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By Stephanie Stahl, Brad Nau Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) — There’s new hope for people with sickle cell disease, which affects mainly African Americans. It’s gene therapy research at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia that’s being called a game changer. The first patient to get the therapy outside a research
Continue ReadingBy Jessica MacAulay, Tom Dougherty, Tom Ignudo, Laura Fay Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Philadelphia leaders gathered to mourn the death of Officer Jaime Roman, who died Tuesday night after he was shot in the line of duty in June. Roman died on Sept. 10 at Temple University Hospital
Continue ReadingKYW By Jessica MacAulay, Tom Dougherty, Tom Ignudo, Laura Fay Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Philadelphia leaders gathered to mourn the death of Officer Jaime Roman, who died Tuesday night after he was shot in the line of duty in June. Roman died on Sept. 10 at Temple University
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By Tara John, David Shortell and Jose Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Mexican Senate narrowly passed a controversial judicial reform early Wednesday, hours after protesters broke into the chamber in a chaotic scene and forced a suspension of the proceedings. The Senate vote was the last major hurdle for the sweeping constitutional reform, under which
Continue ReadingBy Kerry Breen Click here for updates on this story NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts (WBZ) — The wreck of a passenger steamship that sank in 1856 in the Atlantic Ocean has been discovered about 200 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, a New Jersey-based salvage group said. Le Lyonnais was a trans-Atlantic steamship, built in England
Continue ReadingBy Dave Warren Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — Inspired by Hurricane Irma, Will Charouhis is planting mangroves to combat the impacts of coastal development. He hopes to restore habitats and educate others one mangrove at a time — and has founded an organization that is working to plant a
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department will not restrict any military funding to Egypt, including funds conditioned on human rights, a State Department spokesperson told CNN Wednesday. The agency informed Congress Wednesday that it intends to provide Cairo with $1.3 billion in foreign military financing assistance, the spokesperson said. Egypt has been accused of
Continue ReadingBy A.J. Bayatpour Click here for updates on this story WATERTOWN, Wisconsin (WDJT) — On her third day of the eighth grade, Hailey Gabrielson took her own life. Her older brother, Jordon, remembers the school resource officer taking him out of class at Watertown High School last Thursday. The officer took Jordon to Riverside Middle
Continue ReadingWDJT, GABRIELSON FAMILY, CNN By A.J. Bayatpour Click here for updates on this story WATERTOWN, Wisconsin (WDJT) — On her third day of the eighth grade, Hailey Gabrielson took her own life. Her older brother, Jordon, remembers the school resource officer taking him out of class at Watertown High School last Thursday. The officer took
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general says records finally given up by Michigan State University don’t reveal anything new about convicted sports doctor Larry Nassar. Attorney General Dana Nessel says it “seems sort of improbable,” but that is the conclusion. Nassar is serving decades in prison for sexually assaulting athletes, mostly female gymnasts.
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a list of incidents of elementary, middle and high school violence with at least one fatality, from 1927 to the present. Suicides, gang-related incidents and deaths resulting from domestic conflicts are not included. If a perpetrator was killed or died by suicide during the incident, their death is
Continue ReadingLANSING, Kan. (AP) — The shuttered Kansas prison where the killers chronicled in Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” were executed is now a tourist attraction. Starting Friday, former wardens and corrections officers will lead two-hour tours of the stone-walled building in Lansing that first began housing inmates in the 1860s. The Kansas City Star reported
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Frankie Beverly, who with his band Maze gave the world an anthem that will forever be tied to cookouts and good times, died on Tuesday, his family announced. He was 77. Beverly’s family posted a statement on the band’s social media accounts, which began: “Grieving the loss of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Amid the explosion of legal gambling in the United States, some things have remained off-limits, including betting on the outcome of U.S. elections. But that could be about to change. A federal judge in Washington has struck down a decision by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to prohibit
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Several local hotels are extending discounted rates to fire evacuees. Infusion Beach Club, located in Palm Springs, is offering a low-rate option to those displaced by the wildfire. Infusion Beach Club Cherie Walters, Infusion Beach Club’s general manager, said about 5 evacuees have checked into the hotel. “The others didn’t want to go to Los
Continue ReadingAssociated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana county judge has ruled against abortion providers who are seeking to broaden access to the procedure under the near-total ban state lawmakers passed in 2022. The judge on Wednesday denied the providers’ request for a permanent injunction to expand medical exemptions and block the requirement that abortions only
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have observed the detailed motions of giant gas bubbles on the surface of a nearby star for the first time, which rise and fall like the inside of a lava lamp. The massive hot gas bubbles are 75 times the size of the sun, and they appear to
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The words “Titanic moment” are possibly the last thing you want to hear on a boat – but that was the phrase used by one passenger on board the Carnival Spirit cruise ship last week, after the vessel unexpectedly struck an iceberg. No one was hurt on board and
Continue Reading CNN By Isabel Rosales and Dakin Andone, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — The mother of the teenager accused of killing four people during last week’s shooting at a Georgia high school has apologized to the victims’ families in an open letter while insisting her son “is not a monster.” “To the parents and families of those
Continue ReadingOXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A jury has cleared a Mississippi man on a charge of threatening to kill Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker during a confrontation with one of Wicker’s relatives. Six women and six men deliberated about an hour and a half Tuesday before unanimously finding William Carl Sappington not guilty of threatening to
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