By Ray Sanchez and Kiely Westhoff, CNN Gunshots that killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded three other people after a suburban Philadelphia high school football game last month were fired “with near certainty” by local police officers, according to the Delaware County District Attorney. Fanta Bility was killed on August 27 when a verbal confrontation
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Anti-death penalty advocates delivered a petition Wednesday asking the state to spare the life of Ernest Johnson, saying his intellectual disability makes it unconstitutional to execute the man convicted of a Columbia triple murder.
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A Cole County judge granted a change of venue and a request for a new judge for a woman charged in the 2018 death of a Jefferson City child.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 20-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for attacking a federal undercover agent during a weapons transaction. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday that Nicholas Newman was sentenced this month after pleading guilty in May to one count of forcible assault on a
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — El FC Barcelona fue goleado por el Benfica en Portugal en Champions League y quedó hundido más en una crisis que parece no tener fin. El equipo de Ronald Koeman, que llegó con el club ya en crisis en 2020, solo se desciende más en su debacle tras la salida
Continue ReadingBy CBS Baltimore Staff Click here for updates on this story ANNAPOLIS, MD (WJZ) — Seven students were arrested after two boys were stabbed in a fight Wednesday morning at Annapolis High School. The school was placed on lockdown for about two hours after the fight. The two students hurt in the fight were taken
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By Eric Levenson, CNN Mandates that require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 have spurred workers to get vaccinated in recent weeks — yet some holdouts have been suspended or lost their jobs, and workplaces are scrambling to cover potential shortages. The tradeoff — a disrupted workplace in the short term in exchange for widespread
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Thursday is the last day of the fiscal year, and if a federal budget does not pass the government will go into a full shutdown at 12:01 a.m. The budget was held back because it was attached to a Democratic attempt to raise the debt ceiling, which Senate Republicans strongly opposed. A new proposed budget without the raised debt ceiling could make its way through Congress as soon as Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy ROB POLANSKY, SUSAN RAFF Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) — The governor is extending the vaccination deadline for state workers, as leaders push for them to get vaccinated. Gov. Ned Lamont’s office held a news conference at 11 a.m. in Hartford on Wednesday. He announced the COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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By Kay Jones, CNN Police in Fort Worth, Texas, arrested a man on Monday for allegedly killing and dismembering three people and then putting their bodies in a dumpster and setting it on fire. Police said Jason Alan Thornburg, 41, admitted to killing a man and two women in a hotel room over the course
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By CHARLENE PELE Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate said youth delegates at a gathering in Italy’s financial capital are struggling to get their voices through in an event that she and others complain has been heavily orchestrated. Nakate is among 400 activists invited to Italy’s financial capital for a three-day
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By Tierney Sneed In briefs filed Wednesday in the Justice Department’s challenge to Texas’ abortion ban, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton touted the trips Texas women are making out of state to obtain abortions as a point in his favor in defending the law. Paxton was addressing an argument that the Biden administration had made
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By Chandelis Duster and Nick Valencia, CNN Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is defending her proposal to use the state’s allotment of coronavirus relief funds to build new prisons in the state after receiving criticism from Democrats. Ivey, a Republican, on Monday convened a special session of the Alabama legislature to discuss how to fix what
Continue ReadingBy Brittany Whitehead Click here for updates on this story WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, N.C. (WLOS) — A new program to help prevent the spread of rabies among wildlife in Western North Carolina will be launched at the beginning of October. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced is working with the United
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Days before the start of a tumultuous term, and after the Supreme Court justices divided bitterly over a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned an audience of law students about the frustration of having to write dissents. “There is going
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By Nikki Carvajal, CNN The White House believes vaccine requirements for large private companies are still weeks away from being implemented, weeks after President Joe Biden announced the new mandates were coming. During a press briefing on Wednesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the administration hopes to have “more detail” on the regulations
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Britney Spears obtuvo una victoria legal el miércoles en su lucha por recuperar el control de su vida. La jueza de Los Ángeles suspendió a Jamie Spears, el padre de la cantante, como tutor de su patrimonio y designó un reemplazo temporal para supervisar sus finanzas hasta el 31 de
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — La tutela que controlaba partes de la vida y el patrimonio de Britney Spears llegó a su fin. Esto ocurrió después de una serie de eventos que se desencadenaron tras una audiencia en donde la cantante calificó a su tutela como “abusiva”. Durante la audiencia realizada en junio, Spears ofreció su testimonio
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRIA ADAMS Click here for updates on this story COLLIERVILLE, TN (WSMV) — The family of the woman killed in the Collierville Kroger shooting spoke for the first time. On Sept. 23, police identified the suspect from the deadly mass shooting at Collierville Kroger as a 29-year-old UK Thang. Police told News 4 that
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By Daniella Diaz, Priscilla Alvarez and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Senate Parliamentarian on Wednesday rejected Democrats’ second attempt to try to include a pathway to legalization for immigrants in a bill that could be passed with just Democratic support, a source tells CNN. Democrats argued this time to the parliamentarian that they include a provision
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