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By Holly Yan, Tina Burnside, Ella Nilsen and Caroll Alvarado, CNN A train hauling ethanol derailed Thursday morning in Raymond, Minnesota, igniting several rail cars and forcing a mandatory evacuation of the city of about 800, officials said. The fire was still burning more than 14 hours after the derailment, the US Environmental Protection Agency

By Taylor Romine and Nicole Norman, CNN Seven California Highway Patrol officers and a registered nurse were charged for the 2020 death of a man who was being restrained on the ground and repeatedly said he could not breathe, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced in a news conference. Edward Bronstein, 38, was

By Rob Frehse and Travis Caldwell, CNN An independent investigation shows the Fairfax County Public Schools system in Virginia did not intentionally refrain from notifying some high school students of their National Merit Scholarship recognition in a timely manner, the system superintendent announced Wednesday. The school district asked a law firm in January to conduct

By Mallika Kallingal, Nouran Salahieh and Eric Levenson, CNN Some of the 911 calls from The Covenant School shooting have been released by the City of Nashville, capturing some of the tense moments as the carnage played out. One woman who says she is in the building as the shooting is happening tells the operator,

By Alisha Ebrahimji, Tina Burnside, Chloe Liu, Haley Britzky and Dave Alsup, CNN Nine US service members were killed after two helicopters with the 101st Airborne Division crashed late Wednesday in southwestern Kentucky, officials said. There were no survivors. The two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters crashed around 10 p.m. in Trigg County near the Tennessee

By Zenebou Sylla, Gili Remen and Phil Gast, CNN Irvo Otieno had a million-dollar smile, respected others and stood up for what he believed was right, family and friends said Wednesday at the funeral for the man who died after he was pinned to the floor by security officers at a Virginia mental health hospital.

By Shimon Prokupecz and Rachel Clarke, CNN Two active shooters in two elementary schools, both armed with assault rifles and both ready to kill. Police in both Uvalde, Texas, last May and Nashville just this week rushed to answer 911 calls of gunfire. But while the Nashville shooter was stopped within minutes, with six innocents

By Alta Spells, CNN The South Carolina judge who found himself in the headlines during the high-profile murder trial of Alex Murdaugh said he didn’t anticipate the proceedings would be so captivating when he made the decision to make them available for everyone to view. “It was an important case, all cases are, any case

By Faith Karimi, CNN The live-in boyfriend of missing woman Irene Gakwa has pleaded guilty to stealing money from her in the weeks after she vanished a year ago in Wyoming. Gakwa’s family last saw her on a video call on February 24, 2022, and reported her missing about a month later. She was 32

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Nashville, most major companies have remained noticeably silent on the issue of gun violence. Corporate America has grown quiet on guns for fear of political blowback and antagonizing gun rights supporters, analysts say. But now, executives are facing mounting pressure to take a

By Andy Rose and Paradise Afshar, CNN A 12-year-old boy in Milwaukee was charged with first-degree intentional homicide after being accused of killing a man to steal his guns, court records show. The boy, who is not named because of his age, allegedly carried out the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Brandon Felton inside of a

By Gregory Krieg, CNN The woman standing outside Nashville’s Covenant School was calm and direct. The building was locked down, but two young students were still missing. “Upstairs,” she told Officer Rex Engelbert, “there are a bunch of kids.” After being let in the school by another staffer, Engelbert, whose body camera footage provided a

By Amanda Jackson, Jamiel Lynch and Aya Elamroussi, CNN One Alabama officer died and another is in critical condition after they were shot by a suspect who barricaded himself inside an apartment as they were responding to a reported domestic violence attack on a woman in Huntsville, officials said. Both officers were taken to a

By Nicole Chavez and Justin Gamble, CNN A film about a Black first grader who integrated an all-White elementary school in the South is under review in a Florida school district after a parent objected to the movie’s use of slurs and argued it could teach students that “White people hate Black people,” according to

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Paradise Afshar, CNN Human remains discovered in Lake Mead in October have been identified as a 39-year-old man who is believed to have drowned in the reservoir nearly five decades ago, officials announced Tuesday. Medical examiners determined the remains belong to Donald Smith, a Las Vegas resident who reportedly drowned in

By Treasure Welle and Paradise Afshar, CNN A Wisconsin man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a 2022 firebombing attack on an anti-abortion organization’s office in the state’s capital after DNA evidence linked him to the crime scene, prosecutors said. Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, 29, of Madison, was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport on one