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By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Authorities are hailing the facilities manager at a Florida mosque as a hero who gave his life and potentially saved children at the center’s school and day care. Seminole County deputies responded early Thursday morning to the Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford after a woman called 911 and said there was

By Mallika Kallingal, CNN The car driven by six high school-aged girls who died in a crash with a semitruck on Tuesday came to a “rolling stop” at a stop sign before entering the highway, witnesses said, according to an ongoing National Transportation Safety Board investigation, as the first victim was identified on Friday. The

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN For eight years, a school district in Texas has celebrated its LGBTQIA+ students, staff and families through a Pride Week. But this year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the activities are breaking state law. In a Tuesday letter to the Austin Independent School District’s superintendent, Paxton, a Republican, wrote, “The

By Joe Sutton, CNN Flames burned Thursday in a construction zone on the third level at Empower Field at Mile High stadium in Denver, the city’s fire department said in a tweet. No injuries were reported. “A small fire that occurred in a construction zone near the East Club Lounge at Empower Field at Mile

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of environmental and human rights activist Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy. Personal Birth date: April 11, 1928 Birth place: Chicago, Illinois Birth name: Ethel Skakel Father: George Skakel, businessman Mother: Ann (Brannack) Skakel Marriage: Robert F. Kennedy (June 17, 1950-June 6, 1968, his

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Ted Cruz thrust several books into the spotlight after his puzzling line of questioning at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing. In a hearing ostensibly meant to assess whether Jackson is qualified to serve on the highest court in the land, the Republican senator brought up critical race theory —

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former Cincinnati Reds player and manager Pete Rose. Personal Birth name: Peter Edward Rose Birth date: April 14, 1941 Birth place: Cincinnati, Ohio Father: Harry Rose, bank clerk and semi-pro baseball and football player Mother: LaVerne Rose Marriages: Carol (Woliung) Rose, (April 11, 1984-2011, divorced);

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Personal Birth date: April 16, 1962 Birth place: Yonkers, New York Birth name: Antony John Blinken Father: Donald Blinken, investment banker and US ambassador to Hungary Mother: Judith (Frehm) Pisar, UNESCO Special Envoy for Cultural Diplomacy Marriage: Evan

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of philanthropist, best-selling author and NBA Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Personal Birth date: April 16, 1947 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. Father: Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, transit police officer and jazz musician Mother: Cora Alcindor, department store

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Grammy Award-winning country singer Loretta Lynn. Personal Birth date: April 14, 1932 (some sources say 1935) Death date: October 4, 2022 Birth place: Butcher Holler, Kentucky Birth name: Loretta Webb Father: Melvin Webb, coal miner Mother: Clara (Ramey) Webb Marriage: Oliver Lynn (1948-1996, his

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Home should always be your happy place, but with rents surging in several popular cities, some say it’s getting uncomfortable — and downright frustrating — to live comfortably. In February, the national median rent was up 17% from a year ago, according to a new report, marking the seventh-straight month of

By Caroll Alvarado, CNN A California mother is asking for accountability after she received a video last month showing her child’s preschool teacher leading her class in a political chant against President Joe Biden. The video was taken by an unidentified teacher at Turning Point Christian School, a private school in Norco, California. The video

By Ray Sanchez and Claudia Dominguez, CNN Pittsburgh has moved to fire five police officers after an internal investigation into the October death of a man involved in the suspected theft of a bicycle, officials said Wednesday. The five officers, who were not identified, have 14 days to challenge the firings in arbitration, Public Safety

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN A tiger attacked an employee of a Florida Everglades tourist attraction Tuesday, leaving him hospitalized with severe injuries, officials said. The tiger was being fed by its caretaker in an enclosed area around 4:30 p.m. when another employee who was not authorized to go inside entered the enclosure, the Collier County

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Millions of workers in the US who earn less than $15 an hour are finding it impossible to stay afloat as prices for essentials like groceries and gas reach record highs. That’s why some advocates are now pleading with Congress to raise the federal minimum wage, which hasn’t seen a boost

By Jenn Selva and Christina Maxouris, CNN The driver responsible for a January crash that left nine people dead — including himself and four children — had alcohol, cocaine and a drug known as PCP in his system, according to an autopsy report from the Clark County, Nevada, coroner’s office. Gary Dean Robinson, 59, was

By Amir Vera and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Nevada authorities are asking for the public’s help in finding an 18-year-old woman who has been missing for more than a week. Naomi Irion’s disappearance is “suspicious in nature,” according to a Lyon County, Nevada, Sheriff’s Office news release. Irion was last seen in her car in the

By Abby Bustin and Christina Maxouris, CNN Brothers George and Melvin DeJesus are out of prison after serving nearly 25 years for a crime they didn’t commit. “Walking out, just with the feeling of vindication, it was great,” George DeJesus told reporters in Michigan on Tuesday, shortly after he was released, according to CNN Detroit

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Maurice Peoples was looking forward to lunch with his son, Justin Peoples, last week — but they didn’t get to share that meal because Justin was murdered the night before, in what a California district attorney is calling a hate crime. Justin, who was Black, was shot once and stabbed multiple

By Amir Vera and Amanda Musa, CNN Six high school-aged girls died in a crash with a semitruck, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Tuesday. Highway patrol spokesperson Sarah Stewart told CNN the fatal crash happened about 1:30 p.m. The girls were riding in a small passenger vehicle when it collided with a semitruck at an

By Kiely Westhoff and Laura Studley, CNN A 26-year-old woman was charged Tuesday with one count of first-degree manslaughter and two counts of second-degree assault in connection with the death of an 87-year-old woman who was fatally shoved in New York City earlier this month, according to a criminal complaint. The charges stem from the

By Dakin Andone and Jenn Selva, CNN Pierce County, Washington, has reached a settlement agreement of more than $4 million with the family of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who was heard crying out “I can’t breathe” before he died in police custody in March 2020. The Pierce County Council formally approved the $4,010,000 settlement

By Theresa Waldrop, Adrienne Broaddus and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Mike Gross has seen a lot of theft at his family’s dealership in Neillsville, Wisconsin, over the years, including wheels, tires, cash and entire vehicles, but this was new. A service technician was preparing to inspect a used Jeep when he discovered a gas leak. The

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN You get a booster! You get a booster! You get a booster! Do you remember Oprah Winfrey’s iconic TV moment when she gave her entire studio audience new cars? Well, scientists are channeling that same energy with coronavirus vaccines. Some public health experts say it’s looking more and more like Covid-19

By Jamiel Lynch, Susannah Cullinane and Amir Vera, CNN The City of Miami Beach commission voted unanimously during a Tuesday emergency meeting to impose a curfew during Spring Break festivities this weekend. The curfew will start at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday and expire Monday morning at 6 a.m., starting at midnight each night. The boundaries

By Amir Vera and Ashley Killough, CNN A Texas appeals court reinstated a temporary injunction Monday ensuring families seeking gender-affirming care for their trans children cannot be investigated by state authorities. The ruling comes after a district court judge in Travis County ordered the state of Texas to temporarily stop investigating families earlier this month,

By Amir Vera and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Nearly 12 years after his death rocked the basketball world, former NBA player Lorenzen Wright’s murder case came to a close Monday when a Memphis jury found a man guilty of first-degree murder. Wright was last seen July 18, 2010, while visiting his children at his ex-wife’s home

By Gregory Lemos, CNN A 7-month-old infant was among five people injured in a drive-by shooting Friday night in New Iberia, Louisiana, police said. Officers responded around 9:30 p.m. to a shooting in the 200 block of C V Jackson Drive, the New Iberia Police Department said in a statement. Three people suffered non-life-threatening injuries,

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN A 21-year-old woman was killed and four other people were wounded in a shooting Saturday in Madison Heights, Virginia, according to the Amherst County sheriff. The shooting happened in the 300 block of Old Wright Shop Road, Sheriff E.W. Viar Jr. told CNN on Monday. It claimed the life of T’Khira

By Emma Tucker and Dakin Andone, CNN The largest-scale US mass shooting in more than two years unfolded over the weekend, one of at least nine mass shootings that left eight people dead and more than 60 others hurt as the nation grapples with a rise in gun violence and crime. At a car show

By Dakin Andone, CNN Police in Milwaukee are investigating a shooting Sunday that left four people injured, including one man in critical condition. The shooting happened around 4:21 a.m., police said in a news release, when a suspect or suspects “fired several shots during an argument” at a party. The victims were all taken to

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 20 million people across the Southeast US are bracing for extreme weather this week — including tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail. The severe storms will be felt across the Gulf Coast region, but portions of Louisiana and Mississippi are expected to be hit the hardest. Here’s what

By Joe Sutton and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) will remain closed Monday, with classes canceled for more than 30,000 students for the tenth day, as teachers continue a strike over wages and class sizes, a district spokesperson said. The strike began March 8 as The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and Education

By Amir Vera and Joe Sutton, CNN While firefighters grapple with wildfires across Texas, a bit of good news emerged Monday: the Big L Fire is now “under control,” Hood County officials said. “It burned more than 11,000 acres. The evacuation order for the City of Lipan has been lifted,” Hood County officials tweeted Monday.

By Kiely Westhoff and Alaa Elassar, CNN New York Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order on fire safety Sunday, more than two months after the fatal Bronx apartment building fire that left 17 people dead. The executive order is designed to enhance fire safety enforcement, outreach efforts to educate New Yorkers, and identify safety

By Zoe Sottile, CNN For only the second time in more than 60 years, the elusive Eastern indigo snake has slithered into Alabama. The discovery of a wild-born Eastern indigo snake marks the success of an intensive program to reintroduce the reptiles to the state. “The snake found yesterday indicates the project is resulting in

By Eric Levenson, Neelam Bohra and Radhika Marya, CNN An all-Black Women’s Army Corps unit that sorted millions of pieces of mail in unheated warehouses during World War II will finally be awarded a Congressional Gold Medal decades after the fact. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on March 14 that awards a

By Caroline Kucera and Alaa Elassar, CNN The body of a woman found in Lake Michigan on Thursday has been identified as missing transgender rights advocate Elise Malary, officials in Illinois say. The fire department recovered a woman’s body from the Lake Michigan shoreline and transported her to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, according

By Raja Razek and Alaa Elassar, CNN A shooting in Miami Beach left three people injured amid a packed Spring Break weekend. Two people were transported to a hospital with gunshot wounds after officers responded to a shooting on Ocean Drive shortly after midnight, according to Miami Beach Police Department spokesperson Ernesto Rodriguez. “On Sunday

By Hannah Sarisohn and Alaa Elassar, CNN Four teenagers were shot and one was killed early Sunday morning after a fight broke out in a parking lot outside a 16th birthday party in Texas. Police responded to a Houston production studio around 12 a.m. after multiple people were involved in a dispute which escalated into

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Three people were killed and three others injured in a shooting at a Fayetteville, North Carolina, hotel Saturday. The incident took place at the Baymont Ramada, the Fayetteville Police Department (FPD) said in a tweet. The hotel is located about 10 miles south of Fort Bragg. Investigators said Sunday three men

By Michelle Watson, Keith Allen and Alaa Elassar, CNN At least ten people were wounded in an overnight shooting in Dallas early Sunday, according to Dallas Police Department spokesperson Brian Martinez. The Dallas Police Department initially said one person died in the shooting — which occurred in the 5200 block of Botham Jean Boulevard —

By Michelle Watson and Keith Allen, CNN An overnight shooting in downtown Austin during the final weekend of the SXSW festival stemmed from “a disturbance between two groups of people,” and is not believed to have been a random act, the Austin Police Department (APD) said. Four people suffered gunshot wounds in the shooting near

By Emmy Abbassi, CNN A Michigan man is making plans to take his family somewhere warm after winning a $4 million lottery jackpot. The winner, who chose to remain anonymous, bought two EXTREME CA$H scratch-off tickets from a Marathon gas station, Michigan Lottery said Wednesday. One of those tickets revealed he had won the top

By Andy Rose, CNN South Carolina prosecutors decided not to file charges in a case where a man who fell off a recreational watercraft was fatally shot by his rescuer, according to the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office. Prosecutors ruled the shooting self-defense, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon, when

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols. Personal Birth date: April 1, 1955 Birth place: Lapeer County, Michigan Birth name: Terry Lynn Nichols Father: Robert Nichols, farmer Mother: Joyce Nichols Marriages: Marife (Torres) Nichols (1990-2003, divorced); Lana (Osentoski) Nichols (1981-1989, divorced) Children: with Marife

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Denver Zoo has welcomed a rare and adorable addition to its herd: a baby bongo. The calf named Winston was born to proud parents Fern and Howard on March 5. He and mom have been “snug as a bongo bug in their cozy stall” ever since, the zoo said on

By Faith Karimi, CNN Fifty-seven years ago, three fathers vacationing on an island near Seattle faced a predicament. Their kids were bored, and they needed a summertime activity to keep them entertained. So the dads — Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum — got creative. They used the items at their disposal, including some

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Two Harvard University students have created a website connecting thousands of Ukrainian refugees with hosts around the world offering them a safe haven. The idea was born when Avi Schiffmann attended a pro-Ukraine demonstration while visiting San Diego, where he came face to face with hundreds of Ukrainian Americans sharing distressing

By Rachel Ramirez and Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN As the US attempts to wean itself off its heavy reliance on fossil fuels and shift to cleaner energy sources, many experts are eyeing a promising solution: your neighborhood big-box stores and shopping malls. The rooftops and parking lot space available at retail giants like Walmart, Target and

By Andy Rose and Michelle Watson, CNN Six passengers who were aboard a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter that crashed Saturday in the Angeles National Forest are expected to survive, authorities said. The helicopter was carrying five sheriff’s deputies and one doctor who was on a ride-along, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said during a news

By Raja Razek, Andy Rose, Caroline Kucera and Amir Vera, CNN Police arrested one person Wednesday in connection with a shooting Saturday at a car show in Dumas, Arkansas, that killed one person and injured at least 27 others, including several children. The individual was arrested as he was being released from a Dumas hospital

By Andy Rose, CNN The USS Clamagore submarine, built at the end of World War II, will be dismantled and recycled, the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in South Carolina announced Friday. The submarine, which opened as an exhibit more than four decades ago, closed to the public in December due to “safety concerns

By Laura Studley, CNN Virginian-Pilot newspaper reporter and former CNN news assistant Sierra Jenkins was among the individuals shot and killed in an early Saturday morning shooting that left one more person dead and three others injured, Norfolk, Virginia, police said. She was 25. Jenkins was leaving a downtown Norfolk restaurant, Chicho’s Pizza Backstage, when

By Paradise Afshar and Christina Maxouris, CNN As authorities in central Texas battle several wildfires and warn of more dangerous conditions Sunday, the family of a sheriff’s deputy killed in the flames say the reality of her death hasn’t fully sunk in. “You’re thinking it’s going to be like every other night,” Jonathon Fenley, 28,

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The March Madness show-down between Indiana University and Saint Mary’s College on March 17 came to a halt after the ball became lodged between the backboard and shot clock. But two creative cheerleaders from Indiana sprang into action to rescue the ball after several failed attempts to reach it using a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Justin Blauwet noticed something unusual while working at a construction site in Iowa. At first glance, it appeared to be a block of stone, just under a foot long, covered in ridges. But Blauwet had a better idea of what it was, thanks to a lifelong interest in pre-historic animals: a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN An Iowa woman has gone viral on TikTok, asking for help to make a heartfelt birthday present for her father, a retired firefighter. Allison Marois’ father, Bill Collins, recently retired from the Des Moines Fire Department after serving for more than 38 years. When she started planning for his August birthday,

By Josh Campbell and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A federal jury has awarded $85 million to the family of a California man who died in 2015 after a confrontation with San Diego County sheriff’s deputies, court records show. The jury’s verdict came in a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Lucky Phounsy

By Jay Croft, CNN Public health officials in Indiana are urging people to take safety precautions after a large fire at a Walmart distribution center in Plainfield this week released thick smoke containing high levels of fine particulate material. The particulates can cause health problems for “sensitive individuals,” the Hendricks County Health Department said. Agencies

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Maryland is one step closer to becoming the second US state to ban the declawing of cats. The Maryland House of Representatives voted on March 10 to pass a bill that would ban declawing, a procedure used to prevent cats from scratching. The bill, HB0022, would prohibit veterinarians “from performing certain

By Thomas Lake, CNN On February 12, 2020, Jacque Hollander sat in a conference room on the third floor of an Atlanta courthouse and told prosecutors she thought James Brown had been murdered. District Attorney Paul Howard listened, took notes, and accepted a green plastic bin full of items that Hollander said were corroborating evidence.

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Nearly three months after buying a Megabucks lottery ticket and quickly forgetting about it, an Oregon man is a multimillionaire. Wilbur Brown was at the Moose Lodge in Springfield, Oregon, on Christmas Eve, when a friend bought a “26 for $25” Megabucks ticket. As Brown’s friend explained to him, the ticket

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Photographs by Heather Ainsworth for CNN It was not quite 8 a.m. and Ambur Misercola’s first-period history class was still shaking off slumber as she told them of a woman detained in Moscow’s Pushkin Square — not unlike the historic Public Square a short drive north that anchors this American

By Michelle Watson, CNN Longtime NFL reporter John Clayton, who was known as “The Professor” because of his encyclopedic knowledge of the game, died Friday, according to both ESPN, where he was an analyst, and Seattle Sports, where he hosted a radio show. Clayton was 67. “John was a pioneer as an NFL insider but

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The bridgetender controlling a Florida drawbridge when a woman walking across fell to her death was arrested Thursday and charged with one count of manslaughter by culpable negligence, West Palm Beach police said in a release. Artissua Lafaye Paulk, 43, was on duty February 6 when 79-year-old Carol Wright fell to

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A Nevada father was arrested on an open murder charge after allegedly beating his 5-year-old son who later died, according to police. Gerald Oglesby, 33, was arrested Wednesday after he whipped his son with an electrical cord and punched him in the stomach after he became frustrated with the child for

By Omar Jimenez, CNN Surveillance video released by the Kenosha Unified School District Friday shows an off-duty Kenosha police officer put his knee on the neck of a 12-year-old girl to restrain her for more than 20 seconds while attempting to break up a fight in the cafeteria of Lincoln Middle School. The video, which

By Taylor Romine, CNN After reaching an agreement with labor unions, the Los Angeles United School District, the second-largest public school district in the nation, will lift its Covid-19 mask mandate starting next week. “Union ratification processes have begun and the new policy will be implemented no later than Wednesday, March 23,” officials announced in

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN An assistant professor of business at Southern California’s Chapman University has filed a lawsuit against five students, whose identities remain unknown, alleging copyright infringement for posting exam questions anonymously in an online forum. According to professor David Berkovitz’s attorney Marc Hankin, the students, who took midterm and final exams remotely due

By Alaa Elassar, CNN A man was snowboarding in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains when he was buried and killed by an avalanche on Thursday. The 29-year-old, identified as Devin Overton from Telluride, was solo snowboarding in backcountry when he was caught in the avalanche south of Trout Lake, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) said

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Florida swim team was just about to start practice when they realized their pool was already occupied. Student athletes at Montverde Academy spotted a 3-foot alligator taking a dip where they were supposed to swim laps. To avoid a dangerous confrontation, the school delayed practice and called police. According to

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN When Diane Lynn Dahn missed her shift at the San Diego Transit Corporation on May 2, 1988, a coworker went to her apartment to check on her. Her coworker discovered her lifeless body in her bedroom. Dahn’s 2-year-old was wandering around the apartment complex. Dahn had been bludgeoned and stabbed, according

By Ray Sanchez, CNN The University of the Southwest golf teams — a mix of students from the US, Canada, Mexico and Portugal — were returning to campus after a tournament when a pickup truck suddenly veered in front of their van in rural Texas. The fiery crash Tuesday night killed nine people — including