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By Paradise Afshar and Holly Yan, CNN Authorities are asking for the public’s help in finding whoever killed one person and injured 10 others in a pair of shootings that investigators believe are connected, the Memphis Police Department said. Officers arrived at Live Lounge in Memphis at about 12:43 a.m. Sunday where two shooting victims

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Would you get rid of a brand-new car after driving it just 16 times? Of course not. Nevertheless, a brand-new Boeing 747 configured as a private VIP jet is being scrapped after having spent just 30 hours in service over 16 flights. Here’s what else you need to know to Start

By Paradise Afshar, CNN Four people were injured in a shooting Sunday morning near an Indianapolis gas station, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said. Authorities initially reported five people had been injured in the shooting near East 42nd Street and North Franklin Road, but the department revised that number down to four in a news

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The US Forest Service will move forward with killing feral cattle in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, officials say. The agency issued its decision in a news release on Thursday, stating the feral cattle “pose a significant threat to public safety and natural resources.” Aerial shooting of the cattle will take

By Rachel Ramirez and Will Lanzoni, CNN California’s drought-stricken reservoirs have seen a remarkable recovery after a barrage of storms lashed the state last month. Officials say it’s a much-needed improvement after hovering at critically low levels for the past several years. Lake Oroville, California’s most beleaguered and second-largest reservoir, saw a huge boost after

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Good news for the cows of the sea. A Florida coalition of government agencies, wildlife rehabilitation groups and conservation organizations has released an “unprecedented” 12 manatees into the wild in a single day, according to a news release from the Save the Manatee Club. The Manatee Rescue and Rehabilitation Partnership announced

By Andy Rose and Sharif Paget, CNN An English professor at Florida’s Palm Beach Atlantic University says his job is under review after his employer told him it received a complaint that he is “indoctrinating” students. “The racial justice unit is what got me in hot water,” Sam Joeckel told CNN. Joeckel said he has

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Nine boys and girls under the age of 18 were wounded in a shooting at a Columbus, Georgia, gas station — including a 5-year-old boy who was struck by gunfire while there with a family member Friday night, authorities said. The gunfire broke out when a group of minors attending a

By Christina Maxouris and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The head of Norfolk Southern, the company who operated the train carrying hazardous materials that derailed earlier this month, met with residents and local leaders of the East Palestine, Ohio, community on Saturday and promised the company is “here to stay” until the village is “made whole,” the

By Zoe Sottile, CNN For the first time ever, a “corimelaena palmeri” insect has been documented in the US after hitching a ride in a shipment of fresh cut flowers, according to Customs officials. The bug was discovered in October among a shipment of fresh cut flowers in a tractor-trailer at the Otay Mesa Cargo

By Melissa Alonso and Rebekah Riess, CNN A body has been found in a vehicle submerged in Kentucky flood waters, Marion County Rescue Chief Brian Smith said. Rescue crews located the car through a drone search Thursday after flooding in southeastern Kentucky. They discovered the body while retrieving the car Friday, affiliate WKYT reported. The

By Celina Tebor, Liam Reilly and Ray Sanchez, CNN At least one person is dead and 17 more were injured — some critically — in a fire early Saturday that left some residents in a highrise apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, trapped on balconies, fire officials say. The three-alarm fire, with more than 100

By Polo Sandoval, CNN William Bower II feared he would never know where his father’s final resting place was, but he hung on to hope for decades. On Thursday, the Missouri retired aerospace engineer fought back tears as he was notified that a submarine wreck, discovered off the coast of Japan last year, is what

By AJ Willingham, CNN On the campus of a small Christian college in Wilmore, Kentucky, a massive worship service has been rolling, nonstop, for nearly two weeks. The event at Asbury University is so popular, people have flown from across the country, standing in line outside of the college’s main chapel for an opportunity to

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A humpback whale that washed ashore off the coast of New Jersey was previously struck by a ship, according to officials. The dead whale was first reported to officials on Monday, according to a news release from Monmouth County, New Jersey. It washed ashore at the Manasquan Inlet beach on the

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Will a fourth adoption be the charm for this seemingly unadoptable pup? Ralphie, a New York shelter’s adorable “jerk” dog, has been returned to the shelter again after his most recent (and unsuccessful) adoption. “Ralphie proved to be more than she could handle,” the shelter explained in an update posted to