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By Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — One lucky winner could nab a massive $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot that’s up for grabs in Tuesday night’s drawing. If won, the mammoth jackpot would equal the fourth-largest prize in Mega Millions’ history, the lottery said in a news release Saturday. A grand prize winner could choose to

By Eli Masket (CNN) — A mother is suing the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, the city’s police chief and four officers, alleging police stood by for 13 minutes as her 30-year-old son drowned in a river last year. Kimberly Williams-Clabo claims in the suit that police – who had responded to calls that her son,

By Jamiel Lynch, Chenelle Woody and Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — A 68-year-old man turned himself in Monday after six migrant workers were hit and injured by an SUV outside a North Carolina Walmart Sunday afternoon, police said. The driver told investigators and his family that he “accidentally hit the gas when he was pulling

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — An 8-year-old was left with minor injuries after being attacked by a cougar in Washington’s Olympic National Park on Saturday evening, park officials said. The child was camping with their mother at Lake Angeles, in the Heart O’ the Hills area south of Port Angeles when the cougar attacked,

CNN By Cheri Mossburg and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Police in Burbank, California, were called over an unexpected visitor having a bear-y good time taking a dip in a neighbor’s pool. Police responded to reports of a bear sighting around 3:30 p.m. PT Friday at the 1300 block of Paseo Redondo, the Burbank Police

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A small plane crashed into a California airport hangar as it was taking off Sunday, killing all three people on board, authorities say. The single-engine Beechcraft P35 crashed at Cable Airport in Upland at around 6:30 a.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. “Three occupants of aircraft located deceased.

By Cheri Mossburg and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Police in Burbank, California, were called over an unexpected visitor having a bear-y good time taking a dip in a neighbor’s pool. Police responded to reports of a bear sighting around 3:30 p.m. PT Friday at the 1300 block of Paseo Redondo, the Burbank Police Department

By Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — Five people were shot early Sunday morning in a shopping center parking lot in Lansing, Michigan, with two victims in critical condition, authorities said. The shooting happened around 1 a.m. Victims’ ages ranged from 16 to 26, and two were taken to a hospital, according to a statement from

By Matt Phillips, CNN (CNN) — Multiple dogs being driven to a police K-9 training facility died in Indiana on Thursday after the air conditioning in the truck transporting them failed in a “freak event,” police say. According to a Facebook post from the Lake Station Police Department, the dogs were traveling from Chicago O’Hare

By Raja Razek and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — A 30-year-old man was killed and other people were taken to a hospital after a shooting at a party in Indiana, authorities said Sunday. Police in Muncie responded an early morning call for “multiple people shot” at a large party, the city said in a Facebook

By Eli Masket, CNN (CNN) — A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recruit died eight months after he was struck by a driver who hit around two dozen recruits on a training run in Whittier, California, according to authorities. Alejandro Martinez, 27, died Friday at the Ronald Reagan University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A 21-year-old woman was killed and eight other women were injured when gunfire erupted after a Jeep approached a group on the West Side of Chicago early Sunday, according to police. The shooting in the North Lawndale neighborhood happened shortly before 1 a.m., the Chicago Police Department said in

By Chris Boyette, Lauren Mascarenhas and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Four people are dead and two are injured after two aircraft collided in midair and another crashed into a lake Saturday shortly before an air show at a major aviation convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, authorities said. Two people died when a North American T-6,

By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, except it’s no laughing matter: It’s so hot in Phoenix that cactuses are dying. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was • Russia says Ukraine targeted Moscow with drones,

By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Christian leadership in the US has typically been seen as a male occupation. The right for women to be ordained and serve as faith leaders has been hard-won over decades, and in several major factions, like the Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist churches, women are barred from the highest