SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s governor should allow more sensitive DNA testing that advocates say could exonerate a death row inmate, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris said Friday. “As a firm believer in DNA testing, I hope the governor and the state will allow for such testing in the case of Kevin Cooper,” Harris, a former state attorney general and San Francisco prosecutor…
SHANDAKEN, N.Y. — Authorities say two off-duty New York Police Department officers have died in a car crash after celebrating at one of the officers’ wedding reception. State police and the NYPD said Monday that Michael Colangelo of Huntington Station, Long Island, and John M. Martinez, of Hauppauge, Long Island, died in the crash late Sunday in the town of…
PAHOA, Hawaii — White plumes of acid and extremely fine shards of glass billowed into the sky over Hawaii as molten rock from Kilauea volcano poured into the ocean, creating yet another hazard from an eruption that began more than two weeks ago. Authorities on Sunday warned the public to stay away from the toxic steam cloud, which is formed…
ARLINGTON, Va. — A physician who spiked his girlfriend’s drink with medication to induce an abortion has been sentenced to three years in prison. Sikander Imran was arrested last year and pleaded guilty earlier this year to fetal homicide in Arlington County, Virginia. WJLA-TV in Washington reports that Imran received a 20-year sentence Friday with all but three years suspended….
SANTA FE, Texas — A small, Houston-area town is mourning the loss of 10 people after another mass shooting at a U.S. school on Friday. One of the 10 victims was 17-year-old Christopher Stone. Stone was shot and killed in his first period art class. He was a football player, described as adventurous and funny, reports CBS News correspondent Mireya…
Prince Harry was emotional during the singing of “Guide Me, O Thy Great Redeemer,” a hymn that was also sung during Princess Diana’s funeral BBC pool In a touching tribute to Prince Harry’s late mother Princess Diana, he and Meghan Markle chose to feature the hymn “Guide Me, O Thy Great Redeemer” during their wedding ceremony on Saturday. The hymn was…
EUGENE, Ore. — The University of Oregon has apologized for a statement it put out after a student was found dead during a trip to Shasta Lake in Northern California. The 21-year-old student, identified as business administration major Dylan Pietrs, was found dead at a boat-in campground Saturday morning. Students told KEZI the trip is an unofficial event organized by…
Embattled TV chef and restauranteur Mario Batali has lost his television show and is leaving the company he helped to found.He has apologized for his “past behavior,” admitting to “deeply inappropriate” actions with women. Some of his accusers and witnesses opened up to “60 Minutes” correspondent Anderson Cooper about what they say he did. In a statement released Sunday evening, after…
NEXT 7 DAYS: High temperatures in the 80s each afternoon, with the humidity contributing to a heat index generally in the low 90s. Partly cloudy skies each day will give way to a few scattered showers and thunderstorms each afternoon. One or two stronger storms will be possible each day, but no organized severe weather is likely over the next 7…
Photos from the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office show murder suspects 27-year-old Tyshon Demontrea Johnson (left) and 20-year-old Curtis Ray Green. Both men were the subject of a manhunt in South Carolina on May 21, 2018, after escaping two days earlier from a jail in Orangeburg. Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Authorities were searching early Monday morning for two…
RA’Shawn Tate signs with Tabor College to play football.
Mississippi State softball ends their season with loss vs Arizona in Tucson Regional.
They hold a similar session before deployment.
Three different agencies came together in Louisville, to lay wreaths on the headstones of three local officers.
THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS: The weather pattern is going to be very stagnant so don’t expect much change from day to day. We expect to see scattered showers and storms every day. No organized severe weather is expected but isolated strong/severe storms with hail and gusty winds are certainly possible from time to time. Daytime highs should be in the mid…
Columbus Police Chief Fred Shelton says 18-year old Vershawn Williams was arrested Friday, by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department and a Drug Task Force team member.
Like most graduates, teenager Carson Covey had a lot of things on his mind, but stage fright was not one of them. The Chatfield High School senior joined his classmates at Red Rocks Amphitheater to walk and accept their diplomas Thursday — no small feat for Covey, who lives with cerebral palsy, and was determined to step up to the…
A pig named Zoey is seen in the back of a police cruiser. North Ridgeville Police Department/Facebook A man in Ohio realized the downside of bringing home the bacon when a pig wouldn’t stop following him on his way home early Saturday morning. Police in Elyria, Ohio, say they thought the unidentified man must have been drunk or hallucinating when…
At least one server used by an app for parents to monitor their teenagers’ phone activity has leaked tens of thousands of accounts of both parents and children. The mobile app, TeenSafe, bills itself as a “secure” monitoring app for iOS and Android, which lets parents view their child’s text messages and location, monitor who they’re calling and when, access…
It’s been an emotional year for Amelia Thompson. The 12-year-old survivor of the May 2017 bombing at Manchester Arena was in disbelief when she learned she would be attending the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Thompson’s mother, Lisa Newton, had secretly submitted a request for her daughter’s invitation to the royal wedding when she learned that 1,200 members…
The funeral for the Pakistani exchange student killed in the Santa Fe High School is scheduled for Saturday afternoon. It will be held at the Brand Lane Islamic Center at 2 p.m. local time. The Islamic Society of Greater Houston has offered to transport the body of Sabika Sheikh, CBS affiliate KHOU-TV reports. Sheikh was one of the 10 people…
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By Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Kabir Khanna Nearly two in three Americans think the nation’s economy is in good shape, and most of them believe President’s Trump’s policies are at least somewhat responsible for that. More Republicans rate the economy positively than do Democrats. As Congressional primaries continue and Americans look ahead six months to their…
The aural war that has divided a nation allowed us, refreshingly, to wholeheartedly disagree with one another with passion and humor. Jean-Paul Pelissier, Eric Gaillard/Reuters Contributor Faith Salie on the aural war that has divided a nation: Listen to this: https://docs.cbsnews.com/17/MP3s/Laurel_or_Yanny.mp3 What do you hear? This past week, our country has been riven by the Yanny-Laurel Aural War…