By Raja Razek, Rebekah Riess and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A 6-year-old boy in Florida was left severely injured at a theme park after apparently falling from a ride that was nearly two dozen feet above where he was found, authorities said. The incident happened Thursday afternoon at Fun Spot America’s Galaxy Spin
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — An earthquake in eastern China before dawn has knocked down houses and injured at least 21 people, state media report, but no deaths have been reported. The China Earthquake Networks Center says the magnitude 5.5 quake struck near the city of Dezhou, about 300 kilometers south of Beijing, the Chinese capital, at
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — US border officials are increasing personnel and transportation resources at Ajo, Arizona, one of the most isolated and dangerous areas on the Southwest border, to deal with a recent increase in migrants and an ongoing heat wave. “Border Patrol has prioritized the quick transporting of noncitizens
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Bahrain has called on its citizens to leave Lebanon “for their own safety” hours after Saudi Arabia did the same without giving a reason. The decision by the two Gulf nations came after days of fighting in the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon between members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah
Continue ReadingBy Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — The former president of the country’s fifth-largest police union was sentenced to two years in prison for a stealing more than $600,000 by filing phony expense reports, officials say. Edward Mullins pleaded guilty in January to one count of wire fraud and was sentenced on Thursday, according to
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Officials and news reports say the death toll from a landslide that hit a resort area in the mountains of the country of Georgia has increased to 17 on the third day of a search and rescue operation. The landslide hit the Shovi area on Thursday. Shovi, about 140 kilometers (85 miles)
Continue ReadingBy Ed DiOrio Click here for updates on this story ARDEN, North Carolina (WLOS) — Walgreens in Arden was closed Thursday evening into Friday, Aug. 4, for the remainder of the day after an unknown reason caused multiple employees to go home sick. Asheville Fire Department was called to the store, located at the corner
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Mari Gilbert did not live to witness the arrest of an architect from Long Island suspected of killing four young women whose remains were discovered in Gilgo Beach more than a decade ago. But the search for her daughter Shannan Gilbert, who went missing in May 2010, ultimately led
Continue ReadingBy Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — The 17-year-old suspected of fatally stabbing O’Shae Sibley has been charged with murder as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon, New York officials said Saturday. Sibley, a 28-year-old professional dancer, was stabbed to death at a Brooklyn gas station after dancing to a Beyoncé song last
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A Florida sheriff’s office is urging beachgoers to give manatees some privacy – and to not call the police on their distinctive mating displays. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office posted a video of a group of the sea creatures gathered near the shore last Saturday. “If you see this,
Continue ReadingBy Richard Allen Greene, Abeer Salman, Amir Tal and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Two Israelis have been arrested for questioning and five others detained following the reported killing of a Palestinian man in the West Bank, Israel Police said in a statement Saturday. It is rare for Israeli settlers to be arrested for attacks
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A dangerous fugitive linked the Camorra, a violent Italian criminal organization, has been arrested in Greece after authorities used his love of the Napoli soccer team to catch him. Vincenzo La Porta, 60, was captured on the island of Corfu Friday as he was riding
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — A bear believed to be responsible for breaking into more than 20 homes in California’s South Lake Tahoe area has been captured and will be relocated to Colorado, wildlife officials announced. The 500-pound female black bear, one of multiple bears identified by the public as “Hank the Tank,” was
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An Associated Press reporter recalls the first time he took a ride in a car without sitting in the driver’s seat. It happened one night last September when a Chevy Bolt named Peaches picked up the reporter outside a San Francisco bar. The half-hour ride
Continue ReadingBy Mallika Kallingal and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A Missouri man has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison for starting a fire that destroyed a mosque in 2020, according to a release from the US Department of Justice. Nicholas John Proffitt had pleaded guilty to using fire to damage religious property and
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos and Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — France said it backs efforts by members of an African regional bloc to thwart the coup in Niger, as the clock ticks closer to a deadline for the new military junta to stand down or face possible military intervention. “The future of Niger and the stability
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Fossils can appear in the oddest of places. As Earth’s shifting tectonic plates have rearranged continents over time and the planet has by turns cooled and warmed, mountain ranges appeared and glaciers carved paths. Those natural movements, combined with erosion, unearth sedimentary rock that tells stories of a world that existed long before
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Renowned opera singer David Daniels and his husband have pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting another singer in Houston. Daniels, 57, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Scott Walters, 40, entered the pleas Friday after a jury was assembled for the trial of the pair on first-degree felony charges of aggravated sexual assault. Both
Continue ReadingBy Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Puppies tussle in the annual Puppy Bowl. Kids start a game of tag in a schoolyard. Play has been observed and documented in many species — and not
Continue ReadingBy Jay Croft and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — A gunfight at a Florida hotel between police and a holed-up suspect ended in the man’s death Saturday morning, just hours after he allegedly shot two officers in an earlier encounter that left them in critical condition, authorities say. The suspect had an “extensive violent and
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