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Email claims prison official warned Danelo Cavalcante was ‘planning an escape’

By Danny Freeman, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — About eight hours after convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante crab-walked out of a Chester County prison in August, a prison official sent the acting warden a message: Cavalcante had been “planning an escape” for months. Chester County Prison Sergeant Jerry Beavers emailed Cpt. Harry Griswold about information he’d received

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DOJ and New Jersey US Attorney’s office open investigation into the City of Trenton and its police department focusing on use of excessive force

By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department and the US Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey have opened an investigation into the Trenton Police Department and the City of Trenton that will focus on the use of excessive force and unlawful stops, searches and arrests, officials announced Tuesday. The pattern-or-practice investigation

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A nutrient-rich food that once largely disappeared from Western diets was a staple of early Europeans, study finds

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Virtually absent from most present-day Western diets, seaweed and aquatic plants were once a staple food for ancient Europeans, an analysis of molecules preserved in fossilized dental plaque has found. Evidence for this hitherto hidden taste for the nutrient-rich plants and algae was hard to detect in the archaeological

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Aurora police officer’s actions had ‘cataclysmic effect’ on Elijah McClain, prosecutor says as manslaughter trial opens

By Eric Levenson and Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — Aurora, Colorado, police officer Nathan Woodyard’s actions on the day Elijah McClain was restrained and injected with ketamine in 2019 had a “cataclysmic effect” on the young man, a prosecutor said Tuesday during opening statements in the officer’s manslaughter trial. Nathan Woodyard, 34, has pleaded not

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Court documents detail the moments before a 6-year-old boy was fatally stabbed and his mother was seriously injured in an alleged anti-Muslim attack

By Brad Parks and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Saturday started out as a normal day, 32-year-old Hanaan Shahin told police, with breakfast in the home her family rented in Plainfield Township, Illinois. Within hours, Shahin was in the hospital, recovering from more than a dozen stab wounds, after the family’s landlord brutally attacked her

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