White House Locked Down After Vehicle Strikes Barrier
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Stolen Edgar Degas painting found in luggage on bus
This photo taken Thursday Feb. 22, 2018 and provided by French Customs shows a stolen painting by French impressionist artist Edgar Degas, which was discovered in a suitcase on a bus. Marc Bonodot / AP PARIS — French customs officers have found an impressionist painting by Edgar Degas stowed on a bus more than eight years after it was reported…
Nasty flu season showing signs of winding down
Last Updated Feb 23, 2018 3:34 PM EST NEW YORK — Could this nasty flu season finally be winding down? U.S. health officials on Friday said fewer visits to the doctor last week were for fever, cough and other flu symptoms than during the previous two weeks. Flu-like illnesses accounted for 1 out of 16 doctor visits last week, while the…
Trump administration escalates pressure on N. Korea with new sanctions
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration escalated pressure on North Korea Friday by slapping sanctions on scores of companies and ships accused of illicit trading with the pariah nation. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the U.S. has now blacklisted virtually all ships being used by the North. The administration billed it as the largest installment of North Korean economic restrictions to…
New research debunks medical marijuana myths
A budtender displays cannabis at the Higher Path medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles, Calif., on Dec. 27, 2017. Getty Mention legalizing medical marijuana, and people often think two things: This will prompt teens to think marijuana use is OK, and more will start using it. Legalizing marijuana will reduce the number of adults overdosing on opioids. As it turns…
Alabama Severe Weather Preparedness Tax Holiday This Weekend
This weekend, Alabama is holding its seventh annual severe weather preparedness sales tax holiday from Friday through Sunday at retailers around the state. The weekend is designed to help shoppers stock up tax free on common supplies used in emergency preparedness and disaster safety kits. Items that are eligible must be under $60. The state’s 4-percent sales tax is excluded,…
State moves closer to approving new method of execution
This Oct. 7, 2002, file photo shows Alabama’s lethal injection chamber at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala. DAVE MARTIN / AP MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama on Thursday moved closer to approving the use of nitrogen gas in executions, a method that has never been used to carry out a death sentence. The Alabama Senate voted 29-0 for the bill that…
Transit officials under fire for $100K bathroom
BOSTON — Massachusetts transportation officials are under fire for authorizing a no-bid contract for a $100,000 bathroom inside a state office building. WCVB-TV reports that the 115-square-foot bathroom and adjoining kitchenette was installed last year at the State Transportation Building inside the new state Transportation Department and MBTA board room. The project was fast-tracked and not put out to bid, which…
Investigation after 8 dogs shot dead in same neighborhood
Beaux, a 13-year-old chocolate lab, was found shot dead in a Texas neighborhood KHOU CONROE, Texas – Residents say someone shot and killed eight dogs in the Deer Trails community of Conroe, reports CBS affiliate KHOU. “We saw some buzzards over by the pipeline,” said Case Coroiescu. “(I) walked over there out by the woods, came to the pipeline, that’s when…
Trump holds press conference with Australian prime minister
President Trump will take questions alongside Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Friday afternoon, in his first official press conference since before the Parkland shooting last week. In most press conferences with foreign leaders, two questions are given to the American press, and two are given to the foreign press. The bilateral press conference comes after Mr. Trump met with Turnbull,…
This week on “Sunday Morning” (Feb. 25)
Full episodes of “Sunday Morning” are now available to watch on demand on CBSNews.com, CBS.com and CBS All Access, including via Apple TV, Android TV, Roku, Chromecast, Amazon FireTV/FireTV stick and Xbox. The show also streams on CBSN beginning at 9:30 a.m. ET and 1 p.m. ET. You can also download the free “Sunday Morning” audio podcast at iTunes and at Play.it. Now…
Winter Jam 2018 Comes To Tupelo
Winter Jam is the largest Christian music tour in the United States. The tour will play more than 40 cities with more than half a million people in attendance.
Fletcher Cox Credits Mississippi Roots For Football Career
Cox began playing football when he was 13 and played three seasons at Mississippi State University.
This country dominates global fishing, study finds
WASHINGTON — Scientists tag sharks to see where they roam in the high seas, but until now they couldn’t track the seas’ biggest eater: Humans. By using ships’ own emergency beacons, researchers got the first comprehensive snapshot of industrial fishing’s impacts around the globe. And it’s huge — bigger than scientists thought, according to a new study. Large-scale commercial fishing…
Court document: Online exhibitionist killed with liquor bottle
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Police believe a man used a liquor bottle as a weapon to kill his exhibitionist wife, who was found dead from a head wound outside their suburban home, a court document showed Friday. A police complaint alleged Kathleen Dawn West, 42, was killed with a bottle of Lucid Absinthe in January. Her husband, 44-year-old William Jeffrey West,…
Missouri governor defiant after indictment linked to affair
ST. LOUIS — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens remains defiant, even amid calls for impeachment or resignation after a St. Louis grand jury indicted him for felony invasion of privacy, alleging the Republican took a compromising photo of a woman during an extramarital affair the year before he was elected. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on Thursday announced the indictment…
Rick Gates appearing for plea hearing
Last Updated Feb 23, 2018 1:00 PM EST Former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates is appearing for a plea hearing in federal court Friday afternoon, from charges stemming from the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Reduced charges of conspiracy against the United States and making false statements were filed in new court documents shortly before the hearing scheduled for 2…
Hickman Out As Columbus Superintendent
Deputy Superintendent Craig Shannon has been appointed as the interim school leader.
Investigation Begins Into University Sexual Assault
The school says a suspect in the assault has been identified but no names have been released.
Former Ulta employee says she felt pressured to resell used products
Popular personal products chain Ulta Beauty is accused of reselling used products. The rapidly-growing company with more than 1,000 stores in 48 states is facing two class-action lawsuits that claim employees repackage products that were damaged or returned and then put them back on shelves Plaintiff Kimberly Brown says the beauty retailer used to be her one-stop shop for personal care products…
Second Mississippi Child Dies From Flu This Season
Nationwide, there have been 84 pediatric flu deaths reported this season.
Sex offender charged in 1981 death of 7-year-old boy
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — A West Virginia man has been charged in the 1981 slaying of 7-year-old Conrad Roger “C.R.” Diaz. News outlets report convicted sex offender William Clyde Jeffries said at his Wednesday hearing that he doesn’t want a life sentence and wants to get treatment. Outlets report Harrison County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Detective Dixon Pruitt and State Police Cpl….
Feds crack down on elder fraud as seniors lose billions to scams
When a scammer called Dorothy Lambing of Louisiana claiming she had won a prize worth thousands of dollars, Lambing and her husband were desperate and battling cancer. All she had to do was purchase a six-month supply of vitamins. “I felt like the bottom had dropped out. You know, all the hope we had was gone,” Lambing told CBS News’…
U.S. embassy moving to Jerusalem in May
Last Updated Feb 23, 2018 11:28 AM EST The U.S. Embassy will move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May, based on information from three State Department officials. High-level Jewish-American donors have voiced their willingness to donate to the building of the new embassy. The news comes after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed off on a security plan for…