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Attorney Lisa Bloom reacts to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania vacating Bill Cosby’s 2018 conviction.

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of comedian and actor Bill Cosby. Personal Birth date: July 12, 1937 Birth place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Birth name: William Henry Cosby Jr. Father: William Henry Sr., US Navy mess steward Mother: Anna (Hite) Cosby Marriage: Camille (Hanks) Cosby (January 25, 1964-present) Children: Evin, 1976; Ensa, 1973-2018;

By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Rebekah Riess, CNN Sara Nir and her two children were in their ground-floor condo at Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, moments before it partially collapsed. She was checking emails when they heard knocking sounds, she said. The knocking grew louder before she heard a “smash,” as if a wall

By Christina Carrega, CNN Zerious Meadows was 16 when a Michigan judge sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole for participating in a felony murder. Now, at 67, Meadows is free. During 20 of the 47 years Meadows was in prison, he said, he earned an associate degree in business accounting and participated

By Jason Hanna, CNN Dan Gannon wouldn’t mind a full summer break. The Bronx high school history teacher is as drained as anyone by teaching remotely during the pandemic. He sympathizes with any educator taking the summer off. Many worked more hours than usual to adapt lessons and relearn how to instruct — and carried

By Madeline Holcombe and Adrienne Broaddus, CNN More than 80 teens and adult staffers from a Central Illinois summer camp tested positive for Covid-19 in an outbreak that has impacted people across three states, officials said. The Crossing Camp in Schuyler County held in mid-June did not check vaccination status for campers or staffers, and

In dispatch audio obtained by CNN from Broadcastify, a first responder describes the scene after a condo building collapsed in Surfside, Florida.

By Amir Vera, Dave Alsup and Raja Razek, CNN An Idaho woman who is accused of killing her two children has been charged in the death of her former husband. Lori Vallow was charged by an Arizona grand jury with one felony count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said

By Rob Frehse and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN Four people have been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal fire at a residential assisted living center in Spring Valley, New York, that killed a firefighter and a resident in March, the Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Walsh announced Tuesday. Arrest warrants were also issued for

By Jill Martin and Alexandra Meeks, CNN The Pasadena Police Department is looking into an allegation of assault involving Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, a spokesman with the department told CNN on Tuesday. “It is an active investigation,” said Lt. Bill Grisafe. The attorney for the accuser, Marc Garelick, said in a statement that

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer talks with Magaly “Maggie” Ramsey, whose mother is missing in the condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida.

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Magaly “Maggie” Ramsey said she didn’t get to hold her father or say her final goodbyes before he died from Covid-19 in August. Now, she fears she may have also lost the chance to say goodbye to her mother, who is one of the dozens missing in the wake of the

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN An 88-year old survivor of the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, credits her neighbors for helping her escape as the building fell to the ground. Esther Gorfinkel told CNN affiliate WPLG that she had been living in Champlain Towers for over 40 years when her fifth floor apartment began to

By Madeline Holcombe and Cheri Mossburg, CNN A California couple has been fined for digging up and burying dozens of protected Joshua trees to make room for a home they were building, officials said. Jeffrey Walter and Jonetta Nordberg-Walter, residents of San Bernardino County, have been ordered to pay $18,000 as part of a diversion

By Theresa Waldrop For a sixth day, search and rescue crews made their way meticulously through piles of rubble after the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, hoping to find more survivors. As of Tuesday evening, at least 12 people are dead and 149 people are unaccounted, officials said. “We’re moving debris piece by piece and