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By Celina Tebor, CNN Five kids were killed and another was injured after their car veered off a road and crashed into a tree early Sunday in the New York metropolitan area, according to authorities. Those killed ranged in age from 8 to 17, according to a release from the Westchester County Police Department. Four

By Michelle Watson and David Williams, CNN Officials in Hawaii seized a motorboat that had been floating just feet away from a sacred site on Maui known as the Hauola Stone. The officials told the boat owner they are taking control of the 56-foot grounded motorboat, named Kuuipo, in order “to avoid damaging a culturally

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Bear lovers rejoice: The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is hiring for “professional bear huggers.” The department posted an adorable job listing on Facebook on Monday, featuring precious snaps of conservation officers cuddling baby bears. Unfortunately, a love of bears is not the only qualification you’ll need to become

By Isa Kaufman-Geballe, CNN Law enforcement officials are desperately searching for an Indiana teenager who was last seen on Thursday and “is believed to be in extreme danger,” according to a missing person alert. Scottie Dean Morris, 14, was last seen in the small town of Eaton, which is 76 miles northeast of Indianapolis, Thursday

By Rebekah Riess, CNN The deaths of three Michigan rappers whose bodies were found in an abandoned apartment building in early February were related to gang violence, state police said, asking members of the public who might have information about the case to come forward. In a series of tweets Friday, Michigan State Police confirmed

By Harmeet Kaur and Daniel Wine, CNN If you’re sick of getting all those spammy text messages on your phone, there’s hope: New rules from the FCC require telecom companies to block messages from suspicious sources. May the scourge of robotexts finally come to an end! Here’s what else you need to know to Start

By Kia Fatahi and Zenebou Sylla, CNN Three children are dead and two adults were critically injured in a fire early Saturday morning in a west Baltimore home, the city’s fire department said. Firefighters were called to the home in the 3000 block of Brighton Street and initially rescued three children and two adults who

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Brightly colored toys buried in mud. Brown murky water where cars once parked. Family photos floating through a neighborhood. This is what one Southern California community looked like last week, lifelong Ventura resident Angie Thompson said, after the state’s 11th atmospheric river this winter wrought hurricane-like winds and catastrophic flooding. “We’re

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN — Photographs by Austin Steele and Vanessa Leroy, CNN Jamaal Grant was studying biology at Colby College in Maine when a friend asked if he’d be interested in teaching after graduation. Grant had planned to go to graduate school and build a career in science, but in need of a

By Faith Karimi, CNN Tracey Lomax watched from the viewing room of a state prison in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, as her sister’s killer received a lethal injection. Convicted murderer Gary Heidnik had received his last meal — black coffee and two slices of cheese pizza — shortly before he was executed on July 6, 1999. Applause

By Paradise Afshar, CNN Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have passed a bill that prohibits transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care, allows educators to refuse to refer to transgender students by their preferred pronouns and would not allow schools to discuss sexual orientation or gender identity with students of any age. The bill, if enforced, would

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A shooting during spring break celebrations in Miami Beach left one person dead and another injured Friday evening, according to the Miami Beach Police Department. Officers heard gunshots near 7th Street and Ocean Drive, a palm-tree lined intersection just feet from the beach, at about 10:41 p.m. ET and responded to

By Jay Croft, CNN As the fight over abortion pills heats up nationally, Wyoming on Friday prohibited the medication in what NARAL Pro-Choice America called a “first of its kind” law, and also enacted a near-total ban on abortion. Republican Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill making it a felony to prescribe, sell, or use

By Melissa Alonso and Zoe Sottile, CNN A five-year-old was killed and two other juveniles were hurt after a drive-by shooting in Tempe, Arizona, late Friday night, according to Tempe police. “The death of that five-year-old is a tragedy and our deepest condolences go out to that family,” said Byron Thomas, spokesperson for the Tempe

By Melissa Alonso and Zoe Sottile, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Saturday that the state will cut insulin costs by 90% and that it will start manufacturing naloxone, a nasal spray used to reverse opioid overdoses. The lower insulin cost results from a collaboration between CalRx, a California Department of Health Care Services