By Tina Burnside and Paradise Afshar, CNN The body of a man who got off an aircraft mid-flight during an emergency landing Friday near Raleigh, North Carolina, has been recovered, authorities said. Around 2:40 p.m. ET, a twin-engine CASA CN-212 Aviocar landed in the grass at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Amid growing wildfire concerns, many adventure seekers are breaking the rules to visit Hyperion — the world’s tallest living tree. The forbidden area in California’s Redwood National Park is experiencing such a boost in popularity that officials recently issued a stern warning: Anyone caught near the tree can face up to
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Amid growing wildfire concerns, many adventure seekers are breaking the rules to visit Hyperion — the world’s tallest living tree. The forbidden area in California’s Redwood National Park is experiencing such a boost in popularity that officials recently issued a stern warning: Anyone caught near the tree can face up to
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Amid growing wildfire concerns, many adventure seekers are breaking the rules to visit Hyperion — the world’s tallest living tree. The forbidden area in California’s Redwood National Park is experiencing such a boost in popularity that officials recently issued a stern warning: Anyone caught near the tree can face up to
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Amid growing wildfire concerns, many adventure seekers are breaking the rules to visit Hyperion — the world’s tallest living tree. The forbidden area in California’s Redwood National Park is experiencing such a boost in popularity that officials recently issued a stern warning: Anyone caught near the tree can face up to
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Amid growing wildfire concerns, many adventure seekers are breaking the rules to visit Hyperion — the world’s tallest living tree. The forbidden area in California’s Redwood National Park is experiencing such a boost in popularity that officials recently issued a stern warning: Anyone caught near the tree can face up to
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Amid growing wildfire concerns, many adventure seekers are breaking the rules to visit Hyperion — the world’s tallest living tree. The forbidden area in California’s Redwood National Park is experiencing such a boost in popularity that officials recently issued a stern warning: Anyone caught near the tree can face up to
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Amid growing wildfire concerns, many adventure seekers are breaking the rules to visit Hyperion — the world’s tallest living tree. The forbidden area in California’s Redwood National Park is experiencing such a boost in popularity that officials recently issued a stern warning: Anyone caught near the tree can face up to
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad on Monday told the Iranian regime, “Go to hell,” just days after authorities informed her a man armed with an AK-47-style rifle was arrested in the Brooklyn neighborhood where she lives with her family, including her stepchildren. Authorities are investigating whether
Continue ReadingBy Sharif Paget and Zoe Sottile, CNN Amid disastrous flooding in eastern Kentucky, one anonymous man’s good deed helped rescue a grandmother and her family trapped inside a water-filled home. Randy Polly was driving to get gas on Thursday morning when he encountered floodwaters that left him stranded on a patch of dry land in
Continue ReadingBy Emily Chang and Susannah Cullinane, CNN A federal judge in New York City has thrown out a lawsuit that accused Bob Dylan of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in 1965. The plaintiff voluntarily dropped the case on Thursday, according to court documents. Manhattan Federal Judge Katherine Polk Failla officially dismissed the filing “with prejudice,”
Continue ReadingBy Chuck Johnston, CNN The University of West Georgia is grieving the death of an 18-year-old freshman and grappling with the notion that a former professor is charged in her death. Richard Sigman, 47, has been arrested and charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime for
Continue ReadingBy Artemis Moshtaghian and Justin Gamble, CNN Georgia authorities released body camera footage Friday of an incident from earlier this month where a mother experiencing what her family called a mental health crisis died due to a fatal injury while in police custody. Brianna Grier, 28, was experiencing a mental health episode on July 15
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Zoe Sottile, CNN A 17-year-old boy died Saturday, and four others were wounded when they were stabbed while riding inner tubes down a river in western Wisconsin, according to the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Scott Knudson told CNN multiple witnesses called law enforcement when the stabbing occurred on the
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson, CNN At least seven people are dead, including five children, after a head-on car crash on I-90 in northern Illinois, state police said. The crash involved a wrong-way driver, according to state troopers who responded to the scene just after 2 a.m. Sunday. A van and a car hit one another head
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Michelle Watson and Paradise Afshar, CNN The searing heat that has baked the Northwest is suspected to have led to at least 14 deaths in Oregon and three in Washington state, officials said. The most recent death in Oregon was reported Saturday. An “elderly male who died was in his home that
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Michelle Watson and Paradise Afshar, CNN The searing heat that has baked the Northwest is suspected to have led to at least 14 deaths in Oregon and eight in Washington state, officials said. The most recent death in Oregon was reported Saturday. An “elderly male who died was in his home that
Continue ReadingBy Sharif Paget and Zoe Sottile, CNN Amid disastrous flooding in eastern Kentucky, one anonymous man’s good deed helped rescue a grandmother and her family trapped inside a water-filled home. Randy Polly was driving to get gas on Thursday morning when he encountered floodwaters that left him stranded on a patch of dry land in
Continue ReadingBy Yenny Sanchez, CNN Indeed, Kevin Miller of Montague, Massachusetts, is lucky for life. He recently won $25,000 a year for life in the multistate lottery game Lucky for Life. The win comes six years after winning a $1 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “Cadillac Riches” game, state lottery officials said. He purchased
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside and Holly Yan, CNN At least seven shooting victims were hospitalized Sunday after a melee in downtown Orlando, Florida. The violence erupted around 2 a.m. ET Sunday after a large fight broke out, Orlando Police Chief Eric D. Smith said. An unidentified assailant pulled out a handgun and fired into the crowd,
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