Ruby Rose attends the premiere of “The Meg’” in Hollywood, California, on August 6, 2018. Christopher Polk / Getty Actress Ruby Rose is suiting up to play Batwoman in The CW’s annual crossover special featuring characters from the network’s other DC Comics shows. A standalone Batwoman show is also in the works, with Caroline Dries set to write the script,…
Bertrand Guay / AFP/Getty Images SECAUCUS, N.J. — A new report has found that the tick-borne illness Lyme disease has been detected in all 50 states, and cases continue to rise. The report from Quest Diagnostics is based on more than six million blood tests taken over the last seven years, CBS New York reports. The New Jersey-based clinical laboratory says…
More opportunities for rain exist during the week ahead
California Gov. Jerry Brown has called the devastating wildfires tearing through Northern California “part of a trend — a new normal.” But one climate scientists says “it’s actually worse than that.” “A new normal makes it sound like we’ve arrived in a new position and that’s where we’re going to be,” said Michael Mann, a professor of atmospheric science and the…
If you know anything about the suspect’s location, you’re urged to call the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department at 662-369-2468.
Mark Hamill suggested replacing President Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with one for his his late “Star Wars” co-star, Carrie Fisher. Katharine Lotze/Getty Images and Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney) If Mark Hamill gets his way, the president could be replaced with a princess — on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, that is. Hamill took to…
Adam Purinton at the Johnson County District Courthouse in Olathe, Kansas, on May 15, 2017. AP KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas man who opened fire a suburban Kansas City bar in 2017, killing an immigrant from India and wounding two other men, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to three consecutive life prison sentences for what federal prosecutors said was…
“If you see someone that’s going through something and they need help, help them.”
A video posted to social media shows a missing University of Iowa student sharing a personal story about prayer in 2016. Mollie Tibbetts’ aunt posted the video to Facebook on Wednesday, two weeks after Tibbetts was last seen in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. In the video that runs for about three-and-a-half minutes, Tibbetts speaks during a faith event at…
LAKEPORT, Calif. — Wildfires tearing through trees and brush, rampaging up hillsides and incinerating neighborhoods: The places and names change, but the devastation is showing signs of becoming the new normal in California. Twin fires in Northern California being treated as one are the largest wildfire in state history and by Tuesday had scorched 455 square miles — nearly the…
Critics are speaking out against a proposal put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump that could allow for new uses of asbestos, which is heavily restricted because of its links to cancer and other diseases. In June, the EPA under Scott Pruitt’s leadership proposed a Significant New Use Rule (SNUR) “for certain uses of asbestos (including asbestos-containing…
Lady Gaga performs during the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City. Kevin Winter/Getty NEW YORK — Lady Gaga is heading to Las Vegas for a residency in December and offering fans two kinds of shows. The singer announced Tuesday that she will kick off the first of 27 performances at the…
By the end of the expansion, the New Albany facility will employ over 350 people.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is making a change in the way it evaluates addiction treatment drugs, which could lead to more options for addicts to get help. The FDA will now look at whether potential treatments can reduce overdose rates, or the transmission of infectious diseases, instead of only focusing on whether it cuts opioid use. It’s the…
Ohio special election Voters in Ohio’s 12th District will be filling the seat left vacant by Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi with Democrat Danny O’Connor facing off against Republican state Senator Troy Balderson. The winner of the special election will serve out the remainder of Tiberi’s term until January. This isn’t a place where Democrats should be competitive, CBS News correspondent…
American Airlines aricraft are prepared for flight at O’Hare International Airport on May 11, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images A member of an American Airlines cleaning crew discovered a dead fetus in an airplane toilet at LaGuardia Airport early Tuesday morning, CBS News’ Kris Van Cleave reports. The fetus was found hours after Flight 1942 arrived in New…
The network of ponds is located in the 1600 block of Highway 45 Alternate, just south of Okolona. The name of the drowning victim has not been released.
In all, five former employees were at the center of the investigation that reportedly ran from January 2015 through November 2017.
A storm pummeled a busy Colorado zoo with large hail on Monday. CBS New York COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A powerful storm that pummeled a busy Colorado zoo with large hail on Monday injured 14 people and killed at least two animals, authorities said. About 3,400 people were at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs at the time, and…
Carlton Henderson is seen in a police booking photo provided to CBS New York station WCBS-TV. St. Louis Police Department NEW YORK — A man who jumped out of a freezer and threatened employees with a knife at a New York City brunch spot and then died was a suspected cold-case killer, authorities revealed on Monday. Carlton Henderson had just…
NEW YORK — Community members are calling for a Brooklyn nail salon to close its doors for good after a brawl on Friday was caught on video, CBS New York reported. The release of video of the incident at the Happy Red Apple Nail Salon led to protests outside the salon on Monday. Reports say that the protests are racially tinged. “You couldn’t…
The European Union on Monday said that new measures are ready to take effect to protect European businesses from the impact of U.S. sanctions on Iran. The measures also aim to save the agreement meant to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions after the U.S abandoned the pact. The EU insists the deal is important for global security and is trying to…
CBS News/AP August 7, 2018, 9:08 AM The Paul Manafort trial enters it’s sixth day with the former Trump campaign manager’s former business associate Rick Gates taking the stand once again. Gates, who was called to the stand just after 4:00 p.m on Monday, is expected to testify for at least three more hours in an Alexandria, Virginia courthouse. Gates…
His family said he had not been seen since Friday at noon.