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Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house last month. The state medical examiner on Thursday ruled Fortune’s death a homicide.

Jackson police chief RaShall Brackney-Wheelock said at a news conference Friday that police had secured search and arrest warrants for Jacques Ratliff and arrested him when they encountered him walking on the street.

The state medical examiner’s office determined Thursday evening that the death was a homicide, Brackney-Wheelock said, allowing them to execute the warrants they already had on hand.

The killing of the mother of four has attracted national attention, both because of the severity of the crime and Mississippi’s brutal history of racist violence and lynchings.

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A teenager who went to sea in a fishing boat with two adult relatives was found alive, clinging to the top of the overturned boat off the coast of Alaska on Sept. 7.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the 15-year-old was the lone survivor after the boat overturned two days before. Two deceased people were taken unresponsive from the water and brought with the boy to Nome, Alaska.

The 18-foot fishing vessel had departed Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, on Sept. 4 and was due back on Sept. 6. When it didn't return, the Coast Guard received a report of the three missing people the evening of Sept. 6.

Weather conditions prevented searchers from deploying that night, and crews began an operation to locate the missing people the morning of Sept. 7, the Coast Guard said.

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Twenty-five years after 9/11, Greg Semendinger's aerial photos still transport him back to that fateful day.

Semendinger, a detective and helicopter pilot for the New York City police, had been dispatched to the World Trade Center right after the first plane attack that morning in 2001. As his chopper approached, he could see the giant gash where an airliner had sliced through seven floors near the top of the north tower, and black smoke was billowing out.

Semendinger wasn't an official photographer for the NYPD, but he always carried a camera to document his squad's rescues and had one in the chopper that morning as an unthinkable horror unfolded before him.

He grabbed it and started snapping away.

The images he captured over the next 90 minutes were astonishing, among the only aerial photos of the Twin Towers as they burned and then collapsed, one after the other. With his copilot at the controls and hovering above, Semendinger trained his lens as the second tower vaporized in a plunging cascade of debris, and an immense grey cloud mushroomed across Lower Manhattan.

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The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft touched down at MIA from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In a statement, Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said the company was “still gathering details” about the crash. 

“We’re working closely with local authorities and officials to understand exactly what happened,” Nantel added. “Right now, our absolute priority is the safety, wellbeing, and care of everyone involved. We’re doing everything we can to support those affected.”

South Florida radio host Andy Slater shared a photo of the damaged plane to social media, with the front of the fuselage destroyed.

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In a dramatic conclusion to a trial that has gripped, saddened and divided the nation, the judge declared a mistrial in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who admits to killing her three children in 2023.

The trial collapsed without a verdict after the jury deliberated for roughly 38 hours but could not reach a consensus over whether Clancy was criminally responsible for the killings. The nine women and three men had twice already told the judge earlier this week they couldn’t reach a unanimous decision and had been sent back to deliberate further. But today, they came back once more, declaring that “with a heavy heart” they could not “and will not be able to” reach a consensus.

After a last-ditch appeal to the state’s highest court from the defense was denied, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial. He thanked the jury, which was split 11-1, for their efforts and hard work in serving on such a difficult case, and set a status hearing for 29 September.

The Plymouth county district attorney said it would not make a decision on whether to pursue a retrial today. Tim Cruz told reporters outside the courthouse that this case was “not about the healthcare system or how women are treated in it”. The case, he said, “was and has always been about getting justice for those three little babies. We’re here at this courthouse today because those children are not.”

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At about 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 17, 2023, Fraser Bohm had just picked up an order of tacos and was heading to meet friends, according to court records obtained by USA TODAY. Bohm, a college baseball prosect who lived in a $2.5 million Malibu home with his mother at the time, was driving the 2016 BMW his parents gave him shortly before they filed for divorce in 2017, court records show.

Accounts vary wildly about what led up to the crash. Prosecutors have said Bohm acted out of "complete and reckless disregard" for the lives of others, his attorneys have always asserted Bohm crashed while fleeing from a road rage driver. The man Bohm identified as the other driver, Victor Calandra, has testified he saw Bohm driving erratically and thought the 22-year-old was texting when he caught up to him at a stoplight.

"Hey, you need to be careful, you're going to hurt yourself," Calandra testified he told Bohm just before the young man floored the gas pedal and crashed seconds later, according to the Pepperdine Graphic, the university newspaper that has been following the case.

Bohm's previous and current attorneys have given varied accounts about whether he was texting just before the crash. Bohm, described as dazed after the crash, told police he "must have been texting" but didn't remember. Bohm's attorney at the time, Michael Kraut, told reporters Bohm was texting a friend at the stoplight "and the guy next to him began to become irate.

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