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Highlights of this day in history for April 15: The Titanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland; President Abraham Lincoln dies; Jackie Robinson becomes first African American player in Major League Baseball; the US launches air raid against Libya; Cambodian Communist revolutionary Pol Pot dies; Punk rocker Joey Ramone dies at age 49.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Only the Houston Rockets finished with the worst record in the NBA this season with the Orlando Magic just ahead of them. 

CNN's brand-new streaming service, CNN+, is shutting down only a month after launch. In a memo, incoming CNN chief executive Chris Licht said the service would shut down at the end of April.

Honduras extradited former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the United States on Thursday to face drug trafficking and weapons charges.

Rockets struck a neighborhood in Kharkiv on Thursday, and at least two civilians were burned to death in their car. A school and a residential building were also hit.

Some 80 people who escaped the besieged city of Mariupol finally made it to Zaporizhzhia on Thursday after more than 24 hours. According to the Red Cross, 1,500 people had been expected to be evacuated by bus, but the Russians allowed only a few dozen to leave and pulled some people off the buses.

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. -- Doug Walker of Winter Garden has been appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to serve as a judge on the Orange County Court.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A 22-year-old Daytona Beach cop has been fired from the police force after his arrest for allegedly sharing child pornography online.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- This reporter was among the few to witness the execution of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Florida's death chamber at Starke prison on a hot October afternoon in 2002.