By Gregory Lemos and David Williams, CNN Authorities searching for a Georgia college student who’s been missing for more than 45 years got a big break after his car was found in an Alabama creek — along with his wallet, ID card and suspected human remains. Kyle Clinkscales, a student at Auburn University, was last
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN When kids and teenagers have easy or unsupervised access to guns, bad, and often irrevocable, things can happen. Such is the case with Ethan Crumbley, according to Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald. The 15-year-old Crumbley is the suspect in the November 30 Oxford High School shooting in Michigan that left four
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By Amy Simonson, CNN Canada on Wednesday banned conversion therapy, which are treatments that claim to be able to change a person’s sexual orientation or identity. The law makes it a crime to subject a person of any age, consenting or not, to such treatment. So-called conversion therapies rely on the assumption that sexual orientation
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By Steve Almasy, CNN A coalition of more than 40 organizations, including abortion rights advocacy groups, issued a report on Wednesday with 45 recommendations to “protect, strengthen and expand abortion services” in California. The report comes as the US Supreme Court weighs new laws in Texas and Mississippi that are much more restrictive than 1973’s
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The defense called Lynlee Renick to the stand as the third day of her trial at the Boone County Courthouse began. The trial is being heard here on a change of venue with a jury brought in from Clay County, Missouri.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a letter Wednesday that he will be opening an investigation into Columbia Public Schools’ failure to comply to end COVID-19 mask mandates. This comes after the state’s attorney general’s office received information from CPS parents that the district is not following the court order to
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By Evan Simko-Bednarski and Amy Simonson, CNN The governors of Maine and New York deployed the National Guard in response to dangerously low capacity at statewide medical facilities due to the pandemic. The New York National Guard announced Wednesday that it had deployed 120 medics and medical technicians to a dozen long-term care facilities statewide.
Continue Reading By Gregory Lemos and David Williams, CNN Authorities searching for a Georgia college student who’s been missing for more than 45 years got a big break after his car was found in an Alabama creek — along with his wallet, ID card and suspected human remains. Kyle Clinkscales, a student at Auburn University, was last
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Dean, CNN Democrats in Congress told CNN that GOP senators are continuing to hold up the nomination of the woman President Joe Biden tapped to become the next US Envoy to Combat and Monitor Anti-Semitism, five months after she was nominated. Biden nominated Deborah Lipstadt, an Emory professor of Modern Jewish History and
Continue ReadingBy Nadia Kounang, CNN The White House on Wednesday announced a new push to encourage harm reduction measures that make illicit drug use safer. Its supplying $30 million in grants for services such syringe exchanges and naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote. The announcement is part of the Biden administration’s strategy to focus on harm reduction
Continue ReadingBy Gabby Orr, CNN Donald Trump’s wait-and-see approach to the 2024 election has frozen the next Republican presidential primary before it’s even begun. As each rumored 2024 candidate navigates the uncertainty of another Trump bid — deciding if they should publicly acknowledge their presidential ambitions or keep their head down until he makes a decision
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan, Holly Yan and Amir Vera, CNN The passenger in Daunte Wright’s car when he was killed was the “only one out of everybody there that was trying to help him,” the young woman testified Thursday in the trial of the then-officer who fired the fatal shot during an April traffic stop in
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Police say 72-year-old Susan Hanel was driving on Providence Road on Nov. 30 when she turned in front of Skylar Maddox, causing him to crash into her vehicle while on his motorcycle.
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds with lows in the upper 30s. Winds picking up to about 20 mph. TOMORROW: Partly sunny and breezy with highs in the lower to mid-60s. EXTENDED: A warm front moving into the area overnight will increase clouds over the region, keeping us above freezing tonight. Tomorrow will be warm and windy as the front gets
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President Joe Biden’s first visit to Missouri as acting president was met with criticism from his opponents on the opposite side of the aisle.
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Schmitt said Tuesday that he sent letters to school districts that still require masks ordering them to stop enforcing the mandate, including Columbia Public Schools. Schmitt has also sued the district over its mask rule for all students and workers. No hearings have been scheduled in that case.
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Leah Dolan, CNN While many of us will spend the final days of 2021 reflecting on its whirlwind events, global color authority Pantone has already been busy looking ahead — to decide on the shade that will best encapsulate 2022. On Wednesday it unveiled Very Peri, a periwinkle hue that the company says combines the
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Janfaza, CNN Hillary Clinton has shared for the first time what would have been her 2016 presidential victory speech. In a soon-to-be-released Masterclass episode on “The Power of Resilience,” the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and former secretary of state reads from the remarks she had prepared to give in New York on November
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Ryan Nobles, CNN Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is suing the House select committee investigating January 6 and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asking a federal court to block enforcement of the subpoena the committee issued him as well as the subpoena it issued to Verizon for his
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Former Sen. David Perdue of Georgia launched his campaign for governor on Monday with a false claim about his chief opponent in the Republican primary, incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp. In a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, Perdue accused Kemp of handing control of Georgia elections to Democrat Stacey Abrams, the
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