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By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A 19-year-old college baseball player has died from head injuries after a dugout collapsed on him while he was volunteering in Pennsylvania, according to school officials. Angel Mercado, a student and baseball player at Central Penn College, died at Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Wednesday evening, according

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that the probable cause of a 2021 crash involving multiple vehicles in Butler County, Alabama, which killed nine children and one adult, was “the unsafe speeds of multiple vehicles during rain, low visibility, and wet road conditions,” according to the report. Contributing

By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people have traveled to the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles Monastery, in rural Missouri to view a nun’s body which appears to show no signs of decay approximately four years after her death, according to the Catholic News Agency. The body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who

By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN (CNN) — George Washington University has changed its school nickname to the Revolutionaries. In a video posted Wednesday on the school’s social media accounts, Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and an alumnus of the school made the announcement. “Raise high Revolutionaries,” Todd said in the video, updating the

By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — A high school graduate is suing her former Oklahoma school district after she says school officials prevented her from wearing a sacred eagle plume on her graduation cap. At issue is an encounter that occurred last year shortly before graduation, according to the lawsuit, which was filed last week

By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Today is the start of Memorial Day weekend, which also marks the beginning of the busy summer travel season. Stay safe, don’t yell at anyone at the airport, and we’ll see you back here on Tuesday. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and

By Nicki Brown and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — An Indianapolis doctor who publicly revealed she provided abortion services to a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim last year has been reprimanded and fined by Indiana’s medical licensing board after it determined the disclosure violated federal and state patient privacy laws. The board on Thursday found Dr.

By Rob Frehse and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A grand jury has indicted a New Jersey police officer on a manslaughter charge more than a year after authorities say he fatally shot a homeowner who called 911 to report two burglars, the state attorney general’s office said. Mantua Township police officer Salvatore Oldrati

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Multiple students hospitalized Thursday afternoon after a school bus collided with a tanker truck in Lexington County, South Carolina, have been released from the hospital, according to officials. A total of 17 students as well as the bus driver were transported to Lexington Medical Center after the crash, according

By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers in Texas’ Republican-controlled House passed a bill Wednesday that would allow public schools to employ or accept volunteer chaplains who are not state certified. Senate Bill 763, which passed 84-60, reads, “A school district or open-enrollment charter school may employ or accept as a volunteer a chaplain to

By Carma Hassan and Devon M. Sayers, CNN Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Justin Ross Harris, whose murder conviction for the 2014 hot-car death of his 22-month-old son in Georgia was overturned by the state’s Supreme Court last year, will not be retried, prosecutors said Thursday. Last year’s decision nullified a sentence of life in prison

Samantha Beech, CNN (CNN) — The Manhattan District Attorney has indicted a New York police officer for repeatedly punching a man who was acting “erratically” in the face and knocking him unconscious during an encounter in the West Village in November 2021, which “caused the victim to suffer substantial pain.” NYPD Officer Juan Perez, 42,

By Rebekah Riess and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — A shark attacked a 22-year-old woman from Connecticut while she was snorkeling at a resort in Turks and Caicos Wednesday, according to a release from the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force. The woman was snorkeling with a friend around 3 p.m. local time when

By Aya Elamroussi and Jeremy Harlan, CNN (CNN) — A grand jury in Colorado indicted a New York woman on felony charges for allegedly verbally threatening several businesses serving the LGBTQ community in the Denver area, including telling an establishment it would get “shot up like Club Q.” Sharon Robinson, 40, is accused of calling

By Marshall Cohen, Holly Yan and John Miller, CNN Fairfax, Virginia (CNN) — The Florida man who allegedly told officers at CIA Headquarters he had a gun and was later arrested with an AK-47 on nearby preschool property will stay in jail, a Virginia judge decided Thursday. Eric Sandow, 32, of Gainesville, Florida, will remain

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of actor, author and advocate Michael J. Fox. Personal Birth date: June 9, 1961 Birth place: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Birth name: Michael Andrew Fox Father: Bill Fox, Canadian Armed Forces officer Mother: Phyllis (Piper) Fox Marriage: Tracy Pollan (July 16, 1988-present) Children: Esme,

By Lauren del Valle and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — The mother of Brian Laundrie, the man who killed his fiancée, Gabby Petito, and later himself in 2021, wrote to her son saying she would help him “dispose of a body” or “bake a cake with a file in it” to help him in jail,

By Nick Valencia and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — An attorney for an 11-year-old Mississippi boy who was shot by a police officer after he called 911 for help said Thursday there was “no way” the boy could have been mistaken for an adult. The attorney, Carlos Moore, is asking for “a full and

By Alta Spells and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Parents of students at Nashville’s Covenant School can intervene in a consolidated lawsuit asking that documents and records related to the March 27 mass shooting be released, a Tennessee judge ruled, giving the parents a say in the potential release of the shooter’s writings and other