West Point city leaders approved incentives last October to help lure the company.
Health officials say people shouldn’t eat romaine lettuce unless they know it’s not from Yuma.
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Connecticut university says former news anchor Tom Brokaw has withdrawn as commencement speaker after facing allegations of sexual harassment. The Hartford Courant reports Sacred Heart University announced the cancellation Friday. University president John Petillo says Brokaw didn’t want to distract from students and families, “given the events in the news.” Linda Vester, who worked as a…
BOSTON — Wynn Resorts is proposing renaming its Massachusetts casino set to open next year. Instead of Wynn Boston Harbor the company wants to call it Encore Boston Harbor. New company CEO Matthew Maddox announced plans to adopt a moniker used on one of its Las Vegas casinos Friday. He spoke at a Boston hearing on the company’s request to remove…
PHOENIX — Thousands of teachers in Arizona and Colorado descended upon their respective Capitols for a second day in a growing educator uprising. Educators in both states want more classroom resources and have received offers either for increased school funding or pay, but they say the money isn’t guaranteed and the efforts don’t go far enough. The walkouts are the latest…
NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine — The woman who found the body of Somerset County Sheriff’s Corporal Eugene Cole says she practically raised the man accused of killing him, reports CBS affiliate WGME. A nationwide manhunt was continuing Friday for John Williams, 29. The station spoke to Kimberly Sirois, who says she woke up Wednesday morning to news that classes at the local…
A new startup called Chairman Mom is trying to create a safe space online for working mothers. Its goal is to cut down abuse, trolling and mom-bullying. Eighty-five percent of women on social media say they’ve witnessed moms shaming other moms, according to Survey Monkey/Chairman Mom. The subscription-based website that charges users $5 per month is the brainchild of Sarah…
The second amendment would support the “sanctity of unborn life” in Alabama’s Constitution but wouldn’t change any laws.
The US House Chaplain, Father Pat Conroy, speaks during a memorial service at the National Statuary Hall of the Capitol on Sept. 27, 2017, in Washington, D.C. The Association of Former Members of Congress held a memorial service honoring those members who have passed away in the past 18 months. Getty Last Updated Apr 27, 2018 1:44 PM EDT…
Mohamed Toure, 57 and Denise Cros-Toure, 57 Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office/CBS Dallas / Fort Worth SOUTHLAKE, Texas — A couple in Southlake, Texas, has been charged with forced, unpaid labor of a domestic servant after allegedly keeping a young West African girl in their home for more than 16 years until neighbors helped her escape, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth…
Former NFL player Desmond Marrow posted a video of his December 2017 arrest on Facebook Facebook HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — A former NFL player says that he was injured when Georgia police arrested him after he allegedly made threats against a person he said threw a cup of coffee at his car, reports CBS affiliate WMAZ. An on-looker captured about…
Here’s a look at the week ahead on our “Sunday Morning” Calendar: Monday marks the 80th anniversary of Bugs Bunny’s debut in an animated short. Tuesday sees the announcement of this year’s Tony Award nominations, honoring the best in Broadway theater. On Wednesday, Britain’s Princess Charlotte — fourth in line to the throne…
Produced by Judy Rybak and Josh Gaynor “This was an enormously high-profile case,” says Bill Rankin, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a “48 Hours” consultant. “They were a big-time power couple.” On Sept. 25, 2016, Tex and Diane McIver were heading home after a long day of golfing and an evening of drinking. A friend who did…
Last Updated Apr 27, 2018 12:32 PM EDT President Trump, seated next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House Friday, said he doesn’t think North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un is “playing,” although other administrations were “played like a fiddle” because the U.S. had different leaders. Mr. Trump, asked how he knows Kim isn’t playing the U.S., as…
Deputies and West Point officers went to the suspect’s home to serve a mental commitment order.
MONTPELIER, Vt. – A Vermont teen accused of plotting a shooting with mass casualties at his former high school in a case that led to the first significant limits on gun ownership in Vermont was released Friday into the custody of his father. Jack Sawyer, 18, was released on conditions after posting $10,000 bail. The state’s defender general said he was…
If a woman you didn’t know offered to JUST LISTEN to whatever you had to say, would you do it? You might if you felt you had no one else to confide in. Our Jim Axelrod has been giving her a listen: In her journals Helena Bala keeps a record of other people’s secrets – notes from more than 300…
Of a $3 million grant issued in 2005, Viking and Middleby eventually repaid $2.51 million.
A flash of feathers was the only warning Mississippi hunter Al Porter had as the two barred owls silently dug their claws into his head and back.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The family of a South Carolina woman who died after suffering a medical emergency during an American Airlines flight has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the airline. Relatives of 25-year-old Brittany Oswell filed a federal lawsuit in South Carolina earlier this month. The complaint says Oswell suffered an embolism while on a 2016 American flight from…
The comedian is horrified to discover that a global chain of M&M’s World stores exists, making it even easier for us to buy candies you can buy anywhere. CBS News Our Contributor Jim Gaffigan has soured on one candymaker’s marketing approach: Recently I took my ungrateful children to an over-priced Broadway show that was not “Hamilton.” Any New Yorker will tell…
“Well, I’ll tell you we did a great job with the Olympics.”
A medical helicopter crash killed three people in Wisconsin, a funeral home spokesman said. WSAW HAZELHURST, Wis. — Emergency responders have found a missing medical helicopter in northern Wisconsin, and a funeral home spokesman says three people have died in the crash, CBS affiliate WSAW reports. A spokesman for the FAA told the station that an Ascension Health helicopter departed…
SALT LAKE CITY — A University of Utah student has created a space to help his peers cope with their testing anxiety – “The Cry Closet.” CBS affiliate KUTV reports that the door on art student Nemo Miller’s exhibit invites stressed-out students in for a quick 10-minute cry session during finals. “Just let it all out,” university spokeswoman Jana Cunningham…