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By Nicole Chavez, CNN At least 50 groups have recently played a role in the evolving movement to have books removed from schools, a new PEN America analysis shows. PEN America, a literary and free expression advocacy organization, released Monday its latest analysis of bans on school library books and class curricula that have occurred

By Eric Levenson, Stella Chan and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Sherri Papini, the California mother who faked her own kidnapping in 2016 in a hoax that was exposed with the help of advances in DNA technology, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison on Monday, according to a release from the Department of

By Jamiel Lynch and Amanda Jackson, CNN A pilot was killed in a plane crash during the Reno Air Races Sunday, the Reno Air Racing Association said in a tweet. “During the jet gold race on the third lap there was a fatal incident at outer pylon 5 today,” the association said. “All other pilots

By Raja Razek and Susannah Cullinane, CNN A Louisiana State University student died after being shot multiple times while sitting in her vehicle early Friday, Baton Rouge police say. Authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Allison Rice of Geismar, Louisiana, who was shot around 2:19 a.m. Friday on the 1500 block of Government

By Michelle Watson and Zoe Sottile, CNN A boater near Venice, Louisiana, was arrested Friday after allegedly firing a weapon at Coast Guard personnel who responded to a distress call, officials say. The Coast Guard responded to a distress signal from a 40-foot sail boat on Thursday that was “approximately 75 miles south of Southwest

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN It was never lost on Missy Jenkins Smith, even at a young age, that she was lucky to be alive. She remembers the moment, nearly 25 years ago at Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky, when she first lost feeling in her legs after a bullet pierced her chest and she

By Andy Rose and Tina Burnside, CNN Music executive Chaka Zulu — the longtime manager of rapper Ludacris and co-founder of his record label — was charged with murder this week for a June shooting at an Atlanta restaurant that left one person dead, authorities said. Zulu, whose legal name is Ahmed Obafemi, was one

By Christina Zdanowicz and Holly Yan, CNN When it gets too hot in Denver and Baltimore classrooms, students are sent home because their schools don’t have air conditioning. In Massachusetts, checking for rusty water leaking from a ceiling has become a “morning ritual.” In California, a school’s cockroach infestation has gotten so bad that some