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By Sonia Moghe, CNN A former tour manager for R. Kelly told jurors on Friday that he was with Kelly and the late singer Aaliyah the day they applied for a marriage license in 1994, when she was just 15 years old. Demetrius Smith, 65, testified reluctantly, at times telling US District Judge Ann Donnelly

By Chris Boyette, CNN Mississippi health officials are warning residents not to take an anti-parasitic drug — in most cases, a formulation purchased at livestock supply centers — to treat or prevent Covid-19. The Mississippi State Department of Health issued an alert on Friday that the Mississippi Poison Control Center has received an increasing number

By Alaa Elassar, CNN A New Jersey family returning home from vacation in North Carolina caught a lucky break. While driving through Maryland in July, they stopped at a 7-Eleven store in Germantown to quickly use the bathroom, pick up snacks and even buy some lottery tickets. They devoured the snacks on their way home,

By Alaa Elassar, CNN A Philadelphia-area man was charged with allegedly embezzling more than $3 million in tickets to the United States Open Championship over seven years, according to the US Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Robert Fryer, 39, of Perkasie, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail and

By Liam Reilly, CNN The University of Virginia has disenrolled 238 students for its fall semester on Friday for not complying with the university’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, according to a university spokesperson. UVA requires “all students who live, learn, or work in person at the university” to be fully vaccinated for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic

By Rebekah Riess and Christina Maxouris, CNN Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is asking residents to conserve water because liquid oxygen, used to treat the community’s water supply, is needed to treat the surge of Covid-19 patients in the community. “Nationally, the demand for liquid oxygen is extremely high as the priority for its use is

By Christina Carrega and Douglas S. Wood, CNN An Iowa woman was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison on Thursday for trying to kill two children by running them over with her car because she believed they were Mexican or of Middle Eastern or African descent. Nicole Poole Franklin was sentenced Thursday to 304 months by a federal judge.

By Dan Simon and Christina Maxouris, CNN Vesuvio Cafe in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood has been asking customers to provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination for the last month. “For the most part, people have literally gone out of their way to thank us for enacting the policy,” bartender Zak Pavitt told CNN. Businesses across

Lauren del Valle, CNN During hours-long testimony in a Purdue Pharma federal bankruptcy proceeding on Wednesday, former company president Richard Sackler said he believes his family and the OxyContin manufacturer bear no responsibility for the opioid crisis in the United States. An attorney for Washington state asked him repeatedly whether he, his family or the