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A structural field survey report completed nearly three years before the collapse of the Champlain Towers south condominium complex in Surfside, Florida, raised concerns about structural damage to the concrete slab below the pool deck and “cracking and spalling” located in the parking garage. The report from October 2018 was included in a series of public records documents that were published overnight on the Surfside town website.

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The New York Police Department arrested an alleged gang member in a June 17 shooting in the Bronx that put two children in the line of gunfire, Chief of Detectives James Essig said at a news conference Friday. Michael Lopez, 27, has ties to the “Make it Happen Boyz” gang and

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Carl Nassib’s coming out was casual, matter-of-fact and, evidenced by the ebullient smile he wore throughout the video in which he disclosed his sexuality, a release he’d long waited for. The laid-back nature of his announcement belies how exceedingly rare it was for Nassib to come out at all. The Las

By Alaa Elassar, CNN One Saturday evening last December, as Peter and Lisa Marshall cuddled on the couch watching their favorite television show, Peter looked at Lisa and asked if she would marry him. What Peter, 56, didn’t remember was that they were already married. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s three years ago, Peter had begun

By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN There could be a new princess in Disney’s royal court. Nearly two decades after Sarah Culberson discovered that her father was the chief of a village in Sierra Leone, the West Virginia native’s life story could finally come to the big screen. Culberson, who is biracial, was put up for adoption

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A passenger was injured Friday after jumping out of a United Express flight that was taxiing from a gate area at the Los Angeles International Airport, an LAX police spokesman told CNN. At about 7:10 p.m. local time, the man opened the door of the aircraft, activated the emergency slide, and

By Keith Allen, CNN The man hailed as a hero for preventing further bloodshed after a gunman fatally shot a police officer in Arvada, Colorado, on Monday was himself fatally shot by police, Arvada police said in a statement Friday afternoon. Police say Johnny Hurley, 40, confronted the gunman, identified as Ronald Troyke, after Troyke

By Gregory Krieg and Curt Devine, CNN The collapse of a high-rise condo tower in South Florida early Thursday morning has left at least four people dead and 159 more currently unaccounted for. Now, as the search for survivors continues, a critical question looms: What caused the building to fall? Officials are promising an urgent

By Nicole Chavez, CNN George Floyd’s family as well as activists and elected officials said Friday that Derek Chauvin’s sentencing was a rare moment of accountability following a deadly police encounter. Bridgett Floyd, Floyd’s sister and founder of the George Floyd Memorial Foundation, said the 22-and-a-half year prison sentence signals that police brutality is “finally

Eight people in Rock Hill, South Carolina have been arrested during protests sparked by video of the violent arrests of Ricky and Travis Price. Ricky was denied bail, and is in a wheelchair with multiple injuries at the local jail.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is sentenced to 22 and a half years for the murder of George Floyd. Chauvin was convicted on April 20 of second-degree unintentional murder, second degree manslaughter and third-degree murder in the 2020 death of George Floyd.

By Scottie Andrew, CNN It’s still not fully clear what caused an oceanfront condo tower in Surfside, Florida, to partially collapse, sending some units in the 12-story building plummeting to the ground. Experts are still looking to determine the exact contributing factors that led to the catastrophe. But from what investigators know, the building appears

Heartbreak and hope near Miami today, as rescuers continue to search for survivors in the rubble of a condo building that partially collapsed. At least four people have died, 159 others still unaccounted for and still no update on the cause.

George Floyd’s family spoke in court Friday during the sentencing hearing for his killer, former police officer Derek Chauvin. The first to speak was Floyd’s seven-year-old daughter, Gianna, on video. “I ask about him all the time,” she said. “I want to play with him, have fun, go to the playground.” Someone in the video

By Leah Asmelash, CNN A county in Iowa was named after a slave-holding vice president. Now, it’s named after the first Black woman to earn a PhD from the University of Iowa. The Board of Supervisors of Johnson County in Iowa, home to Iowa City and the state university, voted unanimously on Thursday to recognize

By Ashley Vaughan, CNN Rescue workers are digging through rubble and debris looking for signs of life after Thursday morning’s building collapse in the town of Surfside, just north of Miami, Florida. Around 1:30 a.m., an estimated 55 condominiums fell to the ground, most of them with residents asleep inside. As families wait in agony