A 12-year-old girl battling cancer had one wish for her birthday: postcards from around the world. She got postcards from all 50 states, 49 countries, and even one from Tom Hanks. Vanessa Kelly Twelve-year-old Aspen Kelly has a special request for her upcoming birthday: postcards. The girl from Oklahoma will become a teenager on September 1, but she can’t celebrate…
MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – The Wren Dollar General was closed, but that didn’t stop two would-be thieves. The break-in took place early Tuesday morning. First, the glass shatters. Then, one suspect and then another enter the store. If you can recognize either of the suspects or know anything about the robbery, please contact the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department. Categories: Crime,…
Last Updated Aug 21, 2018 2:56 PM EDT Reporting by Paula Reid Former longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen has decided to take a plea deal with the Justice Department to resolve his criminal investigation, and this was expected to be a straight plea deal to resolve the case against him, CBS News has confirmed. His plea, CBS News’ Paula Reid…
Last Updated Aug 21, 2018 2:54 PM EDT SANTA ANA, Calif. — Prosecutors from six California counties announced Tuesday that the trial of the so-called Golden State Killer will be held in Sacramento. Former police officer Joseph DeAngelo, 72, was arrested on April 25 at his suburban Sacramento home. He was later charged with 13 murders in the 1970s and 1980s, spanning…
HONOLULU — The National Weather Service has issued a hurricane watch for parts of Hawaii as Hurricane Lane barrels toward the state as a Category 4 storm. Senior Honolulu forecaster Tom Birchard said the watch for Hurricane Lane has been issued for the island of Hawaii and Maui County, which includes the island of Maui and other smaller islands. Hurricane…
An Oklahoma man is killed in an early Tuesday morning Millport, Alabama crash.
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Traffic was delayed Tuesday on a stretch of eastbound I-22 in Itawamba County, after an 18-wheeler overturns.
Jackie YatesSource: Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office CALHOUN COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – United States Postal Inspectors are scheduled to be in Calhoun County today to talk with an alleged burglary. Jackie Yates, 42, is charged with four counts of commercial burglary, two counts of church burglary and felony possession of a firearm. Sheriff Greg Pollan says Yates is accused of breaking…
A Columbus man is accused of injuring his ex-girlfriend so badly, so had to be flown to a Tupelo hospital.
TETERBORO, N.J. — A plane has been diverted after it blew two tires as it took off Monday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said. The Gulfstream Aerospace GLF-4 aircraft was being diverted to Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport in Massachusetts. The plane took off at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport around 10:50 a.m. and was scheduled to land at the London Luton…
Former longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen is now in closing negotiations over a plea deal with the Justice Department that could be resolved as early as Tuesday, CBS News’ Paula Reid and Len Tepper have confirmed. Federal investigators, as CBS News has reported from a person familiar with the matter, are in the final stages of the investigation into Cohen,…
Sexist attitudes in the United States are most prevalent in the Southeast and least prevalent on the West Coast and in New England, according to a new study that highlights how sexism and gender attitudes affect earnings and job prospects for women. Researchers analyzed responses to decades of statistics and survey questions about women’s roles in society and found that…
DENNIS, Miss. (WCBI)- A Tishomingo County man is accused of using his vehicle as a weapon during a dispute. Earl Wayne Robinson, 46, ArrestedSource: Tishomingo CO SD Earl Wayne “Robbie” Robinson, 46, faces aggravated assault- manifesting extreme indifference to human life charges. According to Tishomingo County Sheriff John Daugherty, deputies were called to the Southern Variety Grocery store parking lot,…
Last Updated Aug 21, 2018 12:24 PM EDT FREDERICK, Colo — The Colorado man accused of killing his wife and two young daughters appeared in court for an arraignment Tuesday. The court appearance came after a newly-released court document revealed Christopher Watts claimed his pregnant wife killed the children after learning he wanted a separation because he was having an affair….
Flight controllers have not heard from NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover since June 10 when an increasingly severe dust storm on the planet blocked out the sun, preventing solar arrays from recharging the rover’s batteries. But the dust storm is finally abating and engineers are hopeful the long-lived rover will wake up and phone home in the next few weeks. “The…
Last Updated Aug 21, 2018 11:38 AM EDT Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday introduced what she describes as the most ambitious anti-corruption legislation since Watergate, dubbing the the current administration the most “nakedly corrupt” in Americans’ lifetimes, but claiming the problem is much bigger than President Trump. “The problem is far bigger than Trump. And the way I see it…
When John Gonsalves took an at-home DNA test last year to learn about his European ancestors, he had no idea it would lead to a meeting 40 years in the making. His daughter, Robin, gifted him an AncestryDNA kit for his birthday, which led to the discovery she wasn’t his only daughter. “It’s just as exciting to me to have…
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The rare Unicorn Root was recently spotted in Maine, where it hadn’t been seen in about 130 years. Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry An “elusive unicorn” has been spotted in Maine — a unicorn plant, that is. The Unicorn Root hasn’t been documented in the state for over 130 years, yet about 300 flowering stems were found this…
CAMDEN, Ark. — A 3-year-old boy and his 1-year-old brother survived alone for about two days after they were passengers in a single-car wreck that killed their mother in south Arkansas. The older boy was found first, wandering alone on Monday morning along a road in Camden, about 85 miles southwest of Little Rock, authorities said. Authorities posted the boy’s photo…
Last Updated Aug 21, 2018 9:54 AM EDT CBS News has learned that Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts has been found dead, just over a month after she was reported missing. The 20-year-old was last seen July 18, jogging near her home in the central Iowa town of Brooklyn. Her family reported her missing the following day when she didn’t…
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