By Lauren Lee, CNN In 1997 Warrick Dunn signed a multimillion-dollar contract to play professional football with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. His coach at the time, Tony Dungy, encouraged the rookie to find a way to give back. “I wanted to do something that was a little bit more impactful, not just handing out
Continue Reading By Lauren Lee, CNN In 1997 Warrick Dunn signed a multimillion-dollar contract to play professional football with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. His coach at the time, Tony Dungy, encouraged the rookie to find a way to give back. “I wanted to do something that was a little bit more impactful, not just handing out
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By Laura Ly, CNN New York’s governor signed legislation Wednesday criminalizing fake Covid-19 vaccination cards, according to a news release from her office. The new law makes the falsification of cards a misdemeanor and creates a new felony of “computer tampering in the third degree for intentional entering, alteration or destruction of ‘computer material’ regarding
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By Andrew Torgan, CNN Some parts of the US could see a rare white Christmas this weekend. And speaking of the holiday, 5 Things is taking the day off tomorrow to do some last-minute shopping. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Some parts of the US could see a rare white Christmas this weekend. And speaking of the holiday, 5 Things is taking the day off tomorrow to do some last-minute shopping. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Some parts of the US could see a rare white Christmas this weekend. And speaking of the holiday, 5 Things is taking the day off tomorrow to do some last-minute shopping. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Some parts of the US could see a rare white Christmas this weekend. And speaking of the holiday, 5 Things is taking the day off tomorrow to do some last-minute shopping. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Some parts of the US could see a rare white Christmas this weekend. And speaking of the holiday, 5 Things is taking the day off tomorrow to do some last-minute shopping. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Some parts of the US could see a rare white Christmas this weekend. And speaking of the holiday, 5 Things is taking the day off tomorrow to do some last-minute shopping. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Some parts of the US could see a rare white Christmas this weekend. And speaking of the holiday, 5 Things is taking the day off tomorrow to do some last-minute shopping. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, Adrienne Broaddus and Brad Parks, CNN Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who drew a gun instead of a Taser and fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, was found guilty Thursday of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the young Black man’s death. Potter, who is White, displayed no emotion
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN A family of seven, including three children, who were found dead earlier this week inside a northwest Minnesota home died of what appears to be accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, police said Wednesday. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office concluded in its preliminary results that the bodies of all seven seemed to
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside and Jason Hanna, CNN A “major industrial accident” injured at least four people early Thursday at one of the United States’ largest oil refineries, sheriff’s officials in the Houston area said. Initial reports indicated an explosion happened at the ExxonMobil oil refinery in Baytown, Texas, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in
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By Maria Cartaya and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A North Carolina police chief has been placed on unpaid leave and probation for telling officers about a “clinic” that would issue them a Covid-19 vaccination card without actually receiving the shot, local officials said. T.J. Smith — the police chief of Oakboro Town, North Carolina — violated
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN The phone call lasted just three minutes, but it gave Sara Espinoza the first proof in six weeks that her son is alive. His voice was shaky, she said, almost unrecognizable from the confident commentary he would post to YouTube charting his foreign travels. “Towards the end, I guess as they
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By David Williams and Sara Smart, CNN An 1875 almanac, two withered books, a coin and a cloth envelope were among the artifacts inside an 1887 time capsule that was opened Wednesday. The capsule was found last week in the pedestal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia. CNN affiliate
Continue Reading By David Williams and Sara Smart, CNN An 1875 almanac, two withered books, a coin and a cloth envelope were among the artifacts inside an 1887 time capsule that was opened Wednesday. The capsule was found last week in the pedestal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia. CNN affiliate
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By Michelle Watson, CNN A missing college student was found and reunited with her family on Saturday after she went missing on December 13, Snow College officials said in a news conference Sunday. Madelyn Allen was found at a house in Wayne County, Utah, college police said. Brent Brown, a 39-year-old man from Utah, was
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By Michelle Watson, CNN Jeff Green, reportedly one of the richest people from Utah, has officially left The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is donating $600,000 to Equality Utah, according to a letter obtained by CNN. Equality Utah describes itself as, “Utah’s Premier LGBTQ Civil Rights Organization.” In the letter dated Thursday
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By David Williams, CNN A Colorado district attorney is asking the court to reconsider the 110-year prison sentence given to truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, who was convicted in the 2019 crash on Interstate 70 that killed four people. A status hearing in the case has been set for Monday morning, according to online court records.
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