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FORT WORTH, Texas — The lives of 18-year-old University of Texas student H

Police say a 40-year-old man with a history of run-ins with local law enforcement is behind bars again this weekend after stabbing and seriously wounding a bartender at a Tybee Island pizza restaurant.

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — An all-white federal jury has found a white Florida ex-sheriff's deputy not guilty in the beating of an unarmed black man who was being arrested.Jesse Alan Terrell was one of five former Marion County Sheriff's deputies prosecuted by the federal government for beating Derrick Price during a 2014 arrest on drug charges.The other deputies pleaded guilty and await sentencing. Each testified against Terrell.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have charged four more suspects with "participating in terrorist acts" linked to the deadly suicide bombings in Brussels, the federal prosecution office said Saturday.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday committed to pushing reforms after his picks for attorney general and interior minister won long-sought Cabinet confirmation, while U.S.

Steve Miller had just performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, but he wasn't finished.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The decision by the North Carolina legislature and Gov. Pat McCrory to overturn Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance for LGBT citizens isn't simply another skirmish in the decades-old culture war between conservatives and progressives.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In any other election year, more than half the country holding an unfavorable impression of a candidate for president would be cause for alarm.This is not a normal year.

Contractors for the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) will be installing temporary lane closures with reduced speed limits on S.R. 204 Saturday in both directions between Veterans Parkway and King George Boulevard in Chatham County, according to a news release.Lane closures are scheduled westbound between the hours of 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. and eastbound between the hours of 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.  on Saturday, April 9 and then again on Monday April 11 through Wednesday, April 16. All work is weather contingent.

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron admitted Saturday that he bungled his admission of his investment in an offshore fund revealed in the mammoth data breach of a Panama law firm.