The Roger Williams Park Zoo in Rhode Island said a takin escaped its enclosure Tuesday morning. Roger Williams Park Zoo PROVIDENCE, R.I. — An 800-pound zoo animal described as a “goat-antelope” rammed its way out of its enclosure Tuesday and ran around a Rhode Island zoo for an hour before being captured and sedated. One animal keeper and one veterinary…
TONIGHT: A heavy downpour with breezy winds can’t be ruled out. An isolated storm may continue overnight. Lows in the mid 60s. WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY: Highs in the upper 80s to low 90s. Head index values into the mid 90s. Expect scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms. One or two storms could produce gusty winds, but no organized severe threat exists. Some…
WINCHESTER, Conn. — Police in Winchester, Connecticut have charged four teens they say are linked to a batch of cupcakes that were tainted with bodily fluid before being distributed to specific classmates and a teacher in June 2017, reports CBS affiliate WFSB. The three former students, and a current student, two of whom are boys and two of whom are girls,…
The nonprofit runs several support centers in the state. Grant paperwork indicated the money is to be used for violence prevention and support services.
Over the weekend, workers discovered a sewage pipe discharged into Hollis Creek near a water treatment plant.
Two more Democrats have added their names to the list of people who say they will vote to confirm Gina Haspel to be the next CIA director, all but ensuring her confirmation. Virginia’s Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat from North Dakota, announced their “yes” votes Tuesday afternoon. Warner’s announcement…
Robinson Canó on September 12, 2016 in Anaheim, California. Harry How / Getty Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Canó has been suspended for 80 games for violating Major League Baseball’s drug policy. Canó tested positive for Furosemide, a diuretic, in violations with the league’s Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, the league said Tuesday. In a statement, Canó accepted the suspension…
Investigators believe the suspect burst into a mobile home on Tabernacle Road and shot one person.
Last Updated May 15, 2018 2:53 PM EDT President Trump met with Senate Republicans in a rare visit to Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon, in what Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, called a very “productive” meeting. But some of the most controversial topics didn’t come up in their meeting, such as White House aide Kelly Sadler’s reported insult of Sen. John McCain,…
Facebook says the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, will not appear in person to respond to a list of nearly 40 questions on controversial topics that a U.K. Parliament committee says other company representatives have failed to adequately answer. While Rebecca Stimson, Facebook U.K.’s head of public policy, sent the committee responses to each question Monday, she also wrote that Zuckerberg…
As President Trump prepares for his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Fox News anchor Bret Baier is revisiting another historic meeting involving a Republican president. Thirty years ago this month, President Ronald Reagan went to Moscow for a Cold War summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. During that visit, President Reagan spoke to students at Moscow State…
A group of seniors at Cumberland High School in Wisconsin pulled off what the police department called one of the “best senior pranks” ever. Cumberland School District Senior pranks are a rite of passage for many high school students across America. Before school lets out for summer and the graduating class leaves the halls of their high school forever, seniors…
Columbus police say the suspect originally called officers to say his home was being broken into. There was no evidence of a burglary or home invasion.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba says he spoke with the victim’s father and is deeply troubled.
Prosecutors allege the victim was under the age of 14-years-old.
The girl was under the age of 16. Her mother accused the suspect of sexually assaulting the child in the home.
The shooting happened outside Motel 6 on December 22, 2017. Michael Garth of Starkville was shot and died at the scene.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Eight years after Illinois abolished the death penalty, the state’s Republican governor on Monday proposed reinstating the punishment for mass killers and people who gun down police officers. Gov. Bruce Rauner tied the death penalty plan to gun restrictions favored by Democrats who control the Legislature – inserting it into legislation that lengthens the waiting period for…
On May 8, actress Pauley Perrette — and her beloved character, Abby Sciuto — bid adieu to “NCIS” after 15 years as one of the best-loved crimefighters on TV. At the time, Perrette told CBS “Sunday Morning” that the decision to step away was painful but she had grown disillusioned with fame. While she looked forward to spending more time on…
Resisting Arrest and Causing Damage to a Police Vehicle charges are pending.
Kendell and Shauntay met on an airplane and a photo of their friendship blooming went viral. Facebook/Saginaw Love A photo of two kids who met on an airplane captured thousands of people’s hearts last week. Now, the two kids in the viral photo have been reunited. Kendell and Shauntay met on an Allegiant Airlines flight headed to Flint, Michigan, on…
MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Police looking for the remains of up to seven girls who have been missing for decades stopping digging Tuesday in suburban Detroit, suspending a multi-day effort while they decide whether to search elsewhere in Michigan or resume the excavation in roughly the same area. Authorities repeatedly have said they’re confident they will solve the cold cases,…
Last Updated May 15, 2018 11:54 AM EDT Gina Haspel, President Trump’s pick to run the CIA, denounced the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation methods” more strongly than she did during her confirmation hearing, in a letter to Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner. The letter comes as Warner has yet to announce whether he will back Haspel. Two Democrats…
With just days to go until the royal wedding on Saturday, Meghan Markle is apparently ironing out a major wrinkle in the plans: Who will walk her down the aisle to marry Prince Harry? Her father, Thomas Markle, was supposed to do the honors. But then he reportedly said he won’t attend his daughter’s wedding after he posed for embarrassing…