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By Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A former UCLA obstetrician-gynecologist who worked for the university for decades has been found guilty of sexually assaulting patients in his care, prosecutors announced Thursday. James Heaps, 65, was convicted of three counts of sexual battery by fraud and two counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person,

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A man in Washington state has been charged with a federal hate crime in connection with a 2018 attack on a Jehovah’s Witnesses’ place of worship, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. Mikey Diamond Starrett, 50, is accused of shooting at and damaging the Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall of Yelm, Washington,

By Sara Turnbull and Andi Babineau, CNN Four former employees of a Mississippi daycare are facing child abuse charges after a viral video surfaced showing an adult wearing a Halloween mask and scaring the children in their care. On Monday, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and prosecuting attorneys “met with the parents of the children

By Andi Babineau, Jamiel Lynch and Melissa Alonso, CNN An officer with the US Customs and Border Protection was unintentionally shot and killed by a fellow officer during a training exercise at a Florida shooting range, police said Thursday. Jorge Arias was serving as a firearms instructor at Trail Glades Range in Miami on Wednesday

By Raja Razek, CNN Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of Las Vegas investigative journalist Jeff German, has been indicted for murder by a grand jury. According to the indictment, which was filed on Thursday, Telles did “willfully, unlawfully, with malice aforethought, kill Jeffrey

By Andi Babineau and Ella Nilsen, CNN The Environmental Protection Agency has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the state of Mississippi over the Jackson water crisis. On Thursday, in response to complaints filed by the NAACP and Jackson residents, the EPA announced it will investigate whether the Mississippi Department of Health and the

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN A Texas state police captain tried to delay a law enforcement team entering the classrooms to end the Robb Elementary massacre and is now among those under investigation after an account from someone at the scene that he ordered his officers to stay out of

By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN A former Planned Parenthood executive is suing the nonprofit under claims that the organization wrongfully fired her and retaliated against her when she made complaints about alleged unfair treatment of Black women. Nicole Moore, who is Black, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in federal court. Moore served

By Matt Foster, CNN The cheating scandal that has consumed the chess world has taken its latest twist as American grandmaster Hans Niemann filed a defamation lawsuit against world champion Magnus Carlsen amongst others in a Missouri court on Thursday. In the lawsuit, Niemann and his attorneys state that they are seeking at least $100

By Steve Almasy, Jason Hanna, John Murgatroyd and Devon M. Sayers, CNN Investigators believe a 15-year-old boy killed his older brother before continuing a shooting rampage that killed four others and injured two last week in North Carolina’s capital, according to a preliminary report from police released Thursday. Authorities have not yet learned the suspect’s

By Amanda Musa and Holly Yan, CNN A man partially paralyzed after sliding head-first into the back wall of a Connecticut police van has had all charges against him dropped, the deputy chief clerk for the New Haven Superior Court said Thursday. Randy Cox, 36, was arrested on June 19 on suspicion of illegally possessing

By Eric Levenson and Kiely Westhoff, CNN A 44-year-old man was convicted of murder-for-hire and conspiracy for ordering hits on his Mafia-associated father and his brother in the Bronx, New York, in a case as notable for its barbarity as for its multiple bungling murder attempts. Anthony Zottola was convicted in federal court Wednesday for

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Diwali, the Hindu celebration known as the “Festival of Lights,” will be a public school holiday in New York City starting next year. Mayor Eric Adams announced plans to include the holiday in the public school schedule at a press conference on Thursday morning, alongside state assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar and Department

By Brynn Gingras, Nicki Brown, John Miller and Amir Vera, CNN The body of missing Princeton University student Misrach Ewunetie was found on campus Thursday, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said. Her body was found at about 1 p.m. on the facilities grounds, behind tennis courts, according to a statement from Mercer County prosecutor Angelo

By Gabe Cohen and Aaron Cooper, CNN More than three weeks after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida, Johnnie Glisson is still sleeping in his pickup truck. The storm flooded the 74-year-old’s house in Matlacha, just outside Fort Myers. Little survived beyond a damp couch he propped up on cinderblocks. He now uses it to

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The Covid-19 pandemic — which upended millions of lives and demanded we stay in our homes for months on end — also helped fuel a baby boom. Close proximity among partners and increased work flexibility contributed to the 6.2% jump in US birth rates last year, according to a new study.