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CNN By David Culver and Jason Kravarik, CNN Several times a week you can hear gunfire echoing from Brandi Joseph’s scenic Southern California property. A licensed firearms instructor and dealer, Joseph decided to open Fortune Firearms in December to serve a growing and rapidly changing clientele. “There is a huge uptick in female owners,” Joseph

By David Culver and Jason Kravarik, CNN Several times a week you can hear gunfire echoing from Brandi Joseph’s scenic Southern California property. A licensed firearms instructor and dealer, Joseph decided to open Fortune Firearms in December to serve a growing and rapidly changing clientele. “There is a huge uptick in female owners,” Joseph said.

By Amir Vera and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN A federal civil suit was filed in the US District Court of Connecticut Tuesday on behalf of Randy Cox, who is now partially paralyzed after an injury in the back of a New Haven police van, according to civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Scot X. Esdaile, the

By Nicki Brown and Rob Frehse, CNN A drive-by shooting behind a Philadelphia high school Tuesday afternoon left a 14-year-old dead and four other victims wounded, police said. Players were walking off the field after a football scrimmage behind Roxborough High School at about 4:41 p.m. when a car drove up and multiple shots were

CNN By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The calls to quickly fix Jackson, Mississippi’s water system are growing louder, with the US Justice Department and NAACP demanding not just answers from the state and its capital city, but solutions. Days after the NAACP wrote Gov. Tate Reeves directly, the civil rights organization submitted a 25-page complaint

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The calls to quickly fix Jackson, Mississippi’s water system are growing louder, with the US Justice Department and NAACP demanding not just answers from the state and its capital city, but solutions. Days after the NAACP wrote Gov. Tate Reeves directly, the civil rights organization submitted a 25-page complaint to

By Liam Reilly, CNN The Prince George’s County school system in Maryland will change how it trains staff and administrators after it settled a lawsuit with a transgender teacher who says she suffered years of abuse and harassment in the district. The settlement includes monetary compensation and requires policy and training changes that will protect

By AJ Willingham, CNN Thirteen-year-old April Ajoy had a sense something wasn’t right. It was quiet in her Dallas house. Too quiet. Her brothers were gone. Her parents were gone. On her parents’ bed, a pile of her mother’s clothes signaled something terrifying. Ajoy’s mind began churning, trying to remember, trying to make plans. When

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN The Cherokee Nation is renewing its campaign for representation in Congress, calling on federal legislators to honor a treaty that the US government made nearly 200 years ago. In a video released last week, the tribal nation reasserted its demand that Congress seat its delegate in the House of Representatives —

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Attorneys representing the newspaper where slain Las Vegas reporter Jeff German worked are arguing his “journalistic materials” were unlawfully seized by city police, according to a letter sent by the attorneys and obtained by CNN. The letter, which was sent last Wednesday on behalf of the publisher of

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A SWAT training session at a Chicago police facility turned into a real-life dangerous situation Monday morning when a man climbed five stories on a fire escape and entered the training room, officials said. After entering through a door that was propped open, the man grabbed at least two guns that

By Jamie Loftus, CNN Using advanced DNA testing, Virginia police have identified the remains of a body found in a drainage ditch 21 years ago in Fairfax County as Patricia Agnes Gildawie, a young woman who has been missing for more than 47 years. Also known as “Choubi,” Gildawie was last seen on February 8,

CNN By Holly Yan, Jennifer Gray and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Hurricane Ian rapidly intensified Monday as it barreled toward Florida, threatening dangerous storm surges in places not used to getting hit directly by a hurricane. Florida could start feeling Ian’s wrath as early as Tuesday, with hurricane conditions potentially hitting the state Wednesday. Evacuation orders

By Tina Burnside, CNN A 12-year-old Texas girl is accused of shooting her father and then herself as a part of a “murder plot” she made with another child that involved killing their families, according to the Parker County Sheriff’s Office. The shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. last Tuesday night at a home in Weatherford,

By Nouran Salahieh and Michelle Watson, CNN The Kentucky Parole Board on Monday denied parole to Michael Carneal, a man serving a life sentence for killing three students in a school shooting in 1997 when he was 14 years old. The ruling by the full parole board to have Carneal serve out his sentence comes

By Hannah Sorisohn, CNN A series of text conversations between Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant appear to show Favre repeatedly pressing the then-governor about funding the construction of a volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi, even after Favre was told misuse of state funds was

By Melissa Alonso, CNN A second middle school student has died after a lightning strike may have caused the boat of a student rowing club to capsize earlier this month, rowing officials said Saturday. “It is with broken hearts that we share the passing of a second rower involved in last Thursday’s weather-related tragedy,” North

By Amir Vera, Holly Yan, Jennifer Gray and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Hurricane Ian keeps getting stronger as it barrels toward Florida, prompting urgent evacuations and threatening dangerous storm surges in places not used to getting hit directly by a hurricane. Ian is now a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale, according to a

By Rebekah Riess, Michelle Watson and Zoe Sottile, CNN The City of Fort Worth, Texas, has reached a settlement with Jacqueline Craig, a Black woman whose 2016 arrest after she called the police for help was documented in a Facebook video. Craig was arrested in December 2016 after calling police to complain that an adult