Emma Tucker - Reporter, CNN
Emma Tucker
Reporter, CNN
Emma Tucker is a news desk reporter for CNN.
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2 boys drowned and a deception that gripped the nation: Why the Susan Smith case is still intensely felt 30 years later
Nov 21, 2024
Inside Susan Smith’s car pulled from the bottom of a South Carolina lake in 1994 were the bodies of her two young boys, still strapped in their car seats, along with her wedding dress and photo album.
Evidence in trial of man accused of killing Laken Riley will show the Georgia student ‘fought for her life,’ prosecutors say
Nov 16, 2024
In the nine months since Laken Riley was killed while jogging at the University of Georgia, her death turned into a lightning rod over crime and illegal immigration and cast an ominous shadow over the college town of Athens.
Trump’s defense secretary pick said women shouldn’t be in combat roles. These female veterans fear what comes next
Nov 14, 2024
When Elisa Smithers was deployed to Iraq in 2005, there was a ban on women serving in ground combat operations. She now fears the progress made for women since then will be reversed after President-elect Donald Trump announced Pete Hegseth this week as his pick for secretary of defense – a Fox News host and Army veteran who has criticized efforts to allow women into combat roles.
2 dead and others hurt after explosion at a business in Louisville, Kentucky, neighborhood
Nov 13, 2024
Two workers were killed in a massive explosion at a commercial facility in Louisville, Kentucky, Tuesday afternoon, the factory’s owner announced – the same site where a deadly blast happened over two decades ago.
A woman was murdered in 1974 while hitchhiking to a Chicago art show. 50 years later, investigators found her killer
Nov 9, 2024
Investigators in Wisconsin used genetic genealogy to solve a 50-year-old cold case this week, charging an 84-year-old Minnesota man with murdering a woman who was found dead in 1974, authorities said.
Over 14,000 under evacuation orders in California as fire crews battle dangerous wildfire and rescue people from homes ablaze
Nov 7, 2024
Firefighters are rescuing people from homes engulfed in flames as they battle a wildfire moving at a dangerously fast speed in a dense suburban neighborhood northwest of Los Angeles.
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November 2, 2024, presidential campaign news
Nov 3, 2024
With only three days until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are racing to deliver their closing pitches to voters in key battleground states. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
South Carolina executes death row inmate despite pleas from jurors and a judge to spare his life
Nov 2, 2024
South Carolina carried out the execution of Richard Moore on Friday evening, according to the state, a day after the US Supreme Court declined the Black inmate’s request to halt his lethal injection over his claim prosecutors unjustly excluded Black people from the all-White jury that convicted him.
‘She saved our lives’: How a panicked driver spared a family from deadly Florida tornado spawned by Milton
Oct 16, 2024
There was no escaping the debris flying in the air, barreling into a tornado forming before Michelle Westfield’s eyes if she drove her car forward. It would be a death sentence.
Shooting near Tennessee State University leaves 1 dead, 9 injured, including children, officials say
Oct 14, 2024
A man was killed and nine other people were injured in a shooting Saturday near Tennessee State University as the Nashville school celebrated homecoming – and investigators believe at least one of the injured participated in the gunfire, officials said.
Toronto police open hate crime investigation after Jewish girls’ school hit with gunfire in 2nd incident this year
Oct 12, 2024
Police in Toronto, Canada are opening a hate crime investigation after shots were fired overnight into the window of a Jewish girls’ elementary school – the second time this year the school was targeted by gunfire, officials said.
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October 10 Hurricane Milton news
Oct 11, 2024
Floridians are picking up the pieces after Milton made landfall as a dangerous Category 3 hurricane and cut through the state as a Category 1 storm before moving offshore.
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Desperation grows to find unaccounted for in wake of Helene
Oct 2, 2024
More than 160 people have died across six states following Hurricane Helene, and western North Carolina is facing historic flooding.
‘This is not luck. This is a systemic approach’: These major US cities are trying to curb violent crime — and it’s working
Sep 29, 2024
Strategies beyond traditional arrest-and-prosecution include social services, intervention by trusted community members and backing in part by federal funds.
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September 27, 2024 news on Tropical Depression Helene
Sep 29, 2024
Helene is now a tropical depression after making landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane.
Hurricane Helene threatens ‘unsurvivable’ storm surge in Florida as it’s forecast to explode into catastrophic Category 4
Sep 26, 2024
Hurricane Helene is now forecast to reach catastrophic Category 4 strength by the time it makes landfall in Florida on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center says, with storm surge potentially climbing to 20 feet along some parts of the coast.
About
Emma Tucker is a news desk reporter for CNN, covering a broad range of national and international stories with a particular focus on criminal justice, gun violence, and police brutality cases, as well as the collateral impact of these issues on neighborhoods, communities and the nation.
