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In this photo taken with a smartphone, Ben Crump, right, an attorney for the family of Nolan Wells, speaks at a news conference in Stonecrest, Ga., Thursday, Sept. 22, 2026, accompanied by Wells’ parents, Elmore and Christine Wonsley. (AP Photo/Emilie Megnien)

Lawyers for Nolan Wells’ family highlight cellphone data, autopsy report and push for investigation

September 24, 2026 at 6:27 p.m.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump released information from a forensic examination of Nolan Wells’ cellphone as well as details of the official autopsy Thursday.

A person holds a picture of Nolan Xavier Wells during a news conference at National Action Network headquarters, Friday, July 10, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Nolan Wells’ family pushes back after grand jury declines to recommend charges in his death

September 22, 2026 at 6:17 a.m.

A grand jury has found there wasn’t evidence to bring charges in the death of Nolan Wells, a Black teen who was found dead after a July 4 boating trip...

A man holds a candle during a prayer vigil for the victims of a mass shooting earlier in the day, Sunday, April 19, 2026, in Shreveport, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Louisiana community is struggling to understand after man killed 8 children

April 20, 2026 at 4:43 p.m.

A stunned Louisiana city struggled to come to grips Monday with the massacre of eight children carried out by a father who was separating from his wife and used an...

Police tape blocks off a house in Shreveport, La., that is one of the locations tied to a mass shooting Sunday, April 19, 2026. (Jill Pickett/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

Man kills 8 children and shoots his wife and another woman in Louisiana

April 20, 2026 at 6:24 a.m.

A gunman in Louisiana killed eight children in domestic-related shootings at different homes early Sunday, police in Shreveport said.

Austin Bradbury uses a chainsaw to remove a tree above a road Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Powerful storm threatens East Coast including parts unaccustomed to heavy snow

January 31, 2026 at 8:45 a.m.

In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — whose official seal is the sun, palm trees and a seagull — 6 inches of snow was expected.

This image taken from a video released by the city of Oxford, Miss., shows crews working on power lines Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (City of Oxford Mississippi via AP)

New cold snap adds urgency to winter storm recovery across the South

January 29, 2026 at 5:08 p.m.

The National Weather Service said arctic air moving into the Southeast will cause already frigid temperatures to plunge into the teens on Friday night.

FILE – This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Mississippi Delta in August 1955, after witnesses claimed he whistled at a white woman working in a store. (AP Photo, File)

New owner to open Mississippi barn where Emmett Till was killed as a memorial site

November 25, 2025 at 7:36 a.m.

The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will open to the public as a “sacred” memorial site by 2030.

FILE – Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is seen at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention

June 20, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown on campus protests.

FILE – Family friend Trey Bridges, 16, climbs a mountain of tornado debris to help the Blansett family recover items not destroyed by Saturday’s tornado, Sunday, March 16, 2025, in Tylertown, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

President Donald Trump approves FEMA disaster relief for 8 states

May 23, 2025 at 6:46 p.m.

President Donald Trump green-lit disaster relief for eight states on Friday, assistance that some of the communities rocked by natural disasters have been waiting on for months.

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