National-World

By Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Michael Duane Zack III, who was convicted of the 1996 killings of two women he met at bars along the Florida Panhandle, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at the Florida State Prison, according to the state’s Department of Corrections. Zack met with his wife and spiritual adviser

By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — A man who authorities say sexually assaulted and killed a 20-year-old woman three decades ago has been identified. The Wichita Police Department named Paul Hart, who died in a traffic collision in 1999, a suspect in the 1989 death of Krista Martin, according to a Wichita Police Department statement

By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Five people killed after a multi-vehicle crash in Illinois died from exposure to a toxic chemical that spilled from an overturned semi-truck, the Effingham County Coroner’s Office said Tuesday. A preliminary investigation shows the fatalities were the result of the “toxic chemical anhydrous ammonia exposure,” the coroner office told

By Christina Zdanowicz and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Soon, you may be able to cruise down a Florida highway named after singer Jimmy Buffett while listening to his A1A album named after the road. A Florida lawmaker filed a bill Friday to rename State Road A1A, a coastal highway that spans from Key West

CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — New York investigators say they anticipate additional charges against the man accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena as they dig into the timeline of events between her sudden disappearance and subsequent rescue Monday evening. Craig Nelson Ross Jr., 46, was arrested and charged with kidnapping

By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Port Sulphur, Louisiana (CNN) — Massive barges brought over a million gallons of fresh water to Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, on Monday as the community tackles the intrusion of saltwater that’s threatening drinking supplies. The emergency transports by the Army Corps of Engineers to water treatment and pumping stations

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Late-night TV hosts returned to the air Monday, five months after production came to a halt due to the writers’ strike. As usual, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel humored their audiences with witty zingers — but also expressed solidarity with workers beset by unemployment due to Hollywood’s

By Michelle Krupa, CNN (CNN) — They’d never really had a solid tuba player. The legendary New Orleans music family, of course, had its trumpeters and trombonists, saxes and drummers. But the tuba – namely the circular kind called a sousaphone – is big. And it requires a lot of air. And it scares little

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Andy Rose, John Miller and Sabrina Shulman, CNN (CNN) — The 46-year-old man accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena in upstate New York wrote a ransom note with intent to get money, according to an arraignment memorandum released Tuesday. Craig Nelson Ross Jr., abducted the girl “and wrote a ransom letter with

CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Late-night TV hosts returned to the air Monday, five months after production came to a halt due to the writers’ strike. As usual, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel humored their audiences with witty zingers — but also expressed solidarity with workers beset by unemployment due to

By Jaide Timm-Garcia and Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — A U.S. federal appeals court has granted a conservative group’s request to temporarily block a Black-owned venture capitalist firm from awarding grants exclusively to Black women entrepreneurs. In a 2-1 decision, judges from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the American Alliance for Equal Rights’