National-World

By Michelle Watson, CNN A mother is facing charges related to her son’s death more than two decades after his remains were initially found, the DeKalb County District Attorney, said in a news release Wednesday. Teresa Black, 45, is facing two counts of felony murder, two counts of cruelty to children, aggravated assault and concealing

By Greg Wallace and Alaa Elassar, CNN Federal investigators are walking back their assertion that a 13-year-old child was driving the pickup truck in a March collision that killed nine people, including members of a university’s golf teams. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released Thursday that DNA testing performed by

By Justin Gamble and Camila Moreno-Lizarazo, CNN The father of missing 20-year-old University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee is pleading for the public’s help in bringing the college student home after the discovery of his car. “If anyone knows anything or sees anything, say something. Contact law enforcement. Just tell them what you know.

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN A new complaint alleges that a nurse sexually assaulted four women who sought medical attention at an ICE detention center in south Georgia. A nurse at the privately run Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, according to the complaint, took advantage of his position to coerce the women “into giving

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Neema Avashia is all too used to the shocked reaction she gets when she tells people she’s from West Virginia. A queer woman whose parents immigrated to the US from India, Avashia doesn’t fit the image many Americans have about Appalachians: impoverished, rural and White. But those stereotypes about Appalachia don’t

By Randi Kaye, Dianne Gallagher and Ray Sanchez, CNN Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been indicted for the 2021 murders of his wife and son by a Colleton County grand jury. The once prominent, now disbarred, attorney was indicted Thursday morning on two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a

By Anna Chernova, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Amir Vera, CNN WNBA star Brittney Griner‘s hearing in a court outside Moscow ended Thursday without a verdict, and a fourth hearing in her trial was scheduled for Friday morning, a US official familiar with the matter said. She is expected to appear in court at 10 a.m.

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Dozens of pamphlets with hate symbols were left at a church and a synagogue as well as other areas of Hornell, New York, over the weekend, and three people have been arrested and charged with first-degree aggravated harassment, police said. Aubrey Dragonetti, 31, Dylan Henry, 30, and Ryan Mulhollen, 27, each

By Benjamin Schiller and Kiely Westhoff, CNN Two years after a 911 dispatcher in rural Pennsylvania refused to send emergency medical assistance to an ailing woman, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter, according to court records. Dispatcher Leon Price was also charged with recklessly endangering another person, official oppression, and obstruction of the administration of