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Jury ends 3rd day of deliberations over ex-Parkland school resource officer’s fate in a rare trial over police conduct in a mass shooting

By Denise Royal, Carlos Suarez and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Jurors concluded a third day of deliberations on Wednesday without reaching a verdict in the trial of the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school in a rare trial focused on law enforcement response

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More than a third of the US population, from the Midwest to the East Coast, under air quality alerts from Canadian wildfire smoke

By Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — More than third of the US population is under air quality alerts, covering more than a dozen states from the Midwest to the East Coast, as smoke from Canadian wildfires sweeps across parts of the United States, prompting officials to call on the public

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Race car driver Jimmie Johnson’s in-laws and their 11-year-old grandson found dead in murder-suicide, police say

By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The parents and nephew of race car driver Jimmie Johnson’s wife, Chandra Janway Johnson, were killed Monday at a home in Muskogee, Oklahoma, according to a news release from the Muskogee Police Department. A police spokesperson told CNN it was a suspected murder-suicide. On Monday, police received a 911

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Cleveland woman indicted on murder charges after leaving her 16-month-old child alone for 10 days, prosecutors say

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A Cleveland woman has been indicted on murder charges after she left her 16-month-old child alone for 10 days while she vacationed in Detroit and Puerto Rico and the baby died, prosecutors say. “On June 6, 2023, Kristel Candelario left her 16-month-old daughter alone and unattended at her residence

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Jury ends 2nd day of deliberations over then-Parkland school resource officer’s fate in rare trial over police conduct in a mass shooting

By Denise Royal, Carlos Suarez and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Jurors concluded their second day of deliberations Tuesday evening in the trial of the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the 2018 mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school – the culmination of a rare prosecution of a law enforcement officer

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Janitor heard ‘annoying alarms’ and turned off freezer, ruining 20 years of school research worth $1 million, lawsuit says

By Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — A university janitor who turned off a freezer after hearing multiple “annoying alarms,” ruined more than 20 years of research, according to a lawsuit filed against his employer by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. The janitor, who is not being sued in the lawsuit, was a contractor

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John Goodenough, the Nobel Prize winner whose development of lithium ion batteries helped create ‘a rechargable world’, has died at 100

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — John B. Goodenough, the Nobel Prize-winning engineer whose contributions to developing lithium-ion batteries revolutionized portable technology, has died. He was 100. He died Sunday, according to a release from the University of Texas at Austin, where Goodenough served as a faculty member for 37 years. His cause of death

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Prosecutor says there’s ‘insufficient evidence’ for murder charge against woman arrested in shooting of a Black mother who knocked on her door

By Shawn Nottingham and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor through a closed door earlier this month will not face murder charges, Florida officials said. The state will instead charge Susan Lorincz with one count of manslaughter with a firearm and one count of assault, State Attorney Bill

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Massachusetts man arrested and charged with triple homicide after 3 family members found dead at home, officials say

By Rob Frehse and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a triple homicide after three relatives were found dead inside a home in Newton, Massachusetts, on Sunday morning, including a couple celebrating their golden wedding anniversary, officials said. Newton resident Christopher Ferguson, 41, pleaded not guilty

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Pittsburgh synagogue gunman’s mental health is focus of punishment phase of death penalty trial

By Sabrina Souza and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter acted irrationally due to mental health problems and had a history of psychotic symptoms consistent with schizophrenia, his defense attorneys said in the punishment phase of his death penalty trial Monday. “The structure and the function of Mr. (Robert) Bowers’ brain

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Club Q mass shooter sentenced to over 2,000 years in prison after family begs judge to ‘lock this animal away to the depths of hell’

By Andi Babineau, Holly Yan and Christina Maxouris, CNN Colorado Springs, Colorado (CNN) — The suspect accused of using an AR-style rifle to terrorize a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub – killing five people and injuring 19 others – pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder and 46 counts of attempted murder. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23,

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