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Attorney: Mar-a-Lago checkpoint crasher is mentally ill

By TERRY SPENCER | February 3, 2020

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Connecticut opera singer who drew gunfire when she smashed an SUV through security checkpoints outside President Donald Trump's Florida home is mentally ill and wasn't taking her medication before leading a trooper on...

UK to end early release of terror convicts after stabbings

By DANICA KIRKA | February 3, 2020

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Monday it will introduce emergency legislation to stop people convicted of terror crimes being released after serving half their sentences, following two attacks in London by recently freed offenders.The announcement...

Louisiana executions stall for a decade amid legal quandary

By MELINDA DESLATTE | February 3, 2020

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana cleans its execution chamber at the state penitentiary daily, but it's been more than a decade since a condemned prisoner has laid on the chamber's black-padded gurney to die.Sixty-eight people sit on Louisiana’s...

Bernie Ebbers, ex-CEO convicted in WorldCom scandal, dies

By MALLIKA SEN | February 3, 2020

The former chief of WorldCom, convicted in one of the largest corporate accounting scandals in U.S. history, died just over a month after his early release from prison. Bernard Ebbers was 78.The Canadian-born former telecommunications executive died Sunday...

Pregnant woman killed, baby survives in Milwaukee shooting

February 2, 2020

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A gunman in a passing car fired five or six shots outside of a Milwaukee supper club, killing a pregnant mother of five who was on board a party bus that was parked in front of the venue, authorities said.The bus rushed Annie Sandifer...

Man wearing fake bomb stabs 2 in London and is shot to death

By GREGORY KATZ and DANICA KIRKA | February 2, 2020

LONDON (AP) — A man recently released from prison after serving time for terrorism-related offenses strapped on a fake bomb and stabbed two people on a busy London street Sunday before being shot to death by police, officials said.Deputy Assistant Commissioner...

Judge refuses to vacate Somali pirate’s sentence

February 2, 2020

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A federal judge in Virginia has refused to vacate the life sentence handed down to a Somali man convicted in a 2010 attack on a U.S. Navy vessel off the coast of Africa.A judge in Norfolk issued a ruling Friday rejecting Mohamed...

Best picture ‘1917’ is big winner at British Academy Awards

By JILL LAWLESS | February 2, 2020

LONDON (AP) — Gut-wrenching World War I epic “1917” was the big winner at Sunday’s British Academy Film Awards, winning seven prizes including best picture and best director.Sam Mendes’ drama about one of the most devastating conflicts in British...

US wants to return codebreaker’s seized items to UK school

By COLLEEN SLEVIN | February 2, 2020

DENVER (AP) — A U.S. woman who said she was visiting England to do a study of the late World War II codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing walked into the prestigious boys’ boarding school he attended and asked to see a collection of his memorabilia.She...

Police: 2 dead, 1 wounded in shooting after Florida funeral

February 1, 2020

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Gunfire erupted after a funeral Saturday in Florida, killing a teenager and a man and leaving one other person wounded, police said.Riviera Beach police said in a statement that the shooting happened near the Victory City...

Men wanted by police in Seattle shooting arrested in Nevada

February 1, 2020

SEATTLE (AP) — Two men who investigators say were involved in a downtown Seattle shooting that killed one person and injured seven others were arrested Saturday, the Seattle Police Department said.The Seattle Times and the Las Vegas Review-Journal report...

Ekhomu scores season-high 25 in win for No. 14 FSU women

February 1, 2020

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nicki Ekhomu scored a season-high 25 points and No. 14 Florida State finally found its shooting touch in the second half in beating Pitt 66-41 on Saturday.After a first half in which both teams shot only 21% and were tied at 20, the...