By Omar Jimenez, CNN There is a common thread between the 1995 acquittal of O.J. Simpson and the 2021 acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse — a jury and trial consultant named Jo-Ellan Dimitrius. She developed the jury profile in Simpson’s case and now, decades later, worked “hand in hand” with Rittenhouse’s attorneys to help build a
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By Ralph Ellis, Kay Jones, Holly Yan and Paul P. Murphy, CNN The man accused of careening his SUV into a Wisconsin parade, killing five people and injuring 48 others, was a registered sex offender in Nevada and had an active arrest warrant in that state, court records show. He was also released on bond
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By Taylor Romine, CNN Brian Laundrie died by suicide from a gunshot wound to the head, an attorney for the Laundrie family told CNN Tuesday. “Chris and Roberta Laundrie have been informed that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death was suicide,” said attorney Steven Bertolino.
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN After spending 43 years behind bars for a crime he said he didn’t commit, a Missouri man’s conviction has been set aside, according to a news release from Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. Senior Judge James Welsh filed his ruling Tuesday morning to set aside the conviction of 62-year-old Kevin
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN Brian Laundrie died by suicide from a gunshot wound to the head, an attorney for the Laundrie family told CNN Tuesday. “Chris and Roberta Laundrie have been informed that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death was suicide,” said attorney Steven Bertolino.
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By Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The families of the “Groveland Four” got some closure Monday after Florida officially cleared four young Black men wrongly accused of raping a 17-year-old White girl in 1949. Circuit Court Judge Heidi Davis in Lake County, Florida, granted the State’s motion to posthumously dismiss the indictments of Ernest Thomas and Samuel
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By Stella Chan, CNN The crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight others was an “horrific accident,” but the county did not cause it and Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit claiming photos taken at the crash scene were leaked should be dismissed, lawyers for Los Angeles County said in a court filing Monday. “County personnel
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By Devon M. Sayers, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Travis Caldwell, CNN The prosecutor in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial sought Tuesday to simplify the events that led to Arbery’s death, taking the podium the day after defense teams spent much of their closing arguments trying to criminalize Arbery, alleging he brought his death on himself.
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By AJ Willingham, CNN You know what they say, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is all fun and games until one of the balloons goes down. Since the parade started marching balloons around Manhattan in 1927, the massive floating figures have occasionally come untethered, blown clear away, or been punctured, stabbed, deflated and subjected to
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN You know what they say, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is all fun and games until one of the balloons goes down. Since the parade started marching balloons around Manhattan in 1927, the massive floating figures have occasionally come untethered, blown clear away, or been punctured, stabbed, deflated and subjected to
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome “Jay” Powell. Personal Birth date: February 4, 1953 Birth place: Washington, DC Birth name: Jerome Hayden Powell Father: Jerome Powell, attorney Mother: Patricia (Hayden) Powell, mathematician Marriage: Elissa (Leonard) Powell (1985-present) Children: Samuel, Lucy and Susie Education: Princeton University, A.B. in
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan, CNN If you’re planning a trip to Target this Thanksgiving to get a jump on your holiday shopping, don’t bother. Target will never be open on Thanksgiving again. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan, CNN If you’re planning a trip to Target this Thanksgiving to get a jump on your holiday shopping, don’t bother. Target will never be open on Thanksgiving again. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan, CNN If you’re planning a trip to Target this Thanksgiving to get a jump on your holiday shopping, don’t bother. Target will never be open on Thanksgiving again. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton, CNN At least 20 people were involved in a burglary Monday night at the Nordstrom department store at The Grove retail complex in Los Angeles, CNN affiliate KCAL/KCBS reported, citing the Los Angeles Police Department. Police were involved in a chase after suspects fled in at least four vehicles, the affiliate said.
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By Stella Chan and Joe Sutton, CNN At least 18 people broke into a high-end department store in Los Angeles and stole thousands of dollars in merchandise Monday night, the city’s police chief said, in one of the country’s latest store burglaries involving sizable groups of thieves. The group used a sledgehammer and an electric
Continue Reading By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Devon M. Sayers, CNN The prosecutor in the trial of three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery sought Tuesday to simplify the events that led to the 25-year-old’s death, taking the podium the day after defense teams spent closing arguments trying to criminalize Arbery, alleging he brought his death on
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By Kelly McCleary and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Days after a gunshot set off a panic inside Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, police are still looking for the man they say brought the weapon through a security checkpoint and then managed to slip away in the ensuing chaos, firearm in hand. Kenny Wells, 42, is wanted on
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By Kelly McCleary and Joe Sutton, CNN Stewart “Stu” Rasmussen, America’s first openly transgender mayor, has died, according to the current mayor of Silverton, Oregon, Kyle Palmer. Rasmussen died Wednesday “after a number of weeks under home hospice care for metastatic prostate cancer,” Palmer said in a Facebook post. “His longtime love Victoria (Sage) noted
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By Joe Sutton, CNN A daughter of slain Black civil rights activist Malcolm X, Malikah Shabazz, died Monday, the New York Police Department told CNN. Shabazz, 56, was found unconscious by her daughter at her home in Brooklyn, according to the NYPD. Police said the death appeared to be due to natural causes. The “cause
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