CNN By Lauren del Valle and Ray Sanchez, CNN Pontiac, Michigan (CNN) — A 17-year-old girl testified Friday she “just prayed” and covered her head during Ethan Crumbley’s mass shooting at Michigan’s Oxford High School, which left four students dead and seven others wounded in 2021. “I didn’t know if those were my last moments,”
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CNN, WVTM By Alisha Ebrahimji, Zoe Sottile and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who admitted to staging her own kidnapping and triggering a 49-hour-long search, turned herself in and has been charged with making false reports. The 26-year-old is being charged with falsely reporting to law enforcement officers and falsely
Continue ReadingBy Nic Anderson, Julian Cummings, Zoe Sottile and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — State police are investigating after a patrol vehicle in Stamford, Connecticut, fatally struck a pastor as he crossed the street Wednesday. Stamford police officer Zachary Lockwood, 24, hit the Rev. Tommie Jackson, 69, around 4:12 p.m., Connecticut State Police Lt. Katharine Cummings
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, Zoe Sottile and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who admitted to staging her own kidnapping and triggering a 49-hour-long search, turned herself in and has been charged with making false reports. The 26-year-old is being charged with falsely reporting to law enforcement officers and falsely reporting an
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle and Ray Sanchez, CNN Pontiac, Michigan (CNN) — A 17-year-old girl testified Friday she “just prayed” and covered her head during Ethan Crumbley’s mass shooting at Michigan’s Oxford High School, which left four students dead and seven others wounded in 2021. “I didn’t know if those were my last moments,” Heidi
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Nickolas Wilt is finally going home after spending over 100 days in the hospital recovering from being shot in the head while responding to a fatal bank shooting in April. The 26-year-old underwent brain surgery after the shooting and spent roughly a month on a ventilator, police said. By
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Three years after a protester was fatally hit by a car during a Black Lives Matter protest in Seattle, the person responsible agreed to a plea deal on Thursday. Dawit Kelete, 30, entered guilty pleas to vehicular homicide and reckless vehicular assault – both felonies – along with a
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By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors in the case of Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in the fall, have filed a motion asking a judge to compel his defense team to share information about his potential alibi. The state’s filing on Thursday came days after attorneys for
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By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — The winning numbers for Friday’s $940 million Mega Millions jackpot – which would be the fifth-largest jackpot in the game’s history – have been drawn. The numbers are 5, 10, 28, 52, 63 and the gold Mega Ball is 18. If a ticket holder scores the grand prize, the
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest community of 3D-printed homes is being built in Texas, with residents slated to move in starting in September. The 100-home neighborhood just unveiled its first completed model — with curved walls “printed” using a concrete mix. Prospective buyers appear to be enticed by the robotic printers,
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest community of 3D-printed homes is being built in Texas, with residents slated to move in starting in September. The 100-home neighborhood just unveiled its first completed model — with curved walls “printed” using a concrete mix. Prospective buyers appear to be enticed by the robotic
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A Florida man has been charged with murder in the 1993 death of 12-year-old Jennifer Odom, a Tampa-area girl who had disappeared after getting off her school bus, authorities said Thursday. A grand jury indicted Jeffrey Norman Crum, 61, on charges of murder, kidnapping and sexual battery in connection
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By Nicole Chavez and Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — The College Board said Thursday it “resolutely” disagrees with any notion that enslavement was beneficial for African Americans – a statement coming after some people compared the contents of its Advanced Placement course on African American Studies with Florida’s recently approved Black history curriculum. “We resolutely
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By Rob Frehse, Zenebou Sylla and Nic Anderson, CNN (CNN) — An attorney for a group of women who were sexually abused by former Michigan State University sports physician Larry Nassar filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging the school’s board of trustees held “illegal secret votes” to prevent the release of thousands of documents in the
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CNN By Tierney Sneed and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith expanded his classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, making significant new allegations that Trump and his employees attempted to delete Mar-a-Lago security footage sought by the grand jury investigating the mishandling of the government records. The new charges were
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A New Jersey woman was arrested Wednesday, accused of posing as a doctor and prescribing medicine to people. Maria Macburnie, 62, was charged with practicing medicine by an unlicensed person, forgery, health care claims fraud, and three counts of distribution of a controlled dangerous substance, according to the Ocean
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By Omar Jimenez and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A rookie Louisville police officer who was shot in the head while responding to a deadly April shooting at a bank is set to be released after spending 109 days in the hospital where he was treated for his injuries, Louisville police said Thursday. Nickolas Wilt,
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By Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — At a botanical garden in Phoenix some cactuses can’t take the heat. Record-high temperatures in Arizona, combined with a lack of seasonal monsoons, have caused saguaro cactuses at the Desert Botanical Garden to become “highly stressed,” according to Chief Science Officer Kimberlie McCue. She said a saguaro can appear
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Police in Florida have released reconstructed photos of an unidentified woman whose remains were found in suitcases along the Intracoastal Waterway in Delray Beach earlier this month. In total, detectives found three suitcases along Delray Beach, 9 miles north of Boca Raton, filled with human remains – one floating
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By Rebekah Riess and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — Five Florida school system employees were arrested and charged with failure to report suspected child abuse after being made aware of the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old student in 2021, according to criminal complaints in the case. The school staffers were identified in court records
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