By Mirna Alsharif and Liam Reilly, CNN A southern Pennsylvania school board has reversed its decision to ban anti-racism books and resources. The Central York school board unanimously approved the reinstatement of a list of anti-racism books and resources, effective immediately, spokeswoman Julie Randall Romig confirmed to CNN. The reversal comes a week after a student protest
Continue ReadingBy Christina Carrega, CNN The US Justice Department on Thursday announced that a federal grand jury indicted a former Louisiana State Police officer for allegedly using excessive force with a flashlight against a Black motorist, the department said in a news release. Jacob Brown, 31, has been charged with a single count of deprivation of
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By Dakin Andone, Omar Jimenez and Amir Vera, CNN The coroner of LaSalle County, Illinois, on Thursday identified a body found earlier this month as missing graduate student Jelani Day. The LaSalle County Coroner confirmed Day’s identity through forensic dental identification and DNA testing and comparison, the office said in a news release shared by
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A gunman who killed a woman and wounded at least 14 other people at a western Tennessee Kroger before apparently killing himself this week was a third-party vendor for the store, police said Friday. UK Thang, 29, was the man who shot 10 employees and five customers Thursday
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Jenn Selva, CNN At least one person was killed and 14 others injured in a shooting at a Kroger in Collierville, Tennessee, police officials said Thursday afternoon. The shooter was also found dead, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Police Chief Dale Lane said. Lane said 13 victims were taken to
Continue ReadingBy Nick Valencia and Maria Cartaya, CNN Dozens of police officers were standing by as the Palm Beach County School Board held a meeting Wednesday evening with masked and unmasked spectators watching from separate rooms, as the board said it would abide with the latest state rule that takes a “symptoms-based approach” to quarantining students.
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly, CNN An incident at Ft. Meade in Maryland Thursday morning was in fact a drill, according to a public affairs officer. Public Affairs at Ft. Meade are investigating why incorrect information was given to media outlets, including CNN. After multiple news reports surfaced regarding an active shooter at Fort Meade in Maryland,
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By Eric Levenson and Ray Sanchez, CNN The city of Moab, Utah, said it is launching an investigation into the Moab City Police Department’s handling of a dispute between Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie in August several weeks before she was killed. Moab said in a statement the police department has received both praises and
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly, CNN An incident at Ft. Meade in Maryland Thursday morning was in fact a drill, according to a public affairs officer. Public Affairs at Ft. Meade are investigating why incorrect information was given to media outlets, including CNN. After multiple news reports surfaced regarding an active shooter at Fort Meade in Maryland,
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN In the months before Mary Johnson disappeared, her sister said she wasn’t herself. Johnson and her husband, who had been living in the home of her sister Gerry Davis in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, abruptly left and moved to Marysville about 40 miles away, Davis said. She rarely answered her phone when Davis
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By Ray Sanchez and Dakin Andone, CNN The mother of Jelani Day, an Illinois graduate student whose body was identified nearly a month after he was reported missing, is criticizing the way authorities handled her son’s case. “To them, Jelani didn’t mean anything,” Carmen Bolden Day told CNN on Friday. “There is no effort. There
Continue ReadingBy Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN David Robinson has been in Arizona for the last three months searching for his 24-year-old son, Daniel Robinson, who went missing after leaving a work site in the desert in his Jeep Renegade on June 23. Robinson, who lives in South Carolina, hired an independent investigator and assembled a volunteer
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN David Robinson has been in Arizona for the last three months searching for his 24-year-old son Daniel Robinson who went missing after leaving a work site in the desert in his Jeep Renegade on June 23. Robinson, who lives in South Carolina, hired an independent investigator and assembled a volunteer
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN In the months before Mary Johnson disappeared, her sister said she wasn’t herself. Johnson and her husband, who had been living in the home of her sister Gerry Davis in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, abruptly left and moved to Marysville about 40 miles away, Davis said. She rarely answered her phone when Davis
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By Amy Simonson, CNN Police officers are supposed to protect and serve. One officer’s service is living beyond his time. Officer Mark Priebe, who’s been with Missouri’s Springfield Police Department for 21 years, became paralyzed from the waist down after a suspect struck him in June 2020 with an SUV outside the police headquarters, officials
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By Jenn Selva, Dakin Andone and Madeline Holcombe, CNN A source close to the family of Brian Laundrie told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday that Gabby Petito‘s fiancé, who is now the subject of a federal warrant, left his parents’ Florida home last Tuesday without his cell phone and wallet. Laundrie’s parents were concerned that
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN Several students in South Carolina’s second-largest school district were sent home Wednesday for not complying with a mask mandate aimed at mitigating the spread of the coronavirus. Fifteen students at Thomas C. Cario Middle School in the Charleston County School District (CCSD) will continue their learning remotely until
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By Rebekah Riess and Leyla Santiago, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced that the state has put out a revised rule which follows a “symptom-based approach” to quarantining students, meaning asymptomatic children exposed to Covid-19 in classrooms could be sent back to school by parents. “If somebody is symptomatic, of course they stay
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores and Christina Maxouris, CNN For Rolph Louis, a Haitian migrant hoping for a fresh start in New York, the journey to the United States from Chile took nearly two months. Louis told CNN he felt he had little choice but to leave his homeland of Haiti, an island nation that has been
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores and Christina Maxouris, CNN For Rolph Louis, a Haitian migrant hoping for a fresh start in New York, the journey to the United States from Chile took nearly two months. Louis told CNN he felt he had little choice but to leave his homeland of Haiti, an island nation that has been
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