Oregon man wins $8.9 million from forgotten lottery ticket he bought on Christmas
By Zoe Sottile, CNN Nearly three months after buying a Megabucks lottery ticket and quickly forgetting about it, an Oregon man is a multimillionaire.…
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Teachers in a US military town are drawing straight lines from their classrooms to a war zone 4,500 miles away
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Photographs by Heather Ainsworth for CNN It was not quite 8 a.m. and Ambur Misercola’s first-period history class…
Continue Reading Longtime NFL reporter John Clayton, known as ‘The Professor,’ has died at age 67
By Michelle Watson, CNN Longtime NFL reporter John Clayton, who was known as “The Professor” because of his encyclopedic knowledge of the…
Continue Reading Drawbridge operator charged with manslaughter for death of woman who fell when bridge opened
By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The bridgetender controlling a Florida drawbridge when a woman walking across fell to her death was arrested Thursday and…
Continue Reading Nevada father arrested on murder charge after allegedly beating his 5-year-old son who died
By Paradise Afshar, CNN A Nevada father was arrested on an open murder charge after allegedly beating his 5-year-old son who later died, according to…
Continue Reading Off-duty officer put his knee on a 12-year-old’s neck for more than 20 seconds while breaking up school fight, video shows
By Omar Jimenez, CNN Surveillance video released by the Kenosha Unified School District Friday shows an off-duty Kenosha police officer put his knee…
Continue Reading Second-largest public school district in the US will drop its mask requirement
By Taylor Romine, CNN After reaching an agreement with labor unions, the Los Angeles United School District, the second-largest public school…
Continue Reading Professor files lawsuit to find students who posted exam questions online
By Cheri Mossburg, CNN An assistant professor of business at Southern California’s Chapman University has filed a lawsuit against five…
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US military plane crashes in Norway
The Norwegian government released a statement on Friday saying a U.S. aircraft went down in the northern part of the…
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Japanese internment camp in Colorado named historic site
President Biden has signed a bipartisan bill designating a former World War II Japanese American internment camp in rural Colorado as a federal…
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$10M reward offered by US for Guatemala drug lord
The leader of a criminal organization known as Los Huistas has been indicted by a federal Grand Jury. Eugenio Dario “Don Dario” Molina-Lopez…
Continue Reading Colorado snowboarder dies in avalanche in San Juan Mountains
By Alaa Elassar, CNN A man was snowboarding in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains when he was buried and killed by an avalanche on Thursday. The…
Continue Reading Alligator crashes Florida swim team’s practice
By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Florida swim team was just about to start practice when they realized their pool was already occupied. Student athletes at…
Continue Reading A sheriff’s deputy died while helping people evacuate as central Texas wildfire spread
CNN By Christina Maxouris, Alaa Elassar and Joe Sutton, CNN A central Texas sheriff’s deputy died Thursday while going door to door and helping…
Continue Reading Police arrest suspects in murder of former police officer who was protecting TV news crew
By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Police are holding two men on homicide charges and are seeking a third in the killing of a former police officer who was…
Continue Reading Her murder stumped investigators for 34 years. Now, DNA evidence points to a neighbor as her killer, police say
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN When Diane Lynn Dahn missed her shift at the San Diego Transit Corporation on May 2, 1988, a coworker went to her apartment…
Continue Reading What we know about Texas crash involving a 13-year-old driver that killed nine
By Ray Sanchez, CNN The University of the Southwest golf teams — a mix of students from the US, Canada, Mexico and Portugal — were…
Continue Reading Chicago Police Department lowered its hiring standards amid staffing shortages. That’s led to a spike in applicants
By Rebekah Riess, Emma Tucker and Peter Nickeas, CNN After Chicago Police announced two weeks ago that the department would waive a college credit…
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CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor. Personal…
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Oscar-nominated actor, writer, director, singer and comedian Eddie Murphy. Personal Birth…
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