By Amanda Watts and Melissa Alonso, CNN A member of City of Miami Fire-Rescue has lost his 7-year-old daughter in the Surfside, Florida, building collapse, officials said Friday. The girl’s remains were recovered Thursday night in the rubble by members of the department’s urban search and rescue team, Chief Joseph Zahralban said in a statement.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A settlement is in place between the family of a man killed at a Columbia Waffle House, the restaurant and the security guard that killed him. Attorneys for members of Anthony Warren’s family filed the proposed settlement with Judge Jeff Harris on Wednesday. The terms of the settlement are confidential, but the
Continue ReadingBy Eliott C. McLaughlin, Alta Spells and Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN An engineering firm hired for Champlain Towers South‘s milestone recertification found “deep” concrete deterioration near the pool but couldn’t perform repairs, in part, because of concerns about stability, according to an October letter. Maryland-based Morabito Consultants also was hamstrung because it needed access to the
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By Aya Elamroussi, Melissa Alonso and Rebekah Riess, CNN The Boy Scouts of America has reached an $850 million settlement with sexual abuse victims amid bankruptcy proceedings and allegations of widespread abuse within the group, it said in news release. The deal is among the largest single settlements of sexual abuse claims in US history.
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, Melissa Alonso and Rebekah Riess, CNN The Boy Scouts of America has reached an $850 million settlement with sexual abuse victims amid bankruptcy proceedings and allegations of widespread abuse within the group, it said in news release. The deal is among the largest single settlements of sexual abuse claims in US history.
Continue ReadingBy Jay Croft and Madeline Holcombe, CNN The mayor of Miami-Dade County took another step Friday toward allowing crews to demolish the remaining units at the Surfside condo building that partially collapsed last week, but she added that it will be weeks before it can happen. Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said officials are still evaluating
Continue ReadingThe pilots of a cargo plane that made an emergency water landing off the coast of Honolulu, Hawaii, told air traffic controllers one of their engines had failed moments before the flight went down, according to LiveATC recordings reviewed by CNN.
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By Sara Spary, CNN Researchers in Austria may have found an unlikely solution to the problem of plastic pollution: cows, and the microbes found inside their stomachs. Researchers from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, the Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology and the University of Innsbruck found that common plastics
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By Sara Spary, CNN Researchers in Austria may have found an unlikely solution to the problem of plastic pollution: cows, and the microbes found inside their stomachs. Researchers from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, the Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology and the University of Innsbruck found that common plastics
Continue Reading A herd of cows tried to escape their fate at a meat packing facility, wreaking havoc on a southern California neighborhood before most were rounded up and returned to the facility, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) said in a statement.
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CNN’s Rebekah Riess and Travis Nichols One person is in custody after a rabbi was stabbed near a Jewish day school in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood on Thursday afternoon. Boston Police confirmed the stabbing incident at the intersection of Chestnut Hill Avenue and Washington Street, in the Brighton section of Boston. Shaloh House School Executive Director
Continue ReadingCNN’s Rebekah Riess and Travis Nichols One person is in custody after a rabbi was stabbed near a Jewish day school in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood on Thursday afternoon. Boston Police confirmed the stabbing incident at the intersection of Chestnut Hill Avenue and Washington Street, in the Brighton section of Boston. Shaloh House School Executive Director
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Personal Birth date: August 30, 1954 (some sources say August 31) Birth place: Kopys, Belarus Full name: Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko Father: name unavailable publicly Mother: Yekaterina Lukashenko, milkmaid Marriage: Galina (Zhelnerovich) Lukashenko (1975-present) Children: with Galina (Zhelnerovich) Lukashenko: Viktor and Dmitry;
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Personal Birth date: August 30, 1954 (some sources say August 31) Birth place: Kopys, Belarus Full name: Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko Father: name unavailable publicly Mother: Yekaterina Lukashenko, milkmaid Marriage: Galina (Zhelnerovich) Lukashenko (1975-present) Children: with Galina (Zhelnerovich) Lukashenko: Viktor and Dmitry;
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department said it arrested a Harrisburg man on suspicion of driving while intoxicated Thursday night. Authorities closed West Boulevard between Ash Street and Hope Place around 9 p.m. to investigate the crash. ABC 17 News crews saw one car damaged and the bottom half of an electrical pole gone.
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By Faith Karimi, CNN Since Bill Cosby walked out of prison a free man after a court overturned his sexual assault conviction, observers have found themselves wondering: Could Harvey Weinstein be next? The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania tossed out Cosby’s conviction Wednesday, three years after he was imprisoned for assaulting a Temple University employee. In
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN Since Bill Cosby walked out of prison a free man after a court overturned his sexual assault conviction, observers have found themselves wondering: Could Harvey Weinstein be next? The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania tossed out Cosby’s conviction Wednesday, three years after he was imprisoned for assaulting a Temple University employee. In
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Against the backdrop of unprecedented heat waves and deadly wildfires, the West’s historic drought has ranchers fighting another problem besides water shortages: a prolific hoard of grasshoppers is competing with cattle for food. Around 93% of the West is in some level of drought this week, and a bizarre impact of
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN Against the backdrop of unprecedented heat waves and deadly wildfires, the West’s historic drought has ranchers fighting another problem besides water shortages: a prolific hoard of grasshoppers is competing with cattle for food. Around 93% of the West is in some level of drought this week, and a bizarre impact of
Continue ReadingBy Chuck Johnston, CNN A cargo plane has made an emergency landing in the ocean off the coast of Honolulu, Hawaii, early Friday morning with two people on board, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. This is a developing story and will update. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All
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