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By Brynn Gingras, Bonney Kapp and Laura Ly, CNN You’ve probably heard these three words — run, hide, fight. The tactics from the FBI, echoed to law enforcement agencies across the country, have been used for decades to teach civilians their options if confronted by an active shooter: evacuate the area, find a place to

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The average age of a first-time mother in the US climbed above 27 years — marking a record high — in 2021, according to a new CDC report. While decisions around having children largely depend on personal circumstances, researchers say the Covid-19 pandemic likely played a role in people putting off

By Andi Babineau, Elizabeth Wolfe and Andy Rose, CNN Two emperor tamarin monkeys missing since Monday from the Dallas Zoo were found alive Tuesday in the closet of an abandoned Dallas-area home, officials said, and police say they still want to talk to a certain man in connection with the case. The monkeys’ retrieval —

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Paradise Afshar and Tina Burnside, CNN A man accused of kidnapping and torturing a woman in Oregon this month died from a self inflicted-gunshot wound following an hourslong standoff with authorities Tuesday night, a CNN affiliate reported. Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, died in the hospital after law enforcement had surrounded a property

By Raja Razek, CNN Prosecutors in Illinois’ Cook County have dropped state sex-crime charges against singer R. Kelly, who has already been convicted of federal charges set to keep him in prison for decades. The Illinois charges — aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse counts involving four accusers — are being dropped

By Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan and Nick Valencia, CNN An initial police report filed in the hours after the Tyre Nichols traffic stop suggested he was violent and made claims that were contradicted by video later released by police. Nichols was subdued on the ground yet continuously beaten after the stop by Memphis police on

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Mark Morales and Rachel Clarke, CNN Memphis moved quickly to shut down its SCORPION unit when five members of the squad were charged with murder for beating Tyre Nichols after stopping him for an alleged traffic violation. But across other major American cities, such teams remain common. From New

By Veronica Miracle, Augie Martin and Taylor Romine, CNN A California father has been charged with three counts of attempted murder after he allegedly drove a car off an oceanside cliff with his wife and two children inside earlier this month, prosecutors said in court Monday. Prosecutors accuse Dharmesh Patel, 41, of intentionally steering his

By Kyung Lah and Taylor Romine, CNN The failed GOP candidate accused of shooting at Democratic officials’ homes in Alburquerque, New Mexico, was indicted by a grand jury on 14 counts of shooting and firearms charges, the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s office announced in a statement Monday. Solomon Peña is currently in jail awaiting trial

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Months of bitter negotiations between seven states that rely on the Colorado River’s vanishing water have collapsed along a clear fault line over the past week: California versus everyone else. The multi-state talks, which have been ongoing in fits and starts for months, were focused on achieving unprecedented water cuts to

By Melissa Alonso, CNN The number of victims hurt in Monday’s Lakeland, Florida, shooting has increased to eleven after an additional victim self-transported to a hospital, according to Lakeland Police Chief Sam Taylor. Lakeland police have said the incident was a “targeted attack” in a Lakeland neighborhood, CNN has reported. Two of the eleven victims

By Dakin Andone, CNN A dispute over a $100 repair bill may have contributed to a pair of shootings that left seven people dead and another injured last week in Half Moon Bay, California, the San Mateo County district attorney told a local news station. Chunli Zhao — the farmworker who faces seven counts of

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Weeks after Tyre Nichols was brutalized by Memphis police officers, city law enforcement officials are being hailed for their unusually rapid investigation and transparency compared to similar cases in other US cities. Five former officers were indicted Thursday on charges of second-degree murder and kidnapping. One day later, officials released police

By Nicole Grether, Artemis Moshtaghian, Dakin Andone and Brian Todd, CNN Students at Richneck Elementary School navigated new safety protocols as they returned to classes Monday for the first time since a 6-year-old student allegedly shot his teacher inside a classroom nearly a month ago. Police were on campus as anxious parents dropped their children

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Andy Rose and Sonya Hamasaki, CNN A sweeping multi-day manhunt continues for a suspect accused of brutally beating and kidnapping a woman in Oregon who remains in critical condition, according to police. While Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, has evaded capture since Tuesday, police say he is still active on dating apps. The

By Steve Almasy, Mark Morales, Holly Yan and Nick Valencia, CNN Fallout from the deadly police beating of Black motorist Tyre Nichols now includes the firing of three Memphis Fire Department personnel, and an announcement that a total of seven police officers were placed on leave, as critics nationwide call for police reform. Two emergency

By Brian Todd, Hannah Sarisohn, Nicole Grether and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The principal of Richneck Elementary School in Virginia has been reassigned within Newport News Public Schools, according to a spokesperson for the district. In an email to CNN confirming the reassignment, the district would not say where it was reassigning former principal Briana Foster

By Tina Burnside and Sarah Moon, CNN The City of Alhambra honored the man who has been hailed a hero for disarming the Monterey Park shooting suspect at a second dance studio during Lunar New Year celebrations last weekend. Brandon Tsay, 26, was awarded a medal of courage from the Alhambra Police Department during a

By Celina Tebor, Isa Kaufman-Geballe and Zoe Sottile, CNN A man threw a Molotov cocktail at a New Jersey synagogue in an arson attempt on Sunday morning, police and the synagogue said. The suspect lit and threw a Molotov cocktail at the front door of Temple Ner Tamid around 3 a.m. and fled the scene,

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN The San Antonio Zoo is offering a special Valentine’s Day greeting for exes who just won’t bug off. For $10, the zoo will name a cockroach after your not-so-special someone and feed it to an animal — a cold, but direct message that you’re no longer interested. The annual “Cry Me

By Andy Rose and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Authorities in southwestern Oregon are warning that a man suspected of kidnapping a woman and beating her unconscious may now be using dating apps to evade capture or find potential new victims, according to police. The suspect, 36-year-old Benjamin Obadiah Foster, has so far evaded capture but he

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Something unusual occurred on the floor of the US House of Representatives a few days ago, and it had nothing to do with classified documents, committee assignments or the nation’s debt ceiling. A young congressman delivered a speech on a bill to advance research into artificial intelligence. What’s unusual about a

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN. Photographs by David Butow/Redux for CNN. For years, dancers in high heels and glitzy dresses have hurried into Phillip Sam’s beauty supply store in Monterey Park ahead of big events, searching the maze of products for a finishing touch — strong hold hairspray, a swipe of glittery eyeshadow, a bejeweled claw

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A West Virginia restaurant is celebrating after its beloved “Weinerman” statue was returned. The statue was stolen from Dairy Winkle, a restaurant in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, according to a January 19 news release from the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office. The business suffered a fire on January 11. The restaurant

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Protesters once again took to the streets over the weekend to decry police brutality after the release of video depicting the violent Memphis police beating of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, and more gatherings and vigils are planned for Sunday. Nichols could be heard yelling for his mother in the video of the

By Zenebou Sylla, CNN Six people died and three others were injured in a crash involving an express bus and a freight truck in upstate New York Saturday morning, according to authorities. New York State Police responded to a collision between the bus and the Freightliner box truck around 6 a.m. ET on State Highway

By Chuck Johnston, CNN At least one person was killed and two wounded in a shooting in Baltimore on Saturday, police said. Authorities responded near the intersection of Pennsylvania and Laurens Ave. after 6 p.m. Saturday evening and found two adult males and one adult female shot, according to Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison. Police

By Rosa Flores, CNN A Texas National Guard member shot a migrant in the shoulder during an encounter in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas last week, according to a recent joint Army Times and Texas Tribune report. A federal law enforcement source confirmed to CNN a migrant was shot and injured in the

By Christal Hayes, CNN It’s only been 20 months since Cerelyn “CJ” Davis took charge of the Memphis Police Department. Known nationally as an advocate for police reform, she touted big plans that included forging new relationships with community leaders to tackle police reform and lower violent crime — issues she hoped would elicit trust

By Raja Razek, CNN The use of a vehicle that wrecked while carrying four members of the University of Georgia football program — two of whom died in the crash — was “unauthorized,” according to a statement from the University of Georgia Athletic Association. The Ford Expedition was one of several cars that were leased

By Andi Babineau and Jay Croft, CNN Three people were killed and at least four injured in a shooting in Los Angeles, the city’s fire department said Saturday, California’s fourth mass shooting in a week. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call for help at 2:35 a.m. on a residential street northwest of

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN Adam Montgomery, the father of missing 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery, has been indicted by a New Hampshire grand jury on a second-degree murder charge in her death, according to court documents. Last week’s indictment accuses him of “repeatedly striking Harmony Montgomery on the head with a closed fist,” causing her death. Grand

By Kiely Westhoff and Zoe Sottile, CNN A 29-year-old New Jersey woman is facing charges over claims she used false government documents in a ploy to pose as a teenager at a high school, according to police. Hyejeong Shin was charged with one count of providing a false government document after she allegedly submitted a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Unbearably adorable. A wildlife camera in Boulder, Colorado, captured about 400 “bear selfies” after a curious black bear started investigating the camera. Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks posted a few of the charming snaps on Twitter Monday. “Recently, a bear discovered a wildlife camera that we use to monitor wildlife

By Christina Maxouris, CNN The newly released videos of Tyre Nichols’ police beating captured the brutality that his family and authorities had already foreshadowed: He was punched and kicked while being restrained. He pleaded to go home and repeatedly yelled for his mom. And after the beating, while Nichols lay slumped and motionless against a

By Nicki Brown, CNN The woman accused of stabbing an Indiana University student “has a long history of severe mental illness” and was “seeking help managing her condition up to and including the day of the alleged attack,” according to her defense attorney. Billie Davis, who is White, allegedly said she was motivated by race

By Mallika Kallingal and Zenebou Sylla, CNN A second former New York lawyer has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for participating in a Molotov cocktail attack during a New York City protest in 2020 following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Colinford Mattis, 35, pleaded guilty to carrying out

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Two former Hialeah City police officers and one civilian are facing charges in connection to the alleged kidnapping and beating of a homeless man, as well as witness tampering on part of the civilian in an effort to cover up the officers’ actions, officials announced Thursday. Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney

By Chandelis Duster, CNN All five of the former Memphis police officers charged with murder in the beating of Tyre Nichols were members of a recently created unit that was tasked with tackling rising crime in the city. When it was launched in 2021, the SCORPION unit — Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Two inmates who had escaped from a Virginia jail were captured after authorities found them hiding in a Tennessee barn, officials said. Officers apprehended Johnny Shane Brown and Albert Lee Ricketson on Friday in Rogersville, Tennessee, after the pair escaped from the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority in Abingdon a day

By Zoe Sottile, CNN RowVaughn Wells, whose 29-year-old son Tyre Nichols died from injuries sustained during a police traffic stop in Memphis earlier this month, says that the officers involved have “brought shame to their own families” and “brought shame to the Black community.” Wells spoke with CNN’s Don Lemon on Friday morning in her

By Jay Croft, CNN Announcer Billy Packer, who was called “the voice of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament” for decades, died Thursday, his son announced in a tweet. He was 82. He broadcast NCAA games for CBS starting in the early 1980s. “The Packer Family would like to share some sad news,” Mark Packer wrote.

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Rents are climbing across the US, and those high costs are among the many compelling reasons to try to buy a home. But with mortgage rates double what they were a year ago — and home inventory at a historic low — both options can be a magnet for stress. For

By Aya Elamroussi, Taylor Romine and Paradise Afshar, CNN Chunli Zhao, the farmworker accused of carrying out two shootings on farms in Northern California earlier this week, admitted to killing seven people and injuring one other, NBC Bay Area News reported. Monday’s mass killings stunned the coastal city of Half Moon Bay, becoming the deadliest

By Travis Caldwell, CNN “Appalling.” “Savage.” “Inhumane.” While video of an arrest in Memphis that resulted in a 29-year-old Black man’s hospitalization and death has yet to be publicly released, some family members as well as police officials have previewed the footage, sharing their disgust and horror at what they describe as a vicious beating

By Jason Hanna, Jamiel Lynch, Chuck Johnston, Shawn Nottingham and Andy Rose, CNN Tyre Nichols screamed for his mother and Memphis police officers struck him multiple times — including in the face while his hands were restrained — toward the end of the Black man’s deadly encounter with the officers this month, video released by

By Philip Wang and Jessie Yeung, CNN Five of the seven people killed in the Half Moon Bay shootings in California were Chinese citizens, China’s consulate in San Francisco said Thursday. The consulate strongly condemned the killings, which took place in the San Francisco Bay area on Monday, and sent its condolences to the victims’

By Theresa Waldrop and Dakin Andone, CNN The first law enforcement official to respond to the scene where Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son were found killed testified Thursday that one of the first things Murdaugh mentioned after the sergeant from the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office arrived was a boating accident involving his son years ago.

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN It’s been almost three weeks since a traffic stop in Memphis led to a violent arrest and, three days later, the death of the 29-year-old Black driver. Tyre Nichols was hospitalized after he was pulled over on January 7, police have said. Five Memphis Police Department officers, who also are Black,

By Lauren del Valle and Ray Sanchez, CNN Sayfullo Saipov was found guilty of murder by a federal jury for using a rented truck to fatally strike eight people on a New York City bike path on Halloween Day in 2017. Jurors deliberated about six hours over two days in the case involving the deadliest

By Rachel Ramirez and Renée Rigdon, CNN With vast stretches of desert that give way to towering, snow-capped mountains or the waters of the Pacific Ocean, California’s landscape has always been alluring. But it is this very climate — where dry summers and wet winters provide the perfect conditions for tourism and agriculture — that’s

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at basketball legend and NBA superstar Michael Jordan. Personal Birth date: February 17, 1963 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Michael Jeffrey Jordan Father: James Jordan, business owner Mother: Deloris (Peoples) Jordan Marriages: Yvette Prieto (April 27, 2013-present); Juanita Vanoy (September 2, 1989-December 29, 2006, divorced) Children: with

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Forest City Police Department in North Carolina has issued an advisory after multiple razor blades were found on gas pump handles. The department published the community advisory on Tuesday to address “multiple instances of razor blades being placed in gas pump handles in Forest City and surrounding areas.” It said

By Eric Levenson, Melissa Alonso, Jamiel Lynch and Christina Maxouris, CNN Five former Memphis police officers who were fired for their actions during the arrest of Tyre Nichols earlier this month were indicted on charges including murder and kidnapping, Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy announced Thursday. The former officers, Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin

By Travis Caldwell, CNN Nearly three weeks after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, resulted in a violent arrest and subsequent death of a driver, police are expected to release footage of the incident to the public. Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was hospitalized after the arrest on January 7 and died three days

By Aya Elamroussi and Dakin Andone, CNN The fallout is widening in the Virginia school district where a 6-year-old allegedly shot his teacher in the chest earlier this month, with school officials leaving their posts in the face of a potential lawsuit amid questions about whether the shooting was preventable. Ebony Parker, the assistant principal

By Nouran Salahieh and Taylor Romine, CNN The suspect in the Half Moon Bay, California, mass shooting was charged Wednesday with seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in what became the deadliest attack in San Mateo County’s history, the district attorney said. “This one is in a category that is way

By Melissa Gray, CNN The murder trial of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh ended March 2 after nearly six weeks at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, a small town about 40 miles west of Charleston. Murdaugh was found guilty of killing his wife and son, who were shot to death in 2021 at

By Kara Scannell, CNN A Holocaust survivor was swindled out of his life savings by a woman he met on a dating website, prosecutors allege in the latest romance scam targeting the elderly. Peaches Stergo, a 36-year-old Florida woman also known as Alice, was arrested Wednesday on one count of wire fraud for allegedly duping

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Forty-four hours in America. Three mass shootings. Nineteen lives wiped out. All in California. The victims in suburban Monterey Park included people between the ages of 57 and 76, ringing in the Lunar New Year Saturday night at a dance studio in the heart of the city’s Asian American community. Then