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By Cheri Mossburg, CNN As Los Angeles students and staff prepare to return to school Tuesday, about 62,000 have tested positive for Covid-19, school district data show. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is requiring all students and employees to show a negative test result before returning. It is the nation’s second largest district,

By Ryan Bergeron, CNN On January 9, 2022, an electric space heater sparked a fire in a Bronx apartment building that killed 17 people, eight of them children. More than 60 people were injured. New York City’s fire commissioner said it is one of the worst fires in the city’s modern history. As the fire’s

By Amanda Watts, CNN The Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the death of Teddy Balkind, the high school hockey player who died last week, an accident. According to an e-mail to CNN the ME’s office said Balkind died of an “incised wound of [the] neck.” The short statement went on to say

By Joe Sutton and Claudia Dominguez, CNN A Texas mother has been charged with endangering a child after she allegedly placed her 13-year-old son, who had Covid-19, into her car’s trunk to avoid being exposed to the virus, according to a warrant from the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. Sarah Beam, 41, was charged after

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN New York City and Philadelphia are mourning the loss of dozens of lives, including many children, in horrific apartment housing fires over the past few days. Together, the fires killed 29 people, 17 of them reportedly children. Adding to the tragedy are the winter temperatures in the region and the raging

By Josh Campbell, Melissa Alonso and Stella Chan, CNN A commuter train speeding toward them, the police officers rush to the wrecked airplane on the tracks — its bloodied pilot still inside. “Go, go, go!” an officer yells as they drag the apparently disoriented pilot to safety. Four seconds later, the Metrolink train’s horn blasts

By Susannah Cullinane, Brynn Gingras, Bonney Kapp, Mirna Alsharif and Amir Vera, CNN A malfunctioning electric space heater in a bedroom was the source of an apartment building fire Sunday in the Bronx that killed 17 people, including 8 children, making it one of the worst fires in the city’s history, New York Mayor Eric

By Omar Jimenez and Kelly McCleary, CNN Dominick Black, who bought Kyle Rittenhouse the gun he used in deadly shootings during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020, will no longer face criminal charges. Black instead will plead no contest to a county ordinance citation of contributing to the delinquency of a child and face a

By Amir Vera, Brad Parks and Holly Yan, CNN Chicago teachers will be back in school Tuesday and students are scheduled to return to in-person learning on Wednesday after the Chicago Teachers Union house of delegates voted to end the teachers’ work action over Covid-19 mitigation measures, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said at a Monday night

By Tina Burnside, CNN The mother and two siblings of a 6-year-old North Chicago boy who was found dead in Indiana have been charged in connection with his death, the Lake County, Illinois, State’s Attorney Office said. The body of Damari Perry was found at an abandoned home in Gary, Indiana, overnight on January 8,