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By Ray Sanchez, Rosa Flores and Ed Lavandera, CNN The signs of trouble were evident hours before the deadly crowd surge at the Astroworld Music Festival one week ago, according to Houston Fire Department logs. Shortly after the 9 a.m. start of the November 5 festival, spectators had already breached the main gate, the handwritten

By Devon M. Sayers, Alta Spells and Christina Maxouris, CNN The sixth day of trial of the three White men accused in 25-year-old Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery’s killing concluded Friday with testimony from an agent who interviewed one of the defendants after the shooting. Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. are accused

By Laura Studley, Mallika Kallingal and Alex Harring, CNN The mother of a missing 14-year-old who was found safe in New York City on Thursday has been charged with two counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, authorities in New Jersey said Friday. The charges against Jamie Moore, 39, include allegations of physical

By Sahar Akbarzai and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Two teenagers have been charged with murder on suspicion of opening fire outside a suburban Philadelphia high school football game, leading police to respond with gunfire that killed an 8-year-old girl, authorities said. One of the teens, Angelo “AJ” Ford, 16, was arrested Wednesday and will be held

By Holly Yan, CNN Paul Wertheimer has spent four decades trying to help prevent deadly crowd surges since a disaster at a concert by The Who changed his life. Eleven young people, ages 15 to 27, died in a crowd crush at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum in 1979. “There were piles of shoes and clothing,” said

By Devon M. Sayers, Alta Spells and Christina Maxouris, CNN A defense attorney for one of the three White men charged in Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery’s killing objected this week to nationally recognized civil rights leaders attending the trial to support the victim’s family. “If we’re going to start a precedent, starting yesterday, where we’re

By Nicole Chavez, CNN The judge presiding over the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse confused observers after making a strange and off-color joke inside the courtroom on Thursday. “I hope the Asian food isn’t coming… isn’t on one of those boats from Long Beach Harbor,” said Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder as the

By Jason Hanna, Devon M. Sayers and Alta Spells, CNN Prosecutors in the trial of three White men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing played for jurors Thursday a recorded deposition of a man who owned the under-construction home that has been a central focus in the case. Larry English Jr. testified in the September 24

By Phil Gast, CNN Marian Cook Haddock keeps a weathered picture of her uncle Pete in the living room of her home in New Bern, North Carolina. Pete, in a freshly starched khaki uniform, gazes confidently at the camera. Haddock was just a tot when her lanky uncle joined the US Army and was shipped