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By Jason Hanna, Amir Vera, Adrienne Broaddus and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN The terror at Michigan’s Oxford High School that left four dead started with gunfire, yelling and an urgent message on a loudspeaker. Then frightened students barricaded doors, phoned for help and picked up anything they could grab in case they needed to fight back.

By Amy Simonson, CNN Tucson police on Tuesday moved to terminate an officer after he fatally shot a man in a motorized wheelchair who was accused of shoplifting and pulling a knife when confronted outside a Walmart, officials said. Video released by the Tucson Police Department showed Officer Ryan Remington several steps behind the man

By Theresa Waldrop and Kiely Westhoff, CNN Author Alice Sebold apologized to a man who last week was exonerated of her rape, a crime she wrote about in her memoir “Lucky,” but the writer also appeared to place as much blame on a “flawed legal system” as she did on the role she played in

By Lauren del Valle and Steve Almasy, CNN A woman who testified Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell said she met the close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein and the billionaire businessman when she was 14 and eating ice cream with friends at a camp where he was a benefactor. The woman, identified

By Ray Sanchez and Josh Campbell, CNN With in-store customers expected to return in droves for the holiday shopping season, law enforcement agencies are moving to halt a wave of organized “smash-and-grab” crimes at retailers across the US. In Chicago, Los Angeles and other major cities, police departments are increasing patrols at retailers targeted by

By Carma Hassan and Steve Almasy, CNN Three 16-year-olds and one 17-year-old allegedly involved in a shooting in the parking lot of a Colorado high school earlier this month have been charged as adults with attempted first-degree murder, according to the Office of the District Attorney for the 18th Judicial District. The shooting happened around

By Sarah Moon, CNN A federal appeals court in California on Tuesday upheld the state’s ban on high-capacity magazines, reversing a lower-court ruling in which a federal judge in San Diego compared an AR-15 rifle to a Swiss Army knife. The 7-4 decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit says that

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A Massachusetts man recovering from open-heart surgery won a $1 million lottery prize on a scratch-off ticket given to him by a friend, according to lottery officials. Alexander McLeish received three scratch-off tickets in a get-well card from a friend earlier this month, according to a news release from the Massachusetts

By Taylor Romine, CNN New York City is now the first city in the nation to open two overdose prevention centers that will allow drug users to receive medical care and services to prevent drug overdose deaths, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office. The overdose prevention centers (OPCs), also known as supervised consumption sites

By Eric Levenson and Kiely Westhoff, CNN The former dean of Temple University’s business school was convicted Monday on charges of conspiracy and wire fraud for a scheme in which he and others used false data to boost the school’s position on the US News and World Report’s rankings, the US Attorney’s Office said. Moshe

By Melissa Alonso, CNN The man who fled after a gunshot set off a panic inside the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport more than a week ago has turned himself in, according to the Atlanta Police Department. Kenny Wells, 42, “has turned himself in to the Clayton County Jail,” a police department news release said. “Wells