[ad_1] CNN — President Joe Biden is heading back to Georgia. On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, he’s visiting Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where the civil rights pioneer once preached. The trip makes a lot of sense, not just to pay tribute to King, but also …
Read More »More rain is on the way for storm-battered California, where storms have flooded communities and left 19 dead
[ad_1] CNN — Storm-battered California – still reeling from weeks of deadly flooding, mudslides and rescues – is being hit with more rainfall over the weekend. An unrelenting string of atmospheric rivers – long, narrow regions in the atmosphere that can carry moisture thousands of miles – have turned communities …
Read More »Newport News, Virginia: A 6-year-old shot a teacher with his mother’s gun. The tragedy highlights the lack of strong secure storage laws across the nation
[ad_1] CNN — In the week since a six-year-old boy in Newport News, Virginia took a gun from his home, brought it to school and shot his teacher, community members and officials are grappling with an unsettling question: How did the child get access to a loaded firearm? “There’s a …
Read More »Paramedics in Illinois charged with murder after patient dies
[ad_1] CNN — Two paramedics in Illinois are facing murder charges after a patient died of positional asphyxiation shortly after he was taken to a hospital in December, court documents say. Peggy Finley, 44, and Peter Cadigan, 50, responded to a home in Springfield on December 18 after police requested …
Read More »Child dies in Pittsburgh area house fire
[ad_1] CNN — A two-year-old child was killed and several others injured in a house fire in Pennsylvania on Friday. Shaler Township Police responded to reports of a house fire around 10 p.m., they tweeted early Saturday morning. Five people were inside the home at the time, four of whom …
Read More »Keenan Anderson, cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder, dies from cardiac arrest after being tased by Los Angeles police
[ad_1] CNN — A 31-year-old father and English teacher died from cardiac arrest last week after he was repeatedly tased by police, according to the Los Angeles Police Department, marking the third officer-involved death in the city this year. Police encountered Keenan Anderson, who is the cousin of Black Lives …
Read More »California cleans up from one storm as it prepares for another
[ad_1] CNN — Days after California was hit by “the most impressive storm in nearly 20 years,” the state – fully saturated in many places – is gearing up this weekend for yet another series of atmospheric river events, with flooding, hail, powerful wind gusts and even funnel clouds possible …
Read More »A school staffer searched the backpack of a Virginia 6-year-old before shooting. Now, the school will install metal detectors
[ad_1] CNN — Richneck Elementary School in Virginia will install walk-through metal detectors after officials were alerted last week that a 6-year-old student who allegedly shot his teacher might have had a weapon but failed to find it after a search. Before last week’s shooting of a first-grade teacher, school …
Read More »Ana Walshe disappearance: Husband of missing Massachusetts mother was accused of threatening to kill her in 2014, police report shows
[ad_1] CNN — As the sweeping investigation into the disappearance of Ana Walshe continues, newly obtained documents reveal the mother of three told police her husband, Brian Walshe, threatened to kill her and a friend before the couple was married. Ana Walshe – who has not been seen since around …
Read More »Southeast tornadoes: More than 30 tornadoes reportedly hit the region on Thursday, killing at least 6 people in Alabama
[ad_1] CNN — Severe storms swept across the South on Thursday, where ferocious winds sent residents running for cover, blew roofs off homes and killed at least six people in Alabama. Damaged powerlines, severed tree limbs and debris littered streets in Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky, where at least 34 preliminary …
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