Archives: 2018

Dad arrested after boy brings loaded gun to school in book bag

MIAMI – A father is behind bars after his 8-year-old son brought a loaded gun to school, reports CBS Miami. Ramon Nuiry, 53, was booked into jail on Thursday after allegedly admitting to police that he put his loaded gun inside his son’s book-bag and forgot to remove it before the child went to school. His son then took the…

Family outraged after video of frightened 2-year-old goes viral

Viral video recorded at a Florida day care showed a 2-year-old frightened by the Easter Bunny. via WKMG KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A Florida family is outraged after a day care worker recorded and shared video of their toddler’s frightened reaction to the Easter Bunny without their permission, CBS Orlando affiliate WKMG-TV reports. The family said the video was taken by…

Sarah Sanders addresses Russia sanctions, China tariffs, Scott Pruitt

Last Updated Apr 6, 2018 2:58 PM EDT White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday said she doesn’t necessarily expect the new sanctions announced against some in Russian President Vladimir Putin to change Mr. Trump’s intent to meet with Putin at the White House soon. On Friday, the Trump administration announced sanctions that will affect Russian elites, including Putin’s…

Carcasses of “zombie-like” raccoons being tested

Earlier this week, reports of “zombie-like” raccoons across northeast Ohio baffled police and attracted national headlines. The animals have been spotted exhibiting bizarre behavior around the city of Youngstown since January. Then last week, a local wildlife photographer named Robert Coggeshall managed to catch a few examples of the baffling phenomenon on film. Coggeshall was outside playing with his dogs…

Goats rescued after daring climb onto bridge

Two goats wandered away from their farm and  found themselves stranded in a peculiar place: the side of a Pennsylvania bridge. Pennsylvania Turnpike A pair of goats were rescued Tuesday after they found themselves in a tricky situation — the animals were stuck on the beam of a Pennsylvania bridge hundreds of feet in the air. Officials aren’t quite sure…

Cops: Woman accused of murdering wife called it a “mistake”

Aterraka Scotland Redmond Police Department REDMOND, Wash. – A Washington woman accused of killing her wife and leaving her beneath a carpet in their shared bedroom told police it was a “mistake.” Aterraka Scotland, 27, was arrested on Thursday for the murder of Tiffany Scotland, 26. According to a police report, Aterraka and Tiffany were renting a room from a…

Police: Mom used kitchen knife to decapitate 7-year-old son

SWEDEN, N.Y. — Authorities say a woman used a “large-bladed kitchen knife” to sever the head of her 7-year-old son in rural western New York. Police arrested 36-year-old Hanane Mouhib after Abraham Cardenas was found dead Thursday night in a home in the town of Sweden, about 15 miles west of Rochester. She was charged with second-degree murder. Police were responding…

Puerto Rico running out of time as storm season approaches, FEMA says

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — It will take up to an estimated $50 billion to help rebuild Puerto Rico, according to the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Brock Long said Friday that his agency aims to make the island’s roads, homes, bridges and electrical grid as strong as possible, but noted officials are running out of time because the…

Heavy rain may test spillway at nation’s tallest dam

  In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, crews work to repair the upper chute of the damaged spillway on the Oroville Dam in Oroville, Calif. Rich Pedroncelli / AP SAN FRANCISCO — Heavy rain is moving across Northern California, prompting at least one city to bring in additional emergency crews as authorities warn morning commuters to drive slowly….

Ex-teacher cries in court, admits fleeing with teen student

Tad Cummins pictured in a booking photo Siskiyou County Sheriff NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee teacher who set off a nationwide manhunt last year after he fled with a 15-year-old student broke down in court after pleading guilty to crossing state lines to have sex with a minor. Former forensics teacher Tad Cummins, 51, also pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction of…

Conor McGregor leaves precinct in handcuffs after backstage melee

Last Updated Apr 6, 2018 11:54 AM EDT NEW YORK — Ultimate fighting star Conor McGregor was seen leaving a New York City police station in handcuffs Friday morning in the wake of a backstage melee he allegedly instigated that has forced the removal of three fights from UFC’s biggest card of the year. The New York Police Department says…

Deck hand saved lives as fishing boat sank

HONOLULU — Khanh Huynh has been a commercial fisherman since he was 12 years old. For the past six years, he’s been living on a fishing boat in Hawaii, catching premium ahi tuna for some of the world’s most discerning consumers. The 28-year-old fisherman from outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, recently saved the lives of two Americans and helped…

Condemned killer seen abducting girl on video to be resentenced

A car wash surveillance camera captured images of condemned killer Joseph Smith abducting 11-year-old Carlie Brucia in 2004. She was later found dead. AP TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida man on death row for kidnapping, raping and killing 11-year-old Carlie Brucia in a case that captured the nation’s attention will get a new sentencing hearing. The Florida Supreme Court on…

Oregon governor says she'll say no to Trump on National Guard

President Trump can’t count on Oregon in his effort to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, said in a series of tweets Thursday that she will say no if the president asks for her help. Mr. Trump earlier this week announced that he will be sending the military — the White House…

Report: Murder suspect said “I think I need to kill my mom”

GROTON, Mass. — A 23-year-old man accused of fatally beating his mother, grandparents and their caretaker with a baseball bat at a home in Massachusetts has been indicted by a grand jury on four counts of murder. The Middlesex District Attorney’s office says Orion Krause, of Rockport, Maine, will be arraigned in Superior Court on Wednesday. He pleaded not guilty…

Details emerge about teen lovers found dead in mine shaft

SALT LAKE CITY — They were teenagers in love, bonding after overcoming personal struggles and dreaming of a family and future together. When they vanished days after Christmas, friends and family combed Utah’s west desert for months in search of answers. What police eventually discovered was more unspeakable than anyone had imagined: The teens’ bound and stabbed bodies were 100…

Mick Mulvaney allowed big pay bumps at consumer agency

NEW YORK (AP) — Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s appointee to oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has given big pay raises to the deputies he has hired to help him run the bureau, according to salary records obtained by The Associated Press. This is at the agency Mulvaney — who is also the head of the Office of Management and…