Tourists sunbathe at the beach in the resort town of Ayia Napa in southeastern Cyprus on September 7, 2017. Florian Choblet/AFP/Getty Images Tourism worldwide is a “significant and growing contributor” to greenhouse gas emissions and is responsible for nearly a tenth of them, a new study has found. Air travel accounts for a major portion of the impact, which the…
Texas Christian University said 12 students were suspended during final exams. CBS DFW FORT WORTH, Texas — Tutors employed by Texas Christian University are being accused of providing forbidden material to students who are now suspended in a cheating scandal. The allegation comes from the attorney hired by the students to get them back in class. TCU would neither confirm or…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida has placed a lecturer who shoved and grabbed students during a graduation ceremony on paid administrative leave. Videos posted to social media over the weekend showed a man dressed in an academic robe grabbing graduates and pushing them while they were displayed on the Jumbotron at the school’s basketball arena on Saturday. Witnesses said…
Baleigh Bagshaw Salt Lake City Police Department SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man who police describe as a suspect in the killing of a teenage girl in Salt Lake City was arrested Wednesday in Colorado following a two-day multi-state manhunt. Shaun French, 24, had previously been in a sexual relationship with 15-year-old Baleigh Bagshaw and lived at her home,…
Wheeling, West Virginia, Police officer Ryan Moore stopped to play pickup basketball with some neighborhood kids. Leiandra Bledsoe A police officer in Wheeling, West Virginia stopped patrolling the neighborhood for a very important meeting this week. It was a meeting with kids over a game of pickup basketball. Neighbor Leiandra Bledsoe was taking a walk and came upon the scene…
Lava shot through another crack on Hawaii’s Big Island Wednesday, threatening a nearby power plant. It’s been one week since lava first burst from the ground outside the Kilauea volcano and there are now 15 fissures. Lava flow has covered 116 acres – nearly the size of 88 football fields – and destroyed 36 buildings. Geologists say chances are increasing…
April 2018 file photo shows Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia Carlos Osorio / AP ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia maintained his innocence and his new team said it supported him after a 1996 sexual assault allegation resurfaced Wednesday night. The Detroit News reported that Patricia and a friend were indicted 22 years ago by a…
OWINGS MILL, Md. — A Democratic candidate for governor of Maryland has died. CBS Baltimore reports that a release from Baltimore County police that says Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz died early Thursday, following a cardiac arrest. He was 60. The release says Kamenetz was at home in Owings Mill when he awoke around 2 a.m., complaining of felling ill….
Bela Karolyi, left, and his wife Martha Karolyi talk on the arena floor before the start of the preliminary round of the women’s Olympic gymnastics trials in San Jose, Calif. Gregory Bull / AP Some of Larry Nassar’s alleged sexual abuse victims are demanding that the state of Texas take action against two legendary gymnastics coaches. The former gymnasts claim…
TODAY: Hot and mostly sunny. An isolated downpour is possible in the afternoon, but the vast majority of us stay dry. Highs in the upper 80s and low 90s. Chance of rain around 10% or less. Mild and mostly clear overnight. Lows in the low 60s. FRI/SAT/SUN: Hot and sunny weather continues. Highs in the low 90s, which will be at or…
President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence arrived early Thursday morning to greet three Americans as they flew into Joint Base Andrews, outside the U.S. capital, less than 24 hours after they were released by North Korea. The three men, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song and Tony Kim, were released during a visit on Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of…
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Winning teams not only get medals, but real prize money they will split among themselves, and with their teacher.
The roughly $15 million project would consist of two phases.
Sen. John McCain is urging the Senate to reject Gina Haspel, President Trump’s pick to run the CIA, claiming Haspel’s “refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is disqualifying.” McCain, who is home at his ranch in Arizona as he battles brain cancer, made the statement after Haspel testified in her confirmation on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning. McCain said Haspel had a…
U.S. officials are now planning for the summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to happen in Singapore, sources tell CBS News. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he will announce the location of the meeting “within three days.” The news comes as the nation awaits three U.S. citizens who were detained in North Korea to land…
The job of the “Mississippi Student Testing Task Force” is examining student testing to determine what practices work best for student progress.
We might as well call Spring dead and gone as near record warm temperatures locks in place over the area. After the third coldest April for the State of Mississippi since records began, May is starting off on fire with high temperatures averaging 10 degree above normal through next week. Here’s a look at some records that are in jeopardy…
BATON ROUGE, La. — In Louisiana, tens of thousands of elderly and disabled people could soon lose their Medicaid benefits because the state faces a budget shortfall of more than $500 million. Eviction notices are going out on Thursday to thousands in nursing homes and group homes. Betty Waller, 89, is a polio survivor and lives in a nursing home…
One nurse practitioner is making a difference in a town, where a health clinic was much needed.
Over the years, tens of thousands of acres have been converted to row crops.
Longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen said Wednesday that a document released by Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti purporting to show payments Cohen received from various entities contains numerous inaccuracies. Cohen’s legal team slammed the document in a court filing opposing Avenatti’s motion to appear in the legal dispute over search warrants that were the basis for the raid on Cohen’s…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — America’s latest superhero is now taking the country by storm, and people are smitten with Austin Perine and his unique super power — feeding the homeless. “It’s just the right thing to do,” Austin told us. By day, he’s a mild-mannered 4-year-old from Birmingham, Alabama. But about once a week, Austin turns into this alter ego, a…
MACOMB, Mich. — Outside Detroit, investigators continue to search a wooded area where a suspected serial killer is believed to have buried his victims. Authorities say the suspect — serving a life sentence for the murder of a 13-year-old — recently bragged to fellow inmates about killing as many as seven girls decades ago. A tireless search on the ground and…