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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

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

By Andi Babineau and Alaa Elassar, CNN Yellowstone National Park officials have identified the person whose foot was found floating in one of the park’s deepest hot springs in August. Los Angeles resident Il Hun Ro, 70, was identified “in the last three weeks” using DNA analysis, the park said in a news release Thursday,

By Michelle Watson, CNN Thousands of mink were released from their cages at a northwestern Ohio farm in an overnight breaking and entering episode, authorities said Tuesday. Between 25,000 and 40,000 mink were let loose after a suspect or suspects broke into the Lion Farms USA Mink Farm in Hoaglin Township, Ohio, and destroyed fencing,

By Sonia Moghe, CNN The man charged with killing 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket earlier this year is expected to plead guilty to state charges next week, a victims’ attorney said Thursday. The suspected shooter is expected to enter guilty pleas on all 25 counts

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,

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN NASA’s Artemis I mission that launched Wednesday has shared a spectacular view of Earth on its way to the moon. If you often marvel at space and its endless expanse, you may also enjoy tracking the spacecraft in real time as it travels thousands of miles away from our planet. Here’s

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

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

By Sharif Paget, Caroll Alvarado, Eric Levenson and Amir Vera, CNN Two of the four University of Idaho students who were killed on Sunday were last seen alive ordering at a late-night food truck in Moscow, Idaho, at about 1:41 a.m., the truck’s live Twitch stream shows. In the video, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves

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

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