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By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN Roughly 30 minutes before a tornado ripped apart her home on Friday night, Marsha Hall, 72, sent a separate text to each of her three children, telling them she loved them. It was the last time they would hear from her. Hall and her sister, Carole Grisham, 80,

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Potential witnesses in Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense case wish to testify anonymously because they “might get a lot of unwanted attention” testifying on Maxwell’s behalf, attorney Christian Everdell said in court Friday after the government rested its case. The government has opposed the defense request that three defense witnesses testify by

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN It has been exactly a year since the first Covid-19 vaccination shots, but rising case numbers and hospitalizations are leading cities and states to introduce new mandates and restrictions. In California, masks will be required in indoor public settings for a month starting Wednesday. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul last week

By Jason Hanna, CNN After a tornado demolished a candle factory in western Kentucky Friday night, the Rev. Stephen Boyken climbed the rubble and heard someone beneath call out. “She was stuck underneath a wall and asked, ‘Can you hold my hand?’ ” Boyken recalled Tuesday. Boyken grabbed the hand, prayed with the woman and

By Alta Spells, CNN A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery as he ran through their south Georgia neighborhood on February 23, 2020. Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan are scheduled to again appear before Judge Timothy Walmsley, the judge who

By Alta Spells, CNN A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery as he ran through their south Georgia neighborhood on February 23, 2020. Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan are scheduled to again appear before Judge Timothy Walmsley, the judge who

By Kelly McCleary and Amy Simonson, CNN Investigators in Mississippi found remains Sunday at a site they found using a map provided by a man executed last month who said that’s where they would find the body of Felicia Cox, who has been missing since July 2007, prosecutors said. David Neal Cox gave the map

By Amir Vera, CNN The parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old charged in the deadly Michigan high school shooting last month, appeared at a probable cause hearing Tuesday afternoon, their first in-person appearance in court. James and Jennifer Crumbley each face four counts of involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors accused the pair of giving their son unfettered

By Steve Almasy and Raja Razek, CNN The Chicago City Council is set to vote Wednesday on a proposed $2.9 million settlement for Anjanette Young, who was found naked and distraught during a mistaken police raid in 2019, according to Mayor Lori Lightfoot. “The Finance Committee today voted unanimously to advance this to the full

By Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough and Theresa Waldrop, CNN That Breeana Glisson and her two children are still alive after a tornado tore through Dawson Springs, Kentucky, on Friday night seems like a miracle. With tornado sirens wailing, Glisson wrapped her daughter, 2, and son, 4, in her arms in her bed — the most

By Sara Smart, CNN An early morning boat ride on the river was supposed to lead to a day of fishing but instead turned into hours of rescue attempts requiring a helicopter for two Texas men. Around 6:30 a.m. on December 4, Bart Giles and Stevie Rodriguez hopped in Giles’ boat and headed to a

By Evan Perez and Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted in April on state murder charges for killing George Floyd, is scheduled to appear at a change of plea hearing Wednesday in the federal civil rights case against him, according to court documents. Chauvin is accused of depriving

By Jean Casarez, Eric Levenson and Laura Ly, CNN USA Gymnastics, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee and their insurers agreed to pay $380 million in a settlement with the victims of Larry Nassar, the former Olympic doctor who sexually abused girls for decades. Judge Robyn L. Moberly of the US Bankruptcy Court in the

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A University of Southern California student was struck and killed over the weekend by a driver believed to be taking part in a street race, police said Monday. The student, identified by the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office as 21-year old Arian Rahmar, was in a crosswalk just yards from his home

By Kim Berryman, Josh Campbell, Eric Levenson and Amir Vera, CNN A Minnesota state investigator outlined differences between Kim Potter’s service weapon and a Taser on Monday, a distinction that is central to her case as jurors will decide whether the former police officer mistook her Taser for a gun when she fatally shot Daunte

By Maria Cartaya and Wesley Bruer, CNN Bond for Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina attorney accused of financial wrongdoing and of setting up a suicidal insurance fraud scheme, was set at $7 million in a virtual bond hearing on Monday with Judge Alison Lee. Last week, state Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that seven