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By Andy Rose and Alaa Elassar, CNN Three people, including a child, were killed and three more children were injured after their minivan was struck by a train at a railroad crossing in East Chicago, Indiana, Saturday morning. Video evidence shows that the caution signals were working and the gates were down at the time,

By Andy Rose and Christina Maxouris, CNN A 35-year-old man was hospitalized in serious condition Saturday after being bitten by a shark while swimming near Grey Whale Cove State Beach, authorities said. The man was bitten in the leg around 9:15 a.m. by a 6-to-8-foot great white shark, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office said

By Rachel Trent, CNN Police in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, are warning “Mare of Easttown” fans to stop trespassing in places where the series was filmed. “Yes! It’s neat they filmed a lot of it in our town. Yes!! It’s really cool Kate was ‘living in Wallingford,’” Nether Providence Police wrote on Facebook. “No!!!!! It’s NOT

By Alaa Elassar and Andy Rose, CNN A temporary no-swimming order was issued at a beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts, after a great white shark was spotted nearby. Beachgoers at Race Point Beach were ordered out of the water by lifeguards around 11:55 a.m. on Saturday, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy app Sharktivity, which

Five people have died after a hot-air balloon crash in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The balloon crashed into a power line, causing power to go out in the area, Albuquerque Police Department (APD) confirmed on Twitter.

By Rachel Trent, CNN The Lego Group is one step closer to reaching its goal of making all its products from sustainable material by 2030. The Danish toymaker unveiled a prototype brick made from recycled plastic. In a news release, Lego said the PET plastic from discarded bottles makes up the first brick to meet

By Alaa Elassar, CNN It was an ordinary Saturday afternoon in New Hampshire when a hungry customer walked into a restaurant, sat at the outside bar, and ordered some food. Roughly two hot dogs, some chips, a coke, a beer and a shot of tequila later, he paid his $37 tab and left — but

By Anna Sturla, CNN Former basketball players at the University of Michigan have accused deceased athletics Dr. Robert Anderson of abuse, their lawyer told affiliate WDIV. They are the latest to accuse the doctor, who worked for the university from 1966 to 2003. Anderson, who died in 2008, allegedly subjected student athletes to invasive exams,

By Alaa Elassar and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Five people have died following a hot-air balloon crash in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Saturday. The balloon crashed into a power line around Central Avenue and Unser Boulevard, causing power to go out in the area, Albuquerque Police Department (APD) confirmed on Twitter. “The balloon hit the top

By Paul Vercammen and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN A swirling tornado of flames reaching 40,000 feet into the sky tore through a California city in 2018, leaving a veteran hotshot firefighter horrified. The fire tornado, which obliterated entire neighborhoods in Redding, California, during the massive Carr Fire, still haunts former hotshot supervisor Aaron Humphrey. He says

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Othal Wallace, the man wanted for shooting Daytona Beach police officer Jason Raynor in the head Wednesday evening, was taken into custody at a property just outside of Atlanta around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. The property is in a wooded area and is affiliated with an organization called the ‘Not

A structural field survey report completed nearly three years before the collapse of the Champlain Towers south condominium complex in Surfside, Florida, raised concerns about structural damage to the concrete slab below the pool deck and “cracking and spalling” located in the parking garage. The report from October 2018 was included in a series of public records documents that were published overnight on the Surfside town website.

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The New York Police Department arrested an alleged gang member in a June 17 shooting in the Bronx that put two children in the line of gunfire, Chief of Detectives James Essig said at a news conference Friday. Michael Lopez, 27, has ties to the “Make it Happen Boyz” gang and

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Carl Nassib’s coming out was casual, matter-of-fact and, evidenced by the ebullient smile he wore throughout the video in which he disclosed his sexuality, a release he’d long waited for. The laid-back nature of his announcement belies how exceedingly rare it was for Nassib to come out at all. The Las