By Jamiel Lynch and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Nearly 400 gallons of gas were stolen from a North Carolina gas station this week, prompting the owner to take extra security precautions amid historically high gas prices nationwide. Hardik Patel said he will start shutting off the power to his pumps after business hours after 398 gallons
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Nearly 400 gallons of gas were stolen from a North Carolina gas station this week, prompting the owner to take extra security precautions amid historically high gas prices nationwide. Hardik Patel said he will start shutting off the power to his pumps after business hours after 398 gallons
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By Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A federal judge has unsealed a video taken by the California Highway Patrol that captures the death of Edward Bronstein, a 38-year-old man who was in their custody following a March 2020 traffic stop in Los Angeles County. Bronstein is heard repeatedly telling officers, “I can’t breathe,” while
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By Laura Studley, CNN A New Jersey man has been charged with murder after allegedly abusing his 6-year-old son, including forcing him to run on a treadmill, according to prosecutors and court documents. Christopher Gregor, 29, is also charged with endangering the welfare of a child, according to a news release from Ocean County Prosecutor
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By Ray Sanchez, Steve Almasy, Rosa Flores, CNN A 13-year-old boy drove the pickup truck involved in a fiery head-on collision in Texas that killed nine people, including six University of the Southwest golfers and their coach, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Thursday. The 13-year-old died in the wreck, along with an adult
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By Omar Jimenez and Christina Maxouris, CNN Jussie Smollett was released from jail Wednesday night, after an Illinois appeals court granted an emergency motion by his defense attorneys. Smollett’s legal team is looking to delay his sentence and grant him bond until their appeal on his conviction is decided on. The former “Empire” actor was
Continue ReadingBy Omar Jimenez, Raja Razek, Chris Boyette, Caroll Alvarado and Kathryn Jaeger, CNN A Kenosha Police Department off-duty officer who was seen on video putting his knee on the neck of a 12-year-old to break up a fight has resigned from his role at the Kenosha Unified School District. The officer resigned “effective Tuesday, March
Continue ReadingBy Laura Studley, CNN A participant in the 1989 Tiananmen Square student-led protest who later became an immigration lawyer in Queens, New York, was allegedly stabbed to death on Monday by a client. Jim Li, 66, moved to the United States in the early ’90s after being incarcerated for a year and eight months in
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN George Tompkins left his home on the morning of March 16, 1922, but the 19-year-old never returned. That afternoon, the Black man’s body was found hanging from a sapling — his hands bound together at Riverside Park in Indianapolis, according to the Indiana Remembrance Coalition. Now, a century later, Alfarena McGinty,
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By Nicole Chavez and Natasha Chen, CNN Robert Peterson struggled for months to stop thinking about the day his mother and seven other people, mostly Asian women, were shot and killed last year at Atlanta-area spas. He’s found some comfort living at the Norcross, Georgia, home his mother Yong Ae Yue worked hard to own
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Watts, Holly Yan and Rosa Flores, CNN Nine people — including six student athletes and their coach — were killed in a fiery crash between a pickup truck and a van carrying members of the University of the Southwest’s men’s and women’s golf teams, officials said Wednesday. The crash happened around 8:17 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Sixty-two years ago, a school teacher looking for rocks in an Arizona desert made a horrific discovery: the burned remains of a young girl. Her identity was a mystery and investigators called her “Little Miss Nobody.” For decades, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in Prescott, Arizona, along with the National Center
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Yes, treating yourself to snacks and ice-cold drinks at the gas station is quite satisfying — but don’t get too distracted. Police in the US are warning drivers to watch out for gas thieves as fuel prices surge to historic levels. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Yes, treating yourself to snacks and ice-cold drinks at the gas station is quite satisfying — but don’t get too distracted. Police in the US are warning drivers to watch out for gas thieves as fuel prices surge to historic levels. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Yes, treating yourself to snacks and ice-cold drinks at the gas station is quite satisfying — but don’t get too distracted. Police in the US are warning drivers to watch out for gas thieves as fuel prices surge to historic levels. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly, CNN A Broadway vocal coach who suffered a head injury after she was shoved to the ground last week died Tuesday morning, her grandson said. Barbara Maier Gustern, 87, was pushed from behind by an unidentified woman on the night of March 10 as she stood outside her apartment on Manhattan’s Lower
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By Christina Maxouris, CNN Capt. Kevin Kentish, a Queens native who now works with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, was scrolling through his social media over the weekend when something caught his eye. Kentish, who still stayed up to date with news from his home state, saw footage that New York City police
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN Capt. Kevin Kentish, a Queens native who now works with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, was scrolling through his social media over the weekend when something caught his eye. Kentish, who still stayed up to date with news from his home state, saw footage that New York City police
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez and Natasha Chen, CNN Robert Peterson struggled for months to stop thinking about the day his mother and seven other people, mostly Asian women, were shot and killed last year at Atlanta-area spas. He’s found some comfort living at the Norcross, Georgia, home his mother Yong Ae Yue worked hard to own
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera and Abby Bustin, CNN A Mississippi assistant principal was fired after reading the children’s book “I Need a New Butt!” to a class of second graders, an act the school division says violated their code of ethics. Toby Price, the now former assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in Byram, told
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