A file image of a person using hand sanitizer. Elena Elisseeva NEW YORK — The sound of hand sanitizer dispensing is music to Molly McGarry’s ears. “It’s quick and easy to clean your hands,” she says. Hand sanitizer sales are up 37 percent over last year, and millions of people use it multiple times a day, CBS New York’s Dana Tyler…
Long Beach resident Tony Kao posted a video that captured a racist encounter on Facebook. It has since gone viral. Tony Kao / Facebook HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — A teacher accused of telling a California couple to go back to their home country was placed on leave by her college employer after a video that captured the encounter went viral, CBS…
Mississippi State women’s basketball finds out its “Road to Columbus” on Monday.
The Senate’s version would divert up to $800 million in future revenue to funds controlled by the governor.
The state Veterans Affairs department says it is the largest veterans’ home in the United States, with about 1,000 residents.
On either side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the approximately 150-mile-long, 2.4-mile-wide strip separating North Korea and South Korea, lie armies, weapons and other markers of war. At the observation post in Paju, a city situated just south of the world-watched 38th parallel, a South Korean solider stands. South Korea and its volatile neighbor have never officially ended the Korean…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A woman who was 11 when she was forced to marry her rapist has worked for six years to ban child marriages in Florida. On Friday, she was hailed as a hero after the Legislature passed a bill prohibiting marriage for anyone under 17. State lawmakers have repeatedly cited Sherry Johnson as an inspiration to change the…
Last Updated Mar 9, 2018 3:59 PM EST President Trump will attend the Summit of the Americas regional meeting of Western Hemisphere leaders in Peru in April, the Associated Press first reported and the White House later confirmed. The event is scheduled to take place in Peru’s capital city, Lima. Leaders around Latin America have been watching closely for any…
The juvenile suspect will be tried as an adult due to a previous gun charge.
After the announcement Thursday night that President Trump has agreed to meet by May with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over denuclearization, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are urging Mr. Trump to proceed with caution. Senate Foreign Relation Committee Members Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, James Risch, R-Idaho, Marco Rubio, R-Florida, Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, and Todd Young, R-Indiana co-signed a letter to…
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed a school safety bill passed by the Legislature in response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month that killed 17 people. The bill signed Friday falls short of what many of the shooting’s survivors advocated for. It raises the minimum age to buy rifles from 18 to 21,…
Richard Sherman, No. 25 of the Seattle Seahawks, reacts after a play against the Carolina Panthers during the 2015 NFC Divisional Playoff game at CenturyLink Field on January 10, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. On Friday, the Seahawks announced they are cutting ties with Sherman. Jonathan Ferrey / Getty Images The Seattle Seahawks are cutting ties with star cornerback Richard Sherman,…
HAMPTON, Va. — A 13-year-old Virginia girl is accused of robbing a 12-year-old boy at gunpoint. The Daily Press cites a release from Hampton police that says the girl pulled out a gun and demanded the boy’s cellphone on Wednesday afternoon, fleeing after she obtained it. The boy told police he knew the girl. Cpl. Ashley Jenrette said in the release that…
Veterans Home of California in Yountville CBS SF Last Updated Mar 9, 2018 9:56 AM EST YOUNTVILLE, Calif. — Napa County Fire captain Chase Beckman says a gunman has taken hostages at a veterans home in California. Police closed access to the large veterans home in Yountville after a man with a gun was reported on the grounds. The California…
Last Updated Mar 9, 2018 2:49 PM EST White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday said North Korea must prove “concrete and verifiable actions” ahead of any meeting, declining to commit to any specific date for such a gathering to take place. South Korea’s national security made a surprise announcement from the White House Thursday night saying Mr. Trump…
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Sheriff Scott Israel visits Anthony Borges, 15, who was shot five times in the Parkland, Fla. school shooting Broward Sheriff PARKLAND, Fla. – A student hailed as a hero from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla. continues to fight for his life, reports CBS Miami. Fifteen-year-old Anthony Borges was hit with five bullets from the gunman’s…
Euro banknotes are seen in a 2014 file photo. Reuters/Dado Ruvic Dozens of Italians have been queuing at tax offices to claim money promised by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement in the weekend election — even though the party is not yet in power. A key election pledge of the 5-Star Movement (M5S) was to provide a universal basic income for…
HOUSTON — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class-action lawsuit Friday accusing the U.S. government of broadly separating immigrant families seeking asylum. The lawsuit follows action the ACLU took in the case of a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter, who the group said was taken from her mother “screaming and crying” and placed in a Chicago facility….
Antwaun Ware, left, and Jamine Dunbar Maricopa County/KPHO PHOENIX – A man whose ex-girlfriend wanted him to take a paternity test is charged with her murder after allegedly admitting he killed her and set her body on fire. Antwaun Ware is held on $1 million bond in the death of 21-year-old Jasmine Dunbar. According to the police report in the…
Oxford University has apologized for an image of a female worker cleaning chalk that read “Happy International Women’s Day” at the university’s campus. Sophie Smith, an associate political theory professor at the college, tweeted the image Thursday. What an image for ,” Smith wrote. The image has been retweeted nearly 20,000 times on Twitter. Oxford security makes a woman cleaner…
Roman Catholic priest Robert Deland is arraigned Monday, Feb.26, 2018 via video from the Saginaw County Jail in the courtroom of Saginaw County District Judge M. Randall Jurrens in Saginaw, Mich. Jacob Hamilton/The Saginaw News via AP SAGINAW, Mich. — The Catholic Diocese of Saginaw says a Michigan priest who recently was charged with sex crimes was cleared following a…
Johnson and two other men are charged for the shooting death of James White.