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May 2, 2024

Pilot dead after small plane crashes in Georgia neighborhood

Jason McKenzie, the associate director of philanthropy at Augusta University, has been reported dead after his single-engine aircraft crashed in a residential part of the Georgia city.

May 2, 2024

Hamas is sending a delegation to Egypt for further cease-fire talks in the latest sign of progress

Hamas said it was sending to Egypt a delegation for cease-fire talks, marking a sign of progress in attempts by mediators to work out an agreement between the militant group and Israel.

May 2, 2024

Captain gets 4 years for negligence in California dive boat fire that killed 34

Jerry Boylan, the captain of a scuba dive boat that caught fire off Santa Cruz Island in California in 2019, killing 34 people, has been sentenced to four years in prison.

May 2, 2024

Asian American Literature Festival that was canceled by the Smithsonian in 2023 to be revived

Organizers announced a festival celebrating Asian American literary works, canceled by the Smithsonian Institution last year, is making a return from Sept. 14-22 and will be spread out nationwide.

May 2, 2024

Alabama lawmakers advance bill letting inmates speak at parole hearings

The Alabama House Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced a bill that would allow state inmates to speak by phone or video conference at parole hearings.

May 2, 2024

Head of Greek far-right Golden Dawn party is granted early release from prison

Nikolaos Michaloliakos, the head of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party, has been granted conditional early release from prison; he was convicted of running a criminal organization.

May 2, 2024

Liberia passes a law setting up a long-awaited war crimes court

Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to create a war crimes court to deliver justice to the victims of the country's back-to-back civil wars.

May 2, 2024

Gangs in Haiti launch fresh attacks, days after a new prime minister is announced

Haitian gangs laid siege to several Port-au-Prince neighborhoods, exchanging gunfire with police for hours and burning homes as hundreds fled the violence.

May 2, 2024

NC man charged with mailing postcard containing threats, Nazi references to Georgia rabbi

Ariel Collazo Ramos of High Point, North Carolina, has been federally charged with mailing a threatening postcard to central Georgia Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar.

May 2, 2024

Man convicted of kidnapping girlfriend, suffocating her in Nevada desert

44-year-old Pennsylvania resident John Chapman has been convicted of kidnapping resulting in death in connection with the alleged 2019 killing of his girlfriend in a Nevada desert.