Two Baltimore police officers indicted in case involving alleged assault of teen
By Artemis Moshtaghian and Ray Sanchez, CNN Two Baltimore police officers have been indicted in a case in which a teenager was allegedly assaulted…
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1 person dead, 7 rescued after boat accident in Boston Harbor
By Melissa Alonso, CNN One person was found dead and several were injured after an early morning boating accident in Boston Harbor, according to…
Continue ReadingGreat Salt Lake is shrinking fast. Scientists demand action before it becomes a toxic dustbin
The water level in Utah’s Great Salt Lake today is inches away from a 58-year low, state officials say, and Western drought conditions fueled by the…
Continue ReadingGreat Salt Lake is shrinking fast. Scientists demand action before it becomes a toxic dustbin
By Lucy Kafanov, Leslie Perrot and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Great Salt Lake is also known as America’s Dead Sea — owing to a likeness to…
Continue ReadingRecord Store Day offers a sign of hope for businesses working on their pandemic rebound
By Rachel Trent, CNN Of all the aspects of normality Americans missed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, physical touch has been a common theme. The…
Continue ReadingFight for voting rights intensifies as the nation marks one year since civil rights icon John Lewis’ death
By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The fight for voting rights intensified this week with a Black woman lawmaker being arrested while protesting, Texas…
Continue Reading40 years before Surfside, a collapse in Kansas City killed 114 people. Here’s what we’ve learned from that disaster
By Holly Yan, CNN On a balmy Missouri evening in 1981, this was one of the hottest places to be. More than 1,500 revelers had gathered on the first…
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6-year-old girl killed and 5 adults injured in a shooting in Washington, DC
By Melissa Alonso, Sonnet Swire and Aaron Pellish, CNN A 6-year-old girl was killed and five adults were injured in a drive-by shooting in…
Continue ReadingBlack tech entrepreneurs get $1 million boost from Pharrell Williams
By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Entrepreneur Justin Turk knew his start-up was special, but a $1 million prize from Grammy award-winning singer and…
Continue Reading‘Hollywood Ripper’ serial killer sentenced to death for the murders of 2 women and attempted murder of another
By Alexandra Meeks and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The man known as the “Hollywood Ripper” was sentenced to death on Friday in the murders of two…
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Meet Truffles, the special kitty who wears glasses to help kids feel better about wearing theirs
By Alaa Elassar, CNN Nearly four years ago, Danielle Crull rescued a stray kitten from a forest in Pennsylvania. Now, that spunky kitty is changing…
Continue ReadingInvestigators extract DNA tied to 2 cases as part of a re-investigation of the decades-old Atlanta child murders
By Rebekah Riess and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Investigators in Atlanta were able to extract DNA from two child murder cases for additional analysis as…
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Video of NYPD tasing a man on a subway draws scrutiny from local leaders and the community
By Kristina Sgueglia, Mirna Alsharif and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Video circulating of a man who was tased by police after they say he helped another…
Continue ReadingVideo of NYPD tasing a man on a subway draws scrutiny from local leaders and the community
NYPD officers tased a man on the subway after he was seen allegedly letting someone through a gate to skip the…
Continue ReadingCause of California’s single largest wildfire ever is undetermined, fire officials say
By Brisa Colon, CNN Despite an “exhaustive investigation,” the US Forest Service announced Friday the cause of the largest single fire in…
Continue ReadingVirginia deputy indicted in shooting of unarmed man
By Dakin Andone, CNN A grand jury has indicted a Virginia’s sheriff’s deputy in connection with the April shooting of Isiah Brown, who…
Continue Reading2 former Maine police officers accused of beating porcupines to death will spend time in jail
By Amanda Watts and Alaa Elassar, CNN Two former police officers in Maine have pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges stemming from an incident in…
Continue Reading3 facing charges in deadly 2018 duck boat sinking near Branson, Missouri
17 people died in a duck boat accident on Table Rock Lake near Branson, Missouri, according to Southern Stone County Fire Protection spokesman Eric…
Continue ReadingRichard Sherman says he is remorseful for actions that led to his arrest, pleads not guilty to misdemeanors
By Kevin Dotson and Andy Rose, CNN NFL star Richard Sherman, who was arrested this week in King County, Washington, said Friday he is remorseful for…
Continue Reading3 facing charges in deadly 2018 duck boat sinking near Branson, Missouri
By Carma Hassan, CNN Three men linked to a deadly duck boat sinking near Branson, Missouri, in July 2018 are facing a total of 63 charges related to…
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