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Their first Thanksgiving was spent with neighbors they just met. Here’s how it happened

By Sara Smart, CNN With another Thanksgiving crossed off the calendar, our stomachs are full, our fridges are stocked with leftovers and one couple from Colombia is reflecting on their first year celebrating the American holiday. Susana Orrego Villegas and her husband, Edward White, international students living in Brookline, Massachusetts, were able to spend their

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Brian Laundrie died by suicide from a gunshot wound to the head.

Missing gun belonging to Brian Laundrie’s parents wasn’t made public due to ‘frenzied atmosphere,’ family attorney says

By Taylor Romine and Dakin Andone, CNN Brian Laundrie‘s parents discovered a handgun was missing when they voluntarily surrendered their firearms to law enforcement the same day they informed authorities that their son was missing, according to the family’s attorney, Steven Bertolino. Bertolino’s comments come days after a Florida medical examiner confirmed Laundrie, who was

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Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm acknowledged the bail for the suspect in the Waukesha parade tragedy was too low in a previous case.

Behind the prosecutor who acknowledged suspect’s ‘inappropriately low’ bail before Waukesha parade tragedy

By Peter Nickeas, CNN The Milwaukee County district attorney whose office sought low bail leading to the release of the man accused of running over holiday paradegoers in a nearby suburb has been a longtime champion of efforts to reduce mass incarceration by using the discretion afforded prosecutors. Darrell E. Brooks, 39, of Milwaukee, now

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Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm acknowledged the bail for the suspect in the Waukesha parade tragedy was too low in a previous case.

Behind the prosecutor who acknowledged suspect’s ‘inappropriately low’ bail before Waukesha parade tragedy

By Peter Nickeas, CNN The Milwaukee County district attorney whose office sought low bail leading to the release of the man accused of running over holiday paradegoers in a nearby suburb has been a longtime champion of efforts to reduce mass incarceration by using the discretion afforded prosecutors. Darrell E. Brooks, 39, of Milwaukee, now

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