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Lebanese security forces detain man suspected of shooting outside US embassy
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces have detained a man suspected of being behind last week’s shooting outside the U.S.-embassy north of Beirut in which no one was hurt, police said Monday. The Internal Security Forces said in a statement that they have detained a Lebanese...
Manslaughter charges thrown out in Michigan prisoner's death
MUNISING, Mich. (AP) — A judge dismissed charges Monday against six people in the death of a Michigan prisoner who lost 50 pounds over two weeks and died of dehydration while being restrained in 2019. There was evidence of a lack of proper care for Jonathan Lancaster but not enough...
3 teenagers were fatally shot in South Carolina, and a schoolmate has been arrested
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two people showed up at an abandoned house where four teenagers were hanging out and opened fire, killing three of them and wounding the fourth in an escalation of an old quibble over a burglary, authorities said Monday in Columbia, South Carolina. A...
Texas Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5M to families over 2019 racist attack
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A white Texas gunman who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 after ranting about Hispanics taking over the government and economy has agreed to pay more than $5 million to victims of the racist attack, according to an order signed by a judge Monday. Patrick...
Editorial Roundup: Ohio
Columbus Dispatch. September 21, 2023. Editorial: Property tax increase is about to hit Ohio seniors – hard. Freezing taxes will help. Property owners in Franklin and other counties around the state are bracing for a tidal wave of increased property taxes as home...
Jury selection opens in terrorism trial of extended family members dating to 2018 New Mexico raid
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in federal court as members of an extended family confronted kidnapping and terrorism charges stemming from the search for a missing 3-year-old boy by agents who raided a squalid New Mexico encampment in 2018. The boy's badly...
Journalist killed in attack aimed at police in northern Mexico border town
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A journalist who ran a community Facebook news page was killed in the northern Mexico border town of San Luis Rio Colorado on Monday, when he was apparently caught in the cross-fire of an attack aimed at police. Jesús Gutiérrez ran Notiface Prensa Digital De...
Michigan woman will serve up to 5 years in prison for crash into icy pond that killed her 3 sons
HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan woman was sentenced to up to five years in prison Monday for a crash in which her three young sons drowned after her SUV plunged into an ice-covered pond. Leticia Gonzales had pleaded no contest in August to operating while...
UK police open sexual offenses investigation after allegations about Russell Brand
LONDON (AP) — British police have opened a sex crimes investigation triggered by news reports about comedian Russell Brand. London's Metropolitan Police force said Monday that it had “received a number of allegations of sexual offences” after a television documentary and...
A trial opens in France over the killing of a police couple in the name of the Islamic State group
LYON, France (AP) — It wasn’t the deadliest attack in Europe linked to the Islamic State group, but it was among the most disturbing: One evening in 2016, an assailant killed two police officers in their family home, in front of their 3-year-old son. On Monday, a trial opened in...
