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By Sara Smart, CNN What started as a visit to the local thrift store turned into a months-long reunion story for one Illinois man. In June 2021, Greg Kozlick, 22, was looking for electronics at the local Goodwill store in Downers Grove, which is about 30 minutes west of Chicago. As he was searching, he

By Liam Reilly and Alaa Elassar, CNN A Rhode Island man was arrested in New York Thursday for allegedly selling or attempting to sell more than 100 guns that he produced at his home, according to the US Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York. Most of the guns were untraceable “privately made firearms” (PMF’s),

By Laura Studley, Elizabeth Joseph and Alaa Elassar, CNN A good Samaritan died on New Year’s Day while trying to help a man who fell onto subway tracks during a gang assault in New York City. At around 2:40 a.m., the assault victim — a 38-year-old male — was approached by several individuals on the

By Chris Boyette and Keith Allen, CNN The New Orleans City Council voted unanimously Thursday to change the name of Robert E. Lee Boulevard to Allen Toussaint Boulevard, councilmember Jared C. Brossett confirmed to CNN Saturday. Toussaint, a New Orleans music legend, died in 2015 of a heart attack while he was touring in Madrid.

By Omar Jimenez, Keith Allen, Dakin Andone and Amir Vera, CNN Classes in Chicago will be canceled again Monday, making it the fourth consecutive day students have been out of school as the standoff between the Chicago Teachers Union and City officials drags on amid a Covid-19 surge. “Out of fairness and consideration for families

By Michelle Watson and Alaa Elassar, CNN A 6-year-old boy who was last seen on January 4 was found dead near an abandoned house in Gary, Indiana, early Saturday morning. Three relatives “believed to be responsible” for Damari Perry’s death are in custody, North Chicago Police said in a news release. Damari was last seen

By Emma Tucker, CNN Google on Saturday is paying tribute to renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, who overcame a debilitating disease to continue probing the mysteries of the universe, for what would be his 80th birthday on Earth. Hawking, who died in 2018 at the age of 76, was also a cosmologist, astronomer, mathematician and author

By Laura Studley, CNN A Massachusetts school district has invited two new police officers to patrol its buildings, only these cops have four paws and aren’t detecting crime. They’re detecting Covid. A pair of specially-trained dogs, 14-month-old labs named Huntah and Duke, began their training in May 2021, and now roam the halls of schools

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The New York attorney general’s office is investigating an incident in which a man died weeks after catching fire when police tased him while he was covered in hand sanitizer, new videos released on Friday by the attorney general’s office show. In the first of two videos dated October 30, 2021

By Emma Tucker and Haley Brink, CNN More than 62 million people are under winter weather advisories across the Midwest and Northeast on Saturday ahead of a storm system bringing freezing rain over the weekend. Several Midwest states, including Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana and Michigan, are expected to experience either ice or rain. The Northeast

By Mallika Kallingal and Amy Simonson, CNN A man police have dubbed the “shopping cart killer” may be linked to the body of a fifth victim found in Washington, DC, authorities said on Friday. Anthony Robinson, 35, has already been charged with the killing of two women. Investigators believe Robinson met his victims on dating

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Washington is finally getting a break Saturday from record-breaking rain and snow, with rivers expected to ebb and flood waters recede, as the state works to deal with the aftermath of weeks of storms. The state’s department of transportation was making progress Friday in clearing roadways after 38 avalanches came down

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Night owls on the mid-Atlantic coast were treated to a show in the sky overnight as a NASA rocket launched from the Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The sounding rocket launched at midnight, according to a tweet from the Wallops facility. The launch was set to visible in coastal

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Seattle firefighters rescued a man trapped in the basement of his house after it “slid 15-20 feet off its foundation” during a landslide, authorities said Friday. “The steep slope area behind the house had slid likely as a result of high levels of precipitation which resulted in the top floor of