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WCIV By Graham Hurley, CNN (CNN) — Residents in a small South Carolina town are finding themselves in the middle of a real-life game of Jumanji after 43 monkeys escaped Wednesday from a research facility. The rhesus macaque primates are all still on the loose as of Friday after escaping from the Alpha Genesis Primate

By Cindy Von Quednow and Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin, found “no real firearms” in the home of a boy accused of attempting to enter a secure area of an elementary school, police said Friday. The 13-year-old, whose name has not been made public, was arrested Thursday and charged with one

By Ashley R. Williams, Jack Forrest, Jillian Sykes and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful and bigoted past – have been received by children, college students and working professionals from

By Ashley R. Williams and Nicolas Miranda, CNN (CNN) — Approximately 100 vehicles were stranded after a semi-truck jackknifed on a rural New Mexico highway as a potent winter storm blasted northern parts of the state and Colorado Thursday, authorities said. More than 5.8 million people across Colorado and New Mexico were under winter storm

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Personal Birth date: November 17, 1942 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese Father: Charles Scorsese, worked in the garment industry Mother: Catherine (Cappa) Scorsese Marriages: Helen Morris (1999-present); Barbara De Fina (1985-1991, divorced);

By Zoe Sottile and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — A jury began deliberations Thursday in the trial of Richard Allen, who is accused of killing two teenage girls and leaving their bodies near a hiking path in Delphi, Indiana, in 2017. Allen is facing two murder and two felony murder charges and has pleaded not

By Graham Hurley, CNN (CNN) — Residents in a small South Carolina town are finding themselves in the middle of a real-life game of Jumanji after 43 monkeys escaped Wednesday from a research facility. The rhesus macaque primates are all still on the loose as of Friday night after escaping from the Alpha Genesis Primate

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Two Jewish students at DePaul University in Chicago who were “visibly showing their support for Israel” were targeted Wednesday by masked attackers, according to a statement from the university’s president. The students, two men in their 20s, were assaulted by unknown assailants who struck one victim in the face

VENTURA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT, CONNOR NELSON, CHRISTINA NOREN, CNN By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Powerful winds that fueled fast-moving wildfires across Southern California this week are expected to pick up momentum on Thursday –– worsening conditions for firefighters who are already battling limited visibility to save lives. The National Weather Service issued a Red

By Ray Sanchez and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN (CNN) — The unseating of progressive Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón in a closely watched election has added an eleventh-hour pall of uncertainty in the move to have Erik and Lyle Menendez resentenced nearly 30 years after their convictions for murdering their parents. Nathan Hochman,

By Jordan D. Brown, CNN (CNN) — November 11, 2009, was an ordinary day for two construction workers on a highway near the historic Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona. That is, until something out of the ordinary caught their attention: a human bone. After noticing the first bone, the workers continued