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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Tennessee’s former vaccine manager said she received a dog muzzle in the mail before she was fired. Dr. Michelle Fiscus, a pediatrician who served as Tennessee’s medical director of vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization, was fired Monday. In the week prior to her termination, she received a package containing a dog muzzle,

By Carma Hassan, CNN Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known as Joe Exotic on the 2020 Netflix docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” will be resentenced, according to a court opinion filed Wednesday. The US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Maldonado-Passage’s 264-month prison sentence, which was handed down last year for the murder-for-hire plots involving animal

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN A good Samaritan is being credited for being instrumental in saving the life of a little girl who was critically injured when a car struck her home in New Salem, New Hampshire. Scott Demers told CNN affiliate WBZ that he was fixing the sprinklers a few doors down when he

By Kendall Lanier and Amanda Watts, CNN A 51-year-old Florida man has pleaded guilty to one count of murder for hire, according to a news release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. In June 2020 Daniel Slater asked an associate to murder members of his ex-girlfriend’s family — and to

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN A homeowner in Michigan found an unusual surprise when renovating his porch. David Olson, 33, said he uncovered over 150 bowling balls when he demolished the concrete slab of the porch at his home in Norton Shores. “Before I smashed anything with a hammer, I was able to pull one

By Ray Sanchez and Homero De la Fuente, CNN NFL star Richard Sherman was arrested early Wednesday after allegedly trying to break into the home of his in-laws and fighting with officers in Redmond, Washington, police said. The former San Francisco 49ers cornerback was being held at King County Correctional Facility after being booked by

By Rachel Trent, CNN Here’s an excuse to say, “yeet” — or “oof” — both of those words are now officially in the dictionary. Dictionary.com just added more than 300 new words and updated definitions, which capture a wide range of emotions expressed throughout the past year and include some slang terms we picked up

By Devon M. Sayers, CNN The administrator for the estate of Andrew Brown, Jr. filed a federal lawsuit alleging that deputies violated Brown’s Fourth amendment rights by using excessive force while they were attempting to serve arrest and search warrants on Brown. Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on April 21 by Pasquotank

By Nicquel Terry Ellis From chaotic school board meetings to political strife along party lines, critical race theory has ignited a controversy across the country in recent months. At least two dozen states have banned critical race theory or introduced legislation to ban it from being taught in the classroom, with many conservatives calling it

By Leah Asmelash, CNN A bestselling basketball video game will, for the first time ever, feature a woman athlete on its cover. Candace Parker, of the WNBA’s Chicago Sky, will be on the cover of a special edition of “NBA 2K22.” Her appearance marks the first time a female athlete will be on one of

By David Williams, CNN The tiny goldfish you can pick up at pet store for a few cents might not look like an environmental threat, but they can grow into a huge problem if set free in lakes or ponds — mainly because they can grow to be surprisingly huge. Burnsville, Minnesota, which is south

By Eric Levenson, CNN Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs warned residents about a surge of Covid-19 cases in the southern state on Tuesday and said that seven children are in ICUs, including two children on a ventilator. “Please be safe and if you are 12 or older — please protect yourself,” the doctor

By Madeline Holcombe and Brian Vitagliano, CNN Four Iranian nationals have been charged in an alleged plot to kidnap a US journalist and human rights activist living in New York, court documents show. According to an indictment unsealed Tuesday in a New York federal court, Alireza Shavaroghi Farahani, aka Vezerat Salimi and Haj Ali, 50;

By Casey Tolan and Curt Devine, CNN In the wake of last month’s deadly building collapse, inspectors from around South Florida have fanned out to review other high-rises for damage in an attempt to avert another tragedy. But Champlain Towers South had been visited regularly by officials in the years before it fell. Inspectors from