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The Shotgun Fire in Jackson Township, New Jersey, destroyed forest land before being contained.New Jersey Forest Fire Service CNN  —  A man has been charged with arson after officials say he fired an illegal shotgun round that sparked a wildfire in Jackson Township, New Jersey, scorching 350 acres of land and prompting evacuations in the […]

Cole Taschman and Ana Peci talk about his recent bite from a shark, surgery and recovery at a news conference at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on October 31, 2024.Thomas Cordy/The Balm Beach Coast/USA Today Network CNN  —  Every day, Cole Taschman heads out to Bathtub Beach in Stuart, Florida. The […]

Plumes of smoke drift off from the Jennings Creek Wildfire along the New York-New Jersey border on Sunday.Andrew Meher CNN  —  An 18-year-old New York State Forest Ranger volunteer died Saturday while responding to a wildfire near the New York-New Jersey border that sent smoke drifting across New York City, officials said. Dariel Vasquez, a […]

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CNN  —  One person was killed and several others were injured in a shooting on the last day of homecoming week at Alabama’s Tuskegee University early Sunday morning, according to the university. The person who died was not a student at the university but has not been named, Tuskegee University said in a news release. […]

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The Pentagon in Washington, DC.Charles Dharapak/AP CNN  —  The US carried out a series of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen late Saturday evening, according to a US defense official, targeting numerous weapons storage facilities across at least three locations. The facilities housed advanced conventional weapons used to target ships in the Red Sea and […]

Decorations are left behind on the panel of names at the 9/11 memorial site in New York City on September 11, 2024.Stephanie Keith/Getty Images CNN  —  The US government plans to appeal a military judge’s ruling that plea deals with the alleged 9/11 conspirators at Guantanamo Bay — which were revoked by Defense Secretary Lloyd […]

Idaho death-row inmate Thomas Creech is pictured on January 9, 2009.Idaho Department of Correction/AP/File CNN  —  A federal judge granted Idaho serial killer Thomas Creech a stay of execution just one week before he was scheduled to be put to death, months after he survived a botched execution. Creech, 74, survived a lethal injection execution […]

Escaped rhesus macaque monkeys are seen in Yemassee, South Carolina, on Friday, November 8.WCSC CNN  —  Monkey mayhem continues as 42 primates remain on the loose from a research facility in South Carolina. On Wednesday, 43 rhesus macaque primates escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee. In a noon update Saturday, the […]