The Pentagon has quietly eliminated troop statistics for Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria from its website, according to the Military Times. The Department of Defense’s quarterly troop statistics, released in December, now has blank spaces for those Middle Eastern countries. The Military Times in December reported that the now-missing Defense Manpower Data Center data showed the U.S. had 26,000 troops total…
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby’s lawyer launched a blistering courtroom attack on the comedian’s accuser Tuesday, branding her a con artist whose goal was “money, money and lots more money.” Tom Mesereau told jurors in his opening statement at the former TV star’s sex-assault trial that Andrea Constand wasn’t attracted to Cosby but was “madly in love” with his fame and…
FORT WORTH, Texas – The attorney for a man charged with murdering a Texas college student in 2016 says the woman died accidentally during sex. Charles Dean Bryant’s attorney says her client then panicked and dismembered and burned the body of 24-year-old Texas Woman’s University student Jacqueline Vandagriff. Defense attorney Glynis McGinty laid out the defense in her opening…
ORADELL, N.J. — A former wrestler has sued his Catholic high school, claiming the New Jersey school and church officials conspired to cover up sexual and verbal abuse in its nationally recognized wrestling program, CBS New York reports. The suit filed Monday alleges Bergen Catholic High School wrestling coaches shared pornographic images with team members, watched wrestlers strip naked and sent…
Mercedes ships up to 75,000 more from Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
It’s among 199 grants totaling $18.6 million nationwide announced Monday by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Last Updated Apr 10, 2018 1:58 PM EDT PORTLAND, Ore. – Hours before the bodies of three Washington state siblings and their parents were discovered at the bottom of a coastal California cliff, a Child Protective Services investigator called 911 to report “concerns that the children aren’t being fed,” reports CBS affiliate KOIN. Three Hart children remain missing. KOIN obtained…
All of the sirens are refurbished and cost about $16,000 each.
Pascagoula police aren’t commenting, but Cooper says authorities should have been aware of the previous commitment.
The event’s organizers responded with a post, since deleted, saying it won’t play Boosie’s music at any “official events.”
WILLOWBROOK, Calif. — An assisted living center in Southern California is facing serious allegations. CBS Los Angeles reports a diabetic man who uses a wheelchair claims the center dumped him on Skid Row. Ronald Anderson says he was recently kicked out of the nursing facility and was dropped off in front of the Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los Angeles with…
Liz Luna, right, hugs Norma Jimenez as they react to the Arizona Supreme Court ruling against young immigrants granted deferred deportation status under the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, during a demonstration at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Monday, April 9, 2018. Ross D. Franklin/AP PHOENIX — Arizona’s three state universities and its largest community college district…
Last Updated Apr 10, 2018 10:55 AM EDT NEW YORK — A conservative commentator who tweeted that he would use “a hot poker” to sexually assault a 17-year-old survivor of a Florida high school shooting has resigned from a St. Louis TV station. Sinclair Broadcast Group spokesman Ronn Torossian said in a statement Monday that Jamie Allman’s resignation has been…
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Thune: “It’s time for Congress to exercise some oversight” Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, says its time for Congress to step in and “exercise some oversight” on the issue of data privacy as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify on Capitol Hill on the protection of its users’ data in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. While…
Surveillance video captures the moment an SUV plowed through the front of a 7-Eleven in Lawrence, Massachusetts, narrowly missing one customer and hitting another. 7-Eleven A 31-year-old man is accused of driving drunk after he crashed his SUV into a 7-Eleven in Lawrence, Massachusetts, early Sunday morning, CBS Boston reports. Surveillance video from inside the store shows a female customer…
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A woman who attends Michigan State University filed a federal lawsuit against the school Monday alleging that three former men’s basketball players sexually assaulted her at an off-campus apartment in 2015 and that she was discouraged from reporting what happened. The woman and players are not named in the suit, which was filed in U.S. District…
Sen. Tammy Duckworth became the first U.S. senator to give birth while in office with the arrival of Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, her second child, on Monday. But before she gave birth to Maile, the 50-year-old double amputee and junior senator from Illinois reflected on some of her life’s milestones, in a note to her younger self. Sen. Tammy Duckworth CBS…
Patrick Reed clinched the 2018 Masters Tournament on Sunday by just one stroke. The 27-year-old held off one of the strongest fields in the tournament’s history including a late charge from Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler to win his first major victory. “It was just a sigh of relief. To dream about winning the green jacket as a child growing…
The five-thousand dollar award will be used to build new playground equipment at the downtown park.
Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony Tuesday could lead to new calls for oversight from Congress. The company faces outrage over the exposure of profile information from most of its two billion users to third parties. A new poll by CBS News and YouGov shows 61 percent of Americans say Congress should do more to regulate social media and tech companies and as CBS…
A fast moving fire tore through a multi-use building in Edgewater, New Jersey Monday evening, April 9, 2018. CBS New York EDGEWATER, N.J. — Authorities in New Jersey say several girls jumped from a balcony to escape a fire at a dance studio. The fire happened around 7 p.m. Monday at a multiuse building in Edgewater. CBS New York reports that…
Sean Hannity (L), Jimmy Kimmel (R) Getty/AP NEW YORK — Fox News host Sean Hannity has said he accepts an apology from ABC late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel and is ready to “move on” from a feud with that began over a joke about first lady Melania Trump’s accent. But he didn’t do so without a last dig, suggesting the…
PRINCETON, W.Va. — A Virginia woman has been charged in the death of a West Virginia man who was decapitated, authorities said Monday. CBS affiliate WVNS-TV reports 29-year-old Bo White’s body was found April 1 in his home in the Lerona area and his head in some woods. Court documents released Monday show 41-year-old Roena Cheryl Mills was charged with…