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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A school safety officer in Long Beach, California, has been fired after shooting an 18-year-old woman following a physical altercation last month, school officials said Wednesday. The officer was accused of violating district policy, Superintendent Jill Baker said. The decision came after Manuela “Mona” Rodriguez was shot by a Millikan High

By Amir Vera, CNN It’s now been more than three weeks since Brian Laundrie went missing after returning without his fiancee, Gabby Petito, from a cross-country trip. The case has had constant updates that have left authorities and the public confused as to the timeline of and reasons behind Laundrie’s disappearance. His parents have made

By Pamela Kirkland, CNN Alex Murdaugh’s former law firm is suing him to recover funds it alleges he stole from clients for his own personal use, according to a statement from the firm Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Elztroth, and Detrick released Wednesday. The firm alleges Murdaugh “developed a systematic scheme in which he diverted funds owed

By Sarah Moon and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Law enforcement agencies said they are still investigating the Zodiac Killer case as an independent group of cold-case investigators came forward Wednesday to claim they had solved the mystery of who was behind the decades-old serial murders. The Case Breakers, a team of 40 former law enforcement investigators,

By Omar Jimenez, CNN Body camera footage of Minneapolis police officers’ response to the protests in the days after George Floyd’s death reveals officers talking about “hunting” people as part of a response to quell the unrest. CNN reviewed more than two hours of excerpted videos from multiple police body cameras released Tuesday by an

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN The US Marshals Service is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man investigators say strongly resembles one of its most wanted fugitives who has been on the run for 23 years. John Ruffo was convicted in the late 1990s of a $350 million bank fraud scheme and sentenced to

By Homero De la Fuente, Wayne Sterling and Eric Levenson, CNN As the National Women’s Soccer League returned to the pitch on Wednesday night for the first time since allegations of sexual misconduct rattled the league, sparked major resignations and led to the cancellation of last weekend’s matches, players stopped during the sixth minute and

By Leyla Santiago, Sara Weisfeldt and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Police searching for Brian Laundrie have found the remnants of a campsite that appeared to have been recently used at the Florida reserve that has been the focus on efforts to find him, a source close to the family told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday. Earlier,

By Brandon Griggs, CNN An oil spill like the one off the coast of Southern California is a disaster on many levels — maybe none more tragic than the deadly effects of petroleum on wildlife. Ocean creatures that swim in deep waters are less affected by spills. But oil disasters near coastlines often do the