A 34-year-old man is facing a dozen charges related to a series of armed robberies in north Toronto.

Police say from December 12, 2023, to January 8, 2024, a man wearing a disguise entered four separate establishments in the areas of Islington Avenue and Albion Road, Islington Avenue and Elmhurst Drive, Albion Road and Elmhurst Drive, and Wilson Avenue and Northgate Drive.

In each instance, the man posed as a customer before producing a handgun and fleeing with

Federal prosecutors in Chicago are recommending a 28-year prison sentence for an American woman who pleaded guilty to and stuffing the body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation at a Bali resort nearly a decade ago.

That’s considerably more time behind bars than Heather Mack’s defense lawyers are expected to ask for when she’s sentenced next week for conspiring to kill Sheila von Wiese-Mack.

The government also is seeking five years of supervised release for Mack, a fine of $250,0

Philadelphia’s two-term elected district attorney said Thursday he wants a court to stop plans to appoint a special prosecutor who would handle crimes on the city’s transit system under a new law designed to dilute his authority that he argues is unconstitutional.

It’s not the first time progressive District Attorney Larry Krasner has gone to court over lawmakers’ efforts, which he argues overstep their authority to punish him over political differences.

“When I made the unexpected decision to run for DA in 2017,

RENO, Nev. (AP) — An avalanche was reported Thursday at a California resort near Lake Tahoe, one day after , trapping several people and killing a 66-year-old man.

The second avalanche occurred around 12:30 p.m. Thursday near the Wolverine Bowl section of Alpine Meadows, said resort spokesperson Patrick Lacey. No employees or guests were injured, though ski patrol searched the area with probes, beacons and a dog team to be sure, he said.

Wednesday’s

Shohei Ohtani visited the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, where Ambassador Rahm Emanuel presented the new Los Angeles Dodgers star with a supersized visa for his dog.

photos of the visit on social media Thursday, with the embassy saying it occurred recently when Ohtani was back in Japan.

Emanuel and Ohtani posed with a replica visa for the player’s dog, Decoy. It shows a photo of the dog, whose Japanese name is Dekopin, and gives his birth date as “dog years” and shows the canine has

MONTREAL — The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers says Montreal-area home sales in December fell four per cent compared with the same month a year earlier.

The association says home sales in the region totalled 2,096 for the month, down from 2,191 in December 2022. Throughout the year, the Montreal area saw an overall decline  in sales activity of 14 per cent.

The median price of a single-family home in December was $535,

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — , the former governor of Maryland and a moderate Republican who has been critical of , stepped down last month from the leadership of the third-party movement , a move that could signal his preparations to run for president using the group’s ballot line.

Hogan did not address his own future in a letter to No Labels President and CEO Nancy Jacobson announcing his resignation as co-chair, but he offered no criticism of the group, its plans or leadership. He declined to

FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — An attorney for an upstate New York man accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old woman who was with a group of friends who mistakenly turned into his backcountry driveway called it a “terrible accident” involving a defective gun as arguments in his murder trial began Thursday.

Kevin Monahan, 66, is charged with second-degree murder in , who was out with friends who got lost while heading to another person’s house on a Saturday night

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The United States has received Kosovo’s request to purchase Javelin anti-tank missiles, the U.S. ambassador to Serbia on Thursday told President Aleksandar Vucic, who expressed “deep disappointment.”

A statement by Vucic’s office said Ambassador Christopher Hill told him that the State Department will send Kosovo’s request to the U.S. Congress, which reviews foreign arms sales.

Kosovo is a former Serbian province which declared independence in 2008. The U