By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Devon M. Sayers, Alta Spells and Steve Almasy, CNN A jury Wednesday found three White men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, guilty on multiple murder counts, as well as other charges. The verdict, delivered by nine White women, two White men and one Black man, came after more than 11
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By Devon M. Sayers, Alta Spells and Travis Caldwell, CNN After more than two weeks of court proceedings and testimony from more than 20 witnesses, jurors in the Ahmaud Arbery killing trial reached a verdict Wednesday on their second day of deliberations. Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. —
Continue ReadingBy Eliott C. McLaughlin, Devon M. Sayers, Alta Spells and Steve Almasy, CNN A jury Wednesday found three White men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, guilty on multiple murder counts, as well as other charges. The verdict, delivered by nine White women, two White men and one Black man, came after more than 11
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By Kay Jones, Jason Kravarik and Travis Caldwell, CNN Shortly before an SUV barreled into a crowd of parade marchers and pedestrians on Sunday in Waukesha, Wisconsin, at least one officer described the driver as having “no emotion” on his face during attempts to slow him down. Six people were killed and another 62 were
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By Laura Ly and Brynn Gingras, CNN Jeffrey Epstein denied having any suicidal thoughts before he died by suicide, despite some prison staffers noting signs of troubling behavior, according to newly released documents from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In addition, BOP staff made a litany of procedural errors prior to the convicted pedophile
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek, CNN A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting at a park in Aurora, Colorado, that left six teenagers recovering from gunshot wounds, police said Tuesday. The teen was charged with attempted first-degree murder, according to a news release from the Aurora Police Department. His identity isn’t being released
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN After spending 43 years behind bars for a crime he said he didn’t commit, a Missouri man’s conviction has been set aside, according to a news release from Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. Senior Judge James Welsh filed his ruling Tuesday morning to set aside the conviction of 62-year-old Kevin
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan, CNN Blustery and dry Santa Ana winds are whipping up a wildfire risk in Southern California, threatening a potential power shutoff over the Thanksgiving holiday. By the way, 5 Things is taking a holiday hiatus this Thursday and Friday. We’ll see you next week! Here’s what you need to know to Get
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By Faith Karimi, CNN A wave of “smash-and-grab” crimes is plaguing upscale stores in major US cities, with mobs of thieves making off with expensive goods in brazen, nighttime raids. At least 18 people broke into a Nordstrom department store in Los Angeles Monday night and stole thousands of dollars in merchandise, the city’s police
Continue ReadingBy Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Mammoths are long to be known as ancient land dwellers, so scientists were shocked to find remains from the animal at the bottom of the ocean. Pilot Randy Prickett and scientist Steven Haddock, researchers with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), discovered a Columbian mammoth tusk 185 miles offshore and
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By Kay Jones, Claudia Dominguez, Holly Yan, Travis Caldwell and Amir Vera, CNN A child has died after a man allegedly rammed his SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, bringing the death toll to six, according to prosecutors Tuesday. The child was one of 16 children admitted to the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin,
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By Omar Jimenez, CNN There is a common thread between the 1995 acquittal of O.J. Simpson and the 2021 acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse — a jury and trial consultant named Jo-Ellan Dimitrius. She developed the jury profile in Simpson’s case and now, decades later, worked “hand in hand” with Rittenhouse’s attorneys to help build a
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By Ralph Ellis, Kay Jones, Holly Yan and Paul P. Murphy, CNN The man accused of careening his SUV into a Wisconsin parade, killing five people and injuring 48 others, was a registered sex offender in Nevada and had an active arrest warrant in that state, court records show. He was also released on bond
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By Taylor Romine, CNN Brian Laundrie died by suicide from a gunshot wound to the head, an attorney for the Laundrie family told CNN Tuesday. “Chris and Roberta Laundrie have been informed that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death was suicide,” said attorney Steven Bertolino.
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN After spending 43 years behind bars for a crime he said he didn’t commit, a Missouri man’s conviction has been set aside, according to a news release from Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. Senior Judge James Welsh filed his ruling Tuesday morning to set aside the conviction of 62-year-old Kevin
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN Brian Laundrie died by suicide from a gunshot wound to the head, an attorney for the Laundrie family told CNN Tuesday. “Chris and Roberta Laundrie have been informed that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death was suicide,” said attorney Steven Bertolino.
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By Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The families of the “Groveland Four” got some closure Monday after Florida officially cleared four young Black men wrongly accused of raping a 17-year-old White girl in 1949. Circuit Court Judge Heidi Davis in Lake County, Florida, granted the State’s motion to posthumously dismiss the indictments of Ernest Thomas and Samuel
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By Stella Chan, CNN The crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight others was an “horrific accident,” but the county did not cause it and Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit claiming photos taken at the crash scene were leaked should be dismissed, lawyers for Los Angeles County said in a court filing Monday. “County personnel
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By Devon M. Sayers, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Travis Caldwell, CNN The prosecutor in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial sought Tuesday to simplify the events that led to Arbery’s death, taking the podium the day after defense teams spent much of their closing arguments trying to criminalize Arbery, alleging he brought his death on himself.
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By AJ Willingham, CNN You know what they say, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is all fun and games until one of the balloons goes down. Since the parade started marching balloons around Manhattan in 1927, the massive floating figures have occasionally come untethered, blown clear away, or been punctured, stabbed, deflated and subjected to
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