By Amir Vera, Jamiel Lynch, Sara Smart and Andy Rose, CNN Five people — including an off-duty police officer — are dead after a shooting Thursday in eastern Raleigh, North Carolina, police said. Two people were taken to the hospital, one of whom was a Raleigh K9 officer with non-life threatening injuries and was later
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EL PASO, Texas — Trials and hearings at the Municipal Court on 810 E. Overland are being rescheduled due to a small fire, according to a city spokesperson. The spokesperson says new court dates will be mailed. Teen Court scheduled for today has been canceled, according to a spokesperson. All other Municipal Court offices remain
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN Gina Montalto’s parents simply clutched hands and cried as it was announced Thursday that a Florida jury recommended the Parkland school shooter should not be condemned to death. Tony Montalto, Gina’s father and president of the advocacy group Stand with Parkland, called it “yet another gut punch for so many of
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(CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 11:43 a.m. ET] A jury has recommended that Nikolas Cruz be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed, including 14 students and three school staff members. Broward
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, Alta Spells and Denise Royal, CNN The Parkland school shooter has avoided the death penalty after a jury recommended he be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the February 2018 massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — a move that left some of the victims’
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WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Jury says Alex Jones should pay $965 million to people who suffered from his lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre. This is a developing news story. Download the KVIA news app to get alerts the moment news breaks.
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso county public defender says her office has motioned to dismiss another 400 criminal cases because of inaction from the district attorney’s office. Kelli Childress, the public defender, says her office made the motion on Wednesday morning, and they expect the cases to be assigned to the referral docket
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EL PASO, Texas — A 52-year-old man has been identified as the person arrested in connection to a structure fire in south-central El Paso, according to fire officials. The fire was reported Wednesday morning, Oct. 5, around 4:35 a.m. Officials identify the man taken into custody as Mauricio Marmolejo. He’s been booked into the El
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government filed another U.S. gun lawsuit Monday, this time against five U.S. gun shops and distributors it claims are responsible for the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico. Mexico’s first lawsuit, which was recently dismissed, targeted U.S. gun manufacturers. The second, which Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said was
Continue Reading By Jim Bittermann, CNN The trial of two of France’s biggest companies began Monday over the crash of Air France flight 447 in 2009 that killed 228 passengers and crew. The national flag carrier and Toulouse-based Airbus have been charged with involuntary homicide for their part in the disaster over the Atlantic. Both companies were
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EL PASO, Texas– Two people were transported to a local hospital with serious injuries after a crash in Northeast El Paso early Saturday morning. It happened on McCombs and Rheims near Dolphin Terrace Elementary School. According to first responders, two vehicles were involved in the crash and at least one person was extracted from a
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EL PASO, Texas – A 15-year-old boy was taken into custody Tuesday at the Paso Del Norte border crossing. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers say the teen was attempting to cross through the pedestrian lanes when a K-9 altered them to an odor of drugs coming from the teen. Officer’s sent the teen to
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, Jason Hanna, Taylor Romine and Stella Chan, CNN Two brothers are now under arrest in connection with this week’s kidnapping and killings of four California family members — with one brother held on suspicion of murder and the other accused of being an accessory, authorities said Friday. Jesus Manuel Salgado — a
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EL PASO, Texas – Homeland Security Investigations looked into reports that Edwin Alejandro Rodriguez and Martin Najera were buying firearms and exporting them to Mexico. HSI and ATF agents say they identified more than 30 firearms purchased by Rodriguez and Najera and taken into Mexico, according to court documents. Last week both men pleaded guilty
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — 188 people who were trafficked and held against their will have been recovered since May by deputies of the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department in conjunction with Homeland Security, U.S. Marshals and Border Patrol, according to a post on the department’s Facebook page. DASO has also turned over five traffickers
Continue Reading By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN A cargo ship was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean when the captain summoned two young US Merchant Marine Academy cadets to his room and gave them each a drink. Shortly thereafter, the students started feeling like something was wrong. Unbeknownst to them, their boss had spiked their drinks,
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Tina Burnside, CNN A suspect is in custody after two people were killed and six others were wounded in a series of stabbings in front of a casino in Las Vegas on Thursday, police said. Three of the surviving six victims were taken to hospitals, where they were in critical condition,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A man accused of shooting his wife and shooting at police has agreed to a plea deal and is suing the city seven months after the incident. Julian Valenzuela’s attorney Kurtis Donisthorpe told ABC-7 Valenzuela entered a no contest plea to the top count of attempted murder. He pled guilty
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN Attorneys for actors Kevin Spacey and Anthony Rapp delivered their opening statements on Thursday, kicking off the court proceedings relating to a civil suit filed by Rapp that accuses the former “House of Cards” star of sexual misconduct. Rapp, best known for his role in “Star Trek: Discovery,” sued Spacey in
Continue Reading By Kocha Olarn and Heather Chen, CNN Thailand recoiled in horror Thursday after at least 36 people were killed, at least 24 of them children, in a massacre at a child care center in northeastern Thailand believed to be the country’s deadliest incident of its kind. Authorities immediately launched a manhunt for the suspected attacker,
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Jeremy Bertino, a top lieutenant to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy in federal court on Thursday, and is cooperating with the Justice Department’s investigation into the far-right extremist group. Bertino, 43, will also plead guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. He
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(CNN) — President Joe Biden is taking his first major steps toward decriminalizing marijuana, fulfilling a campaign pledge to erase prior federal possession convictions and beginning the process of loosening federal classification of the drug. Biden on Thursday will pardon all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, a move that senior administration officials said would affect thousands of
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, Amanda Musa and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A 38-year-old man was “peacefully” taken into custody Thursday after allegedly fatally shooting one person and barricading himself in a hotel room for more than six hours in Dearborn, Michigan, according to authorities. Following hours of negotiations, “the barricaded gunman has been taken into custody without
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BANGKOK, Thailand — At least 22 children were among 34 people killed in a mass shooting at a child care center in northeastern Thailand this morning. The mass shooting took place at the Child Development Center in Nong Bua Lamphu province’s Uthaisawan Na Klang district, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office. The gunman has been
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Sierra Blanca, TX- Two West Texas brothers linked to the fatal shooting of a migrant are expected to appear in front of a judge Wednesday for new bond hearings. Mark and Michael Sheppard, who are both 60-years-old, turned themselves in Tuesday night. Investigators say the Sheppards claim they were near a reservoir in the Sierra
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua — Families of Mexican migrants shot in Sierra Blanca got to Juarez seeking for help and answers. Napoleón Sepúlveda and Luz María Martínez are from Durango, Mexico. They are now here to mourn and remember the loss of his son, Jesús Sepúlveda who was fatally shot on Sept. 27 in Sierra Blanca. Along
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ — A living room near downtown Juárez is filled with folding lawn chairs and hand-written signs that beg for justice. Neighbors, friends and relatives from the small towns around Ceballos, Durango, Mexico, made the 400-mile pilgrimage to this border city to mourn the loss of one of their own and to find out
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CNN — A group of five alleged members of the Oath Keepers are on trial and are being charged with seditious conspiracy. Founder Stewart Rhodes’ estranged wife say he studied manipulation techniques to inspire others to storm the capitol. As for former president Donald Trump, newly released audio shows that at some point he denied
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, Chris Boyette and Taylor Romine, CNN The reward for information leading to an arrest in the killings of six people in a series of shooting deaths in Stockton, California, has been raised to $115,000, police said. Stockton Police have said they believe the attacks, which include one non-fatal shooting, are related, and
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday appointed former U.S. Secret Service agent John P. Scott as the Texas Education Agency’s first chief of school safety and security, a position the governor created in response to the Uvalde mass school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead. Scott formerly served as a
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