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By Eric Levenson and Andi Babineau, CNN After a shooting of two faculty members at a Denver high school Wednesday, authorities have found a male body about two-tenths of a mile from a vehicle connected to the suspect, according to Park County Sheriff Tom McGraw. “We have not identified the body at this time,” he

By Amy Simonson, CNN Lori Vallow will not face the death penalty if she is convicted or murder in the deaths of her two children, an Idaho judge ruled. Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, face multiple counts of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old

By Nicole Chavez and Jalen Brown, CNN Health advocates are urging Ohio state environmental officials to test for lead contamination in a community near the site of a metal factory explosion last month. A maintenance worker was killed and 12 other people were injured in the February 20 explosion at the I. Schumann & Co.

By Pete Muntean, CNN The Federal Aviation Administration told airlines in a rare industrywide bulletin Wednesday to step up vigilance at airports after a series of close calls on or near runways. The agency published an “aviation safety call to action,” urging carriers to “reinforce adherence to published processes and procedures.” “Operators should evaluate information

By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN More than a year after a student told the US Coast Guard she was plied with alcohol and raped by her boss while training at sea, the agency is going after her alleged assailant’s ability to work on commercial ships. Coast Guard officials filed administrative charges against mariner

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Taylor Romine, CNN The union representing thousands of Los Angeles school workers said members will return to work Friday after concluding a massive three-day strike that demanded increased wages and better working conditions. The Service Employees International Union Local 99, which represents about 30,000 Los Angeles school custodians, cafeteria workers, bus

By Sara Smart, CNN The New Haven police chief is recommending terminating four of the officers charged in the transportation incident that left a man paralyzed from the chest down in a police van last year. Five officers with the New Haven Police Department were arrested and charged with second degree reckless endangerment in November

By Sara Smart, CNN Two inmates who escaped from a Newport News, Virginia, jail by digging out and scaling a wall were found at a nearby IHOP hours later Tuesday, officials said. The Newport News Jail Annex discovered the two inmates, John M. Garza, 37, and Arley V. Nemo, 43, missing during a routine head

By Randi Kaye and Christina Maxouris, CNN The death of Stephen Smith, whose body was found in the middle of a road in 2015, is being investigated as a homicide, a spokesperson for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division told CNN on Tuesday. The development comes almost two years after the murders of Margaret “Maggie”

By Macie Goldfarb, Devon M. Sayers and Zoe Sottile, CNN The contents of the home of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh and his family will be auctioned off on Thursday, according to a South Georgia auction house. The house is located in Colleton County, South Carolina, on a hunting property called Moselle. The property became a