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  • Deja Nicole Taylor, right, arrives with attorney James Ellenson, to the Newport News Sheriffs Office in Newport News, Virginia, on April 13, 2023, to turn herself in. Taylor is the mother of the 6-year-old first grader who shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School on Jan. 6. (Billy Schuerman/Daily Press/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Politics

    Mother of 6-year-old who shot his teacher pleads guilty to felony child neglect, and avoids charge of recklessly storing a firearm in her purse

    By Ben Finley, Denise Lavoie, and others
  • The Pfizer plant is damaged after severe weather passed the area on Wednesday, July 19, 2023 in Rocky Mount, N.C. (WTVD via AP)Health

    Pfizer plant in North Carolina heavily damaged by tornado ‘will likely lead to long-term shortages’ of drugs

    By Ben Finley, Hannah Schoenbaum, and others
  • Titan subEnvironment

    Discovery Channel camera operator who rode on the missing Titan sub 2 years ago sensed trouble: ‘I 100% knew this was going to happen’

    By Ben Finley, Holly Ramer, and others
  • Hamish Harding

    UK billionaire on lost submersible vessel holds 3 Guinness World Records and was ‘looking forward to conducting research’ at Titanic site

    By Ben Finley, Holly Ramer, and others
  • (Billy Schuerman/Daily Press/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Leadership

    Teacher who sued her school district for $40 million over 6-year-old shooting her has resigned

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • Pat RobertsonSuccess

    Pat Robertson, central figure in the fusion of Christianity, the Republican Party and television, dies at 93

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • Gary RossingtonSuccess

    The death of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Gary Rossington draws the curtain closed on a Southern Rock opera

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • Travelers at Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in New York, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Planes and airports are expected to be bustling this Thanksgiving, traditionally one of the most traveled holidays of the year. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSuccess

    The JFK Airport power outage is stretching into Day 2 stranding passengers and forcing a New Zealand flight to turn around

    By Karen Matthews, Ben Finley, and others
  • Police respond to a shooting that injured a teacher at Richneck Elementary in Newport News, Virginia, on Jan. 6, 2023. (Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Health

    School where 6-year-old shot his teacher reopens with police stationed outside and nervous kids inside: ‘There are concerns, of course’

    By Ben Finley, Denise Lavoie, and others
  • Community members, including Walmart employees, gather for a candlelight vigil at Chesapeake City Park in Chesapeake, Va., Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, for the six people killed at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., when a manager opened fire with a handgun before an employee meeting last week. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Retail

    Survivor of Walmart mass shooting files $50 million lawsuit against retailer for employing supervisor with ‘known propensities for violence’

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • Debbie, left, and Chet Barnett place flowers at a memorial outside of the Chesapeake, Va., Walmart on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. Andre Bing, a Walmart manager, opened fire on fellow employees in the break room of the Virginia store, killing six people in the country’s second high-profile mass shooting in four days, police and witnesses said Wednesday. (Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)Retail

    Walmart supervisor who killed 6 co-workers was ‘picking people out’ to target says survivor

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • Investigators escort people to their cars outside a Walmart Supercenter where six people, including the shooter, were shot and killedRetail

    Walmart’s overnight staff gathered in a break room to go over the morning plan. Then a team leader pulled out a gun and opened fire

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • NEW YORK, US – NOVEMBER 11: 103rd annual Veterans Day Parade take place in New York City, United States on November 11, 2022. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Success

    For some veterans, the civilian job market is unwelcoming: ‘Just having my military experience was not enough’

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press