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Driver accused of hitting Los Angeles-area law enforcement recruits is released from jail, but still is being investigated, authorities say

By Cheri Mossburg, Josh Campbell, Alaa Elassar and Andy Rose, CNN The man who was arrested for allegedly driving a vehicle into a group of law enforcement recruits in Whittier, California, was released from jail Thursday night, but the sheriff’s department insists they did not make a mistake. Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez, 22, was released from

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Arizona will now give undocumented students in-state tuition rates. Here’s why that matters

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Arizona once boasted one of the most stringent policies barring access to higher education for undocumented students. But a recent shift in the state could signal changing perceptions of undocumented youth. This week, Arizona voters narrowly passed Proposition 308, which allows undocumented students both access to in-state tuition rates and state-funded

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Gabby Petito’s family awarded $3 million in wrongful death lawsuit against Brian Laundrie’s estate

By Sara Weisfeldt, Leyla Santiago and Alaa Elassar, CNN A Sarasota County, Florida, judge ruled Thursday in favor of Gabby Petito’s family in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the estate of Brian Laundrie. The final judgment awards $3 million to Petito’s mother, Nichole Schmidt, as the administrator of Petito’s estate. “The Petito family lost their daughter,

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Execution of Alabama death row prisoner is called off, state official says, citing time constraints from late-night court battle

By Dakin Andone, CNN Alabama corrections officials Thursday cited time constraints caused by a late-night court battle in halting the scheduled execution of a death row prisoner — the second time in as many months the state failed to carry out an execution before the expiration of a death warrant. Kenneth Smith’s execution by lethal

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University of Virginia shooting victim is no longer intubated and is out of ICU, family friend says

By Travis Caldwell, Amy Simonson and Amanda Musa, CNN Michael Hollins, the University of Virginia football player who was seriously wounded in Sunday’s mass shooting, was taken off intubation and moved from the hospital’s intensive care unit, a family friend told CNN on Thursday. “Mike is doing better today,” Gipson said. “He is in intermediate

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As the Uvalde school district names a new interim police chief, a rare special meeting is expected Saturday to determine senior cop’s fate

By Andy Rose, Shimon Prokupecz and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN As a senior law enforcement officer with Uvalde, Texas, police faces potential termination this weekend amid fallout from the Robb Elementary School shooting, the public school district has named its new police chief. Josh Gutierrez was named the interim executive director of safety and security

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5 Georgia sheriff’s office employees placed on administrative duty amid investigations into the beating of a Black man in custody

By Alta Spells, Devon M. Sayers and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Five Camden County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office employees have been placed on administrative duty amid an internal and a state investigation into the September beating of Jarrett Hobbs, a 41-year-old Black man, while he was in custody, a department spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday. The employees

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