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By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A Belmont University freshman has died after being hit in the head by a stray bullet while walking on a trail near the Nashville campus, officials said. Jillian Ludwig, 18, was shot Tuesday afternoon as she walked on a track in Edgehill Memorial Gardens Park, the Metropolitan Nashville Police

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A Mississippi city is now at the center of a Department of Justice investigation following allegations of racism and retaliation from police. Federal authorities are assessing a slew of instances alleging police misconduct and inappropriate arrests by officers at the Lexington Police Department. This comes a year after

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A Mississippi city is now at the center of a Department of Justice investigation following allegations of racism and retaliation from police. Federal authorities are assessing a slew of instances alleging police misconduct and inappropriate arrests by officers at the Lexington Police Department. This comes a year after Lexington’s

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has documented an “appalling” rise in reported anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias incidents in the month since violence escalated between Israel and Hamas, the organization announced Thursday. The nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group said it has received 1,283 requests for help and reports of bias in the

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Shock and grief have reverberated through the congregation of Temple Etz Chaim since one of its longtime members, Paul Kessler, fell and fatally struck his head during dueling Israel-Hamas war protests in Thousand Oaks, California, over the weekend, synagogue leaders said during a Wednesday night vigil. The 69-year-old Jewish

By Devon M. Sayers and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Alabama has scheduled the nation’s first execution by nitrogen hypoxia, an alternative to lethal injection, its Republican governor said. Kenneth Eugene Smith’s execution by lethal injection was abruptly canceled in November after the state couldn’t properly set the IV line before the warrant for execution

KPHO, KTVK, GOOGLE EARTH, ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT, CNN By Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) —  An Arizona woman died eight days after an elk apparently trampled her outside her home in what is believed to be the state’s first fatal elk attack on a person, wildlife officials said Tuesday. On October 26 at about

By Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) —  An Arizona woman died eight days after an elk apparently trampled her outside her home in what is believed to be the state’s first fatal elk attack on a person, wildlife officials said Tuesday. On October 26 at about 6 p.m., the woman’s husband arrived at their property in

By Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — Detectives are investigating a report of a decapitated baby doll found underneath a “Free Palestine” flag in an Ohio resident’s yard, according to a police report. Video from a neighbor’s camera shows a man in dark clothing approaching the flag and placing something on the ground at 10:25 a.m.

By Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — Eight people were killed in a collision in Zavala County, Texas, involving two vehicles – one possibly tied to a human smuggling operation that was fleeing law enforcement – according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The crash occurred Wednesday on US 57 near the town of Batesville,

By Devan Cole and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A Mississippi city under scrutiny for allegations of racism and retaliation from police is now at the center of a federal Department of Justice investigation. “Today the Justice Department is announcing the opening of a civil rights investigation into the city of Lexington, Mississippi, and the

CNN By Andy Rose and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Newly obtained police body-camera footage shows a Colorado police officer in his third day on the job fatally shoot a man attempting to flee in a suspicious vehicle. The officer, Erik Hernandez, 34, was indicted in June by a Weld County grand jury on a