Former newspaper/TV reporter turned CNN senior news writer. Mizzou grad. Fueled by curiosity & sweet tea.
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Texas Killing Fields: He spent half his lifetime hunting his daughter’s killer. Then he got a tip – from a man now charged in her death. How one father’s relentless pursuit helped nab a key suspect: bit.ly/TexasKillingFieldsTri…
A stranger from Tokyo shut down his business to help. Another dropped everything to give transportation/translations for US parents desperate to find their son. Now, volunteers in #Japan will scour treacherous terrain to help find a missing #Auburn student cnn.com/2026/06/05/us/james-…
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Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87. cnn.it/4d7tcQ2
Bird poop on a man’s car appeared on a drug test as cocaine. Human ashes showed up as meth or ecstasy. Tens of thousands of people have been wrongfully arrested after false-positive drug tests, experts say. But one state is fighting back. My @CNN story: bit.ly/ColorimetricDrugTests
Super helpful: Track TSA wait times at 15 major airports (h/t Curt Merrill and @stiles) cnn.com/us/airport-tsa-wait-…
A US Army soldier, a former retiree, and a skater who lost both parents will compete for Olympic medals this week. My @CNN story on the 🇺🇸 figure skaters: edition.cnn.com/2026/01/12/s…
US flights could soon get slashed if the #shutdown drags on. Which airports would get hit? How many flights would be lost? And what can you do about it? Answers here 👇 edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u…
If you ever want a masterclass on writing, read @KrupaMichelle's riveting narrative of the heroes who risked their lives pumping water out of New Orleans as the city was drowning. It's a story unlike any other: cnn.it/47xjqWt
The Trump administration plans to destroy $9.7 million worth of contraceptives, with a cost of $167,000 to incinerate them, the US State Department says: edition.cnn.com/2025/07/29/e…
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"THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT will end in May 2026 at the close of the 2025-26 broadcast season," CBS says.
“Bubble Inn" was a launchpad for generations of successful women. It's where shy 8-year-old girls turned into confident young ladies versed in life lessons and powerful friendships -- bonds that would prove vital in the face of unfathomable tragedy: cnn.it/44DglAX
Sean “Diddy” Combs found GUILTY of transportation to engage in prostitution but NOT guilty of the most serious charge against him: bit.ly/4nCwLm3
BREAKING: Jury in Sean "Diddy" Combs' racketeering & sex trafficking trial has reached verdicts on all counts: edition.cnn.com/entertainmen…
Adorable news of the day: Humans go undercover as black bears to raise a rescued 2-month-old cub: edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/u…
Trump administration cuts $2.7 billion in research funding for National Institutes of Health, a Senate committee report says. Federal funding for cancer research was slashed 31% in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 last year bit.ly/433HPik By @JacqEHoward
They grew up practicing active shooter drills. So when a gunman opened fire at FSU, some students knew exactly what to do: bit.ly/FSUstudentsnarrative
Despite a state of emergency, a flash flood warning, and a school district saying some buses couldn’t travel, schools stayed open. A boy walking to his school bus got swept away by floodwaters and died. But “don’t go around blaming people,” some say: bit.ly/42knnJR
