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By Sara Smart and Rebekah Riess, CNN A 15-year-old equestrian was killed during a competition in Florida after her horse fell on her head, officials say. The accident happened as Hannah Serfass was riding her 12-year-old horse in a hunter/jumper event Sunday at Fox Lea Farm in Venice, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said in

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Robert Findlay Smith, who was accused of shooting and killing three senior citizens at an Alabama church group’s meeting in June 2022, entered a guilty plea Tuesday for the intentional murder of Jane Pounds, Walter Rainey and Sarah Yeager, according to a news release from the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.

By Rachel Ramirez and Ella Nilsen, CNN New York is the first state in the country to ban natural gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings — a major win for climate advocates, but a move that could spark pushback from fossil fuel interests. Facing mounting pressure from environmental advocates and climate-minded voters,

By Zenebou Sylla, CNN A Maryland appellate court has denied Adnan Syed’s motion to reconsider the reinstatement of his murder conviction Tuesday, according to a court order signed by Chief Judge Gregory Wells. The brief order states it denied the motion “based on an argument not previously raised.” Syed’s attorney, Erica Suter, says they will

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Amid Arizona’s worsening groundwater crisis, the state’s new attorney general is vowing to crack down on foreign-owned farms that lease land from the state with the benefit of unlimited water pumping. State officials recently revoked two new well-drilling permits for a Saudi Arabian agriculture company that uses Arizona groundwater to grow

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Many airline employees have gone for years without pay raises, even after enduring difficult working conditions during the pandemic. Pilots for American Airlines voted to strike this week, and Southwest pilots plan to vote as well, but they won’t be walking off the job anytime soon — if at all —

By Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough, Holly Yan, Josh Campbell and Mark Morales, CNN The longtime partner of a man accused of gunning down five people, including a 9-year-old, in a neighboring Texas home seemed to be cooperating with authorities — but was actually helping the suspect evade them during a dayslong manhunt, a prosecutor said

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Three brutal stabbings near the University of California at Davis in the span of five days have left two people dead and some students rattled and fearful as authorities dig for clues on who is responsible and whether the attacks were connected. The latest attack happened Monday night near campus and

By Sara Smart and Emma Tucker, CNN A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail last month with three others has been found dead in New Orleans, a sheriff said Tuesday, leaving just one of the four apparently still on the run. The body of Casey Grayson, 34, was found in a vehicle at a

By Jean Casarez, Rob Frehse and Christina Maxouris, CNN Ana Walshe, the Massachusetts mother of three who was last seen alive in January, was having an affair with a man in Washington, DC, before she went missing and had spent Thanksgiving with him in Ireland, new court documents say. That man told investigators he had

By Brian Todd, Michelle Watson, Artemis Moshtaghian and Ashley R. Williams, CNN Lawyers for the Virginia teacher shot by a 6-year-old student earlier this year are criticizing a motion to dismiss her lawsuit against the Newport News school board and administrators. Abigail Zwerner was shot by the first grader on January 6 at Richneck Elementary

By Cheri Mossburg, Carma Hassan and Holly Yan, CNN Tech executive Bob Lee suffered knife wounds that pierced his heart and lung, according to a newly released autopsy report from the San Francisco medical examiner’s office. Lee, who cofounded the mobile payment service provider Cash App, was stabbed to death in the Rincon Hill neighborhood

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Authorities in Cleveland, Texas, placed large posters in Spanish around the city asking for help finding a man wanted for the killings of five people, but a lack of trust in law enforcement among some Latinos may be hindering those efforts, advocates say. There is fear among some Latinos, particularly immigrants,

By Eric Levenson and Brad Parks, CNN A Minnesota judge found former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao guilty of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter for his role keeping bystanders back in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, according to court documents filed Monday. In a 177-page verdict, Judge Peter Cahill wrote that Thao “actively

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Hundreds of hazardous industrial sites that dot the California coastline — including oil and gas refineries and sewage-treatment plants — are at risk of severe flooding from rising sea level if the climate crisis worsens, new research shows. If planet-warming pollution continues to rise unabated, 129 industrial sites are estimated to

By John Blake, CNN I was about five years old when I was abducted. It was one of the most beautiful days of my childhood. A couple of strangers lured me away from my front porch that summer afternoon. I knew they were intruders, but they somehow felt familiar. I wasn’t afraid. They were white

By Tina Burnside, Cheri Mossburg and Dakin Andone, CNN Officials in Davis, California, have lifted an overnight shelter-in-place order after they were unable to find a suspect in a knife attack late Monday — the third such incident following two fatal stabbings in less than a week near the campus of the University of California,

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN You may recall a few months ago when officials warned that a giant blob of seaweed would reach the shores of Florida by summertime. Well, to many travelers’ dismay, the smelly brown sargassum is already starting to pile up along beaches in the Caribbean, Mexico and South Florida. Here’s what else

By Tina Burnside, Caroll Alvarado and Eric Levenson, CNN A convicted sex offender and two missing teenage girls were believed to be among seven bodies found at the man’s Oklahoma home on Monday, authorities said. Jesse L. McFadden, the 39-year-old offender, was found dead at his home in Henryetta, about 90 miles from Oklahoma City,