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By Nicki Brown and Zenebou Sylla, CNN A Purdue University student was killed in an on-campus residence hall and his roommate has been arrested and charged with murder, university police announced. Varun Manish Chheda, 20, died due to “multiple sharp force traumatic injuries,” according to preliminary autopsy findings from Tippecanoe County Coroner Carrie Costello. Chheda’s

By Andy Rose, CNN The trial of Lori Vallow — who is charged with murdering her two children, hiding their bodies and then reporting them missing — is delayed again after the defense renewed its claim that Vallow is not competent to stand trial. Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, were indicted for murder more

By Amanda Musa, CNN Eighty-four undocumented migrants have been rescued from a semi-truck in southern Texas, according to a tweet from Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra. A concerned citizen called in to report a semi-truck at a residence in Weslaco, Texas, according to Guerra. Weslaco is located about eight miles north of the US border

By Rob Frehse, CNN The man who allegedly stabbed to death an on-duty emergency medical technician with the Fire Department of New York was indicted on murder and weapons charges, the Queens District Attorney’s office announced Thursday. Peter Zisopoulos, 34, was charged with one count of murder in the second degree and one count of

By Rob Frehse and Mark Morales, CNN Ten people were injured after a police cruiser collided with another vehicle in the Bronx Thursday afternoon and jumped the curb, New York Police Department officials said at a news conference. Everyone is expected to survive, Chief of Patrol Jeffery Maddrey said, adding the injured range in age

Kacey Cherry, CNN The murder convictions of two Black men in northern California were vacated Monday after a judge ruled the introduction of rap lyrics and racialized rhetoric violated the Racial Justice Act, a law designed to limit racism within the criminal justice system. The decision comes on the heels of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Barnard College will offer abortion pills on campus beginning next year, in a move that shows how some colleges and universities may handle the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The New York City women’s college made the announcement Thursday, saying that it plans on bolstering its reproductive health care services in

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,

By Ella Nilsen, CNN A coalition of West Coast states and British Columbia have pledged to work together as a region to combat climate change and accelerate the transition to clean energy. The governors of California, Oregon, Washington and the premier of British Columbia gathered in San Francisco Thursday to sign an agreement to decarbonize

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

By Jason Hanna and Jamiel Lynch, CNN A Florida drop tower amusement park ride from which a 14-year-old boy fell to his death in March will be taken down, the ride’s operator said Thursday. The decision to take down the 430-foot-tall Orlando FreeFall tower and ride at ICON Park outside Orlando was made because of

By Nick Valencia, CNN Through the crowd of lawyers and people on their way to court, 60-year-old Jimmy Hill walks the same downtown Atlanta street every week. He’s been doing this for the last three years to get justice for his son. In January 2019, Hill’s son Jimmy Atchison was shot and killed by an

Amanda Watts, CNN The wife of Brittney Griner, the American professional basketball player jailed in Russia, said Thursday she thinks it’s going to take “mercy” from Russian President Vladimir Putin to get Griner home. “I feel like at this point it’s going to take Putin to have that same mindset and say ‘You know what,