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3 injured after gunman opens fire on sheriff’s office in Idaho before being fatally shot in standoff, officials say

By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A shooter armed with several guns opened fire in the lobby of an Idaho sheriff’s office and the street outside Friday, injuring three people before being killed in a standoff with law enforcement, the local sheriff said. The suspected gunman fired shots at a pickup truck outside the Shoshone

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Ashlee and Melodee Buzzard are shown in a surveillance video where investigators believe they are wearing wigs.

How a backroad discovery led to the arrest of Melodee Buzzard’s mother in the child’s ‘calculated’ killing

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — As the December sun set over central Utah’s sandstone peaks, a couple ventured down a nondescript dirt road to snap photos against the backdrop of a red rock vista. Instead, they stumbled across a grisly discovery among smattered shrubs and parched soil: the decomposed remains of a little girl.

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Two people emerged unscathed from the Beechcraft Super King Air 200 after it stopped on the runway at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport near Denver

Airplane lands itself after in-flight emergency, in a first for aviation automation

By Pete Muntean, Dugald McConnell, CNN (CNN) — An airplane has, for the first time, automatically landed itself after an in-flight emergency, according to the system’s manufacturer. Two people emerged unscathed from the Beechcraft Super King Air 200 after it stopped on the runway at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport near Denver, according to video posted

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The remains of missing 9-year-old California girl Melodee Buzzard have been found.

Melodee Buzzard’s mother arrested in connection with 9-year-old’s killing after her body is found

By Josh Campbell, Michelle Watson, Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The multi-state hunt for Melodee Buzzard, a missing 9-year-old California girl, came to a close when her remains were discovered in a rural area of southern Utah, authorities announced Tuesday. Members of the sheriff’s office and the FBI arrested Ashlee Buzzard, Melodee’s mother, Tuesday morning

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The Barus & Holley engineering building is seen closed off during the manhunt for the gunman on December 17.

The feds are investigating Brown University’s safety after this month’s shooting. Here’s what’s at issue –– and at stake

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — With questions swirling about Brown University’s security after this month’s fatal shooting on the Providence, Rhode Island, campus, the Department of Education on Monday announced it would probe whether the school violated federal law. The department said in a news release it would investigate potential violations of the Clery

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Acworth Police cruisers are seen in Acworth

He reached to grab a toddler he said he thought was falling. Then he spent weeks in jail before the case was thrown out

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — For Mahendra “Mick” Patel, 2025 will always be the year his life turned upside down. What began as an errand for his elderly mother in March devolved into an attempted kidnapping accusation, forcing the 57-year-old father to abandon his real estate business and leaving his family desperate to find

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Photos of Brown University shooting victims MukhammadAziz Umurzokov

Brown places its vice president of public safety on leave as feds open investigation into safety after mass shooting

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Brown University announced on Monday it placed its police chief on administrative leave while an after-action review of a shooting earlier this month that left two students dead and nine others wounded takes place. Rodney Chatman, Brown’s vice president for public safety and emergency management, will be on leave

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