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By Rob Frehse, Sharif Paget and Zenebou Sylla, CNN A Northeastern University staff member was injured Tuesday when a package he was opening detonated on the Boston campus, officials said, “The staff member sustained minor injuries and is being treated,” Shannon Nargi, a spokesperson for Northeastern University, told CNN in an email. The package was

By Laura Ly and Rob Frehse, CNN A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of a woman at the Philadelphia playground where she worked, city officials confirm. The teenager was charged with murder and other offenses related to the Friday shooting of Parks and Recreation employee Tiffany Fletcher

By Alta Spells, Maria Cartaya, Martin Savidge and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Prominent Georgia attorney Page Pate, a frequent CNN guest, died Sunday afternoon, his law firm told CNN. He was 55. Pate died after being swept out into a rip current off the coast of St. Simons Island, Georgia, Glynn County Fire-Rescue acting Chief Vinnie

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Cleotha Henderson, the man accused of kidnapping and killing Memphis teacher Eliza Fletcher earlier this month, has been indicted on rape charges in a separate case from 2021, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. Henderson was indicted Thursday on charges of aggravated rape, kidnapping and unlawful possession of a weapon in

By Eric Levenson, CNN A sexual assault victim filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging San Francisco Police violated her constitutional rights by relying on DNA taken from her rape kit years ago to arrest her in an unrelated burglary case. The woman, identified only as “Jane Doe,” alleges that law enforcement officers took her DNA

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Mark David Chapman, the man who fatally shot John Lennon in 1980, has been denied parole for the 12th time, New York corrections officials told CNN. Chapman, who is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York, appeared before the parole board on August 31, the New

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Burning intensely and choking the air with smoke, California’s raging Mosquito Fire has destroyed 46 structures and continues its unrelenting spread through dry forests in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The blaze — the largest currently burning in California — began amid extreme heat September 6 and has grown to about 50,000

By Aya Elamroussi, Kristina Sgueglia and Dakin Andone, CNN Authorities are investigating the deaths of three children who were found unresponsive along a New York City shoreline early Monday after a family member reported concerns about their safety. The children — a 7-year-old boy, a 4-year-old girl and a 3-and-a-half-month-old girl — were found in

By Amir Vera, Chuck Johnston, Hannah Sarisohn and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The Seattle Education Association voted Tuesday afternoon to suspend its strike and return to classrooms starting Wednesday. The vote came after Seattle Public Schools earlier announced a tentative, three-year contract agreement with the educators’ union amid a strike that delayed the start of the

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Google searches for “college rankings” spike each year in the months that follow the release of US News & World Report’s annual lists of Best Colleges. The company says that about 40 million people read those lists last year; that’s more than 10 times the number of graduating high school seniors

By Amir Vera and Andy Rose, CNN Britt Reid, the former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach, pleaded guilty Monday to driving while intoxicated in connection with a crash last year that left a 5-year-old girl with a brain injury. The girl, Ariel Young, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, a parietal fracture, brain contusions and

By Nouran Salahieh and Josh Campbell, CNN A federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of a new Arizona law that would have restricted citizens and journalists from filming police in certain circumstances. The law, signed by Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey in July, made it a crime to video record within eight feet of law

By Hannah Sarisohn and Steve Almasy, CNN Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was charged with murder with a deadly weapon in the stabbing death of Las Vegas investigative journalist Jeff German, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday. In the chilling case that has raised concerns about press freedoms in the United States, German

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN The US Environmental Protection Agency is investigating the water crisis that has affected the roughly 150,000 residents of Jackson, Mississippi, who remain under a boil-water advisory. “I can confirm that the EPA Office of Inspector General began sending personnel to Jackson to collect data and conduct interviews,” Jennifer Kaplan, a spokesperson

By Melissa Alonso and Eric Levenson, CNN The man accused of kidnapping and killing Memphis teacher Eliza Fletcher has been indicted on aggravated rape charges for a separate 2021 incident, according to court documents. Cleotha Henderson, 38, appeared in a Shelby County courtroom Monday after he was indicted Thursday on charges of aggravated rape, kidnapping

By Dakin Andone and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Three children found unresponsive early Monday on the Coney Island shoreline in Brooklyn are dead, and a woman believed to be their mother is now being questioned, New York Police Department officials said. The 30-year-old woman, believed to be the mother of the 7-year-old boy, 4-year-old girl and

By Emma Tucker, CNN Calls for tougher prison sentences are growing in Memphis, Tennessee, as word spreads the suspects in two violent attacks there this month had been released from prison before serving their full sentences for prior convictions. But experts told CNN research shows harsher penalties are not an effective deterrent to violent crime.