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By Amy Simonson and Zoe Sottile, CNN A 60-year-old man was swimming in Hawaii’s Anaehoomalu Bay Sunday when he was attacked by a shark, local officials say. The man was about 200 yards offshore when a shark attacked him around 12:40 p.m. HST, according to a news release from the Hawaii Fire Rescue Department. The

By Treasure Welle and Michelle Watson, CNN The University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky has reached a settlement of more than $14 million with the family of a student wrestler who died of heat stroke in 2020, the university and family’s attorney have said. Grant Brace died after a “punishment practice” during which university wrestling

By David Close, CNN New York Knicks hero Willis Reed has died, the National Basketball Retired Players Association said Tuesday. He was 80 years old. Reed led the Knicks to two championship titles in the 1970s, which included one of the most iconic moments in basketball history. Although suffering from a torn thigh muscle, Reed

By Negar Mahmoodi and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Every spring, Mona Gorjestani eagerly awaits the arrival of Nowruz. “I have wonderful memories of preparing for Nowruz with my family,” the San Francisco Bay Area resident said. “When I was younger, it was definitely a bragging point to my American friends.” Persian New Year, which is celebrated

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN California is bracing for yet another powerful, atmospheric river storm this week, continuing the onslaught of major weather whiplash after a yearslong, historic megadrought. Many welcomed this winter’s heavy rain and snow since it was so desperately needed to replenish the state’s severely drained reservoirs and depleted groundwater. But the storms

By Sara Smart, Elizabeth Wolfe and Dakin Andone, CNN The first-grade teacher allegedly shot by a 6-year-old student in her Virginia classroom can’t forget the look on the student’s face as he aimed the gun at her and moments later “thought I had died,” she told NBC in her first interview since the January incident.

By Kim Berryman, Brian Todd, Andy Rose, Michelle Watson and Eric Levenson, CNN Surveillance video released by a prosecutor Tuesday shows Irvo Otieno being pinned to the floor by multiple security officers at a Virginia state mental health facility in the moments leading up to his death earlier this month. Dinwiddie County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ann

By Rob Kuznia and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN In late August of 2021, Minneapolis police responded to a shooting along I-94, where they found a BMW sedan that had crashed into a freeway median. Slumped behind the steering wheel was 38-year-old Luis Damian Martinez Ortiz, who’d suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the chest. After reviewing

By Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A Colorado dentist is accused of fatally poisoning his wife by putting arsenic in her protein shakes after ordering it online and making a number of suspicious internet searches in the weeks leading up to her death, including “how to make poison,” according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

By Cheri Mossburg and Holly Yan, CNN A union representing 30,000 Los Angeles school custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other support staff has started a three-day strike with support from the district’s teachers, effectively stopping classes for more than a half million students in the nation’s second-largest school system. Members of Service Employees International

By Sara Smart and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN The first-grade teacher who was allegedly shot by a 6-year-old student in her Newport News, Virginia, classroom has spoken out for the first time since the January incident, saying in an interview with NBC that she has tried to “stay positive.” “I’ve been doing OK. It’s been challenging,”

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The Miami Beach City Commission voted Monday to not set a curfew for this upcoming weekend, but the panel did pass a measure ordering liquor stores to close early after two deadly shootings riled the popular Florida spring break location. During a special meeting in the wake of the fatal shootings,

By Amanda Jackson, CNN Two teens on spring break were killed Sunday night in a sledding accident in a closed area of Copper Mountain Ski Resort in central Colorado. The teens reportedly were riding tandem down the halfpipe and went airborne off a large snowbank at the bottom, according to a Monday statement from the

By Ryan Young and Devon M. Sayers, CNN The man charged in the shooting of an unarmed Black man last month has resigned from the Shreveport, Louisiana, police department. Former Officer Alexander Tyler, 23, resigned from the force late last week, according to Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux. Tyler had been on administrative leave since being