Archives: 2018

Warm Week On Tap; Rain Towards End Of Week.

TODAY: Highs in the upper 70s. Sunny and nice, with a light southeast breeze around 5 mph. Cool and clear overnight. Lows in the upper 40s. TUESDAY: Variably cloudy through the day. Highs in the low 80s. An isolated shower cannot be totally ruled out, but the chance for rain will remain under the 10% threshold and won’t appear on the…

Starkville Annual Kids Fair

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – Some area children are taking action to make their own money. Kids in Starkville came together to show that adults aren’t the only ones who can be entrepreneurs. Booths everywhere you look with young entrepreneurs working to get people to buy their homemade products. Slime, bubbles, and wood crafts were some of the items up for sale….

Suspect in Maine deputy’s slaying held in maximum-security prison

NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine — A man accused of killing a sheriff’s deputy was held in the state’s maximum-security prison Sunday pending his initial court appearance. John Williams was transferred to the Maine State Prison in Warren after his arrest Saturday, the fourth day of a massive manhunt in the central part of the state. Williams, who’s expected in court Monday or Tuesday,…

2 wounded in shooting at Ballpark Village in St. Louis, police say

Police investigate a shooting at Ballpark Village in Missouri on Sun., April 29, 2018. KMOV-TV Two men in their 30s were shot inside Ballpark Village in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, prompting a police investigating Sunday night, CBS affiliate KMOV-TV reports. The shooting occurred around 8:04 p.m. local time. St. Louis Police officials said there was an argument between two individuals…

Veteran’s photos of dirty VA clinic room go viral, prompts apology

One veteran’s post on social media has prompted a VA clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah, to apology for the disarray and dirty conditions found at the facility. CBS affiliate KUTV writes that Army Veteran Christopher Wilson — who served two tours in Iraq — was subjected to a room he couldn’t believe. He took pictures that included “debris on…

HIV epidemic and stigma are still major factors for one region

JACKSON, Miss. — HIV rates are declining in the United States due to prevention efforts and awareness. However, in the Deep South, the epidemic continues to ravage African-American communities. The stigma of HIV has many suffering in silence. Jackson, Mississippi, is a city seeing some of the highest rates of new cases. For 12 years, Jacqueline Wilson has been living…

Parkland survivors call out the NRA over gun ban at Dallas conference

The National Rifle Association (NRA) will not allow guns during Vice President Mike Pence’s appearance at its upcoming convention. The ban prompted Parkland, Florida, shooting survivors over the weekend to call out the pro-gun organization for imposing restrictions on its members — a position the NRA has long championed against. The NRA, which is expected to attract upwards of 80,000…

“Avengers: Infinity Wars” opens with record $250M

NEW YORK — A whole lot of superheroes added up to a whole lot of ticket sales. The superhero smorgasbord “Avengers: Infinity Wars” opened with predictable shock-and-awe, earning $250 million in box office over the weekend and edging past “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” to set the highest opening weekend of all-time. “Infinity War,” which brings together some two dozen superheroes…

2 killed, 2 wounded in shooting at biker club near Seattle

Two men were killed and five others were injured early Sunday after a shooting broke out at a motorcycle club south of Seattle. Mike Griffith/KIRO-TV SKYWAY, Wash. — Two men were killed and five other people were injured early Sunday morning after a shooting broke out at a motorcycle club south of Seattle, CBS affiliate KIRO-TV reports. The shooting occurred…

Bus carrying high school chorus team crashes in South Carolina

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Authorities say 17 people were injured, two of them in serious condition, when a charter bus carrying a high school chorus team crashed early Sunday morning, CBS affiliate WCSC-TV reports. The crash occurred around 1 a.m. local time Sunday, Colleton-Fire Rescue Chief Barry McRoy said. The bus was carrying 30 students and adult chaperones from Beddingfield High School…

On the end of Bill Cosby

Our contributor Nancy Giles has some thoughts on the news that Bill Cosby has been found guilty: Bill Cosby is a big part of why I’m in this business. I was a fan.  I grew up watching him do everything from standup comedy and Saturday morning cartoons, to hosting specials on Black history and selling Jell-O pudding.  I listened to…

Beautiful Weather on Monday

SUNDAY NIGHT: Temperatures are heading for the low 40s overnight.  Can’t rule out a spot slipping into the upper 30s but it appears unlikely.  Also, there aren’t any real concerns for frost as we’ll be just warm enough to prevent it. MONDAY: Look for a dry and sunny day as highs head for the upper 70s and low 80s as winds turn…

Bezos launches New Shepard in successful test

Blue Origin, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, launched a New Shepard suborbital capsule from West Texas on Sunday, boosting a suite of microgravity experiments and an instrumented dummy astronaut known as Mannequin Skywalker to the edge of space in the company’s eighth test flight. Perched atop a reusable booster powered by a single hydrogen-fueled BE-3 engine, the New Shepard…

T-Mobile, Sprint announce merger

Pedestrians walk by a T-Mobile store on April 24, 2017 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty T-Mobile and Sprint announced Sunday that they will merge the two wireless companies, bringing the number of major cellphone companies to three. The combined company will be named T-Mobile. In a joint statement, the wireless carries said the combined company will have…

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Almanac: The designer of Radio City Music Hall

Designer Donald Deskey. CBS News And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: April 29th, 1989, 29 years ago today … the day designer Donald Deskey died at the age of 94. An advertising man with a sideline in design, Deskey achieved notice in 1932 with the opening of New York’s Radio City Music Hall, an Art Deco monument…

Migrants in “caravan” face risks by seeking asylum at border

TIJUANA, Mexico — U.S. immigration lawyers are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers that traveled through Mexico to the border with San Diego that they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months. They say they want to prepare them for the worst possible outcome.  “We are the bearers of horrible news,” Los Angeles lawyer…