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By Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — A North Carolina woman is facing false report and other charges after police say she sent anonymous messages to a friend and the Department of Social Services saying she had been attacked and killed. Maggie Sweeney, 37, was arrested on Monday and released on a written promise to appear

By Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — The woman who fatally shoved an 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach in New York pleaded guilty to a first-degree manslaughter charge, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced Wednesday. Under the terms of her plea agreement, Lauren Pazienza will be sentenced to eight years in prison and five years

By Ray Sanchez, Jessica Xing and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Philadelphia’s police commissioner on Wednesday said she intends to fire the officer who fatally shot a 27-year-old man in an encounter in which video contradicted the initial account provided by police. Officer Mark Dial, who discharged his weapon during a traffic stop, had been

By Danny Freeman, Holly Yan and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — The occupant of a home who opened fire when deputies tried to serve an eviction notice is dead after an hourslong standoff, Pittsburgh authorities said Wednesday. “The subject in this incident was pronounced deceased by @PghEMS at 5:08 p.m. EST,” public safety officials posted

By Kelly McCleary, CNN (CNN) — The drowning death of a former White House chef who was working for the Obama family has been ruled an accident, a spokesperson with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security said. Tafari Campbell, 45, was found dead last month in Edgartown Great Pond on the south

By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — Safety watchdogs call it a runaway problem on America’s runways that could end in tragedy – the near collisions of commercial aircraft. Now, the federal government is funding millions of dollars in airport construction projects to help address the issue. In an announcement shared first with CNN, the Federal

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — A lot of hope has been placed on the possibility of ending the strikes that have paused Hollywood productions. This week, major studios outlined their latest offer to striking writers, including what the studios say is the highest wage increase in 35 years. However, it remains unclear whether the

CNN, WRCB By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — A lot of hope has been placed on the possibility of ending the strikes that have paused Hollywood productions. This week, major studios outlined their latest offer to striking writers, including what the studios say is the highest wage increase in 35 years. However, it remains unclear

By Eric Levenson, CNN Media, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Newly tested DNA evidence from the 1997 killing of a 70-year-old Pennsylvania woman indicates she was sexually assaulted and fatally beaten by an unknown man – and not by the three men who have spent over two decades behind bars for her murder, a forensics expert testified

By Whitney Wild, CNN (CNN) — Newly unsealed court records provide insight into how law enforcement justified a highly unusual raid of the office of a Marion, Kansas, newspaper – a decision that has drawn widespread condemnation from news organizations and press freedom advocates. The Marion County Sheriff’s office said it was investigating “identity theft”

By Joe Sutton, Nouran Salahieh and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Heavy flooding just south of the entrance to Grand Canyon National Park prompted shelter-in-place orders, power outages and more than 100 evacuations of residents and guests, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office said. About 70 students from the nearby Grand Canyon Unified School District who

By Joe Sutton, Jason Hanna and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — Investigators searched a former residential property of Dennis Rader, the self-proclaimed BTK serial killer, in Kansas this week primarily in connection with a probe into the 1976 disappearance of an Oklahoma teenager, authorities said Wednesday. Authorities also are checking whether Rader, who pleaded guilty

By Jessica Xing and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A 7-year-old boy was attacked by a bear in the backyard of his Westchester County, New York, home and taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries Tuesday morning, police said. The child was in the yard of the North Castle home when he was attacked

WOWT, FAMILY PHOTOS, CNN By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A childcare employee has been arrested after a 1-year-old child died Monday after being left in a daycare van, police in Omaha, Nebraska, said. An Omaha Police Department statement did not give details of the exact circumstances that led to the child’s death, and how

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A childcare employee has been arrested after a 1-year-old child died Monday after being left in a daycare van, police in Omaha, Nebraska, said. An Omaha Police Department statement did not give details of the exact circumstances that led to the child’s death, and how long the child was

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — An attorney representing the family of a 27-year-old man who was shot and killed by a Philadelphia police officer last Monday released new surveillance video of the fatal police encounter that contradicts the initial narrative of the incident as provided by police. Police initially told reporters that officers gave

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — The head of the Smithsonian Institution is apologizing for the dark history behind its collection of human remains. In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, addressed how the institution amassed a collection of tens of thousands of body parts during the