National-World

By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Darnella Frazier never would have recorded the video of George Floyd’s death, which helped convict Derek Chauvin, had she said no to her cousin’s request to walk to the store. Her cousin, 9-year-old Judeah Reynolds, wanted to buy candy but was too young to walk alone. Reynolds was persistent, and Frazier

By Melissa Alonso and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The Mississippi Bureau of Investigations has launched a probe regarding a police officer shooting and killing a teenager earlier this month in the city of Gulfport, police said, as attorneys for the teen’s family call for video footage of the incident to be released. Law enforcement officers responded

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A single drop of blood has led to the arrest of a suspect in the unsolved 1989 murders of Catherine and George Peacock in Danby, Vermont, police say. George, 76, and Catherine, 73, were killed in their residence in September 1989, according to the Vermont State Police website. The couple had

By Aya Elamroussi, Ryan Young and Devon M. Sayers, CNN A 15-year-old will be charged as an adult for allegedly carrying out a mass shooting that left five people dead Thursday in Raleigh, North Carolina, prosecutors said, as calls to curb gun violence are renewed once again in the US. The suspect, identified by police

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Three boaters clung to a makeshift raft of ice chests and fended off shark attacks and jellyfish stings in the waters near Empire, Louisiana, until they were rescued 28 hours later, all thanks to a miraculous text message. The three longtime friends set out on October 8 to fish red snapper

By Zoe Sottile, CNN You attract more bees with honey — and more bears with doughnuts, apparently. A New York hunter has been ticketed after he allegedly used doughnuts in an attempt to lure bears, according to a new release from New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation. Police at the department hiked many miles for

By Andi Babineau, Melissa Alonso and Sara Turnbull, CNN An iHeartMedia radio executive is out of a job after a video of him repeatedly using racial slurs surfaced, according to a spokesperson for the company. iHeartMedia-Atlanta’s president Drew Lauter is “no longer with the company,” Meg Stevens, a senior vice president of programming at the

By Raja Razek, CNN An Indiana teacher with an alleged “kill list” was in custody Friday after a student told a counselor the teacher made comments about killing herself, students and staff, the East Chicago Police Department said. Officers responded to a report of a threat at St. Stanislaus Catholic Elementary School about 5 p.m.