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By Amy Simonson, CNN A convicted murderer who escaped from a Mississippi prison was captured Tuesday after he ran out of gas, according to prison officials. Michael Wilson was captured by the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department after escaping Saturday from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County, Burl Cain, commissioner of the Mississippi Department

By Mark Morales, Mirna Alsharif, Christina Maxouris and Ray Sanchez, CNN A child who was reported missing in 2019 when she was 4 years old was found hidden under a wooden staircase with her noncustodial mother, in a home officials had visited several times while investigating her disappearance, authorities said. The child, Paislee Joann Shultis,

By Sara Smart, CNN A miniboat built by fifth graders took to the seas on October 25, 2020, charging off into the Gulf Stream for its maiden voyage. That voyage would take 5.5-foot-long Rye Riptides over 8,000 miles from home — all the way to the coast of Norway after 462 days at sea. It

By Brad Parks, CNN Prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter to more than seven years in prison for Daunte Wright’s death. Potter was convicted in December of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting Wright, 20, when she mistook her firearm for a Taser during a traffic

By Liam Reilly and Laura Studley, CNN A 25-year-old man has been charged with murder after he allegedly followed a woman to her New York apartment and stabbed her dozens of times with a knife early Sunday, prosecutors say. Surveillance video from the entrance of the Chrystie Street apartment in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood shows Christina

By Rachel Ramirez A new report provides an alarming forecast for the US: Sea level will rise as much in the next 30 years as it did in the past 100 — increasing the frequency of high-tide flooding, pushing storm surge to the extreme and inundating vulnerable coastal infrastructure with saltwater. The interagency report, led

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN The San Francisco Police Department immediately will start reviewing its DNA collection practices and policies after the city’s top prosecutor accused it of using a law enforcement database with the DNA of rape and sexual assault victims to search for and identify possible suspects in unrelated investigations, its chief said Monday.

By Amir Vera and Bill Kirkos, CNN Former Minneapolis Police Officer Tou Thao was called to testify in his own defense Tuesday after the prosecution rested in the federal civil rights trial of the three ex-police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Thao testified that an officer using their knee to restrain a

By Lauren del Valle and Eric Levenson, CNN Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre have reached an out-of-court settlement in her sexual abuse lawsuit against him, according to a court document filed by her attorneys Tuesday. The parties anticipate filing a stipulation of dismissal of the case within 30 days, according to the letter addressed to

By Sarah Jorgensen, Jason Hanna and Erica Hill, CNN The families of five children and four adults killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have reached a $73 million settlement with the now-bankrupt gun manufacturer Remington and its four insurers, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said Tuesday. The settlement comes more than seven years after