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By Melissa Alonso, CNN A 12-year-old girl is in custody in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after fatally stabbing her 9-year-old brother, according to police. The child is being held in a Tulsa juvenile detention facility, according to a Tulsa Police news release. Officers responded to a stabbing late Thursday night, the release said. When officers arrived, paramedics

By Kiely Westhoff, CNN A New Jersey woman has been sentenced to three years in state prison for her role in scamming more than $400,000 from GoFundMe donors, by claiming to be collecting money for a homeless man. Katelyn McClure, 32, is currently serving a 12-month and one day term in a federal prison in

By Hannah Sarisohn and Alaa Elassar, CNN A man was arrested and is facing negligent homicide charges after failing to restrain his pit bull terrier, which attacked and killed a 7-year-old girl in Louisiana on Friday, authorities said. Erick Lopez, 20, of East Baton Rouge told deputies his dog would often roam unrestrained through the

By Hannah Sarisohn and Alaa Elassar, CNN Three minors and two adults were found dead Saturday morning in a North Carolina home, in what police say they are investigating as a murder-suicide. Officers responded to a call around 7 a.m. reporting “two people screaming for help” from a home in High Point, High Point police

By Nouran Salahieh and Nicole Grether, CNN As police investigate the circumstances that led to a 6-year-old boy allegedly shooting and injuring a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, Friday, a student at the school described the harrowing moment the lockdown was called. “We were doing math … an announcer came on

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Even if you’re not a football fan, you’ve probably heard about Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin suffering cardiac arrest during a game last week. Would you know what to do if you suspected someone near you had gone into cardiac arrest? Here are some simple steps you could take right away

By Tina Burnside, CNN Search and rescue crews recovered the body of a missing snowmobiler buried in the Colorado mountains after an avalanche Saturday that had already claimed the life of another person, authorities said. The body of the 52-year-old man was transported Sunday morning to the Grand County Coroner’s Office, which will determine the

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Bring in the toast. A fire at a dairy plant in Wisconsin left storm drains and a historic canal clogged with butter. The fire took place at an Associated Milk Producers facility in Portage on Monday, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Approximately 20 gallons

By Josh Campbell, CNN Ana Montes, an American citizen convicted of spying for Cuba, has been released from US federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, according to Federal Bureau of Prison online records. Cuba recruited Montes for spying in the 1980s and she was employed by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency as an analyst from

By Isa Kaufman Geballe and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN After earlier announcing that Colorado would help asylum-seeking migrants leave the state for their intended destinations, Gov. Jared Polis said the state would not be sending additional buses of migrants to New York City and Chicago following “a very productive conversation” with the mayors of both cities,

By Ray Sanchez, CNN In the weeks after four University of Idaho students were found stabbed to death in a home near campus, police faced mounting criticism from the public as the investigation appeared to be at a standstill. In fact, court documents show, a team of local and state law enforcement officers, along with

By Nicole Chavez, CNN In the years after World War I, Black people were thriving in the central Florida town of Rosewood when a White mob driven by racial animosity decimated the entire community within days. Rosewood became the site of a horrific massacre 100 years ago, during the first week of January in 1923.

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN US Customs and Border Protection officers seized 877 pounds of cocaine on board the San Juan-Santo Domingo Ferry at the Pan American Dock in Puerto Rico last month. The drugs, which have an estimated value of $9.1 million, were spotted on December 26 during a routine cargo inspection. Officers removed a

By Kiely Westhoff, CNN Authorities in Massachusetts are “working around the clock” to search for a mother of three young children missing since New Year’s Day, police said. Ana Walshe was last seen by a family member at her home in Cohasset around 4:05 a.m., January 1, Cohasset Police Chief William Quigley said at a

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A Houston area man has been charged with aggravated kidnapping after holding a woman he met on a dating app captive for five days around Christmas and physically assaulting her before she escaped, according to charging documents. The victim agreed to go to 21-year-old Zachary Kent Mills’ apartment complex on December