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Police track down escaped Idaho prison gang member and accomplice, say pair may have killed 2 on run
By Gene Johnson And Mark Thiessen, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2024
Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members – an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape – following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, and investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run. Skylar Meade, the escaped inmate, and Nicholas Umphenour, the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Appeals court orders judge to probe claims of juror bias in Boston Marathon bomber’s case
By Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2024
BOSTON (AP) – A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s case to be returned to a lower court to probe claims of juror bias. The order from the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals keeps intact Tsarnaev’s death sentence for now. But the appeals court said the trial court judge’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Idaho prison gang member, accomplice sought after ambush in custody, may have killed 2, police say
By Gene Johnson And Mark Thiessen, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2024
Police on Thursday arrested an Idaho prison gang member and an accomplice who escaped following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, with investigators looking into whether they committed two killings while on the run. Skylar Meade, the escaped inmate, and Nicholas Umphenour, the man who police say shot two Idaho corrections officers ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Idaho prison gang member and accomplice sought after ambush and escape are in custody, police say
By Gene Johnson And Mark Thiessen, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2024
A white supremacist Idaho prison gang member and an accomplice were in custody Thursday after a brazen attack to free the inmate as he was being transported from a Boise hospital, authorities said. Escaped inmate Skylar Meade, a 31-year-old member of the Aryan Knights gang, and his accomplice Nicholas Umphenour fled the scene early Wednesday ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!EU leaders agree on opening membership talks with Bosnia, but with many strings attached
By Samuel Petrequin, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2024
BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union leaders agreed in principle Thursday to open membership negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, even though the Western Balkan country must still do a lot of work before talks can begin. The 27 leaders gave the political green light at a summit in Brussels after the European Commission – the EU’s executive arm ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!EU leaders agree on opening membership talks with Bosnia, but with many strings are attached
By Samuel Petrequin, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2024
BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union leaders agreed in principle Thursday to open membership negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, even though the Western Balkan country must still do a lot of work before talks can begin. The 27 leaders gave the political green light at a summit in Brussels after the European Commission – the EU’s executive arm ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man accused of kidnapping and killing ex-girlfriend’s daughter to plead guilty to federal charge
By The Associated Press on March 21st, 2024
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping and killing her 2-year-old daughter has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of kidnapping resulting in death, court records show. The plea agreement entered into Thursday by Rashad Trice shows he faces a minimum term of life in prison ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Algeria sets election for September, when military-backed president will vie for 2nd term
By Associated Press, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2024
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) – Algeria will hold its next presidential election on Sept. 7, giving first-term President Abdelmajid Tebboune more than five months to campaign for a second term to lead the oil-rich north African nation. Tebboune’s office announced the date in a statement on Thursday after meeting with high-ranking members of Parliament and the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Russia’s space agency aborts launch of 3 astronauts to the International Space Station; all are safe
By The Associated Press on March 21st, 2024
MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s Roscosmos space agency aborted the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station about 20 seconds before they were scheduled to lift off Thursday, but the crew was safe, officials said. The Russian Soyuz rocket was to carry NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Oleg Novitsky of Roscosmos and Marina Vasilevskaya of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Swedish appeals court rules space rock should stay with the owner of the property where it landed
By The Associated Press on March 21st, 2024
STOCKHOLM (AP) – A Swedish land owner won a legal battle Thursday to keep a 14-kilogram (31-pound) meteorite when an appeals court ruled that such rocks should be considered “immovable property” and part of the land where they are found. The property on which the meteorite landed contains iron and the meteorite is made of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Russia fires 31 missiles at Kyiv in the first attack in weeks but Ukraine intercepts them all
By Hanna Arhirova And Anton Shtuka, The Associated Press on March 21st, 2024
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia fired 31 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv before dawn Thursday in the first attack on the Ukrainian capital in six weeks, officials said. Air defenses shot down all the incoming missiles, though 13 people including a child were injured by falling wreckage, they said. Residents of Kyiv were woken ... Read More »
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