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By Amir Vera and Rob Frehse, CNN The California woman who falsely accused a Black teenager of stealing her cell phone and then attacked him in a New York City hotel lobby pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment in the second degree as a hate crime, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced. In December 2020, Miya

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will pay $55 million as part of a settlement with multiple Northern California counties scorched by wildfires that were sparked by faulty utility equipment, according to releases from the California utility giant and the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office. Criminal charges over the 2019 Kincade Fire

By Mirna Alsharif and Eric Levenson, CNN Two Buffalo, New York, police officers who pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground in June 2020, fracturing the man’s skull, were cleared of wrongdoing by an arbitrator on Friday. In the ruling, arbitrator Jeffrey M. Selchick found officers Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe not guilty of three

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN The Alameda County district attorney will not file criminal charges against three police officers who restrained a Northern California man who died in their custody last year. The county coroner’s office had classified the death of Mario Gonzalez Arenales as a homicide and pointed to the toxic effects of methamphetamine as

By Dakin Andone, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday announced new steps aimed at regulating so-called “ghost guns,” as use of the untraceable, homemade weapons in violent crimes rises. Ghost guns are one of many issues facing regulators and policymakers looking to address a spike in gun violence that began in early summer 2020. Gun

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN White House officials are getting anxious about a massive migrant surge that will likely occur at the US-Mexico border next month. On May 23, the Biden administration is set to lift a Trump-era border policy that cited pandemic concerns to justify denying people entry to US. President Joe Biden and the

By Pooja Salhotra and Liam Reilly, CNN No injuries were reported after manhole fires in New York’s Times Square sent crowds running Sunday evening, police and fire officials said. Two manhole covers were affected by cable failure, said energy provider Con Edison spokesperson Karl-Erik Stromsta. One cover was part of an explosion, while the second

By Kiely Westhoff and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Amid significant staffing shortages for police and prison officers, Philadelphia has lifted its residency requirement that required newly hired recruits to live in the city for one year prior to their appointment, according to a statement from the mayor’s office. Mayor Jim Kenney requested a waiver to lift

By Paradise Afshar and Keith Allen, CNN A Texas district attorney confirmed Monday his office filed a motion to dismiss a murder charge against a woman arrested last week in connection with what law enforcement called “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.” The motion to dismiss was granted, court records show. After a

By Emma Tucker A three-month operation by the US Marshals Service in Louisiana led to the recovery of 16 missing children, the arrest of five individuals and uncovered allegations of sex trafficking in several of the cases, according to the agency. The operation, dubbed “Fresh Start,” took place in the New Orleans area from January

By Keith Allen, Christian Sierra and Kelly Murray, CNN Four people, including two teens, were shot near Nationals Park in Washington, DC, on Saturday night, police said. The shootings happened less than an hour after an MLB game between the Washington Nationals and the New York Mets ended. Just before 11 p.m., police responded to

By Kelly Murray, CNN A tractor trailer coming into the US from Mexico was caught Friday carrying 427 pounds of alleged cocaine, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said Sunday. An officer stationed at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, Texas, encountered a truck hauling papier-mâché handicrafts and sent it for a secondary examination,

By Amanda Watts, CNN An overnight shooting in a residential part of Elgin, Illinois, has left six people injured, police said. The shooting happened just before 2 a.m. Sunday in the 800 block of Congdon Avenue, about 40 miles northwest of Chicago. “Preliminary information received is that this incident occurred during a gathering and appears

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Soaring inflation. The war in Ukraine. Yet another rise in Covid cases. With so much going on this year it’s hard to focus on things like filing your taxes. Nevertheless, the IRS still expects you to file your 2021 return and pay whatever you still owe by the filing deadline, which

By Kiely Westhoff A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for a shooting in the Bronx Friday that killed a 16-year-old girl and wounded two other teenagers, New York police said. The suspect was arrested Saturday morning on charges of murder, attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon, New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said

By Sara Smart, CNN This Texas teacher’s goal is to provide everything she can for her students — and that includes pads and tampons. As an eighth grade teacher in Austin, Kylie DeFrance’s students are between the ages of 12 and 14. This is the time that most girls start their menstruation cycle, according to

By Michelle Watson, CNN An apparent fight at a birthday party in Indianapolis devolved into a shooting, leaving one person dead and five others wounded, police said. Around 3:20 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to a banquet hall in the 4200 block of 38th Street, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Foley said. “Preliminarily, detectives believe

By Amanda Watts, Michelle Watson, Hannah Sarisohn, Amy Simonson and Amir Vera, CNN Cedar Rapids, Iowa, police have arrested a suspect in connection with a weekend shooting at a nightclub that left two people dead and 10 others injured, the department announced on Facebook Monday night. Timothy Ladell Rush, 32, was arrested on charges of

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A lucky Maryland man snagged a $25,000 lottery prize after playing the numbers on his younger brother’s license plate. The anonymous Windsor Mill winner, who used the name “Big Fish” to share his story, won the prize in the “Pick 5” game, according to the Maryland Lottery. He placed eight 50-cent

By Nicole Chavez, CNN When Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor died by suicide in November, her mother alleged that the 10-year-old Black and autistic student at Foxboro Elementary in Farmington, Utah, had been bullied because of her race and disability. Izzy’s death sparked widespread outrage and renewed questions about the Davis School District’s handling of bullying allegations.

By Melissa Alonso and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Power has been restored to 99.7% of LUMA Energy customers in Puerto Rico, the utility said Sunday, after hundreds of thousands had been in the dark since a fire at a power plant Wednesday evening. “Electric service has been restored to nearly 1.5 million customers as of Sunday

By Dakin Andone, CNN Jury selection began this past week in the penalty phase of Nikolas Cruz’s trial, the part of his court case that will determine whether he is sentenced to death or life in prison for the 2018 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Cruz has already pleaded guilty to 17

By Zoe Sottile, CNN More than 100 streets in New York City’s five boroughs will go car-free to celebrate Earth Day. For the fifth year in a row, the city will mark the occasion by closing streets to vehicles, according to a news release from the NYC Department of Transportation. The closings will take place

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Dominic Taddeo was in his early 20s when a US Justice Department lawyer appeared before a Senate subcommittee with a dire warning about the future mafia hit man’s hometown. “Rochester, the home of Kodak, Xerox, and other thriving corporations … is a wealthy city, a ripe plum ready to be plucked

By Jason Hanna, CNN Gunshots from two groups of people fighting outside a Houston-area sports bar early Saturday left one man dead and four other people injured, sheriff’s officials said. Investigators have identified “everybody that was shooting” in the parking lot of Al’s Sports Bar just outside western Houston, Harris County sheriff’s Sgt. Dennis Wolfford

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A missing nonverbal California teenager was discovered after a rescuer heard him clinking rocks. The teen, who is developmentally disabled, was spending the day at Crescenta Valley Park in Glendale with his mother and sister when he went missing at about 10 a.m. on April 3, according to the Los Angeles

By Pooja Salhotra, CNN College campuses have for years been at the center of climate change activism. But now, frustrated and anxious by what they see as slow action alongside growing climate damages, students are engaging a new tactic: legal action. A coalition of students from Yale, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Vanderbilt working with the

By Michelle Watson, CNN Eleven people were injured after car crash pushed a vehicle into a group standing near a food truck in Austin, Texas, on Friday night, according to authorities. Two victims suffered potentially life-threatening injuries while two others sustained “potentially serious” injuries, according to Capt. Christa Stedman, a spokesperson for the Austin-Travis County

By Amanda Musa and Rebekah Riess and Ray Sanchez, CNN A county coroner in Georgia discovered the bodies of his parents and his son, who were killed Friday in an apparent robbery at the Lock Stock & Barrel Shooting Range in Grantville, police say. All three were shot, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) confirmed

By Nick Valencia, Jade Gordon and Alta Spells, CNN The second in command in the Louisiana State Police (LSP), who was accused of erasing data from his work cellphone after the death of Ronald Greene, has been placed on administrative leave nearly three years after the Black motorist’s death. On Friday, the head of the

By Kiely Westhoff and Emma Tucker, CNN Maryland became the latest state on Friday to severely restrict the sale of so-called “ghost guns,” as law enforcement officials and gun violence prevention groups continue to sound the alarm on the rise of the privately-made firearms. Maryland joined Washington, DC and 10 other states — California, Connecticut,

By Paradise Afshar and Claudia Dominguez, CNN The Nevada man accused of fatally shooting an 18-year-old woman who disappeared from a Walmart parking lot in mid-March will remain in jail without bail, a judge ruled Friday. Troy Driver, 41, of Fallon, was arrested March 25 in connection with the death of Naomi Irion. She was

By Laura Studley, CNN One teenager was killed and two others were injured as they walked home from school Friday after gunshots were fired during a dispute between two individuals in the Bronx, the New York Police Department said in a news conference. A 16-year-old girl died after she was shot in the chest, police

By Melissa Alonso and Jason Hanna, CNN Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Puerto Rico still were without power Saturday, more than two days after the start of an island-wide outage that began with a fire at a power plant. Power has been restored to more than 1 million of the island’s roughly

By Jason Hanna and Ray Sanchez, CNN A key figure in the sprawling college admissions scam was sentenced to four months in prison Friday — the same day a former University of Southern California water polo coach was found guilty of conspiracy and fraud. Mark Riddell, 39, who helped wealthy parents buy their children’s way

By Steve Almasy and Amanda Musa, CNN Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature passed two bills on the last day of the session targeting transgender children, including one which makes it a felony for a doctor to administer gender-affirming health care to minors. Another bill, which requires K-12 students to use bathrooms designated for their biological sex, included

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Spring break vacations are supposed to be fun, relaxing, and carefree. But unfortunately, many Americans during this peak travel season are encountering issues reaching their destinations due to severe weather. On the East Coast, thunderstorms pushed back thousands of flights yesterday and more delays are expected going into the weekend. Here’s

By Amy Simonson, CNN Advocates rallied Thursday in Dallas seeking clemency for a woman who is facing execution later this month after being convicted for allegedly killing her 2-year-old daughter more than a decade ago. Attorneys for Melissa Lucio, who is on death row, submitted an application for clemency to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and

By Nick Valencia and Jade Gordon, CNN The local Louisiana district attorney with jurisdiction over the town where Ronald Greene died following an interaction with state troopers told state lawmakers Thursday that he plans to convene a special grand jury and pursue criminal charges against the troopers involved in the Black motorist’s death. Testifying before

By Mallika Kallingal and Rebekah Riess, CNN A Des Moines survivalist who allegedly faked his own death and fled the state to avoid trial on alleged child pornography charges is back in custody, according to a statement from the US Marshals in the Southern District of Iowa. US Marshals found and arrested 28-year-old Jacob Greer

By Jennifer Henderson and Amanda Musa, CNN Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a bill that contains elements of an “anti-critical race theory” bill that he says “tries to police classroom discussions on topics such as race.” Beshear vetoed the bill with a veto letter saying, “Senate Bill 1 tries to police classroom discussions

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN The chief of the embattled Aurora, Colorado, police department — who took over during the fallout over death of Elijah McClain — was fired Wednesday amid concerns that the city’s manager said were about management and leadership. “There are two main themes that continue to rise up as top of concerns:

By Nicole Chavez, CNN More than a 1,000 books have been banned in 86 school districts in 26 states across the United States, a new PEN America analysis shows. PEN America, a literary and free expression advocacy organization, released a detailed analysis on Thursday of challenges to and bans on school library books and class

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Despite qualifying, runners living in Russia or Belarus are banned from participating in this year’s Boston Marathon and Boston Athletic Association 5K, according to organizers. The ban affects 63 athletes who signed up for either one or both races, BAA spokesperson Kendra Butters told CNN. The 126th Boston Marathon is scheduled

By Faith Karimi, CNN Nancy Crampton-Brophy wrote steamy romance novels with muscular, often shirtless, men on their covers and titles like “The Wrong Husband.” Some carried a tagline that said, “wrong never felt so right.” But for Crampton-Brophy, life with her husband of almost two decades appeared anything but wrong. She and Daniel Brophy lived

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Big changes are coming to your 401(k). A new bill, expected to hit President Joe Biden’s desk this year, could require employers to automatically enroll all eligible workers into their retirement plans, making it easier for student-loan borrowers to save, and for older workers to make catch-up contributions. Here’s what you

By Jenn Selva, CNN A Pennsylvania police officer and two other people were shot in Northeast Philadelphia on Wednesday evening before the suspect fatally shot himself, according to authorities. The officer, who serves with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), is in critical but stable condition, the Philadelphia Police Department said in a statement. Two

By Amir Vera and Amy Simonson, CNN Texas will send willing undocumented immigrants to Washington, DC, by bus and plane, Gov. Greg Abbott’s office announced Wednesday, saying local leaders in the state are fed up with the federal government for releasing migrants into their communities. Abbott told reporters the plan is a response to the

By Rob Frehse, CNN The father who lived in his daughter’s college dorm room has been convicted of sex trafficking, forced labor, tax evasion and money laundering after less than a day of jury deliberations, the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced Wednesday. “Twelve years ago, Larry Ray moved into

By Paradise Afshar and Claudia Dominguez, CNN A Nevada man was charged with murder Tuesday in the death of an 18-year-old woman whose body was found last week after she disappeared in mid-March, court documents show. Naomi Irion was last seen March 12 around 5 a.m. in a Walmart parking lot in the Lyon County

By Maya Brown, CNN After Tyson and Regina Bates put their kids to bed, they begin a nightly routine of reviewing paperwork in the exhausting process of attempting to buy a historic Black high school in a gentrified area. They had been planning to restore the Torrence-Lytle School to its original condition to turn it

By Tiffany Anthony, CNN George Mason University unveiled a new memorial this week honoring the people enslaved by the university’s namesake, as the Virginia school attempts to reckon with the prominent statesman’s controversial history. George Mason IV, a prominent figure in Virginia’s history, known for penning the state’s Declaration of Rights, which influenced several later

By Rachel Ramirez and Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir, CNN Kenneth Runnels doesn’t see himself as a “victim” of the drought. He says he’s an “adapter.” Runnels is the chief administrator of the Antelope Point Marina on Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the country and part of the Colorado River system, which provides water

CNN Editorial Research Here is some background information about the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Facts The blast killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured several hundred more. Timothy J. McVeigh and Terry L. Nichols were convicted of the attack. The federal building was

By Rebekah Riess and Eric Levenson, CNN A Missouri circuit court judge on Tuesday dismissed all criminal charges against three tour boat employees involved in the 2018 duck boat sinking near Branson, Missouri, that left 17 people dead, according to court documents. Judge Alan Blankenship wrote the court did not find probable cause the defendants

By Omar Jimenez, Brad Parks and Peter Nickeas, CNN Prosecutors declined to file charges against the Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke or any other officers involved in the no-knock warrant service that led to the 22-year-old Black man’s death in early February. An officer shot Locke within a few seconds of entering

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you’ve battled Covid-19, you were likely relieved when the symptoms went away in one or two weeks. Some people, however, experience long Covid — with conditions like fatigue, headaches and chest pain lingering for more than a month. To better understand long Covid, the Biden administration is boosting its research

By Chris Boyette, CNN Two people were injured in a workplace shooting in South Carolina Tuesday night before the suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. One of the victims was in critical condition after the shooting at the Fraenkische industrial plant in Anderson, South Carolina, according to Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore.

By Amir Vera, Taylor Romine and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Sacramento police say a Sunday mass shooting that left six dead was the result of gang violence and involved at least five gunmen. “We believe at this point there are five shooters and the five shooters included two groups where there was an exchange of gunfire

By Amy Simonson and Nicole Chavez, CNN South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at restricting the teaching of “inherently divisive concepts” in K-12 schools. The move makes South Dakota the latest Republican-controlled state to restrict how history and systemic racism can be taught in schools. Noem, a Republican, had recently

By Amy Simonson and Omar Jimenez, CNN The Minneapolis Police Department will officially be prohibited from executing all no-knock search warrants starting April 8, according to the mayor’s office. Mayor Jacob Frey’s new policy will prohibit the MPD from requesting no-knock search warrants and from responding to requests of similar searches from other jurisdictions, according

By Dakin Andone, Amir Vera and Abby Bustin, CNN In the late 1980s and early 1990s, several women were murdered or sexually assaulted in a series of attacks at hotels along the Interstate 65 corridor in Kentucky and Indiana. First, Vicki Heath was found dead at a Super 8 Motel in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1987.

By Kiely Westhoff and Giselle Rhoden, CNN New York City will launch an ad campaign in Florida denouncing a new law that opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. To “celebrate the diversity and acceptance of New York City,” Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday the campaign will feature both billboards and creative ads in

By Jennifer Henderson and Eric Levenson, CNN A shooting at a high school in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday morning left one person injured, authorities said. Multiple shots were fired inside Erie High School shortly after 9:20 a.m., Erie’s Public Schools said in a statement. One student was shot and is in stable condition, the school