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Sunny But Cooler Weather In Store

TONIGHT: Skies will remain fairly clear and we will be quite chilly overnight. Lows will drop into the low 30 and some areas may see frost develop. WENDESDAY & THURSDAY: We will keep the sunshine with a few clouds, but we will be significantly cooler with northerly winds. Temperatures will be in the mid 50s Wednesday and the upper 50s Thursday. Overnight…

NFL teams grapple with how to handle protest controversy next season

NEW YORK — Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross said he won’t force his players to stand for the national anthem, even though he believes kneeling is a counterproductive way to promote social justice. His statement came after the New York Daily News reported that he said all Dolphins players will stand for the anthem in 2018. Ross was in New…

The toll of the cobalt mining industry

A CBS News investigation of child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo has revealed that tens of thousands of children are growing up without a childhood today – two years after a damning Amnesty report about human rights abuses in the cobalt trade was published. The Amnesty report first revealed that cobalt mined by children was ending up in…

Texas primary results – live updates

It’s primary season for the 2018 midterm elections, and voters in Texas are the first in the nation to head to the ballot box. There’s a surge of energy among Democrats that’s enough to concern Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who has his own primary race to deal with Tuesday. Cruz is fighting for reelection for the first time since entering…

2018 SEC Men’s Basketball Awards Revealed

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WCBI/SEC) — The Southeastern Conference unveiled its men’s basketball coaches’ postseason awards Tuesday. Tennessee’s Rick Barnes earned SEC Coach of the Year honors and Grant Williams was selected the SEC Player of the Year by the league’s coaches. Georgia’s Juwan Parker earned SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year; Alabama’s Collin Sexton and Kentucky’s Kevin Knox were tabbed SEC Co-Freshman of the…

Tearful Ind. sheriff vows justice in deputy's fatal shooting

LEBANON, Ind. – A central Indiana prosecutor has filed formal murder charges against a man in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy during a foot chase last week. A second man has been arrested and charged with criminal recklessness and leaving the scene of an accident. Boone County sheriff Mike Nielsen choked back tears Tuesday afternoon as he told reporters…

Japanese volcano explodes in strongest eruption in years

An aerial view shows Shinmoedake peak erupting between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, southwestern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo March 6, 2018.  KYODO / REUTERS TOKYO — A volcano in southern Japan that appeared in a James Bond film had its biggest eruption in years Tuesday, shooting smoke and ash thousands of feet into the sky and grounding dozens…

Trump holds joint news conference with Sweden’s Lofven

Trump on North Korea: “We have made progress” President Trump addressed potential talks with the North Koreans while welcoming Sweden’s prime minister in the Oval Office. He told reporters that hopefully it will go in a “very peaceful and beautiful path” and it would be “a great thing for the world.” He called the situation in the Korean peninsula “very…

Video shows man holding girl, 4, amid violent bar fight

PINE JUNCTION, Colo. — Deputies in Colorado are searching for a suspect seen on video getting into a bar fight with a man holding his young daughter last month, reports CBS Denver. Investigators released surveillance video on Monday showing the Jan. 25 altercation at the the Crossroads Pizza & Wings Bar in Pine Junction. It shows a fight between three…

DNA links 1994 Montana killing to convicted murderer

In September of 2016, David Wayne Nelson pleaded guilty to fatally beating Greg Giannonatti with a hammer, and strangling his mother Beverly to death with a wire    KHLX HELENA, Mont. – Motions filed in court to overturn the homicide convictions of two men in a 1994 killing reveal that a man serving a life sentence for a double murder…

Ex-ESPN worker claims male employees kept sex “scorecards”

ESPN’s logo is seen during an event on Feb. 5, 2016, in San Francisco, California. Mike Windle/Getty Images for ESPN HARTFORD, Conn. — A former on-air personality at ESPN has filed a lawsuit alleging she was subjected to sexual harassment at the cable television sports giant and then ostracized for complaining about it. The lawsuit filed Sunday in federal court…

Tony-winning actress, 4-year-old daughter struck by car

NEW YORK — The 4-year-old daughter of a Tony Award-winning actress was killed along with a 1-year-old boy when a driver apparently lost control of her vehicle and slammed into them as they crossed a Brooklyn street. Ruthie Ann Blumenstein, who goes by the stage name Ruthie Ann Miles, was injured in the accident Monday in the Park Slope neighborhood….

Chinese space lab might fall back to Earth this month

China’s Long March 2F rocket carrying the Tiangong-1 module, or “Heavenly Palace,” blasts off from the Jiuquan launch centre in Gansu province on September 29, 2011. Str/AFP/Getty Images The European Space Agency (ESA) says it estimates that a Chinese spacecraft will fall back into Earth’s atmosphere sometime between March 29 and April 9. It says, however, “this is highly variable.” …

DNA leads to arrest in 1986 slayings of two young women

Michelle Xavier and Jennifer Duey KPIX FREMONT, Calif. — The 1986 killings of two California women who disappeared after attending a birthday party were committed by a man convicted in an unrelated murder three years later, according to DNA evidence linking the suspect to the crimes, authorities said Monday. At the time, the murders sent a panic through the Bay…