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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,

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Officials in Rochester, New York, said an investigation found no basis for criminal charges in a concert stampede in March that left three people dead. The announcement came after a months-long, multi-departmental investigation into the incident at Rochester’s Main Street Armory, the City of Rochester said in a statement. The probe

By Josh Campbell, Ed Lavandera and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A man accused of fatally shooting five people at a neighbor’s home in Texas last week, including a mother and her 9-year-old son, was arrested Tuesday evening after a dayslong manhunt, officials announced. The suspect, Francisco Oropesa, was found in a house just miles from the

By Christina Maxouris, Amy Simonson and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Federal and state law enforcement in Virginia and North Carolina are searching for two men who escaped from jail, one of whom was facing a murder charge in the death of a sheriff’s deputy. The two men escaped from a Farmville, Virginia, jail sometime over the

By Raja Razek and Zoe Sottile, CNN Seven bodies, including two that investigators believe belong to two missing teenage girls, were found Monday afternoon at an Oklahoma residence of a man who authorities were seeking in the teens’ disappearance, officials said. The bodies were found at a property in Henryetta, a city about 90 miles

By Devon M. Sayers, Shawn Nottingham and Ashley R. Williams, CNN It should have been one of the happiest days of newlywed Samantha Miller’s life. But five hours after saying “I do,” the 34-year-old bride died when she was hit by an alleged drunken driver in Folly Beach, South Carolina, as she left her wedding

By Jennifer Henderson and Zoe Sottile, CNN An 18-year-old Texas college baseball player was seriously injured after being struck by a stray bullet during a game on Saturday, according to police. Matthew Delaney, a student athlete at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, was standing in the bullpen area when he was hit, police said. He was hospitalized

By Joe Sutton, Rebekah Riess and Brad Parks, CNN An interstate in central Illinois reopened Tuesday, a day after at least seven people were killed as more than 70 vehicles crashed in a dust storm, officials said. The crashes along Interstate 55 happened shortly before 11 a.m. in Montgomery and Sangamon counties south of the

By Leyla Santiago, Zoe Sottile and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Ginny Matts and her boyfriend were excited to celebrate her 60th birthday in Key West. But their vacation was spoiled by an unexpected guest: a record-breaking amount of smelly seaweed known as sargassum that is coating the iconic Florida island’s popular beaches. What Matts and her

By Cheri Mossburg and Dakin Andone, CNN A student at the University of California, Davis was stabbed to death at a local park Saturday evening, days after a similar attack, prompting the involvement of state authorities and the FBI as police search for a suspect. Authorities are still working to determine any possible connection between

By Jackie Wattles and Ella Nilsen, CNN Environmental groups are suing the Federal Aviation Administration in federal court over SpaceX’s launch of its massive Starship rocket last month. The groups argue that the agency failed to adequately investigate the potential harm the launch — or a mishap — could do to the surrounding environment. The

By Theresa Waldrop, Bill Kirkos and Adrienne Broaddus, CNN As a slow-moving crest works its way down the Mississippi River this week, flood-weary Iowans living along the water were doing their best to cope with the rising water. In Davenport on Sunday, River Drive lived up to its name: The street looked like a river,

By Michelle Watson and Eric Levenson, CNN A man accused of killing four people in random encounters in the Tampa, Florida, area of Seminole Heights in fall 2017 pleaded guilty to four counts of murder and was sentenced to life in prison Monday. Howell Donaldson III changed his plea from not guilty to guilty Monday

By Celina Tebor, CNN On the one-year anniversary of a New Jersey student’s death by suicide, the school he attended admitted it “fell tragically short” of protecting his safety and well-being. Jack Reid, 17, died by suicide on April 30, 2022, in a residential house at the Lawrenceville School, a boarding and preparatory school in

By Chris Boyette and Dakin Andone, CNN Authorities have arrested and charged with arson a man federal prosecutors said is responsible for setting fires at two Minneapolis mosques and separately spray-painting the district office door of a Muslim American member of Congress, according to a news release from the US Attorney’s Office for the District

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Headlines were bleak when results from the test known as the “Nation’s Report Card” came out last year. Local newspapers around the country documented their districts’ declining scores. Editorials warned that US schools had failed students during the pandemic. Officials described the exam as an alarming wake-up call. But one