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CNN By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Opening statements have begun in the murder trial of Kouri Richins, a Utah mother accused of poisoning her husband and then writing a children’s book about coping with grief. Prosecutors allege Kouri Richins, 35, killed her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl. She is also

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Marcee Gray, the mother of the Apalachee High School shooter, testified Monday that her estranged husband, Colin Gray, was not supportive of getting their son into crisis counseling in the weeks before the shooting. After a stint in jail and rehab, Marcee Gray lived with Colin and their three

By Sana Noor Haq, Diego Mendoza, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a Delta Air Lines flight from Savannah, Georgia, to Atlanta was forced to turn back Sunday night due to engine trouble, sparking a large grass fire near the airport runway. Delta flight 1067, a Boeing 737-900, had just taken

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — About a year after her husband’s death, Kouri Richins published a children’s book to help her three sons cope with their grief. “Just because he’s not present here with us physically, that doesn’t mean his presence isn’t here with us,” Richins said during an interview promoting the book on

By Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN (CNN) — More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer. Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend’s house in Cloverdale, California, on the evening of May 23, 1982. The next morning, a firefighter

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The eight friends found joy in the mountains, skiing together across the untracked powder of the hushed, pristine wilderness of California’s Sierra Nevada – their close friendship standing out against a rugged, unforgiving terrain. The trip had been planned well in advance: A three-day expedition that began at Frog

By Alaa Elassar, Bill Kirkos, CNN (CNN) — A driver is dead after he rammed a vehicle through the gate of a power substation in Boulder City, Nevada, on Thursday in what authorities are investigating as a terrorism-related event, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The driver, who was found with a self-inflicted

By Alexandra Skores, Aaron Cooper, CNN Washington (CNN) — It was not a mistake to close the airspace around El Paso, Texas, last week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a news conference Friday afternoon. He declined to share details about what happened and the subsequent finger pointing, saying he would speak to Congress before

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Deborah Polhamus, the maternal grandmother of teenage school shooter Colt Gray, testified Friday that the teen’s father Colin Gray bought him an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas gift nine months before the shooting. Polhamus initially said she did not remember if the firearm was kept in Colt Gray’s room,

By Chelsea Bailey, Way Mullery, CNN (CNN) — It’s been nearly three weeks since Nancy Guthrie vanished from her secluded Tucson, Arizona, home in the dead of night, and investigators say they are no closer to identifying a leading theory or motive behind her abduction. The saga has become a waking nightmare for Guthrie’s family,

By Jordan D. Brown, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! A major snowstorm could hit the East Coast hard this weekend … or be nothing more than a minor inconvenience. See what scenarios are in play. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣ Top of the list

By Alexandra Banner, CNN More than three weeks into the search for Nancy Guthrie, investigators are now using genetic genealogy in the hopes of identifying a suspect. The technology has previously achieved major successes in solving high-profile cold cases by tracing family trees through DNA databases. Here’s what else you need to know to get

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — As the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown across the US, health care providers warn the impact of federal agents in health care settings – and the looming threat of immigration enforcement they’ve instilled nationwide – is presenting a barrier to care that could have a lasting impact on

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match in a DNA database would have been a dead end. Now for investigators, it is just the beginning. “Investigators are currently looking into

By Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Smoke in the passenger cabin of a JetBlue plane that made an emergency landing Wednesday night at Newark Liberty International Airport led to passengers evacuating onto the tarmac and temporarily shut down the airport. JetBlue flight 543 took off shortly after 5:30 p.m. Wednesday heading to West Palm Beach,

By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! The very first video posted on YouTube — a 19-second clip about elephants called “Me at the Zoo” — has been viewed 382 million times and has received more than 18 million likes. It was just deemed museum-worthy. Here’s what else you might have missed

CNN By Martin Goillandeau and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Eight skiers buried by snow and debris near California’s Lake Tahoe amid dangerous conditions were killed in what is now the deadliest avalanche in the state’s recorded history, authorities said Wednesday. One skier is still missing and presumed dead, Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said