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By Eric Levenson, CNN Alex Murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of murdering his wife and son, but his days in court are far from over. Murdaugh, the 54-year-old disbarred attorney, is still charged with 99 counts of embezzlement, computer crime, money laundering, conspiracy and more for what

By Rebekah Riess A suspect is in custody after a child and two adults were killed and a fourth person was wounded in a possible home invasion shooting in Bolingbrook, Illinois, on Sunday, police said. Officers responded to a report of a possible home invasion around 8:15 p.m. in the 100 block of Lee Lane

By Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan, Laura Ly and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN As federal investigators visit the site of another Norfolk Southern train derailment in Ohio, the company vowed new safety measures in response to its toxic train wreck that ravaged the town of East Palestine. Norfolk Southern will revamp its hot bearing detector network as

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Authorities in New York’s Long Island were stunned to find a massive 14-foot reticulated python lying on the side of the road. Environmental conservation police officers got a call about the out-of-place reptile on February 14, according to a news release Wednesday from the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation. The python

By Artemis Moshtaghian, Isa Kaufman-Geballe and Samantha Beech, CNN At least seven people have been injured in a five-alarm fire in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City thought to have been caused by a lithium-ion battery, according to fire officials. A civilian and an emergency services worker were seriously injured, and five firefighters received

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Maurice Hastings, a man wrongfully convicted of a 1983 robbery-homicide and sexual assault, has been declared innocent by a California judge. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan formally declared Hastings factually innocent and cleared the arrest and prosecution from his criminal record during a Wednesday hearing, according to

By Rebekah Riess and Michelle Watson, CNN Five people were injured in a shooting at a Los Angeles beach Saturday — a few miles from where city officials had hosted a gun buyback event earlier in the day, according to the Los Angeles Police Department and City Councilmember Tim McOsker. The LAPD’s Harbor Division responded

By Ella Nilsen, CNN When Elise Joshi posted a TikTok video about the Alaska oil drilling project known as Willow in early February, she didn’t have high hopes it would go viral. Joshi, 20, posts often about climate issues on TikTok for the account Gen-Z for Change, as well as her personal account. She’s well

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Convicted former attorney Alex Murdaugh‘s decision to take the stand at his double murder trial was not entirely surprising given his family’s legal legacy stretching back to the early 1900s in coastal South Carolina. But legal experts say it was ultimately a costly maneuver for the scion of the well-connected Murdaugh

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Five digital activists have created a website to help provide shelter to survivors of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey that left millions homeless amid freezing winter temperatures. Just 48 hours after the earthquake reduced cities to rubble, Avi Schiffmann built TakeShelter, a site that connects displaced people with hosts around

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Two men in Nebraska have been cited after hunting and killing a bald eagle, according to the Stanton County Sheriff’s Office. The men, who are citizens of Honduras, have been charged with unlawful possession of a bald eagle, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. The men indicated they