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By Laura Studley and Emma Tucker, CNN Hate crimes in New York City have increased 76% so far this year compared to the same period last year, according to data from the New York Police Department Hate Crimes Task Force (HCTF) released this week. There were 194 hate crimes between January 1 and April 10

By Christina Maxouris, CNN In a matter of hours, firefighters battling the deadly McBride Fire in southern New Mexico were able to get the flames 56% contained by Saturday evening, a massive jump from the 0% containment reported earlier in the day, authorities said. The blaze had grown to more than 6,100 acres, according to

By Emma Tucker, CNN US Customs and Border Protection officers in California have discovered more than 400 pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin concealed in toolboxes that were being transported to the United States. Federal officers working at the Tecate Port of Entry on April 1 encountered a 56-year-old male driver of a 2006 Toyota

By Paradise Afshar and Emma Tucker, CNN Twelve people were injured and three people have been detained following a shooting at a Columbia, South Carolina, mall on Saturday afternoon, police said. The incident occurred on the premises of Columbiana Centre Mall, said Columbia Police Chief William H. “Skip” Holbrook. There were no fatalities reported from

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN Investigators are looking for two men who used hammers to steal jewelry in a “smash and grab style” theft Friday evening from a mall store in Southern California, police said. The men used hammers to break into glass cases at the Kay Jewelers store at a mall in Brea, roughly a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Spouses hoping to do their partner a favor might have a hard time competing with Robyn Meija’s husband. The Maryland teacher won $50,000 after her husband bought her a lottery ticket hoping to lift her spirits, according to a press release from the Maryland Lottery. Meija, 39, had been having a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN An 11-foot hammerhead shark washed up on a beach in southern Florida, much to beachgoers’ surprise. Visitors at Pompano Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale, encountered the shark’s corpse on April 6, according to CNN affiliate WPLG. A team of scientists from the American Shark Conservancy took samples and identified the shark

By Peter Nickeas, CNN Chicago officials launched a fundraising campaign to support the city’s largest ever gun buyback program, with the goal of raising $1 million to entice people to turn in guns during two large events this year. Mayor Lori Lightfoot called it a “bold new initiative” and said it would get “guns out

By Michelle Watson and Sharif Paget, CNN A Georgia man was arrested in connection with a shooting at a Grantville, Georgia, shooting range that resulted in three deaths earlier this month, authorities said. Jacob Christian Muse, 21, faces three counts of “malice murder” in the shooting on April 8 at the Lock Stock & Barrel

By Omar Jimenez and Steve Almasy, CNN A man who witnessed the struggle between Patrick Lyoya and the Grand Rapids police officer who fatally shot him told CNN on Friday he knew the incident wouldn’t end well. “I knew when the tussle began,” Wayne Butler said. “If you tussle with a White man with a

By Nick Valencia, Jade Gordon and Alta Spells, CNN Approaching three years since the death of Ronald Greene, which one Louisiana State Police member described as “torture and murder,” there have been no arrests or indictments of any of the officers involved. Meanwhile, the former head of the LSP on Thursday failed to appear at