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By Kelly Murray, CNN A man made a run to Walmart in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and came home $100,000 richer. Michael Buck told North Carolina Education Lottery officials that a store employee convinced him to buy a ticket for the record $2.04 billion Powerball drawing. “The girl at the pharmacy told me they sold

By Emma Tucker and Sara Smart, CNN Trip Valigorsky’s beachfront home in a tight-knit community in Volusia County, Florida had been in his family for nearly 15 years before it was washed away this week, as the dangerous storm surge and powerful winds caused by Hurricane Nicole swept across Florida. “This home was my grandma’s

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Bring out the candles — 115 of them. Bessie Hendricks, the oldest living person in the United States, has celebrated yet another turn around the sun. The Iowa supercentenarian turned 115 on November 7, according to CNN affiliate KCCI. Hendricks was born in 1907. Her lifetime has seen 21 presidents, two

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A bouncing baby gorilla has been born at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas. The unnamed infant is just the second-ever western lowland gorilla born at the facility, according to a Facebook post. The baby was born early on November 6 to parents Gracie and Elmo, the zoo says. He likely

By Raja Razek, CNN Amid efforts to find unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma, a forensic anthropologist discovered that one of three sets of remains exhumed last week included a victim with a gunshot wound, authorities said. The remains were uncovered at an excavation site in the Oaklawn Cemetery this year

By Chloe Melas, CNN Actor Alec Baldwin on Friday filed a lawsuit in California against several individuals associated with the “Rust” film, according to a cross-complaint obtained by CNN. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot by the actor last October during a rehearsal for a scene for the movie, which was being filmed near Santa

By Paradise Afshar, CNN More than 100 new plaintiffs affected by water contamination at Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Hawaii have been included in a lawsuit against the United States government. The lawsuit was originally filed earlier this year with the US District Court for the District of Hawaii, and included the names

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN State Farm Arena was transformed into a church Friday as family and fans gathered to celebrate the earthly departure of Takeoff from Migos. The three-hour sendoff was a superstar affair, featuring performances from Justin Bieber, Chloe Bailey and Yolanda Adams, as well as a poem by Drake, and words of

By Zenebou Sylla and Kiely Westhoff, CNN Three former Pennsylvania police officers each pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 counts of reckless endangerment for their involvement in the death of an 8-year-old girl who was shot after she was leaving a high school football game with her family, according to a spokesperson from the Delaware County

By Tavleen Tarrant, CNN Eleven students from Temple University in Philadelphia were held hostage and robbed by two masked men with handguns early Friday, authorities said. Police said officers responded to a report at an off-campus property about 6 a.m. The students had been sleeping when the two suspects broke in, rounded them up, and

By Ryan Bergeron, CNN The Mississippi River was running so low in October, you could walk to an island that should only be accessible by boat. This summer, the Danube River that flows through much of central Europe got so shallow, you could see sunken warships from World War II at the bottom of it.

By Sharif Paget, CNN No charges will be filed against a woman seen on video on Election Day hanging stuffed toys in nooses above a political sign belonging to Tim Alexander, a Black candidate for New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District seat. The woman was identified as a 36-year-old resident of Rio Grande, the section of

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Floridians are once again picking up the pieces after Nicole slammed into the state Thursday, killing at least four people, ripping buildings apart and leaving some homes unlivable as it bore down with dangerous storm surge and powerful winds. Nicole hit Florida’s eastern coast, just south of Vero Beach, as a

By Aya Elamroussi and Amy Simonson, CNN Kentucky state officials on Thursday unveiled a sculpture of public education trailblazer Nettie Depp, the first woman from the state to have a large-scale monument dedicated to her inside the state Capitol. “Nettie Depp was a pioneer in the field of public education in Kentucky, serving as an

By Amir Vera and Joe Sutton, CNN A noose was discovered at the Obama Presidential Center construction site in Chicago Thursday, prompting the group overseeing the project to suspend work at the site. Lakeside Alliance, a joint venture of multiple construction companies working on the center, issued a statement saying they reported the incident to