By Tina Burnside, CNN A 1-year-old girl is dead and another child is recovering after an 8-year-old boy accidentally shot them while playing with his father’s gun, according to Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. The incident occurred on Sunday at the Lion’s Motel in Pensacola, Florida. During a news conference on Monday, Escambia County Sheriff Chip
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Henderson, Brad Parks and Holly Yan, CNN A grandmother who was shot by her grandson before he killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school has been released from a hospital. University Health in San Antonio said a 66-year-old patient injured the day of the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, Mark Morales, Sonia Moghe and Eric Levenson, CNN Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Tuesday for carrying out a years-long scheme with her longtime confidante Jeffrey Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls. Maxwell, 60, did not testify in her defense during the trial late last
Continue ReadingBy Devon M. Sayers, CNN An employee at a Subway restaurant in Atlanta was shot and killed Sunday after a customer got upset about a condiment on his sandwich, Atlanta Police said. Police were called to the restaurant near Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta shortly after 6:30 p.m., a news release from the police department
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Can you keep a secret? Not many people know that pilots and cabin crew have access to hidden capsule-like spaces on some planes — usually right above the main cabin — to rest and recharge. A passenger walking by would probably think it’s a closet, but behind the door is a
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Can you keep a secret? Not many people know that pilots and cabin crew have access to hidden capsule-like spaces on some planes — usually right above the main cabin — to rest and recharge. A passenger walking by would probably think it’s a closet, but behind the door is a
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Can you keep a secret? Not many people know that pilots and cabin crew have access to hidden capsule-like spaces on some planes — usually right above the main cabin — to rest and recharge. A passenger walking by would probably think it’s a closet, but behind the door is a
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Can you keep a secret? Not many people know that pilots and cabin crew have access to hidden capsule-like spaces on some planes — usually right above the main cabin — to rest and recharge. A passenger walking by would probably think it’s a closet, but behind the door is a
Continue ReadingBy Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Krista Johnson gets anxious when she thinks about the rising cost of gas, food and housing as she prepares to give birth to her daughter, who is due in August. Johnson said she’s been trying to save money by cooking more at home and packing her husband’s lunches instead of
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Can you keep a secret? Not many people know that pilots and cabin crew have access to hidden capsule-like spaces on some planes — usually right above the main cabin — to rest and recharge. A passenger walking by would probably think it’s a closet, but behind the door is a
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, Pete Muntean and Dakin Andone, CNN A team of National Transportation Safety Board investigators arrived in Missouri Tuesday to probe the derailment of an Amtrak train that left at least four people dead and sent surviving passengers scrambling from the wreckage. The derailment occurred as the train, traveling eastbound to Chicago, collided
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera and Randi Kaye, CNN Jenny and Lisa had two very different experiences when they each decided to visit the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, nearly two weeks apart. Lisa, 18, was able to undergo an abortion procedure on June 10, she told CNN Monday. Jenny, 18, came in Monday unaware that the
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera and Randi Kaye, CNN Jenny and Lisa had two very different experiences when they each decided to visit the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, nearly two weeks apart. Lisa, 18, was able to undergo an abortion procedure on June 10, she told CNN Monday. Jenny, 18, came in Monday unaware that the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, Mark Morales, Sonia Moghe and Eric Levenson, CNN Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Tuesday for carrying out a years-long scheme with her longtime confidante Jeffrey Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls. Maxwell, 60, did not testify in her defense during the trial late last
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, Amanda Musa and Travis Caldwell, CNN At least 46 people were found dead Monday in sweltering conditions in a semitruck in San Antonio, according to authorities, in a scene the mayor called a “horrific human tragedy.” The victims were migrants, City Councilwoman Adriana Rocha Garcia said Monday after a briefing by the
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera, Joe Sutton, Amy Simonson, Amanda Musa, Travis Caldwell and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Two men have been charged in connection with the deaths of 51 migrants who were found in sweltering conditions in a semitruck in San Antonio, according to criminal complaints filed in US District Court for the Western District of Texas.
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Christina Maxouris, CNN Members in the Missouri community where an Amtrak train struck a dump truck and killed four people this week had previously raised concerns about the crossing where the crash took place, a top federal official said Wednesday. “The community has really been focused on this crossing for years,”
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales, CNN The parents of accused Oxford, Michigan, school shooter Ethan Crumbley are expected to call their son as a witness to testify at their own trial, attorneys for the parents said in court Monday. Jennifer and James Crumbley were each charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter after their teenage son allegedly
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales and Pervaiz Shallwani, CNN Authorities in New York filed lawsuits against 10 companies selling parts for so-called ghost guns, in an effort to hold distributors accountable for the proliferation of mail-order components used to make untraceable guns that lead to shootings. The lawsuits, invoking a newly enacted state “public nuisance” law, hit
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Can you keep a secret? Not many people know that pilots and cabin crew have access to hidden capsule-like spaces on some planes — usually right above the main cabin — to rest and recharge. A passenger walking by would probably think it’s a closet, but behind the door is a
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