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By Stephanie Elam and Jason Kravarik, CNN Residents on this state line have built their industry, economy and lives around the South Platte River. But as an intense and widespread drought digs into the High Plains, flows have decreased. Unwilling to leave things to chance, Nebraska has taken action by invoking the fine print of

By Susannah Cullinane and Cheri Mossburg, CNN California’s McKinney Fire has destroyed nearly 90 houses and is only 40% contained a week after breaking out in the Klamath National Forest, with hot and dry conditions expected to continue through the weekend. The blaze, the largest wildfire in California so far this year, erupted on July

By Faith Karimi, CNN Angela Welch still recalls every detail. The stocky gunman in a camo ​vest. The gunshots, one after another. The piercing screams, echoing through the building. The muffled sobs. Welch was a high school sophomore in Olivehurst, California, when a former student entered her school on a Friday afternoon with a 12-gauge

By Paradise Afshar and Susannah Cullinane, CNN One of the men found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery fears being killed in state prison and wants to remain in federal custody for his safety, according to a court document filed by his attorney. Travis McMichael, along with his father Greg, and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan,

By Kiely Westhoff and Amya Henry, CNN Four people were fatally shot Friday at multiple sites in a small Ohio town just north of Dayton, and police are searching for a man who is possibly connected to the shootings. Stephen Marlow, a “person of interest,” is likely armed and dangerous, Butler Township Police Chief John

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The parents of a third-grade transgender child in Tennessee filed a lawsuit in federal court this week, challenging a state law that prohibits transgender students, employees, and teachers from access to the bathroom, locker rooms and other sex-segregated facilities consistent with their gender identity. The lawsuit was filed against the Williamson

By Amanda Musa, CNN Death Valley National Park announced its closure Friday due to substantial flooding within the park, according to a news release. “All roads into and out of the park are currently closed and will remain closed until park staff can assess the extensiveness of the situation,” the National Park Service said Friday.

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Amy Simonson, CNN Two men serving life sentences for murder in a Florida prison have been linked to two other murders with the help of newly discovered DNA samples, which led to the exoneration of another man who wrongfully served 37 years in prison for the rape and murder of Barbara

By Rob Frehse and Christina Maxouris, CNN Ten people — including three children — have died following a house fire in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, early Friday morning, state police confirmed to CNN. The victims range in age from 5 to 79 years old, according to authorities. Nescopeck is roughly 95 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Authorities responded

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Albuquerque police and the FBI are investigating three recent murders of Muslim men for “possible ties to the same offender,” according to Albuquerque police. Two members of the same mosque, Muhammed Afzaal Hussain, 27, and Aftab Hussein, 41, both from Pakistan, were murdered in southeast Albuquerque in the past week, police

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN Everett Police in Washington state is hoping the public can help identify the man that stiffed an 11-year-old boy with a fake $100 bill to buy lemonade from his stand. “Over the summer, an 11-year-old Jeremy spent his allowance money to set up a lemonade stand on Beverly Blvd. As he

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at Juneteenth, the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, over two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved African Americans in Texas were told they were free. Knowledge of the celebration spread as families relocated. The

By Jarrod Wardwell, CNN Police in Georgia are looking for a suspected shoplifter who looks like actor Bradley Cooper. The man is accused of stealing a Bosch Rotary Laser Kit from a Home Depot store last month in McDonough, about 30 miles southeast of Atlanta. And a surveillance photo released by the Henry County Police

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Michigan prosecutors say the parents of accused Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley exposed him to years of “chaotic, toxic conflict,” and that they left him in an unstable home often with little supervision, creating a pathway to violence. In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors argued that evidence of Jennifer and

By Josh Campbell and Andy Rose, CNN A North Texas man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for assaulting an Asian family he blamed for the Covid-19 pandemic, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Jose Gomez III, 21, pleaded guilty in February to three counts of committing hate crimes. CNN has reached out to his

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Lucy Yu found refuge in books growing up. An only child raised by a Chinese immigrant mother in west Los Angeles, she spent a lot of time in bookstores. But it seemed that the stories she connected to most — those written by immigrants and people of color — were often

By Tina Burnside, CNN A suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting in a Las Vegas hotel room Thursday night that left one man dead and two women in critical condition, police said. Around 8:30 p.m. local time, police responded to a 911 call about a shooting in a room at the Mirage

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A fiery car crash in a busy Los Angeles intersection left four people dead, including one who was pregnant and a toddler, officials said. Eight others were hospitalized after the terrifying high-impact collision on Thursday in the neighborhood of Windsor Hills, between Culver City and Inglewood, according to police. Surveillance video