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By Dakin Andone, CNN Authorities in Fresno County, California, have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering his missing girlfriend, whose body has still not been found more than a month after she was last seen. Ramon Jimenez, 41, is being held in the Fresno County Jail on charges of murder and domestic violence after

By Amanda Watts and Jennifer Henderson, CNN As a massive winter storm takes aim starting Friday at much of the eastern US, officials from the Southeast to New England are preparing for what could be crippling ice and heavy snow. More than 50 million people from the Midwest eastward are under winter weather alerts as

By Carma Hassan, CNN A judge has determined that Darrell Brooks, the man accused of careening his SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on November 21, 2021, killing six people and injuring more than 60 others, should face trial at a preliminary hearing Friday. There is “ample evidence on all fronts” that the

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A father and son appeared for an online court appointment for a citation they received for their unkept yard in Michigan, but instead of a slap on the wrist from the judge, the father was berated. Burhan Chowdhury, 72, a cancer patient, was given a citation in May 2021 for not

By Amanda Watts, CNN A 13-year-old male is in grave condition after he overdosed at his Hartford, Connecticut, school on Thursday from a presumed fentanyl exposure, according to authorities. Two other male students involved were also taken to the hospital, according to police. On Thursday morning, the Hartford Police Department (HPD) responded to the Sport

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN Two Oklahoma death row inmates are set to be executed by lethal injection in the coming weeks after a federal court denied their request for a preliminary injunction to stop a lethal injection execution and be executed by firing squad. In a ruling filed Friday morning, Judge Stephen Friot wrote

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Choomba, “one of the founding members of the gorilla population at Zoo Atlanta,” was euthanized Thursday at 59, the zoo announced on its website. Veterinary staff “had been monitoring Choomba closely in recent days following a marked decline in her physical condition due to advanced arthritis and other age-related complications,” said

By AJ Willingham, CNN Australia’s immigration minister has once again canceled tennis star Novak Djokovic’s visa, staying in strict adherence to national pandemic guidelines and all but ensuring he will not compete in next week’s Australian Open. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can

By Laura Studley, Laura Dolan and Mallika Kallingal, CNN The chief prosecutor for the city of Baltimore has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements on loan applications for the purchase of two vacation homes in Florida, according to court documents filed Thursday.

By Raja Razek, Chris Boyette and Christine Sever, CNN West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said he was feeling better on Thursday, two days after a Covid-19 diagnosis, according to a statement from the governor’s office. “Thankfully, I am feeling much better today,” Justice said. “I desperately want to get out of this house and back

By Mallika Kallingal and Jenn Selva, CNN Federal prosecutors charged three alleged gang members and one alleged gang associate Thursday in the fatal shooting of off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer Fernando Arroyos during an attempted robbery. Luis Alfredo De La Rosa Rios, 29, Ernesto Cisneros, 22, and Jesse Contreras, 34, are allegedly members of