Archives: 2018

Teen mariachi band performs on Southwest flight

  A teen mariachi band from Chicago “elevated” their art when they performed for fellow passengers on a Southwest flight to Albuquerque Chicago Mariachi Project The award-winning band Chicago Mariachi Project says they’ve reached their goal of “elevating the art of mariachi — literally.” The group performed for their fellow passengers on a Southwest flight on Tuesday. Before they took…

American woman killed in Mexico after U.S. issues travel warnings

Police in Mexico are investigating the murder of an American tourist hit by a stray bullet in Mexico City. Tatiana Mirutenko of San Francisco was leaving a restaurant with her husband and two friends Saturday morning when she was shot. Police say two men on a motorcycle were aiming for a bar bouncer who was at the same restaurant. The…

“World’s Ugliest Dog” dies weeks after securing title

  Zsa Zsa, an English Bulldog owned by Megan Brainard, stands onstage after being announced the winner of the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California, Saturday, June 23, 2018. Jeff Chiu / AP Zsa Zsa, the  English Bulldog whose long, floppy tongue and protruding underbite earned her the title of 2018’s “World’s Ugliest Dog” last…

Watch never-before-seen footage of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

On Wednesday, “CBS This Morning” debuted never-before-seen archival footage of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performing the band’s new song, “Keep A Little Soul.” It is the first music to be released since the rock legend’s death last October. Petty kept an extensive archive and when  his family began pulling tapes from storage earlier this year, they found a trove…

Cops recall finding buried infant; man reveals why he abandoned him

MISSOULA, Mont. — A faint whimper in the darkness was all it took. Missoula County Sheriff’s Deputy Ross Jessop and U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer Nick Scholz rushed toward the sound after hours spent searching the Montana woods for a missing infant. Jessop was about to take another step when he heard a stick crack underfoot. He looked down…

Husband confided in neighbor just before allegedly killing family

PRICES CORNER, Del. — A couple and three young children were found fatally shot at their Delaware home in what police described Tuesday as a murder-suicide. Delaware State Police identified the couple in a news release as Matthew Edwards, 42, and his wife, Julie Edwards, 41. Police did not release their children’s names, but said they included a 4-year-old girl…