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By Faith Karimi, CNN Fifty-seven years ago, three fathers vacationing on an island near Seattle faced a predicament. Their kids were bored, and they needed a summertime activity to keep them entertained. So the dads — Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum — got creative. They used the items at their disposal, including some

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The American Kennel Club has unleashed its annual list of the most popular dog breeds — and, for the 31st year in a row, the Labrador retriever has placed “first in show.” Each year, the AKC, a nonprofit purebred dog registry in the US, uses its registration data to compile a

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Two Harvard University students have created a website connecting thousands of Ukrainian refugees with hosts around the world offering them a safe haven. The idea was born when Avi Schiffmann attended a pro-Ukraine demonstration while visiting San Diego, where he came face to face with hundreds of Ukrainian Americans sharing distressing

By Andy Rose and Michelle Watson, CNN Six passengers who were aboard a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter that crashed Saturday in the Angeles National Forest are expected to survive, authorities said. The helicopter was carrying five sheriff’s deputies and one doctor who was on a ride-along, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said during a news

By Raja Razek, Andy Rose, Caroline Kucera and Amir Vera, CNN Police arrested one person Wednesday in connection with a shooting Saturday at a car show in Dumas, Arkansas, that killed one person and injured at least 27 others, including several children. The individual was arrested as he was being released from a Dumas hospital

By Andy Rose, CNN The USS Clamagore submarine, built at the end of World War II, will be dismantled and recycled, the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in South Carolina announced Friday. The submarine, which opened as an exhibit more than four decades ago, closed to the public in December due to “safety concerns

By Laura Studley, CNN Virginian-Pilot newspaper reporter and former CNN news assistant Sierra Jenkins was among the individuals shot and killed in an early Saturday morning shooting that left one more person dead and three others injured, Norfolk, Virginia, police said. She was 25. Jenkins was leaving a downtown Norfolk restaurant, Chicho’s Pizza Backstage, when

By Paradise Afshar and Christina Maxouris, CNN As authorities in central Texas battle several wildfires and warn of more dangerous conditions Sunday, the family of a sheriff’s deputy killed in the flames say the reality of her death hasn’t fully sunk in. “You’re thinking it’s going to be like every other night,” Jonathon Fenley, 28,

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The March Madness show-down between Indiana University and Saint Mary’s College on March 17 came to a halt after the ball became lodged between the backboard and shot clock. But two creative cheerleaders from Indiana sprang into action to rescue the ball after several failed attempts to reach it using a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Justin Blauwet noticed something unusual while working at a construction site in Iowa. At first glance, it appeared to be a block of stone, just under a foot long, covered in ridges. But Blauwet had a better idea of what it was, thanks to a lifelong interest in pre-historic animals: a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN An Iowa woman has gone viral on TikTok, asking for help to make a heartfelt birthday present for her father, a retired firefighter. Allison Marois’ father, Bill Collins, recently retired from the Des Moines Fire Department after serving for more than 38 years. When she started planning for his August birthday,

By Josh Campbell and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A federal jury has awarded $85 million to the family of a California man who died in 2015 after a confrontation with San Diego County sheriff’s deputies, court records show. The jury’s verdict came in a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Lucky Phounsy

By Jay Croft, CNN Public health officials in Indiana are urging people to take safety precautions after a large fire at a Walmart distribution center in Plainfield this week released thick smoke containing high levels of fine particulate material. The particulates can cause health problems for “sensitive individuals,” the Hendricks County Health Department said. Agencies

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Maryland is one step closer to becoming the second US state to ban the declawing of cats. The Maryland House of Representatives voted on March 10 to pass a bill that would ban declawing, a procedure used to prevent cats from scratching. The bill, HB0022, would prohibit veterinarians “from performing certain

By Thomas Lake, CNN On February 12, 2020, Jacque Hollander sat in a conference room on the third floor of an Atlanta courthouse and told prosecutors she thought James Brown had been murdered. District Attorney Paul Howard listened, took notes, and accepted a green plastic bin full of items that Hollander said were corroborating evidence.

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Nearly three months after buying a Megabucks lottery ticket and quickly forgetting about it, an Oregon man is a multimillionaire. Wilbur Brown was at the Moose Lodge in Springfield, Oregon, on Christmas Eve, when a friend bought a “26 for $25” Megabucks ticket. As Brown’s friend explained to him, the ticket