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By Jason Hanna and Alta Spells, CNN A police officer was shot and killed — and the suspected shooter was seriously injured — Friday as officers responded to a call about a disturbance in a small northwestern Louisiana community, authorities said. Doyline police Officer William “Billy” Earl Collins Jr. died after being shot in Doyline,

By Alaa Elassar, CNN A woman was scrolling through a list of adoptable dogs at her local humane society when she came across a photo that made her heart skip a beat. There he was — her former pup and best friend, Kovu, who Aisha Nieves had devastatingly lost two years prior when she lived

By Jason Hanna and Ralph Ellis, CNN Bronze statues of two Confederate generals were removed on Saturday from public property in Charlottesville, Virginia, almost four years after they were a flashpoint for a violent “Unite the Right” rally that left one person dead. Machinery first lifted the statue of Robert E. Lee in Market Street

By Aya Elamroussi and Ray Sanchez, CNN The death toll from the Surfside, Florida, condo tower collapse rose to 86 on Saturday as recovery efforts were briefly halted after a lighting strike, officials said. Search teams have been recovering victims more quickly now that a portion of the tower that remained standing was demolished and

By Leah Asmelash, CNN On Thursday, Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. But 85 years ago, there was another little Black girl from Ohio who came close. In 1936, MacNolia Cox was a 13-year-old eighth-grader at the Colonial School in Akron, Ohio. She was the first Black

By Nicole Chavez, CNN A historic neighborhood threatened by plans for a sports arena, a bodega that became a hub for Dominicans in Rhode Island and a park where Mexican American students gathered to call for equitable access to education. Those locations are among the seven Latino heritage sites that preservation scholars say are in

By Madeline Holcombe and Ray Sanchez, CNN The death toll in the Champlain Towers South collapse now stands at 79, after another victim was recovered Friday, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in an evening news conference. Of those, 53 victims have been identified, she said. Currently, 61 people are potentially unaccounted for, the

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Binx, a cat who lived on the ninth floor of the Champlain Towers South, was reunited with his family on Friday after volunteers found him near the site of the collapse, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a news conference. “After 16 long and extremely difficult days, I’m happy

By David Shortell and Rosa Flores, CNN With his baseball cap and thick white beard, Allyn Kilsheimer could be mistaken for a retiree if it weren’t for the team of construction workers trailing him and the long metal pole he carried as he surveyed the ground floor outside of the Champlain Towers North building. “Here,

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Hawaiian authorities are asking for the public’s help to find those responsible for vandalizing a cultural site with paintballs. About 100 Hawaiian petroglyphs are spread across the rock face of Pu’u Kilea in the Olowalu Valley, according to Hawaii’s Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE). The department was notified