National-World

By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Police in western Massachusetts apologized Thursday after an officer was sent to a middle school to search for a copy of “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe, following a complaint. On December 8, a plainclothes officer was escorted into a classroom at W.E.B. Dubois Regional Middle School toward the end

By Veronica Miracle, Eric Levenson and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A jury found Tacoma police officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine not guilty on all charges Thursday in the 2020 death of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a Black man who died in custody after saying he couldn’t breathe. After a monthslong trial, Burbank

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Three police officers and two paramedics have faced juries on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide stemming from the 2019 death of Elijah McClain in Aurora, Colorado. But the path to court was anything but straightforward. McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was confronted by police officers on August

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — An Oklahoma judge on Tuesday declared innocent a man who spent 48 years in prison for a murder he did not commit – believed to be the longest amount of time served by anyone wrongfully convicted in the United States. “This is a day we’ve been waiting on for

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Porter Goss, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director and Florida congressman. Personal Birth date: November 26, 1938 Birth place: Waterbury, Connecticut Birth name: Porter Johnston Goss Father: Richard Goss, manager at a manufacturing company Mother: Virginia (Johnson) Goss Marriage: Mariel (Robinson) Goss

CNN By Nicole Chavez, Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — A new law that makes entering Texas illegally a state crime is sowing confusion and uncertainty among undocumented migrants and mixed status families along the US-Mexico border, according to immigration advocates. Many of those advocates tell CNN they fear a wave of racial profiling as well as detentions and attempted

By Sara Smart and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — For nearly 40 years, a set of human remains discovered near Seattle in 1985 were known to investigators only as Bones 17. And it was 17 years later that police confirmed the remains belonged to a victim of the so-called “Green River Killer” – but they

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Still need to send a few presents? Holiday shipping deadlines are quickly approaching for UPS, USPS, and FedEx if you’d like your items delivered in time for Christmas. Post offices are also facing their annual surge in mail volume in addition to inclement weather, so the sooner you send

By Nicole Chavez, Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — A new law that makes entering Texas illegally a state crime is sowing confusion and uncertainty among undocumented migrants and mixed status families along the US-Mexico border, according to immigration advocates. Many of those advocates tell CNN they fear a wave of racial profiling as well as detentions and attempted deportations

KTVT By Nicole Chavez, Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — A new law that makes entering Texas illegally a state crime is sowing confusion and uncertainty among undocumented migrants and mixed status families along the US-Mexico border, according to immigration advocates. Many of those advocates tell CNN they fear a wave of racial profiling as well as detentions and attempted

WBBM Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — A 30-year-old Chicago man who was wrongfully convicted of murder on the testimony of a blind witness walked out of the Cook County Jail this week as a free man. Darien Harris had served 12-and-a-half years of his 76-year sentence before prosecutors decided not to move forward with their

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Kenneth Nixon went numb the moment he was found guilty in September 2005 for two murders he didn’t commit – a wrongful conviction that saw the then-19-year-old father of two condemned to spend the rest of his life in a Michigan prison. “I couldn’t understand how this could happen,”

By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A man has been charged with murder in the killing of a 4-year-old boy who was shot during a suspected road rage incident while sitting in the back seat of his family’s car in Lancaster, California, last week, authorities said. The suspect, 29-year-old Byron Burkhart, also faces two counts of attempted murder, one count of shooting at an occupied vehicle and five