AP Photo/Uncredited ATLANTA (AP) — On April 4, 1968, a movement lost its patriarch when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on a hotel balcony in Memphis. Yolanda, Martin, Dexter and Bernice King lost their father. The loss has not gotten easier in 50 years, but his three surviving children each bear it on their own terms. “That…
DETROIT (AP) — Authorities say two 18-year-olds in Detroit were live on Instagram showing money and a gun when one of them shot the other in the back of the head, killing him.Police say the teen who fired the gun Monday night told investigators that he accidentally put his finger on the trigger and that the rifle discharged. He was…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 13-year-old boy was miraculously rescued Monday after falling into a river of sewage in Los Angeles, getting swept away and spending more than 12 hours in the city’s toxic and mazelike underground sewer system.Jesse Hernandez had been playing with other children on wooden planks over an access portal to the sewer system during a family…
AP Photo/Sean Murphy OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — From rodeo announcer to custom-cabinet builder, second jobs have become a necessity for many teachers in Oklahoma, where educators are some of the lowest paid in the nation. Numerous schools will be closed for a second day Tuesday as teachers continue to rally at the Capitol. Demonstrators on Monday voiced their dissatisfaction with…
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Many schools will remain closed for a second day in Oklahoma Tuesday as teachers rally for higher pay and education funding in a rebellion that has hit several Republican-led states across the country. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed legislation last week granting 15 to 18 percent higher salaries to teachers. But some educators…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Several state lawmakers and the family of a 22-year-old unarmed black man fatally shot by police are proposing Tuesday that California become the first state to significantly restrict when officers can open fire.The proposed legislation would change the current “reasonable force” rule to a “necessary force” standard. That means officers would be allowed to shoot only…
AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn had his first major encounter with officers as a kid who witnessed a murder in a tough part of California’s capital city. His second: as a teenager busted on allegations of assaulting an officer. “Nobody in my neighborhood thought about being a police officer,” Hahn said in an…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Video shown Monday that was taken by a dashboard camera inside a sheriff’s vehicle shows it hitting a protester and driving away – the latest flashpoint following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Sacramento.The law enforcement official behind the wheel likely didn’t know he hit someone, Sheriff Scott Jones said at a…
AP Photo/Corey Perrine NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The judge in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial gave his legal defense a huge boost Tuesday, ruling his lawyers can call a witness who says the accuser talked about framing a celebrity before she went to police in 2005 with allegations about the comedian. Judge Steven O’Neill also helped the defense case by…
President Trump reignited his long-standing spat with CNN and what he calls the “fake news” media in a new round of tweets Tuesday morning. The president claimed that reporters at CNN push an “anti-Trump” agenda and he called out other news organizations like NBC, ABC and CBS News for being “fakers.” Check out the fact that you can’t get a…
As Republicans streamed out of Washington in late January for their annual retreat, dozens of them headed to Union Station near the U.S. Capitol to catch a train to the luxury Greenbrier resort in West Virginia. Rep. Vern Buchanan wasn’t among them. The Florida lawmaker made the short trip in his Embraer Phenom 300, an executive jet that costs around…
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A 13-year-old was rescued Monday after being trapped for more than 12 hours in the maze-like tunnels of Los Angeles’ sewer system. Jesse Hernandez was freed after a massive search by police, fire and sanitation crews in a rescue officials called a “miracle.” “I was thinking like I’m gonna die and I was never gonna see my parents again,” Hernandez…
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South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy says that politics is “inherently divisive” and cited it as one of the main reasons he’s retiring from Congress in 2018. He spoke with “CBS This Morning” about his new book, co-written with fellow South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott, on how their friendship bridges divides amid political and racial tumult. “Politics has been divisive…
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The names of Confederate generals are being removed from street signs in one Florida city. The Hollywood city commission voted in August to remove the names of Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest and John Bell Hood from residential streets. In a Sun Sentinel report, officials said about half the signs have been replaced so far. The…
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BALTIMORE — Though generally considered a disease of the past, it turns out that cases of mumps are actually on the rise. CBS Baltimore reports an outbreak is spreading in Delaware, where health officials are investigating 11 cases of the mumps. The illnesses may possibly be linked to two separate dance festivals that were held at the same venue. Researchers have…
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UPPER DARBY, Pa. — Police say a foreign exchange student who was arrested on suspicion of threatening to shoot up his school had built a gun and had over 1,600 rounds of ammunition, CBS Philadelphia reports. An Tso Sun — an 18-year-old foreign exchange student from Taiwan who was studying at Monsignor Bonner Archbishop Prendergast Catholic High School — had…
Emily Jackson and her family were prevented from boarding a Disney Magic cruise because she is 25 weeks pregnant. KMOV-TV MIAMI — Disney Cruise Lines prevented a Missouri woman from boarding one of its ships because she is 25 weeks pregnant. Emily Jackson and her family arrived in Miami last week after her doctor had cleared her to vacation aboard…
Tanya Gersh, a Montana real estate agent sued the founder of a neo-Nazi website on April 18, 2017, saying the publisher orchestrated an anti-Semitic “campaign of terror” that bombarded her and her family with hateful messages from anonymous internet trolls. Dan Chung/Southern Poverty Law Center via AP Attorneys for a neo-Nazi website publisher and a Montana woman will ask a…
SEATTLE — Investigators said Monday they were examining “red flags” in a Washington state family’s past in hopes of explaining why their SUV went off a 100-foot cliff in an apparent suicide plunge. The wreckage was discovered last week on rocks along the coast near Mendocino, California, a few days after child welfare authorities in Washington began investigating whether the…
First-half stats Top Scorer: Donte DiVincenzo has 18 points. He’s 7-of-10 from the field and has hit three of this four three-point attempts. Fun fact: Villanova is 11-0 all-time when he scores 18 or more. Michigan:Moritz Wagner has 11 and Abdur-Rahkman has 10, including a 3-pointer for Michigan. Box score: Field Goals:Michigan is 11/28; Villanova is 14/31 3-pointers:Michigan is 2/13;…