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By Jamiel Lynch, Rebekah Riess and Alaa Elassar, CNN Four people died in a multi-vehicle crash involving a tractor trailer on Interstate 95 South at the Florida-Georgia border on Friday. The driver of a tractor trailer lost control of the vehicle, which started to overturn and struck a car, before traveling though the center median

By Shimon Prokupecz, Rosa Flores and Eric Levenson, CNN Uvalde school district police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo has resigned his separate position on the Uvalde city council in the wake of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in May, according to a resignation letter he sent to the city. “After much consideration, it is in

By Alaa Elassar, CNN US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized over $1.1 million worth of narcotics hidden in the panels of a car driving into California from Mexico, the agency said. Federal officers stopped a 43-year-old man entering the US from Mexico at the Otay Mesa port-of-entry on June 16 after drugs were

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Scientists are hopeful that the key to reviving red wolves, which are on the brink of extinction, may lie in the genes of coyotes that have significant red wolf ancestry. Red wolves once lived throughout the southeastern United States but were declared extinct in the wild in 1980. Today, thanks to

By Ray Sanchez, CNN On the final morning of his short life, 22-month-old Cooper Harris was up early, at 5:15, an hour before sunrise in the Atlanta suburb where he lived with his parents. His father, Justin Ross Harris, a 33-year-old web developer, brought the still-groggy toddler into the bed he shared with Leanna Taylor,

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The small whorled pogonia, a federally threatened species of orchid, has been rediscovered in Vermont — 120 years after the plant was last spotted in the state. The plant was last documented in Vermont in 1902, Aaron Marcus, an assistant botanist at Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, told CNN. Naturalists had

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN Call it a hat trick. A Maryland woman has won her third lottery prize of at least $100,000 in five years, a feat she attributes to strategy and luck. The stay-at-home mom, 30, from Wicomico County won her latest prize playing a $100,000 Lucky scratch-off ticket, Maryland Lottery said Monday. “I

By Jason Hanna and Michelle Watson, CNN Four people are dead after the boat they were in capsized this week in an Idaho river, authorities said Friday. Authorities were told Tuesday evening that the performance-style boat had capsized in the Pend Oreille River near the community of Thama, the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office said. The

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Onondaga Nation is set to regain over 1,000 acres of ancestral land in central New York in what the Department of Interior calls “one of the largest returns of land to an Indigenous nation by a state.” “This historic agreement represents a unique opportunity to return traditional homelands back to

By Michelle Watson, Claudia Dominquez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The bodies of a mother and two of her young children were found in a Minnesota lake Saturday, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office said. The discovery was made one day after authorities recovered the body of another one of her children in Vadnais Lake, which sits

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN When Garrett Dickman drove through Yosemite National Park early this week, he passed through a diverse band of large trees — conifer, red fir, lodgepole pine — and noticed a grim pattern: many of the trees were either dead or dying. “It was really striking to see that every single tree

By Taylor Romine, CNN A controversial California bill repealing loitering related to possible prostitution was signed into law Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. A provision in state law previously allowed police to arrest those who “delay or linger without a lawful purpose” if it appeared they were trying to engage in sex work. Police can

By Zoe Sottile, CNN At least 10 million bees were released onto a highway after a semi-truck crashed in Utah. The truck, driven by a commercial beekeeper traveling from California to North Dakota, tipped over on Interstate 80 at around 10:40 a.m. local time Monday, Cameron Roden, public information officer for the Utah Highway Patrol,

By Raja Razek, CNN A workgroup developing a second-grade social studies curriculum for the Texas State Board of Education last month suggested using the term “involuntary relocation” to describe people who were sold into slavery, the board’s chair said, amid national debates on the role of critical race theory in classrooms. The proposed phrase was

By Mark Morales, Kiely Westhoff and Samantha Beech, CNN The man accused of killing a young mother Wednesday as she pushed her 3-month-old baby in a stroller on New York’s Upper East Side was remanded without bail Saturday in what prosecutors called a “premeditated execution,” according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Isaac Argro, 22,

By Jarrod Wardwell, CNN Four families are suing an Ohio school board to challenge a ban on race-based education and staff training in the latest court battle over attempts to suppress anti-racism education in American classrooms. The Forest Hills School District Board of Education, east of Cincinnati, passed a resolution in June prohibiting teaching of

By Melissa Alonso, Hannah Sarisohn and Steve Almasy, CNN The family of an 11-year-old boy who died last year after an Iowa amusement park ride overturned filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Thursday, saying the park failed to maintain a safe water ride, according to a copy of the petition obtained by CNN. Michael Jaramillo was on

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The Florida Highway Patrol arrested two people this week for smuggling others into the state, according to incident reports from the agency. A trooper in Sumter County on Wednesday pulled over a Ford Explorer with an expired temporary Texas tag and a crack on the windshield obstructing the driver’s view, according

By Melissa Alonso and Steve Almasy, CNN The suspect in an hourslong shooting that killed three law enforcement officers and injured several others in eastern Kentucky was charged Friday with several counts of murder, including murder of a police officer, and assault on a service animal, officials said. Lance Storz, 49, was arraigned in Floyd