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By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to hear convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh’s jury tampering appeal. The order, issued Tuesday, means the case will go straight to the high court, skipping the lengthy Court of Appeals process. The state Supreme Court could overturn a judge’s decision from earlier this

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The murder trial of Robert Telles, the former Nevada politician accused of fatally stabbing a Las Vegas investigative journalist who had published stories critical of him, featured opening statements Wednesday with starkly different versions of what happened. Telles, previously the Clark County Public Administrator, has pleaded not guilty to

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Following a happenstance case break, detectives in Southern California found the person responsible for an unsolved 1986 homicide of a 19-year-old woman – a serial killer already on death row, Los Angeles county sheriff’s officials said Tuesday. Cathy Small was working as a prostitute in February 1986 when

KPLR, KSDK, KTVI, CNN By Emma Tucker and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — Police in Ferguson, Missouri, on Tuesday released new videos from last week’s protests marking the 10-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s killing, including footage of an incident in which an officer was severely injured. Ferguson Police Chief Troy Doyle said body camera

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By Chelsea Bailey, Devon M. Sayers and Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — Multiple Jewish civil rights groups have filed a federal complaint alleging Jewish and Israeli students have faced a “hostile” and “intolerable” environment at K-12 schools in Fulton County, Georgia, since the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel and routinely face antisemitism, bullying and harassment. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A child has been hospitalized after being attacked by a black bear at a campground south of Red Lodge, Montana, over the weekend. The child was a 3-year-old girl, according to the Associated Press. The girl was inside a tent when she was attacked by the female bear around 10 p.m. on Sunday,

By Emma Tucker and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — Police in Ferguson, Missouri, on Tuesday released new videos from last week’s protests marking the 10-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s killing, including footage of an incident in which an officer was severely injured. Ferguson Police Chief Troy Doyle said body camera video and footage from

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A former University of Kentucky student facing assault charges after repeatedly hurling a racial slur at a Black student on campus in 2022 pleaded guilty on Monday, following mediation in court, her attorney told CNN. Sophia Rosing pleaded guilty in Fayette County Circuit Court to four counts of fourth-degree

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Julia Vargas Jones, CNN (CNN) — George Floyd, Elijah McClain, Daniel Prude – and now D’Vontaye Mitchell – all share something beyond being Black men who died at the hands of public safety personnel: Authorities described the possibility of “excited delirium” in connection with the victims’ behavior just before death. The

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Traditionally, women considered “demure” behave in a way that is modest, reserved and inoffensive to the point that they’re barely visible. Jools Lebron, a makeup artist and prolific TikTok user, has appointed herself as the app’s new authority on “demure.” But her version of the term is far more