Former Georgetown head tennis coach pleads guilty in college admissions scam
By Laura Ly, CNN Former Georgetown University head tennis coach Gordon Ernst pleaded guilty to charges “in connection with soliciting and…
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Investigators confused Brian Laundrie’s mother for him while watching their home, police reportedly acknowledge
By Joe Sutton and Michelle Krupa, CNN Investigators in Florida confused Brian Laundrie’s mother with her son while they were monitoring the…
Continue Reading Investigators confused Brian Laundrie’s mother for him while watching their home, police reportedly acknowledge
Investigators in Florida confused Brian Laundrie’s mother with her son while they were monitoring the family’s home in the days after Laundrie’s…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for October 26: Biden, Covid, Facebook, Russia & China, supply chain
By AJ Willingham, CNN The governors of New York and New Jersey have issued states of emergency as a nasty nor’easter sweeps in, bringing severe…
Continue Reading New Jersey school district suspends assistant teacher who allegedly told student ‘we don’t negotiate with terrorists’
A New Jersey assistant teacher was suspended by the Ridgefield School District after an alleged incident in which a student says he was called a…
Continue Reading New Jersey school district suspends assistant teacher who allegedly told student ‘we don’t negotiate with terrorists’
By Artemis Moshtaghian and Mirna Alsharif, CNN A New Jersey teaching assistant was suspended by the Ridgefield School District after an alleged…
Continue Reading Florida surgeon general refused to wear a face mask during office visit, state senator says
By Ralph Ellis, CNN A Florida state senator says state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo — a skeptic of many Covid-19 safety measures —…
Continue Reading Florida surgeon general refused to wear a face mask during office visit, state senator says
CNN’s Ana Cabrera speaks with Florida State Senator Tina Polsky (D), a cancer patient, who asked the state’s appointed Surgeon General, Dr. Joesph…
Continue Reading NYPD officers face questions about Eric Garner’s death in rare judicial inquiry
By Sonia Moghe, CNN Eric Garner’s mother and other police reform advocates have begun questioning New York Police Department officers in court…
Continue Reading Man convicted in the murder of Michael Jordan’s father is denied parole
By Rebekah Riess and Amir Vera, CNN One of the men convicted in the murder of James Jordan, father of basketball legend Michael Jordan, was denied…
Continue Reading Jelani Day’s cause of death was drowning but it’s still unknown how he got in the water, coroner writes
By Omar Jimenez, CNN Jelani Day‘s cause of death was drowning, LaSalle County Coroner Richard Ploch wrote Monday, adding “the manner in…
Continue Reading A new lens on America’s past
History Refocused: Meet Claudette Colvin, a Civil Rights hero whose story was mostly ignored by history books. In 2021, 66 years after she was…
Continue Reading Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Now she’s fighting to get her record expunged
By Devon M. Sayers and Maria Cartaya, CNN Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who in March 1955, at the age of 15, was arrested for refusing to…
Continue Reading John Wayne Gacy victim identified through DNA from tooth
By Steve Almasy, CNN Francis Wayne Alexander’s remains were found more than 40 years ago in the crawl space of infamous serial killer John…
Continue Reading Accused gunman in a Boise mall shooting dies in hospital
By Jenn Selva, Amanda Watts and Amir Vera, CNN The accused gunman in an Idaho mall shooting on Monday died Tuesday at a local hospital, according to…
Continue Reading Accused gunman in a Boise mall shooting dies in hospital
Six people, including a police officer, were injured when shots were reportedly fired at an Idaho mall, according to tweets from the Boise Police…
Continue Reading 10,000 trees, including giant sequoias, are a hazard and must be removed in California, park officials say
By Amanda Jackson, CNN As fire crews work to contain the KNP Complex Fire that has destroyed many of California’s iconic sequoia trees, it has…
Continue Reading 3 children found abandoned in an apartment with another child’s remains in Texas, sheriff says
By Andy Rose, Ralph Ellis and Raja Razek, CNN A Texas mother and her boyfriend have been charged after authorities found three young siblings…
Continue Reading Jurors to decide whether Charlottesville Unite the Right rally organizers prepared for a violent showdown from the start
Jurors to decide whether Charlottesville Unite the Right rally organizers prepared for a violent showdown from the…
Continue Reading Jury hears opening statements in trial over whether Charlottesville Unite the Right rally was intended to spur violence
CNN’s Elle Reeve revisits Charlottesville, Virginia five years after the “Unite the Right” rally. The civil trial against the rally’s organizers has…
Continue Reading Jurors to decide whether Charlottesville Unite the Right rally organizers prepared for a violent showdown from the start
By Amir Vera, CNN Four years after White supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, for the “Unite the Right” rally, a civil…
Continue Reading What you need to know about ‘stand your ground’ laws
A Texas man is facing a first-degree murder charge related to the fatal shooting of a man sitting in a parked car outside his home earlier this month…
Continue Reading Body found in state park confirmed to be that of New Hampshire boy who went missing over a month ago
NH: Merrimack residents hold a candlelight vigil for Elijah Lewis, missing 5-year-old boy whose body was found…
Continue Reading A nurse created a baby registry for a new father after his unvaccinated wife died of Covid-19 before meeting their baby
Emily Robison was unvaccinated when she died of Covid-19, after fighting to survive for over a month. Just three weeks before her death, she had…
Continue Reading As the trial for Ahmaud Arbery’s killing starts, activists from across the country are showing up to support him and his family
By Angela Barajas, CNN “I love my people! I love my Black people!” said Marcus Arbery, Sr. this week as he neared the steps of the Glynn…
Continue Reading One of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers had 16 phone calls with DA before arrest, court filings say
Ahmaud Arbery was jogging near Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23, 2020 when Gregory McMichael and his son Travis chased him down, shot and killed…
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It’s proving difficult to find a jury in the trial for Ahmaud Arbery’s killing. Potential jurors either know the case well, know the defendants or are scared
By Angela Barajas, Martin Savidge and Christina Maxouris, CNN Finding jurors to sit in the trial for the three men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s…
Continue Reading An unsent text message and desperate phone calls detail California family’s last moments before they died while hiking
The cause of death for Jonathan Gerrish, Ellen Chung and their 1-year-old daughter, Miju, was hyperthermia with possible dehydration due to…
Continue Reading FDA authorizes booster doses of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, says mix and match OK
By Maggie Fox and John Bonifield, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration authorized booster doses of both Covid-19 vaccines made by Moderna and…
Continue Reading A timeline of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and the case against 3 men accused of his murder
By Dakin Andone, CNN At first, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020 went largely unnoticed outside the South Georgia community where the…
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