National-World

By Sharif Paget, CNN The iconic Southernmost Point landmark, an anchored concrete buoy in Key West, Florida, sustained “extensive damage” early Saturday morning after vandals placed a Christmas tree in front of it which they lit on fire, Key West Police said in statement. Police are now looking for two male suspects they say are

By Sharif Paget and Claudia Dominguez, CNN Three people have been killed and four others injured at a New Year’s Eve party in Mississippi when multiple people started shooting following a physical altercation. The fatal incident at the celebration in Gulfport happened just minutes before the end of 2021, Gulfport Police said. An initial investigation

By Alaa Elassar and Melissa Alonso, CNN Officials have rescued 21 people who were trapped on the Sandia Peak Tramway in Albuquerque, New Mexico for more than 12 hours during icy conditions Friday night. The Bernalillo County Fire Department received a call around 2 a.m. to assist in search and rescue efforts, after a tram

By Melissa Alonso and Alaa Elassar, CNN One person is dead and three others were injured in a shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin early New Year’s Day. Police responded to reports of gunshots being fired “in the parking lot of a local establishment” around 4 a.m., the Kenosha Police Department said in a news release. When

By John Blake, CNN He’s been called a “racist P.O.S.” and accused of indoctrinating students. He lost the job he loved. The constant attacks have reduced him to tears. Matt Hawn has become a focal point of one of this past year’s biggest racial controversies. The former public high school teacher in Tennessee was thrust

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Five endangered and missing teenagers were recovered in New Orleans during a multiagency effort dubbed “Operation Boo Dat 2021” led by the US Marshals Service. The annual operation, which took place from mid-October to December 24, also led to the arrest of 30 individuals, including 17 who were suspected of felony

By Christina Maxouris, Natasha Chen, Dakin Andone and Alaa Elassar, CNN At least three people are missing and feared dead after a horrific wildfire tore through Boulder, County, Colorado, Thursday, leveling whole subdivisions and charring more than 6,000 acres. Two of the missing residents were in Superior and the third individual is from the unincorporated

By Scottie Andrew, CNN It’s raining fish in east Texas — but it’s nothing too out of the ordinary. Earlier this week, residents of Texarkana reported small fish falling from the sky in what seemed like an epochal weather event. The reality was more mundane: The swimmers, many of them palm-sized, were likely picked up

By Nadeem Muaddi, CNN A Virginia dad’s chocolate milk run turned into a $1 million windfall. Dennis Willoughby of North Chesterfield went to a local 7-Eleven to buy chocolate milk for his kids when he decided to pick up a scratch-off lottery ticket, Virginia Lottery officials said Wednesday. The ticket, a $1,000,000 Platinum Jackpot, turned

By Paul Vercammen, CNN Six people were injured in a shooting incident outside a Southern Los Angeles grocery store late Friday afternoon at a strip mall, police said. Los Angeles Police responded to a call of shots fired outside a Superior Grocers outlet store, Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Stacy Spell told CNN. The suspects

By Sharif Paget, CNN One suspect linked to a shooting that killed a police officer and wounded another was arrested Friday in Indiana, and hours later the other suspect turned herself in to police in Illinois, according to authorities. Wednesday’s shooting happened at a hotel in Bradley, Illinois, as police investigated a noise complaint. Sgt.

By Laura Studley, CNN Six people were injured after multiple shooters fired 87 shots during an incident in a Philadelphia neighborhood, police said. The exact number of shooters has not been determined. Police, who did not provide details on the circumstances, said Friday they were trying to confirm how many shooters were involved. Officers responded

By Elizabeth Stuart, CNN A growing number of school systems, colleges and universities are making changes to the beginning of the 2022 spring semester as a result of the surge in cases of Covid-19. Duke University is extending its plan for remote classes by another week due to an “incredibly high” positive case count among