Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where he allegedly killed 17 people, is seen on a closed circuit television screen during a bond hearing in front of Broward Judge Kim Mollica at the Broward County Courthouse on February 15, 2018 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Pool / Getty Images PARKLAND, Fla. — The…
An evidence box in the case of an unidentified 1981 Texas murder victim IOLA, Texas — There’s a case that has been haunting former detective John Leflore for almost four decades. It began in 1981, he says, when a human head rolled out of a garbage bag left alongside a Texas farm road, startling the local highway worker who had…
BALTIMORE — The family of a Maryland woman who was fatally shot by police two years ago may never receive the entire $37 million it was awarded in a lawsuit last week. Maryland has a cap on local governments’ liabilities in such cases, and judges have a tendency to lower large awards on appeal, the Baltimore Sun reported. Legal experts…
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Gabriel Gaeta in an undated photo CBS affiliate KIRO PORT ORCHARD, Wash. – A Washington man has pleaded guilty to the rape and killing of a 6-year-old girl and faces a minimum 40-year sentence. The Kitsap Sun reports that 21-year-old Gabriel Gaeta of Bremerton pleaded guilty Friday in Kitsap County Superior Court to first-degree murder and first-degree rape in the 2014…
SAN ANTONIO — A masked shooter opened fire on a family waiting to be seated at a San Antonio restaurant, wounding a 6-year-old boy and four of his relatives, police said Monday. Police Chief William McManus said shortly after the Sunday night shooting that the boy was shot in the leg and was expected to survive, but that two of…
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A New York City police car is seen in a 2013 file photo. Fernando Carniel Machado / Getty Images ALBANY, N.Y. – The 18-year-old woman was driving with two friends near Coney Island in September when the two plainclothes detectives pulled her over and found marijuana. The officers released the two male passengers, handcuffed the woman and told her she…
A man was allegedly shot dead by an Uber EATS driver outside this Atlanta condo complex WGCL ATLANTA — Authorities in Atlanta say a 30-year-old man was fatally shot Saturday night following a dispute with an Uber Eats driver. The shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. outside a condo building, reports CBS affiliate WGCL. Witnesses told police the victim had placed…
NEW YORK — Police are investigating the death of a woman who fell from a fifth-floor window of a Harlem housing development. CBS New York reports Quanneisha Baskerville stopped at her estranged boyfriend’s apartment Saturday to drop off her children, ages 4, 9 and 10. Baskerville was possibly violating a restraining order by being there. She was facing assault charges…
OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma lawmaker isn’t pushing for a vote on a resolution to oust a judge who approved probation for a man who admitted raping a 13-year-old Texas girl at a church camp in southern Oklahoma. Republican Rep. Mike Ritze tells The Oklahoman newspaper he’s putting the resolution on hold so lawmakers can focus on other issues, including…
Alabama lawmakers looking to a possible over haul in the states juvenile justice system.
WICHITA, Kan. — Authorities searching for a missing 5-year-old Kansas boy have scoured a nature park and set up a tip hotline. The Wichita Eagle reports that police said they received a call at about 6:15 p.m. Saturday to report Lucas Hernandez was lost in southeast Wichita. When officers arrived, Lucas’ 26-year-old stepmother said he was last seen at about…
Alabama exported goods and services to 189 countries last year. Its biggest foreign customer was Canada, which bought $4.14 billion in exports.
Lincoln College Preparatory Academy KCTV KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A lawsuit filed last week alleges a Kansas City school allowed a violent felon to pick up a 14-year-old student. The suit alleges he then took the girl to a motel and raped her, reports CBS affiliate KCTV. The now 21-year-old plaintiff is suing Kansas City Public Schools, a former Lincoln…
Frustration is mounting in the medical community as the Trump administration again points to mental illness in response to yet another mass shooting. “The concept that mental illness is a precursor to violent behavior is nonsense,” said Dr. Louis Kraus, forensic psychiatry chief at Chicago’s Rush University Medical College. “The vast majority of gun violence is not attributable to mental…
Oktibbeha County had proposed taxing area properties to make improvements in 2014, but never moved forward.
NEOSHO, Mo. — A Missouri youth baseball team is moving ahead with a raffle of an AR-15 rifle despite criticism it received after a similar gun was used to kill 17 in a Florida high school. Coach Levi Patterson told the Kansas City Star the fundraiser for the third-grade team in Neosho, Missouri, had been planned before last week’s shooting…
The arrests came days after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, killed 17 people.
Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz is expected to appear in court Monday afternoon. A status hearing was scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. ET. The hearing will be livestreamed in the player above. Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder following last week’s deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. © 2018 CBS…
DETROIT — Cliff Russell, a former reporter and anchor for CBS station WWJ-TV, has died, the station reported Monday. Russell worked at the station in the mid-’80s until 1994, when he became Detroit’s first African-American press secretary to the mayor. He was appointed to the position by former Mayor Dennis Archer. Russell was 61. Family members said he had a…
Just two months after his near-death scare, he won the gold medal at the X Games in Oslo, Norway.
Last Updated Feb 19, 2018 11:41 AM EST The Florida school shooting suspect bought seven rifles in the last year, a federal law enforcement source has told CBS News. The revelation about Nikolas Cruz comes as agencies apparently missed a number of warning signs about him. The Florida Department of Children and Families investigated Cruz in 2016, and police records…
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — The Broward County Sheriff on Sunday visited a teen who was shot five times during the school shooting last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Fla. According to a GoFundMe page, 15-year-old Anthony Borges was attempting to close and lock the door to a classroom to shield fellow classmates from the gunman when…