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Police detail the hourslong manhunt that ended in the Atlanta shooting suspect’s arrest

By Ryan Young, Rebekah Riess, Christina Maxouris and Dakin Andone, CNN After a nearly eight-hour, chaotic manhunt, authorities captured the man accused of opening fire in a Midtown Atlanta medical building Wednesday and killing a 38-year-old woman and wounding four others. The suspected gunman, 24-year-old Deion Patterson, went inside Northside Medical Midtown just before noon

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Man accused of shooting 3 senior citizens at Alabama church group meeting sentenced to life without parole

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Robert Findlay Smith, who was accused of shooting and killing three senior citizens at an Alabama church group’s meeting in June 2022, entered a guilty plea Tuesday for the intentional murder of Jane Pounds, Walter Rainey and Sarah Yeager, according to a news release from the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.

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Arizona AG takes aim at foreign-owned farms that pump groundwater to feed cattle overseas

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Amid Arizona’s worsening groundwater crisis, the state’s new attorney general is vowing to crack down on foreign-owned farms that lease land from the state with the benefit of unlimited water pumping. State officials recently revoked two new well-drilling permits for a Saudi Arabian agriculture company that uses Arizona groundwater to grow

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Texas massacre suspect charged with 5 counts of murder as investigators say his longtime partner gave him food and clothes while on the run

By Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough, Holly Yan, Josh Campbell and Mark Morales, CNN The longtime partner of a man accused of gunning down five people, including a 9-year-old, in a neighboring Texas home seemed to be cooperating with authorities — but was actually helping the suspect evade them during a dayslong manhunt, a prosecutor said

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Officer who held back crowd during George Floyd’s murder convicted of aiding and abetting manslaughter

By Eric Levenson and Brad Parks, CNN A Minnesota judge found former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao guilty of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter for his role keeping bystanders back in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, according to court documents filed Monday. In a 177-page verdict, Judge Peter Cahill wrote that Thao “actively

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Hundreds of hazardous sites in California are at risk of flooding as sea level rises, study finds

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Hundreds of hazardous industrial sites that dot the California coastline — including oil and gas refineries and sewage-treatment plants — are at risk of severe flooding from rising sea level if the climate crisis worsens, new research shows. If planet-warming pollution continues to rise unabated, 129 industrial sites are estimated to

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