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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Loyola University New Orleans has appointed Xavier Cole as the next president of the 111-year-old Jesuit school. Cole will serve as the university’s 18th president and the first Black person to lead the institution, according to press release. He will also be the second layperson to fill the role. Cole is

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Fourth time’s the charm for this mischievous pup — hopefully. Ralphie, who made headlines after a New York animal shelter described him as a “fire-breathing demon,” has finally been adopted for the fourth time, according to the shelter. The Niagara SPCA said in a Friday Facebook post they received more than

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Celina Tebor, CNN Two additional bodies have been found by search and rescue teams working to locate missing individuals after the explosion of an eastern Pennsylvania candy factory last week, raising the incident’s death toll to seven people, officials said earlier this week. “We do believe them to be the remaining

By Celina Tebor, Susannah Cullinane, Dakin Andone and Danny Freeman, CNN Philadelphia residents can continue using tap water as normal until at least 3:30 p.m. Tuesday following a chemical spill a few miles upstream of a key intake in the Delaware River, city officials said Monday. Michael Carroll, the city’s deputy managing director for transportation,

By Raja Razek and Alaa Elassar, CNN Six people, including five children, were killed and one woman was injured in a car crash on Interstate 24 in Tennessee early Sunday morning. Emergency medical services responded to a collision of two vehicles at the interstate’s westbound mile marker 23 in Robertson County, according to a news

By Samantha Beech, Zenebou Sylla,Celina Tebor and Danny Freeman, CNN The City of Philadelphia says it is now confident tap water from the Baxter Drinking Water Treatment Plant will remain safe to drink until at least 11:59 p.m. Monday following a chemical spill in the Delaware River. At a news conference late Sunday afternoon, city

By Rebekah Riess and Samantha Beech, CNN Twelve people were injured Saturday night when a floor collapsed at an off-campus apartment party near Indiana University of Pennsylvania, according to state police. First responders were called to the scene — about a mile from the school’s campus in Indiana, Pennsylvania, per the apartment complex’s website —

By Christina Maxouris and Alaa Elassar, CNN A vibrant presence. Always smiling, always mischievous. A dreamer with plans of one day becoming a nurse. That’s how Sandy Smith remembers her 19-year-old son, Stephen, whose voice she hasn’t heard in more than seven years. His body was found in the middle of a rural Hampton County,

By John Blake, CNN Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain’t nobody got time for that!” Perhaps you posted that meme of supermodel Tyra Banks exploding in anger on “America’s Next Top Model” (“I was rooting for you! We were all

By Nicole Grether, CNN “Papa died last night, but his death is not the end.” Those are the first words Veronica Fletcher uttered to her three children after her husband, Joseph Fletcher, died from Covid-19 on April 11, 2020. “We’re going to keep papa’s name alive,” Fletcher, 49, later told her children. “He lives in

By Andy Rose, CNN Actor Jonathan Majors, who has recently starred in “Creed III” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” was arrested Saturday morning in an alleged domestic dispute, New York police say. Majors, 33, was taken into custody following a 911 call made from an apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, according to

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A 32-year-old man has died following a shooting at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe, located in Stateline, Nevada, on Saturday, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were dispatched to the hotel at 8:08 a.m. local time following reports of an active shooter and the first deputy

By Paradise Afshar, Melissa Alonso and Zoe Sottile, CNN Two migrants from Cuba landed at Key West International Airport in Florida on Saturday via a motorized hang glider, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. The pair landed at about 10:30 a.m. local time, and were not seriously injured, the sheriff’s office announced on its

By Kia Fatahi and Zenebou Sylla, CNN An Indiana teen who was missing for eight days and “believed to be in extreme danger” last week was found safe Friday evening, according to officials. Scottie D. Morris, 14, was located by an Eaton, Indiana, police officer in Eaton, authorities said in a Facebook post Saturday. He

By Rosa Flores, Andy Rose, Zoe Sottile and Paradise Afshar, CNN Two migrants were found dead in a shipping container on a train the authorities stopped east of Uvalde, Texas, on Friday, according to local police. One other person was left in serious condition and another in critical condition. In a news release Friday night,

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Many lovers of spiders profess a lifelong fascination with all things creepy crawly. Heather Bruen’s affinity for spiders was borne out of necessity. At first she couldn’t stand them — their creepy eight-legged walk-and-stalk, that haunting gaze and garish, hairy body. But living in Florida, where the regal jumping spider is