National-World

By Hannah Sarisohn, Michelle Watson and Zoe Sottile, CNN Eight people between the ages of 16 and 21 were shot early Sunday morning while standing outside a gas station in Atlanta, according to police. A group of around 12 people was gathered at the parking lot of a Shell gas station when a vehicle drove

By Jarrod Wardwell and Zoe Sottile, CNN Police officers shot a man’s pet snake on Wednesday after they arrived at a Pennsylvania home to find the reptile wrapped around its owner’s neck, rendering him unconscious. The 27-year-old man, Elliot Senseman, died Monday in a hospital due to an “anoxic brain injury,” the Lehigh County Coroner’s

By Michelle Watson, CNN A 71-year-old man was mauled to death by seven dogs while he walked to a neighborhood store last Tuesday in Fresno, Texas, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Freddy Garcia was walking to a neighborhood store in Fresno on July 18 when he was fatally attacked by

By Hannah Sarisohn and Carlos Suarez, CNN A 73-year-old woman was airlifted to a hospital after being stabbed by a 100-pound sailfish that an angler was trying to reel onto a boat off the Florida coast, officials said. The sailfish began to charge at the boat and then jumped out of the water and stabbed

By Eric Levenson and Chuck Johnston, CNN Two parents and their 6-year-old daughter were found dead at an Iowa campground Friday, and a 4th person died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, in what authorities are investigating as a triple homicide. Cedar Falls residents Tyler Schmidt and Sarah Schmidt, both 42, and their daughter Lula, 6,

By Holly Yan and Paradise Afshar, CNN A charity motorcycle ride on an Indiana freeway abruptly ended when a car cut between riders, setting off a chain-reaction crash that injured six people, officials said. Motorcyclists were participating in the annual Helping Heroes Freedom Ride 465, which encircles Indianapolis on Interstate 465, event organizers said. “Our

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Did you know that today is National Tequila Day? And oddly enough, it’s also National Parents’ Day. Of course, some would argue that when you’re a parent, every day is Tequila Day … and who am I to disagree? Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart.

By Tina Burnside, CNN Four inmates who escaped a minimum-security housing unit in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are back in custody, just hours after their getaway Saturday, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office. The search for the inmates — William Atkins, Johnny Bryant, Justin Lynn Conner and Trevor Lynn Hall — began around 5:30 a.m. Saturday

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A customer at a restaurant in Pennsylvania left a hefty $3,000 tip on a $13.25 bill, much to the surprise of his server. Eric Smith, an out-of-town customer, enjoyed a homemade stromboli at Alfredo’s Cafe in Scranton, Pennsyslvania, on June 16. When it came time to pay for his meal, he

By Amya Henry and Christina Maxouris, CNN With temperatures hiking in much of the US as an oppressive heat wave continues, zoos are taking special measures to keep their animals cool. Think: frozen bug popsicles, mud showers and long pool days. You know, the basics. At the Smithsonian National Zoo, swamp monkeys are usually offered

By Rosa Flores and Emma Tucker, CNN A special school board meeting in Uvalde, Texas, to consider whether to terminate the employment of the district’s police chief will be rescheduled in the “very near future,” said school district Superintendent Hal Harrell. The meeting had been previously scheduled for Saturday before it was canceled. Chief Pedro

By Paradise Afshar and Zoe Sottile, CNN An Illinois bakery and café has postponed a drag brunch event after their venue was vandalized early morning on Saturday. Corinna Sac, the owner of UpRising Bakery and Café in Lake in the Hills, a village to the northwest of Chicago, had advertised the sold-out Saturday “brunch at

By Claire Colbert, CNN A new report released this month found temperatures inside some Texas prison units “have been shown to regularly reach 110 degrees and in at least one unit have topped 149 degrees.” Texas A&M’s Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center scrutinized heat mitigation policies used by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The

By Jason Hanna, Rebekah Riess, Sara Smart and Andy Rose, CNN A wildfire raging for a third day Sunday in central California’s Mariposa County outside Yosemite National Park has burned more than 14,000 acres and forced thousands to evacuate from rural communities, officials said. The fire, which remained 0% contained Sunday morning, began Friday in