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By Dakin Andone, CNN A plane crash northwest of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge on Friday afternoon killed two people, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The plane — identified as a fixed-wing, single-engine Vans RV-10 personal aircraft — crashed into a hillside in the Marin Headlands near Slacker Hill, said

By Mallika Kallingal, CNN An Alabama corrections officer who disappeared late last month with an inmate — with whom authorities believe she may have had a romantic relationship — died of a gunshot wound. Officer Vicky White, 56, and inmate Casey White, 38, were arrested in Evansville, Indiana, on May 9 after a nationwide manhunt

By Eric Levenson, CNN The body of a small child was recovered from the Rio Grande by Border Patrol agents Thursday, while his brother, who was also swept away by river currents, remains missing, authorities said. The incident began May 2 when agents encountered a husband and wife from Angola who had illegally crossed the

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Massachusetts family was surprised to learn that a lost puppy they rescued was, in fact, a baby coyote. The male pup was found “wandering and distressed” on the side of the road, according to a Facebook post from Cape Wildlife Center. Concerned for its safety, the family picked up the

By AJ Willingham, CNN It’s the top of the third inning in Grayson Stadium, home of the Savannah Bananas. As the second batter gets set once again, the home team, clad in its customary yellow, crowds closer in the infield. A shimmer of excitement moves through the stands in anticipation of the next pitch. But

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A massive great white shark has been recorded swimming off the New Jersey shore. The shark is named Ironbound, after the West Ironbound Island near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, where it was first spotted. The creature is 12 feet, 4 inches long and weighs an estimated 998 pounds, according to OCEARCH, a

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN When two pink vertical lines on a pregnancy test stared back at Taylor Esche last summer, she was contemplating her options before even leaving her bathroom. On paper, Esche, 28, and her now fiancé seemed to be perfect candidates for parenthood, she tells CNN: Esche is a business owner, her fiancé

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The last few Independence Days have been tough for Austin Williams. It’s not only that his mother, Connie Ridgeway, loved America and collected anything bearing its flag, but July 4 was her birthday. When the family was sorting through her Rogersville, Alabama, home after her fatal 2015 stabbing, “half the

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Frank James, the man accused of opening fire on a Brooklyn subway last month, has been indicted on two federal counts. According to an indictment filed Friday, James was indicted on one count of terrorist attack and other violence against a mass transportation system and one count of discharging a firearm

By Ray Sanchez, Kristina Sgueglia, Samantha Beech and Peter Nickeas, CNN Patrick Lyoya, the 26-year-old Michigan man who was fatally shot by a Grand Rapids police officer during a traffic stop, died from a gunshot to the back of the head, according to the official autopsy report obtained by CNN. The autopsy also found that