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WBZ, NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL, CNN By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A homicide case that went cold for more than 40 years has been solved with the help of forensic genetic genealogy technology, New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella said Thursday. Investigators sifted through hundreds of leads after 23-year-old Laura Kempton was found

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A homicide case that went cold for more than 40 years has been solved with the help of forensic genetic genealogy technology, New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella said Thursday. Investigators sifted through hundreds of leads after 23-year-old Laura Kempton was found dead in her Portsmouth apartment in

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Rex Heuermann has been charged with killing three women whose bodies were discovered along a stretch of Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in 2010, bound with belts or tape and wrapped in burlap. A married father accused by authorities of leading a double life, Heuermann faces three counts of first-degree

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A 6-year-old girl with special needs died in New Jersey this week after her wheelchair harness constricted her breathing while she was riding a school bus, leading prosecutors to charge the bus monitor with manslaughter, officials said. Authorities identified the child on Friday as Fajr Atiya Williams of Franklin

NEWS 12 NEW JERSEY LLC, FAMILY HANDOUT, POLICE HANDOUT, CNN By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A 6-year-old girl with special needs died in New Jersey this week after her wheelchair harness constricted her breathing while she was riding a school bus, leading prosecutors to charge the bus monitor with manslaughter, officials said. An investigation

By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — Two pregnant migrant women who were looking to turn themselves in to US immigration authorities last week say Texas National Guard members denied them water when they asked for it. CNN spoke with Maria from El Salvador and Carmen from Honduras on Thursday at a shelter

By Roxanne Garcia and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A Florida judge tentatively agreed Thursday that live ammunition could be used in a reenactment of 2018’s mass shooting inside Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as part of a civil lawsuit. The judge also agreed the reenactment – part of a civil lawsuit against

By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN (CNN) — On the second day of hearings addressing the emergency medical exception for abortion restrictions in Texas, an obstetrics and gynecology specialist gave emotional testimony about getting an abortion out of state last year after learning her fetus had a life-threatening condition. Dr. Austin Dennard, an OB/GYN

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A woman accused of having an illegal abortion in Nebraska when she was 17 and disposing of the fetus was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail following a plea agreement. Celeste Burgess, 19, of Norfolk, had entered a guilty plea in May to a felony charge of removing,

WSVN, MIAMI-DADE CO., COURT, MIAMI-DADE CORRECTIONS, RENT-A-HITMAN, CNN, Miami-Dade Co./Court By Eli Masket (CNN) — Police arrested an 18-year-old mother Tuesday after she attempted to hire a hitman to kill her 3-year-old son, according to police. Jazmin Paez was flagged to authorities after she filled out a form on a parody hit-for-hire website designed to

By Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — A clinical psychologist called by the defense Thursday in the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman’s death penalty trial highlighted the defendant’s troubled childhood, noting the impact of trauma that put him at risk for mental illness. Dr. Katherine Porterfield testified in detail about Robert Bowers’ early years to adulthood, signaling he

By John Miller and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Since the spring of this year, investigators looking into the Gilgo Beach serial killings case have been operating on the theory that the suspect, Rex Heuermann, committed the killings in his Massapequa Park, New York, home. A source involved in the investigation told CNN the fact

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As millions bake under a relentless heat wave in the South and Southwest US – and as temperatures soar around the Northern Hemisphere – NASA scientists warned Thursday that we haven’t even seen the worst of El Niño and next year will likely be even warmer for the planet.

CNN By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, sparking criticism from education and civil rights advocates who said students should be allowed to learn the “full truth” of American history. The curriculum was

By Eli Masket (CNN) — Police arrested an 18-year-old mother Tuesday after she attempted to hire a hitman to kill her 3-year-old son, according to police. Jazmin Paez was flagged to authorities after she filled out a form on a parody hit-for-hire website designed to “prevent legitimate solicitations to commit murders,” according to a Miami-Dade