Melissa Gray - Senior Editor, National News Hub
Melissa Gray
Senior Editor, National News Hub
Melissa Gray is a Senior Editor with CNN’s National News Hub.
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Erik and Lyle Menendez resentenced to 50 years to life, opening the door for possible parole, judge rules
May 14, 2025
A judge resentenced Erik and Lyle Menendez to a term of 50 years to life in prison for the 1989 murders of their parents, ruling Tuesday the brothers will be eligible for parole. The brothers have been serving life without parole for the killings.
Los Angeles district attorney says he’ll recommend resentencing in decades-old Menendez brothers’ murder case
Oct 25, 2024
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said Thursday he’ll recommend that a judge resentence Lyle and Erik Menendez nearly 30 years after the brothers were convicted of the murders of their parents – a recommendation that he said would make them eligible for immediate parole.
The National Zoo’s panda program is ending after more than 50 years as China looks elsewhere
Nov 30, 2023
(CNN) – Three giant pandas left their enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC, and departed by plane back to China on Wednesday, marking the end of more than 50 years of Chinese pandas being housed at the zoo.
Call to arms: Thousands of Revolutionary War stories are waiting to be told. A new project asks the public to help uncover them
Jul 31, 2023
The National Park Service and US National Archives and Records Administration are calling on Americans to help reveal the untold stories of the United States’ first veterans to commemorate the upcoming 250th anniversary of American independence.
Department of Justice to investigate city of Memphis and its police department
Jul 27, 2023
The Justice Department said Thursday it has opened a civil rights investigation into the city of Memphis and its police department, which came under fire following the death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in January.
Death of 3 cheetah cubs in India deals blow to reintroduction efforts
May 26, 2023
Three cheetah cubs have died in India this week, dealing yet another setback to a historic effort by the government to reintroduce the species to the country after 70 years of extinction.
These are the names to know from the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh
Mar 3, 2023
The murder trial of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh ended March 2 after nearly six weeks at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, a small town about 40 miles west of Charleston. Murdaugh was found guilty of killing his wife and son, who were shot to death in 2021 at the family’s Islandton property, known as Moselle.
Veteran wins six lottery prizes of $25K a year for life – in the same drawing
Dec 24, 2022
A Vietnam-era veteran in Massachusetts can call himself lucky for life after winning six lottery prizes of $25,000 a year for life – in the same drawing.
A timeline of how the Texas school massacre – and the police response – unfolded
Jun 22, 2022
As a broken community tries to make sense of a massacre that took the lives of 19 young children and two teachers, authorities have offered shifting timelines of what happened inside the Uvalde, Texas, school.
ICE says it’s working to address delays causing long waits for migrants in Orlando
May 3, 2022
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday it’s working to address processing delays at its Orlando, Florida, office, days after a US lawmaker said hundreds of migrants are being forced to wait in long lines and even sleep in tents and cars as they wait for appointments.
The Golden Ray cargo ship capsized because of inaccurate stability calculations, the NTSB finds
Sep 14, 2021
The capsizing of the Golden Ray cargo ship off the Georgia coast two years ago, which resulted in more than $200 million in damage, was caused by incorrect calculations about the vessel’s stability, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
A scratched-up piece of New York punk rock history – Johnny Ramone’s guitar – is up for auction
Sep 5, 2021
The white paint is scratched off and worn away along the sides of Johnny Ramone’s electric guitar, the one he used on stage for nearly 20 years to make some of punk rock’s most distinctive chords with the legendary Ramones.
Bonnaroo organizers cancel this year’s festival, citing flooding from heavy rains
Sep 1, 2021
Organizers of the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee have canceled this year’s event, citing flooding from heavy rains.
Roald Dahl’s secret to a good children’s book: Make sure it ‘enthrals the child’
Jun 16, 2021
Roald Dahl, the author of children’s classics such as “James and the Giant Peach” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” believed in stories that enthralled young readers, getting them to love books for a lifetime.
Roald Dahl’s secret to a good children’s book: Make sure it ‘enthrals the child’
Jun 16, 2021
Roald Dahl, the author of children’s classics such as “James and the Giant Peach” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” believed in stories that enthralled young readers, getting them to love books for a lifetime.
About
Melissa Gray is a Senior Editor with CNN’s National News Hub.
Melissa Gray is a senior editor with the National News Hub in Atlanta, editing stories and breaking news coverage of national events and contributing to network reporting. She was previously a reporter for CNN Digital, based in London, covering major stories across Europe.
Prior to joining CNN’s London bureau, she was the Europe and Middle East correspondent for the AP Radio Network, where she covered events including the war in Iraq and the trial of Saddam Hussein, the death of Pope John Paul II and election of Pope Benedict XVI, the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Throughout her career, she has reported on the Olympic Games, starting with Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Turin in 2006, and preparations for the 2012 Games in London.
Her journalism career began at the CNN Radio Network in Atlanta, where she produced and anchored the network’s first international newscast.
