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By Dakin Andone, CNN Oklahoma has executed by lethal injection Benjamin Cole, who was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of his 9-month-old daughter Brianna Victoria Cole, over the objections of defense attorneys who argued the 57-year-old suffered from schizophrenia and was severely mentally ill. The case highlighted a longstanding issue in the debate

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN About 12,000 suspected fentanyl pills packaged in popular candy boxes were seized at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday, authorities said. Someone tried to go through TSA screening with several bags of candy and snacks, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. But there was no candy inside

By Taylor Romine and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The Uvalde school board unanimously accepted the retirement of superintendent Hal Harrell on Wednesday, nearly five months after one of the deadliest mass school shootings in US history at an elementary school in the Texas district. Harrell had announced last week he’d step aside amid continued backlash over

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A boy has died after being infected by a rare brain-eating amoeba, which officials believe he may have been exposed to at Lake Mead, the Southern Nevada Health District announced Wednesday. The juvenile may have encountered the organism, called Naegleria fowleri, in the park’s Kingman Wash area, located on the Arizona

By Raja Razek, CNN A pilot has been safely recovered after an F-35 combat aircraft crashed at the Hill Air Force Base south of Ogden, Utah, Wednesday, according to the 388th Fighter Wing. The F-35A Lightning II crashed around 6:15 p.m. local time at the north end of the base’s runway, the wing said on

By Amir Vera and Rob Frehse, CNN A woman is facing multiple assault charges after Massachusetts authorities say she unleashed bees on deputies who were enforcing an eviction, according to a release from the Hampden County Sheriff’s Office. The incident took place on the morning of October 12 at the scene of an ongoing eviction

By Stephanie Gallman and Andi Babineau, CNN A group of college wrestlers from Wyoming faced their toughest opponent yet over the weekend. Kendell Cummings and Brady Lowry – wrestling teammates at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming – were mauled by a grizzly bear Saturday while antler hunting. The young men were released from a Billings,

By Amir Vera and Kiely Westhoff, CNN It’s been five days since 20-year-old Misrach Ewunetie, a junior at Princeton University, went missing, prompting university officials to intensify their search. Ewunetie was last seen around 3 a.m. near a residential building on the New Jersey campus, according to the university. The university first reported her missing

By Mark Morales, Gloria Pazmino and Laura Ly, CNN New York City opened a sprawling tent camp Wednesday on an isolated East River island to temporarily house hundreds of single, adult male migrants whose arrival has prompted the mayor to declare a state of emergency. Months after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other southern border

By Amir Vera and Claudia Dominguez, CNN The man convicted of killing 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Wednesday. Raymond Douglas Moody, 62, was also sentenced to two consecutive 30-year sentences for the charges of criminal sexual assault and kidnapping. Moody pleaded guilty to all the charges

By Josh Campbell, CNN A Florida man and his teenage son have been arrested for attempted murder after allegedly opening fire on a woman sitting in her car, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference on Monday. Describing the Saturday incident as a “really, really stupid” crime that nearly led to the

By Rosa Flores, CNN The bodies of migrants who died trying to cross the US-Mexico border are being kept in a refrigerated container near the Rio Grande because the local funeral home can longer store them, a Texas sheriff says. Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber has been working with consulate staff to identify five bodies