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By Andy Rose, CNN A Nebraska man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Monday in the 2020 shooting deaths of two employees at a Sonic Drive-In, prosecutors said. Roberto Silva Jr. also pleaded guilty to arson, the Sarpy County Attorney’s Office said in a news release Tuesday. Police had said Silva set a rental truck on

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN DNA evidence taken from a bite mark left on a victim led California detectives to charge a man with murder nearly 28 years after a woman was stabbed to death in her apartment, officials said Tuesday. Sharron Eugene Gadlin, 48, was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree murder in the killing

By Paradise Afshar, CNN One person died and another was injured after suffering a steep fall on Oregon’s Mount Hood, where deep snow and avalanche conditions hindered the two-day rescue effort, officials said. Lei Wang, 50, and Pradnya Mohite, 34, fell about 200 feet in the Leuthold Couloir area of the mountain shortly after 5

By Theresa Waldrop and Paradise Afshar, CNN Hawaii’s mask mandate will expire March 25, Gov. David Ige said Tuesday, making it the last US state to announce its face-cover requirement will be dropped. “It’s taken the entire community to get to this point — with lowered case counts and hospitalizations,” Ige said in a tweet.

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Prince Andrew has paid a settlement to sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre, according to her attorney, and a US district judge agreed Tuesday to dismiss her lawsuit against the Duke of York. “The payment was received, the settlement we announced last month has been completed. We are obviously very pleased

By Rebekah Riess and Amy Simonson, CNN The Philadelphia Police Commissioner announced Tuesday she plans to fire the officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Thomas Siderio because the shooting violates the department’s “use of force directive.” Commissioner Danielle M. Outlaw said the officer will be suspended for 30 days and at the end of that

Peter Nickeas, CNN The Cincinnati Police Department implemented a new policy limiting police chases to “violent felony offenses,” the latest city to restrict the risky police tactic. The Atlanta Police Department updated its policy last summer, similarly limiting police to pursuits in cases where violence is suspected. Chicago police are forbidden from chasing for traffic

By Alta Spells and Randi Kaye, CNN The families of victims and survivors of the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, that killed 98 people have agreed on a tentative settlement of more than $55 million with three defendants in a wrongful-death lawsuit, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Insurers representing the engineering firm

By Gregory Lemos and Dakin Andone, CNN Minneapolis educators began striking Tuesday after failing to reach a deal with Minneapolis Public Schools, canceling classes indefinitely for more than 30,000 students. The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and Education Support Professionals (ESP) are seeking “a living wage” for ESPs, “lowering class sizes, and for safe and

By Megan Marples, CNN The itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout … and all across the East Coast. Except in this case, the spider in question is not so little, according to Benjamin Frick, coauthor of a study of the Jorō spider species published in the journal Physiological Entomology. Jorō spiders, or Trichonephila clavata, can