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By Rebekah Riess and Michelle Watson, CNN An animatronic dragon caught fire at California’s Disneyland park on Saturday evening, according to Disney officials. “During the final showing of ‘Fantasmic’ at Disneyland park on Saturday evening, the dragon caught fire,” Disney officials told CNN in an email. “Anaheim Fire & Rescue quickly responded and the fire

By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN An American Airlines plane was forced to return to the airport Sunday morning in Columbus, Ohio, after a possible bird strike may have sparked an engine fire. The Boeing 737 designated Flight 1958 had departed Columbus for Phoenix before the crew reported a possible bird strike at around 8 a.m. local

By Celina Tebor and Zoe Sottile, CNN An alligator rescued from a lake in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in February has died, Bronx Zoo officials said Friday. Workers from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation discovered and rescued the four-foot alligator “in poor condition” from 37-degree Fahrenheit temperatures in the Brooklyn park. The

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Florida’s Brevard Zoo has welcomed a clutch of grasshopper sparrows, which the zoo said will help boost the species’ critically endangered population. The two sparrow chicks hatched on April 10 after incubating in their eggs for just 10 days, according to an email from the Brevard Zoo. The babies were born

By Mitchell McCluskey and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The NAACP filed a lawsuit Friday to challenge new legislation signed by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves that expands the state’s law enforcement reach in the city of Jackson and implements major changes to its judicial system. The laws signed Friday “represent a state takeover of Jackson” and strip

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A Florida woman and her family have filed a lawsuit against Celebrity Cruises, claiming the cruise line improperly stored her husband’s body in the ship’s cooler, as opposed to the morgue, after he died on board. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida

By Raja Razek, CNN USA Gymnastics star and world champion Simone Biles and NFL player Jonathan Owens are married. Both shared images on social media Saturday announcing their marriage, and Biles now includes “Owens” in her full name on Instagram and Twitter. “I do,” Biles wrote on social media Saturday. “Officially Owens.” “My person, forever,”

By Kia Fatahi, Samantha Beech and Emma Tucker, CNN Maine’s environmental health agency is warning a rail network that it will take over cleanup efforts at the site of a train derailment that happened last weekend near Rockwood — a village that borders Maine’s largest lake — if the company doesn’t make improvements to meet

By Christina Maxouris and Raja Razek, CNN The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday requiring each public school classroom to display a copy of the Ten Commandments, a move that drew backlash from civil liberty advocates who say lawmakers should not dictate what religious materials students are exposed to. The legislation, which passed the state

By Ray Sanchez, Miguel Marquez and Sarah Boxer, CNN The two professionals and colleagues, still in work attire, were part of the afternoon rush at the South Shore Shooting Range. Muffled rapid-fire gunshots could be heard in the parking lot outside Thursday on a quiet street shrouded by giant oaks and dotted with houses with

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Two empty homes overlooking a canyon slid off their foundations Saturday in Draper, Utah, prompting the evacuations of two adjacent residences, officials said Saturday. In October, city building officials declared two clifftop homes “unfit for human habitation” due to “earth shifting that resulted in sliding and breaks in the homes’ foundations,”

By Rebekah Riess and Zoe Sottile, CNN It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … meteor flashing through the Indiana night sky. Residents of Hamilton County, Indiana, had the out-of-this-world opportunity to witness a meteor Friday night. Residents reported what they thought might have been an explosion due to the loud sound and flashing

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The head of early childhood education in Alabama has been ousted after Gov. Kay Ivey learned of “woke concepts” in a resource book for pre-K teachers, officials said. Barbara Cooper, secretary of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education (ADECE), resigned after Ivey asked her to stop the use of the

By Paradise Afshar and Zoe Sottile, CNN There’s an adorable new monk seal pup on Hawaii’s Kaimana Beach — and authorities are taking every step to make sure mother and baby are both unbothered by humans. Authorities have erected a “temporary fence” around the beach to protect the mother and pup, according to a Facebook