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By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — A teacher hailed as a hero for her quick action to help stop the gunman who carried out the school shooting in Bend, Oregon, last month is speaking out about her experience as the community prepares to send its children back to the school. “It all happened so fast,

By Karina Tsui, Martin Goillandeau, Eduardo Cuevas, CNN (CNN) — At least one person was killed and eight others injured in two nearby shootings, just minutes apart, after a college football game in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday, officials said. Multiple shots rang out in the 400 block of Graymont Avenue near Legion Field beginning around

By Andy Rose, Graham Hurley, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — When Alex Wittlin makes the 6-mile drive home every day from his workplace near Atlanta, 22 eyes follow him. On May 3, something else was following him: police cars with their sirens on. Spotting the lights less than a mile from his home, Wittlin turned onto

By Eduardo Cuevas, CNN (CNN) — A Michigan man was arrested Friday and charged with making threats against FBI Director Kash Patel, federal prosecutors announced. Anthony Daniel Palazzolo, 42, of Chesterfield Township, is accused of writing Facebook messages threatening to kill Patel and an associate earlier in October, according to the office of US Attorney

By Sydney Bishop, Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — One person was killed and six others injured after a shooting inside a shopping mall at a Spirit Halloween store in Fairfield, California, on Friday night, police said. Fairfield Police identified the person killed as Constance Hages, 31, whom family members said was pregnant at the time

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — October 14 wasn’t the first time Carolyn Marvin put herself in front of an autonomous delivery robot. It had become, since the wheeled little food vessels were unleashed upon certain parts of Philadelphia, a habit for the 78-year-old: standing in front of one of the robots when she encountered

CNN By Chris Boyette, Isabel Rosales, Julianna Bragg, Vivian Phillips, Holly Yan (CNN) — A convicted murderer who escaped a Tennessee prison last weekend had already crossed state lines before prison officials alerted external law enforcement agencies, according to District Attorney Danny Goodman Jr. Jacob Morley had been in Marion, Illinois, by 4:40 a.m. Monday,

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a select list of convicted American serial killers and notable open or unsolved cases. Serial murder is defined by the FBI as two or more killings separated by a span of time. Serial murders are relatively rare. Fewer than one percent of homicides during a given year are

By Devon M. Sayers, Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection a month ago, is speaking out for the first time, saying she is recovering, “but healing is not the same as being okay.” “There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t

By Emma Tucker, Julianna Bragg, Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Investigators were combing through debris scattered across a field in northwest Oregon Friday after two helicopters collided midair, killing three people and forcing the closure of a nearby highway, officials said. Oregon pilot Tyler Sturdevant, 38, died in the crash, along with Texas flight instructor

By Associated Press Denver (AP) — An Egyptian man faces an additional life sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to federal hate crime and other charges for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year. Mohamed Soliman is already serving life in prison after pleading guilty to state charges last spring. Federal prosecutors,

By Kara Scannell, Jeff Winter, Eric Levenson, CNN Monticello, New York (CNN) — A New York judge on Thursday sharply questioned attorneys over a request to remove Attorney General Letitia James from her role as the special prosecutor investigating sexual assault allegations at Cornell University. The petition to remove James due to bias was filed

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — The daylight is getting shorter, the wind is getting colder, and the date fast approaches when people are supposed to beware of “ghouls” — no, not October 31, but November 3, Election Day. Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio, “is an absolute ghoul,” the former Obama

By Emma Tucker, Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — A fire at a South Carolina laboratory on a site that produces materials for US nuclear weapons triggered an emergency response, but the fire was extinguished and no contamination was reported outside of the facility, site officials said. The emergency at the Savannah River National Laboratory near

By Whitney Wild, Dalia Faheid, Bill Kirkos, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Yair Lev said his second-grade daughter suddenly went silent midsentence as she scrolled through a math app on her school-issued Chromebook last year. Her eyes glazed over like a “zombie.” His daughter appeared to be overwhelmed by the stimulation from her device. She struggled

By Cindy Von Quednow, Addie Haney, CNN (CNN) — Police in South Carolina closed the investigation into actress Hayden Panettiere’s death after it was determined she died of an accidental drug overdose, the Greenville police department said Wednesday. “Based on the (coroner’s office’s) determination and the findings of the investigation, Hayden Panettiere’s death has been

By Ray Sanchez, Norma Galeana, Chelsea Bailey, Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Dolores Huerta, a pioneering labor organizer and civil rights icon who cofounded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s, died at 96, her family said in a statement Wednesday. “We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved mother, Dolores

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former US Attorney General Merrick Garland. Personal Birth date: November 13, 1952 Birth place: Chicago, Illinois Birth name: Merrick Brian Garland Father: Cyril Garland, founder of an advertising agency Mother: Shirley (Horwitz) Garland, community volunteer Marriage: Lynn (Rosenman) Garland (1987-present) Children: Jessica and

By Chris Boyette, Isabel Rosales, Julianna Bragg, Vivian Phillips, Holly Yan (CNN) — A convicted murderer who escaped a Tennessee prison last weekend had already crossed state lines before prison officials alerted external law enforcement agencies, according to District Attorney Danny Goodman Jr. Jacob Morley had been in Marion, Illinois, by 4:40 a.m. Monday, but