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By Adrienne Vogt, CNN Pasta is for many people a sacred food — and it’s accorded a particular reverence among people in New Jersey, where Census data shows over 1 million residents can trace their roots back to Italy (including the fictional Tony Soprano). So why would somebody dump hundreds of pounds of pasta in

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Nearly a year since the nation’s first alert system for missing Indigenous people launched in Washington, the push to address the crisis of unsolved cases continues spreading in the state and beyond its borders. The system, known as MIPA, was launched last July. As of this week, authorities have issued 56

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Dennis “Maliq” Barnes, the New Orleans high school senior who was accepted at over 185 colleges and received more than $10 million in scholarship offers, announced Friday that he will attend Cornell University in the fall. Barnes made the announcement from his school, International High School of New Orleans. “I have

By Sara Smart and Rebekah Riess, CNN Casey White, the inmate who famously escaped from an Alabama jail with corrections officer Vicky White, reached a plea deal in which he will not be tried in his lover’s death. The inmate pleaded guilty to first-degree escape in exchange for no prosecution for felony murder, according to

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Two small tornadoes briefly hit Los Angeles County, the National Weather Service there said, pushing California to its average annual tornado count. The first touched down Thursday at 8:45 a.m. in Carson and lasted a minute, with estimated peak winds of 75 mph, the agency said. Minor damage to vehicles, trees

By Jean Casarez, CNN Chemical tests for blood were done on over 60 reddish brown stains at Bryan Kohberger’s apartment in Pullman, Washington, on December 30, hours after he was arrested in northeastern Pennsylvania, according to newly released legal documents. Documents show a reddish/brown stain on an “uncased pillow ” as well as a “brown

By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN The University of California, Santa Cruz, is condemning recent antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ incidents reported on and near the campus, including a group of students who allegedly gathered to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday. “They sang happy birthday and ate cakes adorned with hateful and horrific symbols,” UC Santa Cruz Vice Chancellor for

By Sara Smart, CNN A father has been charged after punching a 63-year-old umpire during a high school baseball game in central Florida, authorities said. During a game on April 18 at Liberty High School in Kissimmee, the father of a player approached the umpire — a disabled veteran — and “knocked him out” after

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A number of exciting space events are expected this weekend, giving you a chance to see a lunar eclipse or maybe even a radiant meteor show. CNN’s Space Team has mapped out the best times you should look up in the sky to catch the spectacular celestial sightings. Here’s what else

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A man has been arrested in the killing of a woman found dead after an attack along a Phoenix hiking trail last week, according to local police. Phoenix police arrested Zion Teasley, 22, in connection with the death of Lauren Heike, according to a tweet from the department. Teasley was arrested

By Sharif Paget, Aya Elamroussi and Ray Sanchez, CNN Before Jordan Neely was killed on a New York City subway car this week, he was known for his swift Michael Jackson dance moves that entertained many — yet he struggled with the trauma his mother’s murder had left him with at an early age. “He

By Taylor Romine, Veronica Miracle and Jason Hanna, CNN Police video obtained by CNN shows Bryan Kohberger — now charged in the November killings of four University of Idaho students — talking with an officer during a traffic stop in Washington state a month before the slayings. The traffic stop by an officer at Washington

By Gloria Pazmino and Samantha Beech, CNN A former top adviser to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul had a history of sexual harassment complaints against him from women in a previous workplace, the New York Times has reported. Adam Sullivan, who oversaw Hochul’s 2022 gubernatorial campaign, stepped aside Sunday from his role advising the governor

By Brynn Gingras, Linh Tran and Dakin Andone, CNN The US Supreme Court on Friday halted the execution of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, a man who even the state attorney general says should not face the death penalty. The decision comes after Glossip has endured 26 years behind bars, nine execution dates, three

By Christina Maxouris, CNN A man who is accused in a sheriff’s deputy killing and who escaped from a Virginia jail with another man over the weekend was captured in Mexico Thursday, authorities say. Alder Alfonso Marin-Sotelo was arrested by Mexican authorities just after 1 p.m. in the state of Guerrero, the FBI said. The

By Emma Tucker, Taylor Romine, Ritu Prasad and Cheri Mossburg, CNN A former student at the University of California, Davis, faces arraignment Friday in connection with three stabbings that occurred near the campus within the span of five days, leaving two people dead and the community in fear, authorities said. The Yolo County District Attorney’s

By Brynn Gingras, Laura Ly, Maria Santana and Ray Sanchez, CNN After his mother was murdered in 2007, Jordan Neely eked out a living as a well-known Michael Jackson impersonator in Times Square and on New York’s subways. But he apparently fell on hard times in recent years, according to a friend and a relative,

By Rebekah Riess, CNN The last of four men who escaped from a Mississippi jail last month was taken into custody Thursday morning, according to an update from the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office. Escapee Corey Harrison was taken into custody by the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office and the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force at a

By Laura Ly, CNN Test scores for eighth-grade students in the US declined in both US history and civics in 2022, according to a new report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often referred to as “The Nation’s Report Card.” The announcement of the new lower scores come after the assessment reported last fall