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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Maine is on a mission to clean up its streets, one expletive-filled license plate at a time. The Maine Secretary of State’s office has begun to enforce new regulations on the content of state-issued license plates, sending out recall letters to owners of problematic plates. The story of Maine’s explicit license

By Rebekah Riess and Zoe Sottile, CNN Officials are searching a section of the Missouri River for a paraglider who has been missing for over a week. The paraglider, 35-year-old Kenny Loudermilk, disappeared on October 26th while paragliding around the Missouri River at sunset, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol. Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl.

By Jason Hanna, Mallika Kallingal and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Five people were found dead in a southern Maryland home Friday in a murder-suicide incident, according to a Charles County Sheriff’s Office statement on Saturday. The bodies were found in a house in La Plata, roughly a 35-mile drive south of Washington, DC, by law enforcement

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN On its face, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ apology to Sacheen Littlefeather earlier this year appeared to be a long overdue righting of wrongs. The actress and activist famously declined the best actor Oscar on Marlon Brando’s behalf at the 1973 Academy Awards. In her 60-second speech, she

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Annie Korzen begins auditions with a statement most people wouldn’t expect from an 83-year-old: “Hi, I’m Annie Korzen. I live in Los Angeles. I’m 5’3″. And I have almost 400,000 followers on TikTok.” It still amazes Korzen, an actor who describes herself as a longtime bit player who’d struggled to

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A savvy photographer captured an unexpected, last-minute entry into a surf contest: a great white shark, terrifyingly close to a surfer. Jordan Anast, a California-based photographer, was taking pictures of the San Onofre Surf Club Contest when he captured the shocking image of the shark, seemingly just yards away from surfer

By Ella Nilsen, CNN; Photographs by Rebecca Noble for CNN Workers with the water district in Wenden, Arizona, saw something remarkable last year as they slowly lowered a camera into the drought-stricken town’s well: The water was moving. But the aquifer which sits below the small desert town in the southwestern part of the state

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The unique, spider-emblazoned “I Voted” stickers that took the internet by storm in July have finally made their way into the hands of voters. The bizarre, brightly-colored design was crafted by Hudson Rowan, a 14-year old living in Ulster County, New York. Rowan was the winner of the county’s second-ever annual

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Three men have been arrested in Miami for their role in a multistate theft ring targeting beef and pork packaging plants, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. An investigation into the ring began in June 2021 with the theft of several semitrailers containing frozen beef in Lancaster County, Nebraska, according

By Amanda Musa, CNN Maryland law enforcement and school district officials are investigating why an elementary school teacher made unfounded claims that multiple stabbings occurred at the school before walking 27 fifth-graders off campus to a local café. Shortly before 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, deputies received a call about multiple stabbings at Green Valley Elementary

By Faith Karimi and Liam Reilly, CNN Federal official Jeff Andre was vacationing at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom near Orlando last month when he spotted a man who looked familiar. The man resembled Quashon Burton, 31, who authorities say went on the run in New York City last November after allegedly using fraudulent documents

By Laura Studley, CNN A beach closure is in place after a woman suffered a shark bite off Southern California’s famed Del Mar Beach Friday morning. The 50-year-old was bitten in her right thigh, explained Jon Edelbrock, the beach’s chief lifeguard. She was treated for punctures and lacerations and sent to Scripps Memorial Hospital in

By Amy Simonson, CNN A Benton County, Arkansas, woman last seen on Monday and the baby she had been pregnant with are both dead in McDonald, Missouri, and a couple is facing charges in connection to the case. In a news conference Thursday, Benton County Sheriff Shawn Holloway said Amber and Jamie Waterman, who are

By Alaa Elassar, CNN The “world’s largest lotto prize ever offered” — an estimated $1.6 billion jackpot — is now at stake in Saturday’s Powerball drawing, the multi-state game operator said Friday. The jackpot, which has a lump-sum option of an estimated $782.4 million, “breaks the world record for the Largest National Lottery Jackpot in

By David Culver and Jason Kravarik, CNN First came Chrissi DelaCruz’s tough breakup with her boyfriend of nine years. Then, her sister died. The pain and loss led DelaCruz to traditional talk therapy. She also relied on alcohol. But nothing really worked. “I was feeling pretty sad and lonely and disconnected and was feeling pretty

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The enormous rocket at the heart of NASA’s mission to return humans to the moon is being rolled out of its hangar today. After a series of issues and poor weather thwarted the first two launch attempts, the agency has spent weeks troubleshooting and is now gearing up for another attempt