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By Jay Croft, CNN A North Carolina college student won a nice 19th birthday gift after buying her first lottery ticket: $100,000. Laniah Ashley, a freshman at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, was back home in Clinton for spring break. While out with her grandparents for Chinese food on her birthday Wednesday, she bought

By Natasha Chen and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Friends and loved ones of Stanford University star soccer player Katie Meyer, who died by suicide earlier this month, will pay their respects at a memorial service on Saturday. Meyer, who helped secure the 2019 NCAA women’s soccer championship for her school, was found dead in her dorm

By Julia Vargas Jones, CNN In videos that show George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis police custody, an officer holding down the Black man’s ankles says, “I just worry about excited delirium or whatever.” Another officer responds: “That’s why we have the ambulance coming.” But Floyd did not meet any of the 10 criteria used by

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN There are many details we still don’t know about WNBA star Brittney Griner’s arrest in Russia. But there’s a lot we can learn from the experiences of Americans who were detained there in the past. The country’s strict drug laws also offer some indication of what could be next for

By Melissa Alonso and Amanda Musa, CNN A suspect is in custody after five West Point cadets overdosed — four of whom were hospitalized — on the drug fentanyl while they were on spring break in Fort Lauderdale earlier this week, according to police. Authorities in Broward County, Florida, have made the arrest of the

By Christina Maxouris A Franklin County, Ohio, jury declined to indict the police officer who fatally shot Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager, last April, state Attorney General Dave Yost said in a news release Friday. Yost also released investigative materials in the case, including more than a dozen interviews, crime scene and evidence photos and

By Hannah Sarisohn. CNN Prosecutors will drop a second-degree murder charge for a Denver security guard who shot a man at a political rally in October 2020, according to a statement from the Denver District Attorney’s office. Matthew Dolloff and his attorney, Doug Richards, have claimed Dolloff was acting in self-defense when he shot Lee

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN A camel escaped from a petting zoo and killed two people in Tennessee Thursday, authorities said. Deputies received a call of a camel attacking people near Shirley Farms in Obion, the Obion County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. They arrived and found two unconscious people and the camel still on

By Andy Rose, Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves and Ray Sanchez, CNN A judge in Texas blocked the state from enforcing Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to investigate gender-affirming care of minors as “child abuse.” “The court finds sufficient cause to enter a temporary injunction,” Judge Amy Clark Meachum in Travis County said Friday evening. The judge

By John Blake, CNN The doctor pleaded with Paige Deiner to close her eyes and sleep. But she refused to listen. She was terrified. “If I go to sleep, I’m not going to wake up,” she told him. It was an October night in 2021, and Deiner was fighting for her life, and the life

By Jamiel Lynch and Aya Elamroussi, CNN People in Alabama will not be required to obtain a permit or undergo a background check to carry a concealed weapon beginning next year. Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed Thursday legislation into law that removes the requirement for concealed carry permit — making Alabama the 22nd state to