind.” That’s the natural one, right? It’s also as predictable as the R train being delayed with signal problems. “Hell� 12 students and teacher killed in Columbine school shooting remembered at 25th anniversary vigil 04/20/2024 06:12pm • DENVER (AP) — A girl who wrote to God in her diaries, a boy with learning disabilities who was just learning to like who he was and a teen who would spend every free minute fishing were among the 13 victims of the Columbine High School shooting remembered during a vigil Friday on the eve of the 25 An Israeli airstrike in Gaza's south kills at least 9 Palestinians in Rafah, including 6 children 04/20/2024 05:41pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah killed at least nine people, six of them children, hospital authorities said Saturday, as Israel pursued its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. Israel's war against the A call to get guns off the streets after 5 teens were shot and wounded in Prince George's Co. 04/20/2024 12:59pm • Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks is calling for more enforcement to get guns off the street after five teenagers were shot and wounded during a senior skip day Friday. “The final days of being in their senior year, disrupted by violence,” Alsobrooks told reporters Satu Here’s what marijuana researchers have to say about 420 or ‘weed day’ 04/20/2024 05:30am • (CNN) — It’s 420 or “weed day,” and people around the world will be paying homage to their favorite guilty pleasure: marijuana.Currently, 24 states, two territories and the District of Columbia in the United States have legalized marijuana for recreational use, making it that much easier The drug war devastated Black and other minority communities. Is marijuana legalization helping? 04/20/2024 12:21am • ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — When Washington state opened some of the nation's first legal marijuana stores in 2014, Sam Ward Jr. was on electronic home detention in Spokane, where he had been indicted on federal drug charges. He would soon be off to prison to serve the lion's share of a four-year sent 5 teens shot, injured at 'senior skip day' gathering in Greenbelt park 04/19/2024 09:42pm • Five young people, ages 16 to 18, were shot and injured during a "senior skip day" gathering at a Greenbelt, Maryland, park on Friday afternoon. Police said officers were called to Schrom Hills Park on the 6900 block of Hanover Parkway, responding to reports of hundreds of high school students wh 4/20 grew from humble roots to marijuana's high holiday 04/19/2024 07:58pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Saturday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers with discounts. This year’s edition provides an occasion for activists to reflect Former resident of New Hampshire youth center describes difficult aftermath of abuse 04/19/2024 06:17pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A man who says he was beaten and raped as a teen at New Hampshire's youth detention center testified Friday that he both tried to take his own life and plotted to kill his abusers years later before speaking up. David Meehan, who spent three years at the Youth Development Ce Md. teen with violent 'manifesto' ordered held in jail as judge cites escalated intensity, planning of threats 04/19/2024 06:05pm • A student at Wootton High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, was arrested Wednesday and charged with making threats of mass violence after police say he wrote a 129-page "manifesto" describing a desire to “shoot up” an elementary school and his high school. The student, Alex Ye, was arres A man gets 19 years for a downtown St. Louis crash that cost a teen volleyball player her legs 04/19/2024 10:16am • ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for causing a downtown accident that resulted in the amputation of the legs of a teenage volleyball player from Tennessee. Daniel Riley, 22, was convicted last month of second-degree assault, armed criminal action, fourth-de Staff and shoppers return to 'somber' Sydney shopping mall 6 days after mass stabbings 04/19/2024 03:15am • SYDNEY (AP) — Shoppers and workers returned to a “really quiet” Sydney mall Friday, where six days earlier an assailant stabbed six people to death and wounded more than a dozen others in an attack that police believe targeted women. Westfield Bondi Junction mall near world-famous Bondi Beach Teenager is charged with terrorism offenses in stabbings of bishop and priest at Sydney church 04/18/2024 11:46pm • SYDNEY (AP) — A 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics during a Sydney church service has been charged by police with terrorism offenses. Authorities said the stabbing was declared a terrorist act because of the teenager’s suspected religious motivation and that the boy travel Montgomery Co. student charged with threats of mass violence after police discover disturbing 'manifesto' 04/18/2024 07:19pm • An 18-year-old high school student in Montgomery County, Maryland, has been charged with making threats of mass violence after authorities said he wrote a 129-page document describing a desire to "shoot up" his high school. Andrea Ye, who uses the name Alex, was arrested Wednesday and is being he Maryland teen charged with planning school shooting after police review writings, internet searches 04/18/2024 05:50pm • ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — An 18-year-old Maryland high school student was charged with planning to commit a school shooting after investigators reviewed the teen’s writings and other material, including internet searches and messages, police said Thursday. The student was arrested Wednesday by the M