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By Amy Simonson, CNN Three men pleaded guilty to defrauding 14 Rhode Island seniors out of more than $350,000 in what authorities described Tuesday as a “Grandparent Scam.” “Few things are more frightening than thinking a family member is in trouble,” U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Cunha said in a news release. “These defendants exploited that

By Polo Sandoval and John Couwels, CNN Jayland Walker was handcuffed behind his back when his body arrived at the coroner’s office to be processed as part of the investigation into the officers who shot and killed him in Akron last week, according to a medical examiner’s report that was reviewed by CNN. The preliminary

By Shimon Prokupecz and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin told CNN he’s lost faith in Texas leaders investigating how law enforcement responded to the shooting at his town’s elementary school that killed 19 children and two adults. “I’m not confident, 100%, in DPS because I think it’s a cover-up,” he said of

By David Close, CNN Mike Grier has been named the San Jose Sharks new general manager. Grier’s hire is historic as he becomes the National Hockey League’s (NHL) first Black general manager, according to the team. The Sharks say Grier, who has spent nearly a lifetime around the game as a player and later as

By Jason Hanna, CNN Dr. David Baum waited a minute after the shooting stopped at the northern Illinois Fourth of July parade he attended Monday, and then ran toward the victims. And what he saw, he said, was horrifying. Some of those who would survive their injuries were on the ground, screaming. But some of

By Dakin Andone, Steve Almasy and Curt Devine, CNN Hours after gunfire interrupted the Highland Park, Illinois, July Fourth parade, killing seven people and wounding dozens more, police apprehended the man they believe was responsible. Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, 21, faces seven charges of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting, which authorities said

By Alisha Ebrahimji, Sara Smart, Sharif Paget and Caroll Alvarado, CNN What was supposed to be a patriotic celebration turned into a day of tragedy and fear when a gunman killed seven people and injured dozens more at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois. Now, yet another community in America is grieving the

By Amir Vera, Jason Hanna, Adrienne Broaddus and Helen Regan, CNN The suspect in Monday’s mass shooting at a July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois, that left seven dead and injured more than two dozen has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart announced during a news

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By Mark Morales, Liam Reilly, Jessie Yeung and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Two police officers were shot during a July Fourth celebration in Philadelphia, authorities said. A 36-year-old Philadelphia Highway Patrol officer suffered a graze wound to the forehead, and a 44-year-old Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputy suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder, according to Philadelphia

By Jason Hanna, Adrienne Broaddus, Eric Levenson and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Zoe Pawelczak’s dad thought the repetitive pops ringing out at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade Monday morning were part of the show, she says. But she felt something was off. “I’m like, ‘Dad, no … something is wrong,’ and I grabbed him” and

By Dakin Andone, CNN The city of Akron, Ohio, is on edge this Fourth of July, one week after the fatal police shooting of 25-year-old Jayland Walker. A news conference by city officials Sunday, along with the release of 13 police body camera videos, has started to paint a fuller picture of the shooting, which

By Eric Levenson, Adrienne Broaddus, Shawn Nottingham, Brynn Gingras, Steve Almasy and Joe Sutton, CNN Robert E. Crimo III, the suspect in a mass shooting at a parade that left six dead and sent more than two dozen people to hospitals, has been taken into custody near Lake Forest, Illinois, authorities said during a brief

By Eric Levenson, Melissa Alonso and Carmen Conte Widman, CNN Addison Bethea was out hunting for scallops in the waters off Keaton Beach, Florida, on Thursday when a shark latched onto her flesh. “I didn’t really know exactly what to do, but I knew that with sharks you’re supposed to punch them in the nose

By Lauren del Valle, Artemis Moshtaghian and Benjamin Schiller, CNN R. Kelly was removed from suicide watch Tuesday morning following a clinical assessment, according to a letter filed by prosecutors in federal court. The disgraced R&B artist was placed on suicide watch after he was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison on sex

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A California woman sentenced to life without the possibility of parole as a teenager for fatally shooting a man who abused and sex trafficked her was granted clemency Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Sara Kruzan was 16 at the time of the shooting, according to the pardon. In 1995, Kruzan was

By Polo Sandoval, Dakin Andone and Samantha Beech, CNN A 25-year-old Black man suffered at least 60 wounds when police officers fatally shot him last week following a high-speed chase during which the man fired a gun out the driver’s side window, authorities said. Jayland Walker was unarmed at the time he was killed, though

By Paradise Afshar and Alaa Elassar, CNN A Michigan police chief has issued a public apology after reports that targets with images of Black men were seen at his department’s target practice area. Concerns about the images were initially raised in April, after a Boy Scout troop toured the building used for target practice by

By Sara Sidner, CNN The first sign of trouble was brief. Just a couple of comments during the hustle and bustle of regular life. Karen Amsden was chatting to her son in the driveway while picking up her grandchildren when she mentioned something about a quote by Anne Frank, one of the most famous victims

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Firefighters in Morristown, Tennessee, staged an adorable rescue mission after a kitten was found trapped in a Pepsi vending machine inside a Walmart store. Lindsay Russell, a Walmart employee, was on her lunch break Wednesday when she heard meowing coming from one of the store’s vending machines, according to CNN affiliate

By Sharif Paget and Dakin Andone, CNN A jet-powered stunt truck spun out of control and crashed at an air show in Battle Creek, Michigan, killing the driver, according to police and footage of the incident. In a statement, Battle Creek police identified Chris Darnell, 40, as the driver of the SHOCKWAVE Jet Truck, a

By Andrew Torgan, CNN This Fourth of July weekend is shaping up to be quieter than most. Much of the US is likely to see the chance of rain through Monday, putting a damper on fireworks displays. It’ll be a different story in the West, where severe drought conditions have led many cities to cancel

By Michelle Watson and Holly Yan, CNN Houston police are asking for the public’s help in finding whoever opened fire on a car overnight, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring an 8-year-old. Just after 1 a.m. Sunday, officers received calls about a shooting in the 13300 block of Northborough Drive, Houston Police Asst. Chief Chandra

By John Blake, CNN A White judge tells an interracial couple that “Almighty God” placed the races on different continents because he “did not intend for the races to mix.” A US Senator writes a book about the dangers of interracial unions called, “Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization.” A White father is so disgusted

By Michelle Watson and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A gunman in Texas killed two people and injured another person Saturday before fatally shooting himself, police in the Fort Worth area said. The shooting in Haltom City also left three officers with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, police Sgt. Rick Alexander said during a news conference. The officers were

By Christina Maxouris, CNN The heartfelt messages spread across social media within hours of the seismic Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade: If you need assistance getting an abortion in another state, I can help. “We have to support each other, (let) people know that they’re not alone,” said Stephany Bolivar, who lives in

By AJ Willingham, CNN In Willamette National Cemetery in Oregon, lines of marble rise row on row above acres of vivid green. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Linda Campbell knew the view well. She had chosen her nearby waterfront apartment so that she could see, from a distance, the place where her wife silently waited

By Jamiel Lynch, Jeremy Grisham and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The woman captured in Costa Rica after being accused of killing elite cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson in Texas has been returned to the US to face murder charges, the US Marshals Service told CNN Saturday. Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 34, is suspected of fatally shooting Wilson

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Florida county is under quarantine due to the discovery of a fast-growing population of invasive giant African land snails. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) confirmed there were giant African land snails in the New Port Richey area of Pasco County on June 23, according to FDACS’

By Liam Reilly, CNN A large group of people carrying flags and shields marched along downtown Boston’s Freedom Trail Saturday, according to the Boston Police Department — and video footage of the group obtained by CNN shows the flags bearing the symbol of the White nationalist Patriot Front group. Police received a call at 12:30

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Two people are dead after a vehicle crashed into a fireworks stand in Washington, DC on Saturday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The two victims, both adults, were killed when the vehicle struck multiple pedestrians and the fireworks stand, police said. Police believe the man driving the pickup truck had

By Jarrod Wardwell, CNN An Oklahoma appeals court has scheduled the execution date for death row inmate Richard Glossip while his defense rushes to mount a legal battle with newly uncovered evidence they say will prove his innocence in a 1997 murder case. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals scheduled Glossip’s execution for September 22

By Jamiel Lynch, Rebekah Riess and Alaa Elassar, CNN Four people died in a multi-vehicle crash involving a tractor trailer on Interstate 95 South at the Florida-Georgia border on Friday. The driver of a tractor trailer lost control of the vehicle, which started to overturn and struck a car, before traveling though the center median

By Shimon Prokupecz, Rosa Flores and Eric Levenson, CNN Uvalde school district police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo has resigned his separate position on the Uvalde city council in the wake of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in May, according to a resignation letter he sent to the city. “After much consideration, it is in

By Alaa Elassar, CNN US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized over $1.1 million worth of narcotics hidden in the panels of a car driving into California from Mexico, the agency said. Federal officers stopped a 43-year-old man entering the US from Mexico at the Otay Mesa port-of-entry on June 16 after drugs were

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Scientists are hopeful that the key to reviving red wolves, which are on the brink of extinction, may lie in the genes of coyotes that have significant red wolf ancestry. Red wolves once lived throughout the southeastern United States but were declared extinct in the wild in 1980. Today, thanks to

By Ray Sanchez, CNN On the final morning of his short life, 22-month-old Cooper Harris was up early, at 5:15, an hour before sunrise in the Atlanta suburb where he lived with his parents. His father, Justin Ross Harris, a 33-year-old web developer, brought the still-groggy toddler into the bed he shared with Leanna Taylor,

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN Call it a hat trick. A Maryland woman has won her third lottery prize of at least $100,000 in five years, a feat she attributes to strategy and luck. The stay-at-home mom, 30, from Wicomico County won her latest prize playing a $100,000 Lucky scratch-off ticket, Maryland Lottery said Monday. “I

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Onondaga Nation is set to regain over 1,000 acres of ancestral land in central New York in what the Department of Interior calls “one of the largest returns of land to an Indigenous nation by a state.” “This historic agreement represents a unique opportunity to return traditional homelands back to

By Michelle Watson, Claudia Dominquez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The bodies of a mother and two of her young children were found in a Minnesota lake Saturday, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office said. The discovery was made one day after authorities recovered the body of another one of her children in Vadnais Lake, which sits

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN When Garrett Dickman drove through Yosemite National Park early this week, he passed through a diverse band of large trees — conifer, red fir, lodgepole pine — and noticed a grim pattern: many of the trees were either dead or dying. “It was really striking to see that every single tree

By Taylor Romine, CNN A controversial California bill repealing loitering related to possible prostitution was signed into law Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. A provision in state law previously allowed police to arrest those who “delay or linger without a lawful purpose” if it appeared they were trying to engage in sex work. Police can

By Zoe Sottile, CNN At least 10 million bees were released onto a highway after a semi-truck crashed in Utah. The truck, driven by a commercial beekeeper traveling from California to North Dakota, tipped over on Interstate 80 at around 10:40 a.m. local time Monday, Cameron Roden, public information officer for the Utah Highway Patrol,

By Raja Razek, CNN A workgroup developing a second-grade social studies curriculum for the Texas State Board of Education last month suggested using the term “involuntary relocation” to describe people who were sold into slavery, the board’s chair said, amid national debates on the role of critical race theory in classrooms. The proposed phrase was

By Mark Morales, Kiely Westhoff and Samantha Beech, CNN The man accused of killing a young mother Wednesday as she pushed her 3-month-old baby in a stroller on New York’s Upper East Side was remanded without bail Saturday in what prosecutors called a “premeditated execution,” according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Isaac Argro, 22,

By Jarrod Wardwell, CNN Four families are suing an Ohio school board to challenge a ban on race-based education and staff training in the latest court battle over attempts to suppress anti-racism education in American classrooms. The Forest Hills School District Board of Education, east of Cincinnati, passed a resolution in June prohibiting teaching of

By Melissa Alonso, Hannah Sarisohn and Steve Almasy, CNN The family of an 11-year-old boy who died last year after an Iowa amusement park ride overturned filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Thursday, saying the park failed to maintain a safe water ride, according to a copy of the petition obtained by CNN. Michael Jaramillo was on

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The Florida Highway Patrol arrested two people this week for smuggling others into the state, according to incident reports from the agency. A trooper in Sumter County on Wednesday pulled over a Ford Explorer with an expired temporary Texas tag and a crack on the windshield obstructing the driver’s view, according

By Melissa Alonso and Steve Almasy, CNN The suspect in an hourslong shooting that killed three law enforcement officers and injured several others in eastern Kentucky was charged Friday with several counts of murder, including murder of a police officer, and assault on a service animal, officials said. Lance Storz, 49, was arraigned in Floyd

By Jennifer Henderson and Alaa Elassar, CNN A teenage girl is in serious but stable condition after being bitten by a large shark while scalloping near Keaton Beach on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Thursday. The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO) confirmed in a statement on social media a juvenile “had sustained a shark bite while

By Rebekah Riess, Jamiel Lynch and Ray Sanchez, CNN A 1-year-old child died Friday after being left in a car outside the father’s workplace in Mebane, North Carolina, police said, bringing the number of reported heat-related vehicle deaths of children this year to at least nine. The child was unresponsive when officers arrived shortly before

By Alaa Elassar and Rebekah Riess, CNN A Chicago police officer was shot numerous times while responding to a domestic disturbance Friday and is hospitalized in a serious condition, officials said. Officers responded to the call at around 8:30 a.m., Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said in a press conference. Upon arrival, law enforcement officials

By Sonia Moghe and Alaa Elassar, CNN R. Kelly has been placed on suicide watch at the federal detention facility in New York where he is being held after he was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, his lawyer said Friday. But the disgraced R&B singer is

By Ray Sanchez and Chris Boyette, CNN The families of the 19 children and two teachers gunned down at a school in Uvalde, Texas, have had enough. More than a month after the massacre at Robb Elementary School, their anger and frustration at the lack of answers about the apparently bungled law enforcement response boiled

By Jay Croft and Randi Kaye, CNN The woman accused of killing an elite cyclist in Texas used someone else’s passport to flee to Costa Rica, where she changed her hair length and color to avoid authorities, according to the US Marshals Service. Authorities say they found Kaitlin Marie Armstrong at a hostel in Costa

By Rosa Flores, Chris Boyette and Michelle Krupa, CNN The alleged driver of a tractor-trailer where sweltering conditions led to the death of 53 migrants this week in San Antonio didn’t realize the truck’s air conditioning unit had stopped working, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Wednesday in the investigation into the deadliest human

By Rachel Ramirez and Taylor Romine, CNN In an attempt to slash the wide-ranging impacts of plastic pollution, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the country’s most sweeping restrictions on single-use plastics and packaging on Thursday, the same day the Supreme Court limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to tackle the worsening climate crisis.

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN The grandmother placed her head in her hands and began to sob. “She didn’t have to suffer,” Adela Aguilar said, shaking her head as she recalled the moment when her granddaughter bid her farewell last month. Adela Ramírez had just turned 28 and made a major decision: She was leaving

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Today is the traditional getaway day for many people heading into the July 4 holiday weekend, and the 5 Things crew is hitting the road too. We’ll see you back here on Tuesday after enjoying some fun in the sun and fireworks shows! If you need a little diversion before your

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Milwaukee Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of $28,000 for information leading to an arrest in the killing of a transgender Black woman who was found dead two weeks ago. Brazil Johnson, 28, was found fatally shot on June 15 in the city’s Triangle North neighborhood. As of late Thursday, authorities

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee issued a directive Thursday that bars state police from cooperating with out-of-state investigatory requests related to abortion in his efforts to make the state a “sanctuary” for those seeking the services. The decision comes after the US Supreme Court ruled last week to strike down Roe

By Kiely Westhoff, CNN The former head coach of the University of Southern California’s women’s soccer team was sentenced Wednesday for his role in a college admissions scandal, prosecutors announced Thursday. Ali Khosroshahin was sentenced to a year of supervised release, the first six months of which are to be served in home confinement with

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN A Florida circuit court judge has ruled a lawsuit filed by Gabby Petito’s parents against Brian Laundrie’s parents can move forward. Circuit Court Judge Hunter Carroll denied a motion from Christopher and Roberta Laundrie, Brian Laundrie’s parents, to dismiss the intentional infliction of emotional distress lawsuit filed by Gabby Petito’s parents,

By Jamiel Lynch and Christina Maxouris, CNN Georgia’s highest court on Thursday unanimously overturned the murder conviction of a prominent Atlanta attorney in the death of his wife and granted him a new trial. Claud “Tex” McIver was convicted in 2018 of felony murder and other charges stemming from the 2016 killing of his wife,

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN An unknown number of police officers in Ohio have been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation after a police pursuit ended in the shooting death of Jayland Walker on Monday. Police officers from the Akron Police Department attempted to stop a person, later identified as Walker, for a traffic

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A woman visiting the Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison, the second incident of an animal injuring a park visitor this week, according to the National Park Service (NPS). Yellowstone National Park said on Thursday that a Pennsylvania woman, 71, was gored by a bull bison on Wednesday, just

By Eric Levenson and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series arrived in Oregon for its first tournament on US soil Thursday and faced protests from 9/11 survivors and victims’ families who criticized golfers for working with Saudi Arabia, who they say was complicit in the 2001 terrorist attacks. “Saudi Arabia is trying