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By Jillian Sykes, CNN Bears are a common sight in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, but one got a little too close for comfort for a man outside his Asheville home this week. David Oppenheimer was relaxing outside Tuesday when he heard an alarm sound from his motion detector. “I looked behind me

By Kia Fatahi, Samantha Beech and Claire Colbert, CNN A man convicted for ordering a murder-for-hire hit on his brother and Mafia-associated father in the Bronx, New York was sentenced to life in prison Friday, federal prosecutors said. Anthony Zottola Sr., 45, and co-conspirator Himen Ross, 37, were each sentenced to mandatory life sentences plus

By Samantha Beech, Nicki Brown and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The train cars that derailed near a village in central Maine Saturday and caused a large fire were not carrying hazardous materials, officials said, adding there was no threat to public safety. Officials say the derailed fright train cars were carrying lumber and wiring. Other carts

By Zoe Sottile, CNN An Oregon man was stopped by police Tuesday after he tried to “gift” strangers money by tossing hundred dollar bills on a busy highway from his car window. Police received multiple phone calls about bills “floating” on busy Interstate 5 toward the south end of Eugene, about 120 miles south of

By Liam Reilly and Emma Tucker, CNN The New York attorney general has opened an investigation into the death of a 78-year-old man who was shot by police this week after officers responded to 911 calls for a burglary at his apartment, the office said Saturday. Officers with the New York Police Department responded to

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Fulton County, Georgia, Sheriff Patrick “Pat” Labat on Friday announced measures “to address an outbreak of infectious illnesses” at the county jail — including moving more than 600 inmates to other counties, a statement said. The measures are the result of a “preliminary investigation” into the death of Lashawn Thompson —

By Jay Croft, CNN Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday delayed the executions of three death row inmates amid continued struggles to find pharmaceutical suppliers for the state’s lethal injection method. DeWine’s office said in a statement he was “issuing the reprieves due to ongoing problems involving the willingness of pharmaceutical suppliers to provide drugs

By Melissa Alonso, CNN The US Coast Guard is assisting Mexican navy crews in the search for three American sailors, last heard from on April 4 near Mazatlán, Mexico, according to a Coast Guard news release. Kerry O’Brien, Frank O’Brien and William Gross are all “experienced sailors,” according to a joint statement from their families.

By Jay Croft and Rebekah Riess, CNN Classes are set to resume Monday after Rutgers University and its faculty reached an agreement to end a weeklong strike, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced early Saturday morning. “This fair and amicable conclusion respects the interests of many different stakeholders, upholds New Jersey’s values, and puts an

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Erica and Aaron Parker first had their Loveland, Ohio, home appraised in 2020. It was a competitive selling market, they had made several renovations to the home, and houses in the neighborhood were generally selling above the asking price. The couple expected the house to be valued at the list

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Days after a blaze at an eastern Indiana plastics recycling plant forced evacuation orders for hundreds, officials are slated to meet Saturday to discuss when it will be safe for them to return to their homes as the fire fizzles out. The massive fire — which began Tuesday at a recycling

By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Torrents and torrents of rain have drowned thousands of acres of farmland in California’s Central Valley this winter and resuscitated a lake that vanished decades ago. As far as the eye can see, water stretches to the horizon — across roads, across crop fields, through homes and buildings.

By Raja Razek and Steve Almasy, CNN Former Seattle SuperSonics star Shawn Kemp is facing one count of first-degree assault in a shooting last month outside a mall in Tacoma, Washington, according to the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Kemp, 53, was first arrested hours after the March 8 incident in what online court records

By Taylor Romine, CNN A former sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot 18-year-old Andrés Guardado almost three years ago will not be charged, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. Guardado was killed in June 2020, after two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies pursued him after he allegedly displayed a handgun, looked at the

By Paradise Afshar and Sara Smart, CNN Three New Mexico officers opened fire on a man after mistakenly responding to the wrong address earlier this month — an incident that left the man dead, police said Friday as they released body camera footage from the shooting. The Farmington Police Department released videos from body cameras

By Paradise Afshar, CNN Three people were killed and one other was wounded Friday in shootings along Interstate 45 in two counties in Southeast Texas — incidents believed to have involved outlaw motorcycle gangs, authorities said. The incidents took place in Montgomery and Walker counties, north of Houston. At 12:18 p.m. local time, Texas Department

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN A CSX train apparently caused sparks as it traveled through its Rockland County, New York, route, creating “dozens of brush fires,” according to the Rockland County Sheriff’s Office. In a Facebook post, the sheriff’s office said, “A CSX train traveling through the Town of Clarkstown, Stony Point, Haverstraw, Village of Haverstraw,

By Brian Todd and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in a Newport News, Virginia, elementary school appeared in court for the first time Friday after being charged in the incident. Deja Taylor did not enter a plea to charges of child neglect and recklessly leaving a loaded