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By Celeste Noraian and Alta Spells, CNN The board of Florida’s largest school district has rejected new sexual education textbooks that it approved three months ago. The 5-4 vote by the Miami-Dade County School Board on Wednesday leaves students without a sex ed curriculum. The decision comes four months after the state passed a law

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Tennessee officials are investigating an officer’s violent arrest of a Black man accused of fleeing from police trying to stop him after allegedly running a stop sign, officials said. Brandon Calloway, 25, was tased and eventually subdued with a police baton during an arrest captured on cellphone and body-worn camera video,

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Customs officers in Laredo, Texas, confiscated methamphetamine — with a street value of a whopping $4.3 million — that was hidden in a tractor-trailer. US Customs and Border Protection field officers made the seizure Monday at the World Trade Bridge, a news release from the agency states. The bridge connects the

By Tina Burnside and Claire Colbert, CNN At least one person was killed and six others injured in a shooting in the Seattle suburb of Renton early Saturday morning, Renton Police said in a news release. Police received several 911 calls about shots fired in downtown Renton just before 1 a.m., police said. Residents told

By Justin Gamble, CNN A man was arrested and charged with the murder of 20-year-old University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee, whose remains have not been found since going missing July 8, officials said Friday. Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr., 22, was arrested by the Oxford Police Department and the University of Mississippi Police Department.

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Fearing the scorching Texas heat could only get worse, Lisa Vogt stopped buying meat and drove her pickup truck as little as possible to save money for two months to purchase window air-conditioning units. The air conditioner at the home that Vogt, 32, her three children and teenage nephew rent in

By Tina Burnside, CNN The Mega Millions jackpot has surged to a whopping $790 million after no ticket matched all six winning numbers in Friday night’s drawing. Friday’s winning numbers were 14, 40, 60, 64, 66, plus the gold Mega Ball 16, according to the lottery’s website. The night’s $630 million prize was the equivalent

By Jamiel Lynch and Christina Maxouris, CNN A Georgia district attorney’s office is planning to retry Claud “Tex” McIver for murder in his wife’s killing after the state’s supreme court overturned his previous conviction last month. Claud “Tex” McIver was convicted in 2018 of felony murder and other charges stemming from the 2016 killing of

By Jalen Beckford and Christina Maxouris, CNN Officials in Greene County, Pennsylvania, filed charges against three men for allegedly concealing evidence that was subpoenaed in the investigation of a 911 dispatcher who allegedly refused to send emergency medical assistance to a woman who later died, according to police criminal complaints. The three individuals — Gregory

By Samantha Beech and Isa Kaufman Geballe, CNN The family of the gunman who killed three people during a weekend mall shooting in the Indianapolis suburb of Greenwood has released a statement expressing condolences to the families impacted. The gunman, Jonathan Douglas Sapirman, 20, was shot dead by a legally armed bystander shortly after he

By Amanda Musa, CNN Utah officials, along with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, unveiled a monument Friday honoring African American pioneers at a park in Salt Lake City. The monument, entitled Pioneers of 1847 Monument, honors the lives of Black pioneers who took part in the Mormon migration and the

By Sonia Moghe, CNN A Seattle-area man allegedly called a Buffalo Tops supermarket location twice this week, saying “he would make the news if he shot and killed all of the Black people in the store” including women, children and babies, and later referenced a “race war,” according to federal prosecutors. Joey George, 37, is

By Andy Rose, CNN A special school board meeting scheduled for Saturday morning in Uvalde, Texas, to consider whether to terminate the employment of the district’s police chief is canceled, the district announced Friday. “In conformity with due process requirements, and at the request of his attorney, the meeting to consider the termination of Chief

By Mark Morales, CNN An off-duty New York City correction officer who allegedly shot a teen in the face was formally charged Friday with murder and manslaughter, authorities said. Dion Middleton, 45, was charged in the Bronx County Criminal Court with second-degree murder, as well as first- and second-degree manslaughter, according to a spokesperson for

By Leah Asmelash, CNN One year ago, Simone Biles suddenly withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics after struggling with the “twisties” — leaving the other members of Team USA to compete without her. Biles’ move rippled across Tokyo and the world. In an emotional interview after her withdrawal, Biles said she needed to protect “her body

By Liam Reilly and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Two Rochester, New York, police officers were shot in a “cowardly ambush” late Thursday, a 29-year veteran fatally, the chief said. Both were in plainclothes, according to the Democrat & Chronicle, when at least one male approached and opened fire, CNN affiliate WHAM said. Officer Tony Mazurkiewicz was

By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Missouri’s top attorney filed a lawsuit Thursday against the city of St. Louis over a measure that allocated $1 million in federal funds to help people travel out of state for abortions. Abortion became severely restricted or totally banned in Missouri following the US Supreme Court’s reversal of

By Jamiel Lynch and Melissa Alonso, CNN The wife of a decorated New York City firefighter is suing the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, after a tree on the property fell on the family car and killed her husband, according to a lawsuit. Angela Skudin alleges that when she and her husband, Casey Skudin,

By Taylor Romine, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a set of gun safety bills into law on Thursday that require more regulations on gun sales and dealers within the state as well as increased information sharing between schools and law enforcement agencies. The state — amid a series of high-profile mass shootings that have

By Polo Sandoval, Kristina Sgueglia and Melanie Schuman, CNN The family of Jayland Walker, who was shot and killed by police in Akron, Ohio, last month, is calling for a federal investigation into Walker’s death and questioning the integrity of the ongoing state investigation. They held a news conference Wednesday, on what would have been

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Claudia Dominguez and Chuck Johnston, CNN The man accused of raping and impregnating a child who later traveled to Indiana seeking an abortion was indicted by a grand jury Thursday, court documents show. Gerson Fuentes, 27, is charged with two counts of felony rape, according to an indictment handed down by a

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Casey White, the Alabama prisoner whose escape with a corrections officer sparked a national manhunt in April, was federally indicted Thursday for illegally possessing firearms when he fled, the DOJ announced. The indictment alleges that Casey White had four handguns and an AR-15 rifle with him as he

By Laura Ly and Emily Chang, CNN A Rochester, New York, police investigator has been suspended with pay after he was seen on surveillance video pushing a Black EMT and handcuffing her at a hospital early last week, according to Carlos Alvarado, a spokesperson for the police department. Police announced the suspension earlier this week,

By Steve Almasy and Chuck Johnston, CNN The deadly collision last month between an Amtrak train with 282 people on board and a fully loaded dump truck in Missouri caused $4 million in damage, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday. An NTSB preliminary report released Thursday cites Amtrak and BNSF Railway for the estimated

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A man sustained “serious injuries to his arm” after being attacked by an alligator in Manatee County, Florida, on Wednesday. Eric Merda, 43, of Sarasota County, was bitten by an alligator near Lake Manatee Fish Camp, according to a statement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) shared with

By Michelle Watson, Caroll Alvarado and Alaa Elassar, CNN A train fire in Massachusetts Thursday morning prompted the evacuation of 200 people and the rescue of one person who escaped by jumping into a river. Flames and smoke were seen on a car of “a southbound Orange Line train approaching Assembly Station,” in Somerville, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation

By Sonia Moghe and Alaa Elassar, CNN A man allegedly seen in surveillance video punching an elderly Asian woman more than 100 times and stomping on her body in Yonkers, New York, has been indicted on multiple hate crime charges. Tammel Esco, 42, was indicted on attempted murder in the second degree as a hate

By Paul Vercammen and Brad Parks, CNN Thomas Lane, one of the three former Minneapolis police officers convicted in February of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, was sentenced to 2.5 years in federal prison on Thursday. Federal prosecutors had asked Judge Paul A. Magnuson to sentence Lane to between 5.25 years to 6.5 years for

By Jarrod Wardwell, CNN After a large green sea turtle wandered onto a beachfront patio in Florida, it needed a little help from local rescuers to find its way back to sea. A resident in Melbourne Beach woke Tuesday morning to find the massive creature high and dry on their patio and Sea Turtle Preservation

By Rosa Flores and Chris Boyette, CNN Four men have been indicted by federal grand juries in connection with the smuggling operation that left 53 migrants dead after they were trapped in the back of a sweltering semitruck last month, a tragedy one Homeland Security Investigations agent called the deadliest human smuggling incident in US

By Jarrod Wardwell, CNN A woman in California is facing felony kidnapping charges after hospital workers allegedly caught her impersonating a nurse and attempting to steal a newborn baby, authorities say. Jesenea Miron, 23, was arrested after she allegedly posed as a newly hired nurse and entered a unit of the Riverside University Health System

By Omar Jimenez and Bill Kirkos, CNN An investigation is underway after a 13-year-old boy was shot by a Chicago Police Department officer, according to the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability. The teen’s lawyers, and witnesses, contend his hands were up when police opened fire. He is now paralyzed from being shot in the

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN One soldier was killed and nine others were injured when lightning struck during a midmorning military training exercise at Fort Gordon near Augusta, Georgia, on Wednesday, the US Army Reserve Command said. The soldiers were attending an annual training for medical units to refine their processes and medical skills in the

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A young dolphin was rescued Wednesday after becoming tangled in a crab trap under a pier in Clearwater, Florida. A lifeguard with the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department discovered the distressed animal after spotting a dolphin circling an area near a large fishing pier at Clearwater Beach and saw a dark

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Cheri Mossburg, CNN The family of a 23-year-old Black man killed by a San Bernardino police officer is demanding answers about the shooting, as surveillance video shows the man running away from police when he is shot. Robert Adams, known as Rob to his family, was shot Saturday in the parking

By Pete Muntean, Greg Wallace and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Eight people were injured when an American Airlines flight from Tampa, Florida, to Nashville, Tennessee, hit “unexpected turbulence” on Wednesday, according to the airline. The plane, an Embraer 170 operated by American regional carrier Envoy Air, was diverted to Birmingham, Alabama, where it landed safely, American

By Amir Vera, Chuck Johnston, Amy Simonson and Rebekah Riess, CNN Authorities in Missouri have arrested and charged a man accused of fatally shooting a North Kansas City police officer, Clay County Attorney Dan White announced Wednesday. Joshua T. Rocha, 24, has been charged with first-degree murder and felony armed criminal action. He is being

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, the woman who authorities say fled to Costa Rica after allegedly killing an elite professional cyclist and was missing for more than 40 days, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in a Texas court Wednesday. Before an appearance in Travis County District Court, Armstrong’s attorney, Rick Cofer, filed

By Sonia Moghe, CNN New York police are investigating whether the son of a retired New York state judge killed his mother in the family’s Manhattan apartment before jumping to his own death, a law enforcement source told CNN on Wednesday. Police said they responded to the family’s Upper East Side apartment building after receiving

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN An elementary school in Marietta, Georgia, is halting the rollout of a new logo after an uproar from parents who pointed out its similarities to a Nazi symbol. East Side Elementary School, located in Georgia’s second-largest school district, debuted the new logo in a Monday email to parents. The redesign portrayed

By Kacey Cherry, CNN In a celebratory and historic ceremony, Bruce’s Beach, an oceanfront property was formally returned to the descendants of a Black couple in Southern California on Wednesday, nearly a century after being wrongfully stripped of the land. The great-great grandson of the original land owners, Willa and Charles Bruce, was presented by

By Shimon Prokupecz, Eric Levenson, Rosa Flores and Rebekah Riess, CNN The Uvalde, Texas, schools superintendent has recommended the firing of Pete Arredondo, the school police chief who oversaw the response to May’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, according to a Board of Education meeting agenda. The board announced Wednesday it will hold a

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, on Tuesday declined to indict a man who allegedly killed 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez while shooting at an armed robber in February, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. “I just want to tell the family how saddened we are,” Ogg said. “We don’t have

By Dakin Andone and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Disgraced former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the murders of his wife and son, who were found shot to death on the family’s property in June 2021. The plea comes nearly a week after Murdaugh was indicted by a Colleton County grand jury

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Before she was gunned down with her classmates, 10-year-old Alithia Haven Ramirez, of Uvalde, Texas, wanted to be an artist who shared her creations with the world. Google is obliging. Earlier this year, the search giant asked students to submit entries for its Doodle for Google contest. The winner will

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN America’s CEOs made 324 times more than the workers at their companies last year, according to a new report from one of the nation’s top union groups. S&P 500 CEOs on average got a roughly 18% bump in compensation — about $18 million each — while many of their workers struggle

By Liam Reilly and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Two Boston police unions have sued city officials, accusing them of interfering with police procedures by barring the use of “non-lethal tools,” including pepper spray. The complaint filed Monday in Suffolk Superior Court seeks an injunction on a city law passed last year restricting the use of gas

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Jarrod Wardwell, CNN US Border Patrol agents arrested a man allegedly attempting to smuggle approximately 250 pounds of fentanyl in his truck’s spare tire and gas tank near the Mexican-California border Monday, the agency said. Agents who searched the man’s vehicle found several bundles of pills that tested positive for fentanyl,

By Stephanie Elam and Kacey Cherry, CNN Gems and jewelry worth millions of dollars were stolen from an armored truck parked at a rest stop near Los Angeles, officials said, setting off a multi-agency investigation. The heist unfolded between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. July 11 at a Flying J rest stop and gas station

By Paradise Afshar and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A 19-year-old man entered a guilty plea Tuesday in connection with the murders of his mother and three siblings in 2020 at their home in Grantsville, Utah, his attorney says. Colin Jeffery Haynie, who goes by Jeffery, “did accept responsibility today and entered guilty pleas to all of

By Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Emmett Till grew up in a two-story, red brick house on the South Side of Chicago before leaving the city in 1955 to visit family in Mississippi, where the 14-year-old Black teen was lynched after being accused of whistling at a White woman. An African American cultural preservation organization on Tuesday

By Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers and Ray Sanchez, CNN Police departments from Atlanta to Kansas City to Portland are coping with critical staffing shortages and struggling to fill their ranks from patrol officers to 911 operators, as the warm weather historically portends bursts of violence in many parts of the United States. “The people

By Emily Chang and Laura Ly, CNN A Bronx man was indicted on 23 charges on Monday after allegedly sexually assaulting three people in one week, including a woman who allegedly used the Grubhub food delivery service to escape, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s office. Kemoy Royal, 32, allegedly attacked three women over the

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN A fire broke out at the Hoover Dam on Tuesday at about 10 a.m. local time when a transformer caught fire, sending plumes of black smoke into the air, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. The fire was extinguished about 30 minutes later by the Reclamation/Hoover fire brigade, the bureau’s Regional

By Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves and Dakin Andone, CNN The Texas commission that regulates the state’s licensed law enforcement officers says it lacks the authority to act on the findings of the Texas House investigative committee’s report on the Uvalde school massacre, which outlined a series of failures by multiple agencies. “The findings of the

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, Elisjsha Dicken was shopping with his girlfriend when a gunman opened fire on a food court at a Greenwood, Indiana, mall Sunday evening, killing three people and wounding two others. While the shooter, 20-year-old Douglas Sapirman, fired 24 rounds from an AR-15-style rifle, Dicken did

By Kacey Cherry, CNN A man who authorities are calling a “serial killer” is facing charges that could lead to the death penalty in a string of shootings that left three people dead and robberies at 7-Eleven convenience stores that gripped cities across Southern California. Malik Donyae Patt, 20, and his alleged accomplice Jason Payne,

By Caroll Alvarado, Michelle Watson and Jacquelyne Germain, CNN The mother who posted a video showing a costumed character appearing to ignore two Black children during a parade at Sesame Place in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, says the theme park’s explanation of the incident as a “misunderstanding” is not enough. Jodi Brown and her attorney told

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Opening statements began Monday in the trial of a California father and son charged in connection with the death of college student Kristin Smart in 1996. Prosecutors alleged in court Monday that blood was found in the soil outside a home belonging to Ruben Flores, who is accused of helping his

By Raja Razek and Steve Almasy, CNN Angry residents of the emotionally shattered Texas town of Uvalde confronted the school board Monday night with speakers calling for district police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo to be fired and asking what safety measures will be put in place when schools reopen. The grief from the May 24

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN A man in Indiana is being hailed as a hero by local officials after entering a home engulfed in flames last week and saving the lives of several children trapped inside the burning structure. Nicholas Bostic, 25, was driving in Lafayette, Indiana, just after midnight on July 11 when he saw

By Justin Gamble and Jacquelyne Germain, CNN The White woman who accused Emmett Till of making advances toward her says the Black teen admitted it was him when her husband and two other men brought Emmett to her, according to a 99-page unpublished draft memoir obtained by CNN. The contents of the memoir were first

By Nouran Salahieh and Chuck Johnston, CNN The Dallas school district announced Monday that it will require students to carry clear or mesh backpacks to class, joining other Texas districts in implementing new security measures following the Uvalde school massacre. The new rules apply to 6th-12th grade students at Dallas Independent School District — the

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN More extreme water cuts are all but certain in the Southwest starting next year — including new water cuts for California — according to the latest government forecast for the Colorado River and Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir. Lake Mead, which provides water to roughly 25 million people in Arizona,