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By Sara Smart, CNN Two inmates who escaped from a Newport News, Virginia, jail by digging out and scaling a wall were found at a nearby IHOP hours later Tuesday, officials said. The Newport News Jail Annex discovered the two inmates, John M. Garza, 37, and Arley V. Nemo, 43, missing during a routine head

By Randi Kaye and Christina Maxouris, CNN The death of Stephen Smith, whose body was found in the middle of a road in 2015, is being investigated as a homicide, a spokesperson for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division told CNN on Tuesday. The development comes almost two years after the murders of Margaret “Maggie”

By Andi Babineau and Christina Maxouris, CNN A student drag show aimed at raising money for the LGBTQ community was canceled Monday by West Texas A&M University’s president, who called such shows “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny,” drawing backlash from students and free speech advocates. In an email to the school community, university President Walter

By Macie Goldfarb, Devon M. Sayers and Zoe Sottile, CNN The contents of the home of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh and his family will be auctioned off on Thursday, according to a South Georgia auction house. The house is located in Colleton County, South Carolina, on a hunting property called Moselle. The property became a

By Amy Simonson and Zoe Sottile, CNN A 60-year-old man was swimming in Hawaii’s Anaehoomalu Bay Sunday when he was attacked by a shark, local officials say. The man was about 200 yards offshore when a shark attacked him around 12:40 p.m. HST, according to a news release from the Hawaii Fire Rescue Department. The

By Treasure Welle and Michelle Watson, CNN The University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky has reached a settlement of more than $14 million with the family of a student wrestler who died of heat stroke in 2020, the university and family’s attorney have said. Grant Brace died after a “punishment practice” during which university wrestling

By David Close, CNN New York Knicks hero Willis Reed has died, the National Basketball Retired Players Association said Tuesday. He was 80 years old. Reed led the Knicks to two championship titles in the 1970s, which included one of the most iconic moments in basketball history. Although suffering from a torn thigh muscle, Reed

By Negar Mahmoodi and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Every spring, Mona Gorjestani eagerly awaits the arrival of Nowruz. “I have wonderful memories of preparing for Nowruz with my family,” the San Francisco Bay Area resident said. “When I was younger, it was definitely a bragging point to my American friends.” Persian New Year, which is celebrated

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN California is bracing for yet another powerful, atmospheric river storm this week, continuing the onslaught of major weather whiplash after a yearslong, historic megadrought. Many welcomed this winter’s heavy rain and snow since it was so desperately needed to replenish the state’s severely drained reservoirs and depleted groundwater. But the storms

By Sara Smart, Elizabeth Wolfe and Dakin Andone, CNN The first-grade teacher allegedly shot by a 6-year-old student in her Virginia classroom can’t forget the look on the student’s face as he aimed the gun at her and moments later “thought I had died,” she told NBC in her first interview since the January incident.

By Kim Berryman, Brian Todd, Andy Rose, Michelle Watson and Eric Levenson, CNN Surveillance video released by a prosecutor Tuesday shows Irvo Otieno being pinned to the floor by multiple security officers at a Virginia state mental health facility in the moments leading up to his death earlier this month. Dinwiddie County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ann

By Rob Kuznia and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN In late August of 2021, Minneapolis police responded to a shooting along I-94, where they found a BMW sedan that had crashed into a freeway median. Slumped behind the steering wheel was 38-year-old Luis Damian Martinez Ortiz, who’d suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the chest. After reviewing

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