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By Ray Sanchez and Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — Nearly two months before the march of Cadets and Midshipmen into Gillette Stadium for the annual Army-Navy game, another battle is brewing in Massachusetts. The fight is far more consequential than a football game and revolves around the state’s 40-year-old right-to-shelter law, which guarantees families

By Sara Smart and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Six South Dakota teenagers have pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and aiding and abetting rape, crimes that allegedly occurred during a June baseball tournament in Rapid City. The teens are “associated with the Mitchell Legion Baseball Program,” according to a news release from the

By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — The problem with social media in-jokes is they don’t stay funny for long. Someone takes them too seriously, then they become overblown commentaries on society as a whole, and then a media outlet goes and writes about them and drives it all into the ground. The concept of “girl

By Jacque Smith, CNN (CNN) — Crooked cops. Drug dealers. Secret agendas. The rumor mill churned after the body of 18-year-old Jessica Currin was found burned and decomposing behind Mayfield Middle School in 2000. People in the small Kentucky town still talk about the case – or don’t want to talk at all, if an

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Long-haul trucker Keith Hunter Jesperson killed at least eight women across the United States in the 1990s and sent authorities confession letters signed with smiley faces. But the identity of his last known victim remained a mystery for three decades. Florida authorities this week identified her as Suzanne Kjellenberg,

By Sharif Paget and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — A taxiing airplane collided with a shuttle bus at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Friday evening, injuring at least two people, the city’s fire department said. Air Wisconsin Flight 6209 was taxiing for departure when the collision happened, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Six American Airlines

By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — The man suspected of killing ten people in a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store in 2021 has been deemed fit to stand trial, a judge ruled Friday, and he will remain in custody at a state hospital to ensure he takes medication to maintain his competency. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa

By Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — Increased seismic activity from one of Hawaii’s – and Earth’s – most active volcanoes led to roughly 320 earthquakes in 24 hours, according to the United States Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. The reported earthquakes beneath the highest point of Kīlauea, which is not erupting as of Friday, began

By Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — An eastern Pennsylvania candy factory didn’t evacuate its employees – even as some said they smelled gas – before an explosion in March that left seven people dead and nearly a dozen others injured, the US Department of Labor announced. R.M. Palmer, a Pennsylvania-based candy maker, was cited for

By Jennifer Henderson and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Two shooters were involved in an attack at Morgan State University in Baltimore outside a crowded homecoming event this week, injuring five people, authorities confirmed Friday. The Baltimore Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying four people seen walking near the scene of

By Danny Freeman and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in Pennsylvania say they have issued an arrest warrant for the man suspected of killing journalist and advocate Josh Kruger earlier this week. The suspect is identified as Robert Davis, 19, who is considered armed and dangerous, Philadelphia police homicide unit Lt. Hamilton Marshmond said

KKTV By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — An investigation into more than 115 bodies found “improperly stored” in a Colorado funeral home offering “green burials” could take months, officials say. The remains were found in the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, about 30 miles south of Colorado Springs. “This is going to be

By Mitchell McCluskey, Andy Rose and Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — Investigators removed 189 sets of human remains from a Colorado funeral home offering “green burials” where law enforcement officials said bodies had been “improperly stored,” according to the local sheriff’s department. The remains were found in the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose,

By Annette Choi and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Since reaching historic highs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, use of the death penalty in America has steadily declined, with a dwindling number of jurisdictions responsible for a growing portion of executions. While capital punishment remains legal in 27 states and for the federal

By Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN Central Florida (CNN) — Now that books are being banned and disappearing from school libraries, students and parents are showing up to school board meetings in Florida to argue for access to books that take on difficult subjects. But they are losing out to a new state law

By Joe Sutton and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — A man who showed up twice to the Wisconsin Capitol with a gun demanding to talk to the governor this week made a “concerning statement” during at least one of the visits and was twice detained by authorities, state officials said. The man first showed up

By Rob Frehse, Jason Hanna and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A Bronx day care provider, her husband and his cousin have been indicted on murder and other charges on suspicion of exposing four children – including a 1-year-old who died – to fentanyl at the day care center last month, the Bronx district attorney’s

By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — A grand jury decided not to indict anyone on criminal charges related to the New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel construction collapse in 2019 that left three people dead and 30 others injured, prosecutors said Thursday. The investigation into the fatal collapse began in 2021, and the case was presented

By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Former Northwestern University football coach Pat Fitzgerald is suing the school and its president for at least $130 million, arguing in part that he was wrongfully terminated in July after allegations of hazing within the Wildcats football program. “We are claiming various charges against Northwestern and (University President Michael)