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The City of New Orleans plans to bring down two cranes at the construction site of the Hard Rock Hotel that collapsed over the weekend, killing at least two people, according to New Orleans Fire Chief Timothy McConnell. Authorities are…
The New York City Council voted overwhelmingly to close Rikers Island jail Thursday and open four new borough-based facilities instead."Today is a day that the history books will look back on as a good day for New York City," Council…
Utah State Trooper Ruben Correa headed to a call of a car on the train tracks, but when he got to the scene a man was still in that car -- and a train was coming.Correa told CNN's Anderson Cooper…
A parent who initially pleaded not guilty for his participation in the notorious college admissions scandal has agreed to change his plea to guilty, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts said Thursday.Douglas Hodge, the former CEO of…
A mother who lost her son to a workplace shooting several months ago is now battling with her homeowners association over her right to fly flags in his honor.Clayton Parks, 32, was among four employees shot and killed in February…
A recent storm uncovered wreckage from a wooden ship buried on a beach in North Carolina's Outer Banks.Charlie Hornfeck told CNN that he spotted the wreck on Saturday while walking his dog Kay Dee on the beach in Hatteras, North…
Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's death penalty trial is set to begin in January 2020, according to a court order issued Thursday by Florida Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer.Cruz is facing 34 counts of premeditated and attempted murder for the massacre…
A Colorado police officer is on administrative leave after shooting an armed man in the buttocks though the window of the man's house, according to the Aurora Police Department.Police went on the night of October 10 to a home to…
The Latin American Music Awards (AMAs) feel and sound like the best house party you've ever attended.The one-night celebration of the best Latin music, as voted by fans, features artists from every corner of the industry, from regional Mexico to…
The US Marine Corps said it misidentified another one of the six men featured in the iconic World War II photo of a flag being raised over Iwo Jima.The famous 1945 photo taken by Joe Rosenthal depicts six US Marines…
About 25,000 educators are on strike in Chicago, forcing the country's third biggest school district to cancel classes and leaving about 300,000 students and their families to figure out where they will go. Many Chicago children depend on the breakfast…
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About 360,000 students have no idea when they'll see their teachers again as members of the Chicago Teachers Union go on strike Thursday.More than 25,000 educators and their supporters will start picketing at their local schools at 6:30 a.m. (7:30…
Sad news to report this morning. US Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland has died at age 68. The longtime Democratic congressman died of "complications concerning longstanding health challenges," his office said. He chaired a key committee involved in the impeachment…
A man pleaded guilty to cocaine possession in Oklahoma -- only to withdraw his plea and have his case dismissed after it turned out to be powdered milk.Cody Gregg was sentenced to 15 years in prison last week after he…
An hours-old baby girl was found wrapped in a plastic bag on a quiet street in Indiana -- the latest in a series of abandoned babies found nationwide. The newborn, found by a woman walking her dog in Seymour on…
A Georgia school district has reversed its transgender-friendly bathroom policy after board members, staff and students were threatened, the school board said in a news release.Pickens County School Board changed its policy this week, citing "death threats, student harassment and…
California will launch the nation's first statewide earthquake early warning system Thursday morning, according to a news release from the governor's office.Ground motion sensors all over the state will be used to detect earthquakes before people can feel them, and…
When Atatiana Jefferson's neighbor called a non-emergency police line, he says he expected them to go check and see if she was OK.But the officer who shot her in her own home was sent on a call that police often…
If you get a parking ticket in Las Vegas over the next month, you will be able to pay off the fine with a food donation, the city council announced on Wednesday.The program only applies to parking citations issued between…
Police in Wilmington, North Carolina are investigating assaults against 11 men, including members of the military, near downtown bars, since January 2018, authorities said.The victims were assaulted around the time the bars closed, Wilmington police said. Some victims were robbed.…
A Florida jury on Wednesday found Markeith Loyd guilty of murder for fatally shooting his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her unborn child.Loyd was convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree murder of an unborn child and attempted first degree murder, along with two…
Leonard Pozner, whose son 6-year-old Noah was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, was awarded $450,000 in damages by a Wisconsin jury from a defamation lawsuit filed in response to conspiracy theorists claiming the Newtown tragedy never occurred.James Fetzer…
As a pair of identical twin girls entered the world, they were greeted in the delivery room by two people who had been there before: Tara and Tori, the identical twin nurses working in their delivery room.After a serendipitous turn…
With only seconds to go before a train barreled through, a Utah state trooper pulled an unconscious driver from his car after it got stuck on the tracks.Trooper Ruben Correa, who has been with the Utah Highway Patrol for two…
