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By Liam Reilly and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Two Boston police unions have sued city officials, accusing them of interfering with police procedures by barring the use of “non-lethal tools,” including pepper spray. The complaint filed Monday in Suffolk Superior Court seeks an injunction on a city law passed last year restricting the use of gas

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Jarrod Wardwell, CNN US Border Patrol agents arrested a man allegedly attempting to smuggle approximately 250 pounds of fentanyl in his truck’s spare tire and gas tank near the Mexican-California border Monday, the agency said. Agents who searched the man’s vehicle found several bundles of pills that tested positive for fentanyl,

By Stephanie Elam and Kacey Cherry, CNN Gems and jewelry worth millions of dollars were stolen from an armored truck parked at a rest stop near Los Angeles, officials said, setting off a multi-agency investigation. The heist unfolded between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. July 11 at a Flying J rest stop and gas station

By Paradise Afshar and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A 19-year-old man entered a guilty plea Tuesday in connection with the murders of his mother and three siblings in 2020 at their home in Grantsville, Utah, his attorney says. Colin Jeffery Haynie, who goes by Jeffery, “did accept responsibility today and entered guilty pleas to all of

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The Mega Millions jackpot has ballooned to $630 million after there were no winners to match Tuesday’s winning six numbers. The numbers were 2, 31, 32, 37, 70 plus the gold Mega Ball 25, according to the lottery’s website. The night’s $555 million jackpot was the fifth largest in the lottery’s

By Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Emmett Till grew up in a two-story, red brick house on the South Side of Chicago before leaving the city in 1955 to visit family in Mississippi, where the 14-year-old Black teen was lynched after being accused of whistling at a White woman. An African American cultural preservation organization on Tuesday

By Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers and Ray Sanchez, CNN Police departments from Atlanta to Kansas City to Portland are coping with critical staffing shortages and struggling to fill their ranks from patrol officers to 911 operators, as the warm weather historically portends bursts of violence in many parts of the United States. “The people

By Emily Chang and Laura Ly, CNN A Bronx man was indicted on 23 charges on Monday after allegedly sexually assaulting three people in one week, including a woman who allegedly used the Grubhub food delivery service to escape, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s office. Kemoy Royal, 32, allegedly attacked three women over the

By Shimon Prokupecz and Eric Levenson, CNN Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officials have informed district police chief Pete Arredondo that the school board intends to meet Saturday to decide on his fate, according to a source close to the discussions. The source told CNN Tuesday the board is expected to vote to terminate Arredondo,

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN A fire broke out at the Hoover Dam on Tuesday at about 10 a.m. local time when a transformer caught fire, sending plumes of black smoke into the air, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. The fire was extinguished about 30 minutes later by the Reclamation/Hoover fire brigade, the bureau’s Regional

By Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves and Dakin Andone, CNN The Texas commission that regulates the state’s licensed law enforcement officers says it lacks the authority to act on the findings of the Texas House investigative committee’s report on the Uvalde school massacre, which outlined a series of failures by multiple agencies. “The findings of the

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, Elisjsha Dicken was shopping with his girlfriend when a gunman opened fire on a food court at a Greenwood, Indiana, mall Sunday evening, killing three people and wounding two others. While the shooter, 20-year-old Douglas Sapirman, fired 24 rounds from an AR-15-style rifle, Dicken did

By Sonia Moghe, CNN A Manhattan judge dismissed a murder charge Tuesday against a bodega worker who fatally stabbed a man earlier this month in what the worker’s legal team argued was a case of self-defense. Jose Alba, 61, had been charged with second-degree murder in the killing Austin Simon, 35, on the night of