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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN As trick-or-treaters gear up for their candy-collecting adventures tonight, safety is a top priority for parents and authorities alike. A number of states are imposing extra measures to protect young ones from harm this Halloween — including having law enforcement conduct home checks on offenders who are banned from having contact

By Laura Ly, Kristina Sgueglia and Eric Levenson, CNN The White former police officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, this year in Michigan will stand trial for the killing, according to a judge’s memo posted online and announced in court Monday. Former Grand Rapids Police officer Christopher Schurr faces a single charge

By Gloria Pazmino, Nicole Grether and Emma Tucker, CNN New York has agreed to pay $26 million to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of two men whose convictions in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X were thrown out last November, city officials said. Both Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam were exonerated last year after

By Amir Vera and Chuck Johnston, CNN Two St. Louis schools will remain closed going into this week, just days after a 19-year-old gunman forced his way on campus and began shooting, ultimately leaving a 15-year-old student and a teacher dead. Central Visual and Performing Arts High School — where the shooting took place —

By Kiely Westhoff and Samantha Beech, CNN Four people, including a 10-month-old baby girl, were killed in a fire at a home in the Bronx early Sunday morning, the New York Police Department said. New York Fire Department Assistant Chief Kevin Brennan said firefighters immediately began removing victims from the building after responding to a

By Alaa Elassar, Rebekah Riess and Joe Sutton, CNN A former northern California police officer imprisoned in connection with one fatal shooting will not be charged for a second fatal shooting which led to the death of Tyrell Wilson, a 32-year-old Black man, the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. On March 11, 2021,

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN Four people, including one woman and three men, were fatally shot in an Aurora, Colorado home early Sunday morning in a domestic dispute, Aurora Police Chief Daniel John Oats said in a news conference. Shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday, police received a 911 call of “suspicious activity” at a home in

By Hannah Sarisohn and Alaa Elassar, CNN At least one person is dead and eight more were injured in an overnight shooting in Tallahassee, Florida on Saturday. Numerous people began shooting at Half-Time Liquors and Los Compadres on West Pensacola Street just before midnight as police were “conducting crowd control at multiple locations,” the Tallahassee

By Michelle Watson, Sara Weisfeldt, Hannah Sarisohn and Eric Levenson, CNN The multiple antisemitic messages that appeared in public spaces in Jacksonville, Florida, this weekend, including at the high-profile Florida-Georgia college football game, do not constitute crimes at this time, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. “At this time, the Sheriff’s Office has not identified any

By Wayne Sterling and Holly Yan, CNN Four Michigan State University football players have been suspended while school police investigate a scuffle in a stadium tunnel after the No. 4 University of Michigan Wolverines defeated the unranked Michigan State Spartans 29-7 on Saturday. Michigan State Head Coach Mel Tucker announced in a statement that the

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN When Pardeep Kaleka first contacted Arno Michaelis, he was looking for answers. It was 2012, just a few weeks after a White supremacist entered the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and gunned down Kaleka’s father and five other members of his community. As Kaleka wrestled with feelings of anger, guilt

By Faith Karimi, CNN As people stock up on Halloween candy, some cities and states are imposing extra measures to make sure sex offenders don’t answer when little ghouls and goblins knock on their doors. In several states, including Georgia and California, some supervised sex offenders are not allowed to have contact with kids under

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Over the span of a week, four different communities across the United States have grappled with the aftermath of a school shooting. Families in Florida are reeling after a jury recommended life in prison for the gunman who killed 17 people in a Parkland high school in 2018. The shooter is

By Caroll Alvarado, CNN Less than three months after welcoming twin boys, Amanda and Ed Bystran lost one of them to RSV — now they are hoping their other son recovers from the same virus. Amanda Bystran gave birth to twins Brodie and Silas on August 15. “We couldn’t wait for them to arrive. My

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Archivists have uncovered a long-lost historical relic hidden underneath a Christian manuscript: the earliest known map of the stars, according to the Museum of the Bible. A copy of astronomer Hipparchus’ map of the stars was discovered underneath the Syriac text of John Climacus’ “Ladder of Divine Ascent,” a treatise written

By Andy Rose, CNN One lucky lotto player could be in for a very big treat on Halloween night as the Powerball jackpot grows to an estimated $1 billion, with the next drawing on Monday. The jackpot is set to reach the billion-dollar mark after Saturday’s drawing yielded no one who could match all five