By Amy Simonson and Omar Jimenez, CNN The Minneapolis Police Department will officially be prohibited from executing all no-knock search warrants starting April 8, according to the mayor’s office. Mayor Jacob Frey’s new policy will prohibit the MPD from requesting no-knock search warrants and from responding to requests of similar searches from other jurisdictions, according
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By Dakin Andone, Amir Vera and Abby Bustin, CNN In the late 1980s and early 1990s, several women were murdered or sexually assaulted in a series of attacks at hotels along the Interstate 65 corridor in Kentucky and Indiana. First, Vicki Heath was found dead at a Super 8 Motel in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1987.
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By Kiely Westhoff and Giselle Rhoden, CNN New York City will launch an ad campaign in Florida denouncing a new law that opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. To “celebrate the diversity and acceptance of New York City,” Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday the campaign will feature both billboards and creative ads in
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By Amir Vera and Melissa Alonso, CNN Attorney Ben Crump said Tuesday that the video of a 14-year-old boy falling to his death at a Florida amusement park is one of the worst he’s ever seen. Tyre Sampson died in March after falling from the FreeFall drop tower ride at Orlando’s ICON Park. The FreeFall
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By Amanda Musa and Melissa Alonso, CNN The city of North Miami Beach, Florida, ordered the evacuation of a five-story, 60-unit apartment building Monday following an evaluation by a South Florida engineering firm that found the building to be “structurally unsound.” The city received a letter from an engineering firm on Monday notifying the property
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By Mark Morales and Brynn Gingras, CNN In the aftermath of a mass shooting in downtown Sacramento, California, that left six people dead and injured at least 12, President Joe Biden used a Sunday submarine commissioning ceremony to reiterate his call for stronger gun regulations. Earlier in the day, New York Mayor Eric Adams went
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By Jennifer Henderson and Eric Levenson, CNN A shooting at a high school in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday morning left one person injured, authorities said. Multiple shots were fired inside Erie High School shortly after 9:20 a.m., Erie’s Public Schools said in a statement. One student was shot and is in stable condition, the school
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Another round of extreme weather will hit the South this week, with tornadoes, damaging winds and hail expected today from Louisiana to North Carolina. Once this storm system passes, meteorologists say we’re still not in the clear though. Peak season for tornadoes across the entire US began this week and will
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Another round of extreme weather will hit the South this week, with tornadoes, damaging winds and hail expected today from Louisiana to North Carolina. Once this storm system passes, meteorologists say we’re still not in the clear though. Peak season for tornadoes across the entire US began this week and will
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Another round of extreme weather will hit the South this week, with tornadoes, damaging winds and hail expected today from Louisiana to North Carolina. Once this storm system passes, meteorologists say we’re still not in the clear though. Peak season for tornadoes across the entire US began this week and will
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Another round of extreme weather will hit the South this week, with tornadoes, damaging winds and hail expected today from Louisiana to North Carolina. Once this storm system passes, meteorologists say we’re still not in the clear though. Peak season for tornadoes across the entire US began this week and will
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Another round of extreme weather will hit the South this week, with tornadoes, damaging winds and hail expected today from Louisiana to North Carolina. Once this storm system passes, meteorologists say we’re still not in the clear though. Peak season for tornadoes across the entire US began this week and will
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By Rob Frehse, CNN A dispute between two groups in the New York City borough of the Bronx led to Monday’s fatal shooting of 61-year-old Juana Esperanza Soriano De-Perdomo, authorities said on Friday. Soriano De-Perdomo was shot in the back while walking out of a store, officials said. “She was totally innocent, and an unintended
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By Steve Almasy, Dakin Andone and Stella Chan, CNN Police have arrested a third suspect in connection to a mass shooting in downtown Sacramento, California, this weekend that left six people dead and a chaotic crime scene littered with more than 100 shell casings. The suspect was taken into custody for “being a prohibited person
Continue ReadingBy Rob Frehse, CNN A man who allegedly assaulted seven Asian women over about a three hour period in New York City in late February has been indicted on multiple hate crime charges, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. Steven Zajonc, 28, is charged with six felony counts of third-degree assault as a hate
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By Amir Vera, Amanda Musa and Christina Maxouris, CNN US Marshals in South Florida captured Dominic Taddeo on Monday, one week after the Rochester, New York, mob hitman escaped federal custody. Taddeo, 64, was apprehended without incident in Hialeah in Miami-Dade County around 11 a.m., according to a news release from the agency. In February,
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By Dakin Andone and Theresa Waldrop, CNN At least 13 people were killed and more than 40 others injured in shootings across the country this weekend, including one in Sacramento, where the police chief called the scale of violence “unprecedented” in her 27-year career there. Six people died and 12 were injured in that incident
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By Amir Vera and Raja Razek, CNN The Dallas concert that left one dead and 16 injured did not have a permit, according to Dallas Police Chief Edgardo “Eddie” Garcia. “This crime is a prime example that non-permitted and promoted events can lead to violence,” Garcia said. “This, of course, can happen at any event,
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By Alisha Ebrahimji and Pooja Salhotra, CNN Nirmal Singh had only been visiting in New York City for two weeks when he was allegedly punched in the nose while walking, according to police. The 70-year-old Sikh man is visiting from Punjab, India, and is staying at the Sikh Cultural Society, a well-known religious and cultural
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson and Melissa Alonso, CNN The widow of Julian E. Lewis, a Black man who was fatally shot by a Georgia state trooper in August 2020, will receive a $4.8 million settlement from the state, attorneys representing the family said. “While the record-making settlement does not bring back her husband for widow Betty
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