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By Laura Ly, CNN A Philadelphia police officer is recovering after being dragged for five blocks while hanging out of a vehicle as the driver attempted to flee, according to an incident report. “The officer is extremely lucky,” Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small told CNN affiliate KYW. Authorities were questioning a male driver during

By Victor Blackwell and Devon M. Sayers, CNN A second local investigation into the 2013 death of Kendrick Johnson, the Georgia teenager who was found dead in a rolled-up gym mat, has been closed with no charges filed, according to a report released by Lowndes County Sheriff Ashley Paulk. Paulk called the teenager’s death a

By Raja Razek, CNN A teenager and an adult have been charged in connection with the killing of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega, who was struck by a stray bullet over the weekend in Chicago, police said. Melissa was walking with her mother on Saturday afternoon when they heard gunshots, and the mother discovered the child had

By Amir Vera and Taylor Romine, CNN Buffalo Bills fans — known as Bills Mafia — are typically the ones making donations after a game, but after the Bills lost 42-36 to the Kansas City Chiefs in an epic AFC divisional round Sunday, Chiefs fans decided to step up to the plate. Chiefs fans began

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Nearly three weeks after the body of a teenage girl was found dumped on a busy freeway off-ramp in Los Angeles, local leaders are pleading for tips from the public and offering a large reward as an incentive to solve her killing. Tioni Theus, 16, was found in the early morning

By Sonia Moghe and Eric Levenson, CNN Prince Andrew has formally denied allegations that he sexually abused Virginia Giuffre and has demanded a jury trial in her civil lawsuit, according to a legal filing Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The 11-page filing responds paragraph-by-paragraph to the allegations

By Rosa Flores and Amir Vera, CNN The man suspected of killing a Harris County, Texas, deputy during a traffic stop over the weekend was wanted for crimes committed in 1996 in the county and also wanted for murder in El Salvador, the Harris County district attorney said Thursday. The announcement came during a multi-agency

By Holly Yan and Amanda Watts, CNN The man suspected of shooting a Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy has died, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said. Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, a deputy made a traffic stop for a registration violation near South 68th Street and West Adler Street, the sheriff’s office said. As more deputies arrived, both

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The two New York Police Department officers who were killed responding last week to a domestic disturbance call are being remembered as dedicated heroes as city officials step up their push to curb escalating crime. Officers Wilbert Mora and Jason Rivera, both in their 20s, were shot after encountering someone with

By Cheri Mossburg and Amir Vera, CNN The San Jose, California, city council voted Tuesday night to adopt a first-in-the-nation ordinance requiring most gun owners to pay a fee and carry liability insurance, measures aimed at reducing the risk of gun harm by incentivizing safer behavior and easing taxpayers of the financial burden of gun

By Alta Spells, Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Hundreds of anti-Semitic flyers — falsely claiming the public health response to Covid-19 is being orchestrated by Jewish people — were distributed to homes in South Florida over the weekend, according to authorities. Similar flyers were distributed in five other states — Colorado, Wisconsin, Texas, California,

By Josh Campbell, CNN A 16-year-old was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder for selling a fentanyl-laced pill to a child who died of a drug overdose, California prosecutors said. The 12-year-old girl who ingested most of the pill was the youngest person to overdose and die in 2020 in Santa Clara County, the district

By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN As Jan Stone stirred a large pot of grits with sausage for her six adopted children on Friday, she was juggling a little more than usual during the family’s predawn routine. Not only was Stone trying to get them out the door for school with backpacks and full