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By Andy Rose and Amir Vera, CNN A former high school custodian in Medford, Oregon, is accused of attempted 2nd degree murder and other criminal charges after police say he “made significant steps to carry out a mass casualty event.” Kristopher Clay, 24, is being held in the Jackson County Jail on $2 million bail

By Miguel Marquez, Dakin Andone and Meridith Edwards, CNN Joan Chang, 42, is 33 weeks pregnant with her second child. But it wasn’t until last week that she got her first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Chang, who works in the banking industry, has been working from her home in Gardendale, Alabama, since last year

By David Williams and Joe Sutton, CNN Wildlife experts are setting out traps and searching a Grand Prairie, Texas, neighborhood for a large, venomous West African banded cobra that’s been missing since Tuesday evening. “We don’t know if the snake is long gone, or if the snake is still in the house, but we have

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an investigation into whether officers used excessive force while arresting NBA Pelicans center Jaxson Hayes, a department spokesperson confirmed to CNN Wednesday. On July 28, LAPD officers responded to a call at about 2:50 a.m. local time reporting a domestic dispute at a residence

By Leah Asmelash, CNN The use of the term “Latinx” has been a divisive issue for some time — and a new poll shows that it’s the least popular signifier among Hispanic and Latino people. Gallup found that only 4% of Hispanic and Latino Americans prefer the term Latinx, a gender neutral signifier that has

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, Kiely Westhoff and Laura Ly, CNN Baltimore County officials have agreed to a $3 million settlement with the family and estate of Korryn Gaines, according to court documents. The agreement comes five years after Gaines, 23, was shot and killed after an hourslong standoff with police in Baltimore County. She was

By Ashley Vaughan, CNN After the federal eviction moratorium expired, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an extension until October 3 for high Covid-19 transmission areas. The Biden administration says those areas cover 90 percent of the country’s renters. According to a recent survey by the US Census Bureau just before the extension

By Nicole Chavez, CNN The fallout from a police officer who followed a car thinking the man behind the wheel was Native American is testing the fragility of race relations in a South Dakota city. The police officer in Rapid City resigned after he allegedly reported that “a young Native American male (was) driving a

By Melissa Alonso, CNN A Jefferson County Sheriff’s (JCSO) deputy has died after being shot early Thursday while working an off-duty detail, and investigators believe he was “targeted” and “ambushed,” according to JCSO spokesman, Lt. Col. Carl Yates. Deputy Brandon Shirley, 26, was working an off-duty security detail at Rockford Lane Auto Sales in Shively,

By Dakin Andone and Keith Allen, CNN Nearly 500 cases of Covid-19 have been reported in people who congregated in Milwaukee’s Deer District to cheer on the Milwaukee Bucks during the NBA playoffs last month. At least 491 cases have arisen from people who “self-declared” they attended a Deer District gathering at some point during

By Brian Rokus and Christina Carrega, CNN A former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer has pleaded guilty to hitting a kneeling person in the head who was surrendering during an arrest in May last year, according to a statement from the Department of Justice. Cory Evans, 33, appeared in court and pleaded guilty Wednesday in the

By Madeline Holcombe and Rebekah Riess, CNN Local and federal officials will convene a series of meetings, dubbed “Sunshine” meetings, to discuss possible changes following the Surfside condo building collapse, Miami-Dade officials announced Wednesday. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz said a group of local,

By Madeline Holcombe, Nadia Romero and Jeff Simon, CNN As hospitals in Louisiana fill up with Covid-19 patients, vaccination sites in the state are also seeing increased traffic, leaving at least one hospital official optimistic that all the vaccination outreach is working. Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Director of Operations Thomas Dunn