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CNN, SPECTRUM NEWS (ALBANY) By Elizabeth Wolfe, Andy Rose, John Miller and Sabrina Shulman, CNN (CNN) — The 46-year-old man accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena in upstate New York wrote a ransom note with intent to get money, according to an arraignment memorandum released Tuesday. Craig Nelson Ross Jr., abducted the girl “and wrote

By Jon Passantino and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The Marion, Kansas, police chief who ordered a widely-condemned law enforcement raid on a local newspaper and its publisher’s home this summer has resigned, the city’s mayor said. Marion Police Department Chief Gideon Cody resigned on Monday, Mayor David Mayfield told CNN, but declined to comment

By Justin Gamble and Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN (CNN) — A Maryland town swore in Black lawmakers Monday for the first time in its 200-year history. Last month, residents in Federalsburg, Maryland, a small town on the state’s Eastern Shore, elected Brandy James and Darlene Hammond to the town council, representing the town’s first majority-Black District 1.

By Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-seven suspected gang members have been arrested and nearly 150 pounds of drugs have been seized as part of a months-long investigation into organized crime in Los Angeles, law enforcement announced Monday. The suspects were allegedly operating a statewide narcotics and firearm trafficking network throughout California, authorities say. As

By Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — A North Dakota state senator, his wife and their two young children died in a plane crash as they were traveling through Utah, officials announced Monday. State Sen. Doug Larsen was piloting a plane as he traveled with his wife, Amy, and two of their sons Sunday evening in

By Nick Valencia and Maxime Tamsett, CNN (CNN) — The family of an Alabama man who died after being shot by police outside his home early Friday morning is asking for clarity as to what happened, his brother told CNN in a phone call on Monday. Police shot Stephen Perkins, 39, outside his home in

By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators are digging into the cause of a Cessna crash Sunday that killed a top aviation safety expert and a former NFL star. Richard McSpadden, 63, and Russ Francis, 70, died after the Cessna Cardinal they were flying crashed near the runway of the Lake Placid Airport, “striking

By Danny Freeman and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Philadelphia journalist and advocate Josh Kruger was shot and killed at his home early Monday morning, according to police. No weapons were recovered and there have been no arrests, a statement from police says. Kruger, 39, was shot seven times in the chest and abdomen at

By Alta Spells and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A corrections officer at a south Georgia prison was killed Sunday after an inmate allegedly attacked him “from behind with a homemade weapon,” the state department of corrections announced in a news release. Robert Clark, 42, was escorting two offenders, Layton Lester and Marko Willingham, from

CNN, WGRB By Steve Almasy, Michelle Watson and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Charlotte Sena, the 9-year-old girl who went missing while on a camping trip at a New York state park two days ago, has been found safe and a suspect has been detained, authorities said Monday evening. Before she was found, Charlotte’s parents

By Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — The woman who fatally shoved an 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach in New York was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison and five years post-release supervision, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office confirmed to CNN. Lauren Pazienza pushed vocal coach Barbara Gustern to the ground on

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Most tweens might brush off holding their parents’ hands as baby stuff. Not Amethyst Sistine Silva. The affectionate, hug-loving girl from Corpus Christi, Texas, known to everyone in her life as “Ame,” hadn’t yet aged out of clasping her mother’s palms between her 11-year-old fingers. “We would walk

By Josh Freedom du Lac, CNN (CNN) — The celebratory bullets began flying right around midnight, in the final moments of 2022. The child’s father heard two dings – Happy New Year bullets ricocheting in front of their apartment. “Ouch,” he heard his 11-year-old say. Then, she was gone. “Right at midnight, Amethyst was probably

CNN By Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — Children and teens in the US are dying of gun-related homicides and suicides in record numbers, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 2,279 firearm homicides in children and teens (ages 1 to 18) in 2021 – double the

By Steve Almasy, Michelle Watson and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Charlotte Sena, the 9-year-old girl who went missing while on a camping trip at a New York state park two days ago, has been found safe and a suspect has been detained, authorities said Monday evening. Before she was found, Charlotte’s parents received a

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Nearly two months after wildfires tore through Maui, several burn zones in Lahaina will reopen today for property owners to survey the destruction left behind. It will be the first time that many families see what remains of their homes and businesses. But on an inspiring note, Lahaina’s historic

By Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — Children and teens in the US are dying of gun-related homicides and suicides in record numbers, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 2,279 firearm homicides in children and teens (ages 1 to 18) in 2021 – double the number

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Fast casual Mexican chain Chipotle is facing a lawsuit filed by a federal agency on behalf of a former employee who said she was subject “to a barrage of harassing conduct based on her religion by her supervisor” because she wore a hijab. The religious harassment and retaliation lawsuit

By Joe Sutton and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — More Lahaina residents will be allowed to return to the burned remains of their homes on Monday – nearly two months after wildfires tore through Maui, obliterating homes, forcing people to flee and leaving 97 dead. Three previously closed off burn zones in the badly hit

CNN By Isabel Rosales and Jaide Garcia, CNN (CNN) — A former federal prosecutor involved in the early prosecution of a January 6 defendant was arrested in the stabbing of a driver on a Florida highway after a crash last week, authorities say, and new video shows a confrontation with a Good Samaritan who tried