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By Pete Muntean, CNN Miami (CNN) — When the Amazon Air cargo plane barreled off the runway at Miami International Airport this week going nearly 130 miles an hour, there was little to slow it down. The 156-foot-wide jet crushed vehicles, smashed concrete road barriers and tore through navigational equipment. Five people in vehicles were

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky withdrew his petition for a new trial at a hearing Tuesday morning with plans to pursue federal relief, according to a spokesperson for Sandusky. A judge in Centre County, Pennsylvania, accepted the withdrawal of Sandusky’s petition at the state court

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The defense attorney for Lindsay Clancy expressed a willingness to work out a plea deal for his client in an interview Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Attorney Kevin Reddington addressed next steps after the case of the Massachusetts mother who argued she should not be held criminally responsible

By Andy Rose, Whitney Wild, CNN Joliet, Illinois (CNN) — An Illinois woman accused of killing her 2-year-old son last week was ordered to be held in jail during a court appearance Tuesday morning as she faces three counts of first-degree murder. Corie Walsh, 40, of Frankfort – an Illinois village southwest of Chicago –

By Gloria Pazmino, Katherine Koretski, CNN New York (CNN) — New York City has released more than 170,000 pages of previously undisclosed records about air quality following the September 11, 2001, attacks, showing city officials at the time knew conditions around Ground Zero were unsafe to breathe despite repeated assurances to the public. Mayor Zohran

By Hanna Park, Rebekah Riess, Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Four bodies have been recovered after a plane carrying four relatives disappeared during a flight from the Bahamas to the Miami area, prompting a multi-agency search involving the US Coast Guard. Early Tuesday, the family had said one body had been recovered. Later, Lt. Darius

By Andy Rose, Maria Aguilar Prieto, Julianna Bragg, Chris Boyette, Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — As an Amazon cargo plane began its descent under dark clouds over Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, it flew past the usual landing zone for Runway 30. The Boeing 767-300, weighing more than 100 tons, remained airborne deep into

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — As he was approaching the end of his career, Jerry Sandusky told his legendary boss Joe Paterno he wanted to find a way to maintain “visibility” with Penn State University even after leaving the storied college football program. Sandusky’s name would end up having far more visibility than either

By Amanda Musa, Pete Muntean, Aaron Cooper, Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — At least five people are dead after an Amazon cargo aircraft overran the runway during a landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, striking multiple vehicles and sending a thick black plume of smoke into the air as it caught fire. Five

By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — An Illinois mother had become “very invested” in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy murder trial before prosecutors say she killed her 2-year-old son on Tuesday, according to witnesses cited in court documents. Corie Walsh, a 40-year-old resident of Frankfort, was charged with first-degree murder after prosecutors allege she fatally strangled

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Murder suspect Barry Morphew was arrested on Thursday in Boulder, Colorado, authorities said, days after his alleged involvement in a hit-and-run crash on August 26 in Denver, court records show. A “concerned citizen” saw Morphew, 58, drive “aggressively prior to striking two vehicles,” Alamosa County District Judge Amanda Hopkins

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The judge has declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder trial after the jury deliberated for seven days without reaching a unanimous verdict. So, now what happens? Judge William Sullivan told the parties Friday afternoon he’d like to retry the case later in the fall. In the meantime,

CNN By Eric Levenson, Nicki Brown, and Elise Hammond A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the former nurse accused of murdering her three children, after jurors deadlocked and were unable to reach a verdict. The jury deliberated for about 38 hours over seven days. Jury notes indicated

By Eric Levenson, Nicki Brown, and Elise Hammond A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the former nurse accused of murdering her three children, after jurors deadlocked and were unable to reach a verdict. The jury deliberated for about 38 hours over seven days. Jury notes indicated the

By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — No evidence of mechanical problems was found in either of the two aircraft involved in last month’s deadly midair collision between a small private plane and a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The finding is part of a new preliminary report on the

By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Antisemitic hate crimes are up 8% so far this year and make up more than half of the incidents in New York City, even as officials tout record low numbers for shootings and murders, according to statistics released by the New York Police Department on Thursday. Overall hate crimes

CNN By Zoe Sottile, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Gloria Steinem, the American journalist and political activist who became the face of second-wave feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has died at age 92, according to her verified Instagram account. Steinem died Wednesday in New York City, “surrounded by some of the many