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By Amy Simonson, Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN A shootout that left one person dead and four others injured in Chicago was the result of retaliatory violence between two rival gangs, police Superintendent David Brown said Wednesday. First responders were interrupted by a crowd of people when they arrived Tuesday in the South Side

By Jason Hanna, Jaide Timm-Garcia, Nadia Romero and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Recaptured inmate Casey White was transferred to an Alabama state prison early Wednesday, more than a day after his arrest in Indiana that ended 11 days on the run with an Alabama county jail official who authorities say helped him escape. Vicky White, the

By Raja Razek, Rebekah Riess and Amy Simonson, CNN Two former Oklahoma police officers have been charged with first-degree manslaughter in connection with the 2021 fatal shooting of a Black man in Comanche County, according to a statement from District Attorney Kyle Cabelka. Quadry Sanders was killed at a home on December 5, 2021, when

By Eric Levenson and Amanda Watts, CNN The 11-day manhunt for former Alabama corrections official Vicky White and the prisoner she helped escape ended in Indiana on Monday with her dead from a gunshot wound and him in handcuffs, authorities said. Yet the end of the saga leaves a number of questions still unanswered, none

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Austin Williams likened the capture of Alabama fugitive Casey White, accused of killing Williams’ mother in 2015, to a “miracle,” saying Tuesday he did not expect White would be captured alive. Williams, 42, and his family had been hoping for the best for Vicky White, the jailer accused of helping

By Dakin Andone and Michelle Krupa, CNN A horde of cash. A getaway car. An enormous world in which to hide. It seemed inmate Casey White and his jailer Vicky White had plenty of advantages when they walked out of an Alabama jail on April 29, the corrections officer allegedly helping facilitate her charge’s escape.

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Customs officers at the US-Mexico border found an unwanted passenger hitching a ride in a shipment of fresh fruit: Cochabamba sp. — a rare pest never before seen at a US port of entry. The discovery was made May 2 by US Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at the Pharr

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN High winds and extreme heat are fueling dangerous wildfires across the Southwest. Four states — New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Texas — are battling a dozen large fires that have already burned more than 320,000 acres, and triple-digit temperatures are only making matters worse. Here’s what you need to know to

By Mark Morales and Ray Sanchez, CNN Celebrity chef Mario Batali was found not guilty Tuesday at a bench trial on charges of indecent assault and battery related to the alleged groping of a star-struck patron at a Boston restaurant in 2017. Judge James Stanton noted Batali’s conduct was “not befitting of a public person

By Travis Caldwell, CNN Investigators are looking for more information after a second set of human remains were found in Lake Mead, which is experiencing a plunge in water levels due to an ongoing megadrought. The remains — discovered Saturday afternoon in Nevada’s Callville Bay — were the second found in less than a week.

By Jason Hanna, Amanda Watts and Miguel Marquez, CNN Recaptured Alabama fugitive Casey White intended to have a shootout with law enforcement, and would have done so had pursuing officers not forced him to wreck in a ditch Monday in Evansville, Indiana, a sheriff said Tuesday. The crash ended White’s 11-day run on the lam