Archives: 2018

Alexander Polinsky accuses co-star Scott Baio of sexual harassment

Alexander Polinsky speaks during a press conference with his attorney Lisa Bloom regarding sexual harassment allegations against Scott Baio at The Bloom Firm on February 14, 2018 in Woodland Hills, California. Polinsky is the second person, along with Nicole Eggert, to costarred with Baio in the 1980’s sitcom “Charles in Charge” who have accused him of sexual harassment. Both Polinsky…

Declining U.S. fertility rates, and a “romantic reckoning”

New research shows a sharp drop in the number of babies born in the U.S. last year. An analysis reported in the New York Times found an estimated 3.84 million babies were born nationwide in 2017. That’s down more than 100,000 from the year before. The number of people 18 to 30 who say they haven’t had sex in the…

School in Idaho placed on lockdown over rampaging bull

BURLEY, Idaho — A high school in southeast Idaho was briefly placed on lockdown after a bull escaped an auction yard and stormed past the campus. “It was a little like the Old West around town today,” said Sheriff Jay Heward, The Times-News reports. The Black Angus bull rampaged across the town of Burley on Tuesday, trampling over signs and…

Lawmakers move to nix anti-gay language from this state's sex ed law

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers are moving to strike anti-gay language from the state’s sex education law. The current law says students are to be taught that homosexuality is a lifestyle that’s not “acceptable to the general public.” The Senate Education Policy Committee voted Wednesday to delete that phrase, sending the bill to the full Senate. Republican Sen Tom Whatley,…

In minutes, jury convicts Fla. man of girl's rape, murder

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It took less than 15 minutes Wednesday for a Florida jury to convict a 61-year-old man of abducting, raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl. Donald Smith now faces a possible death sentence. The Jacksonville courtroom had just gone into recess after the judge read instructions to the jurors when everyone quickly returned. A decision was in: unanimous guilty…

Leaping animal dies after crashing low-flying helicopter in Utah

In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, and provided by the Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office is a research helicopter that was brought down by a leaping elk in the mountains of eastern Utah. Wasatch County authorities say the elk jumped into the chopper’s tail rotor as the craft flew low, trying to capture the animal with a net. The…

Mitt Romney is running for Senate in Utah: AP

Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is running for the Senate in Utah. Three people with direct knowledge of the plan tell the Associated Press Romney will formally launch his campaign in a video on Thursday. His first public appearance as a Senate candidate is scheduled for Friday in Utah. The people who provided the information asked for anonymity because…

Dangerous wind conditions at Winter Olympics

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Watchdog report faults VA chief over Europe trip expenses

Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, addresses the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s hearing on the Veterans Affairs community care program, on Captiol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Cliff Owen/AP WASHINGTON — An internal watchdog’s investigation has found that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tennis tickets and likely wrongly used taxpayer money to cover his wife’s…

Lions kill suspected poacher as tracks show apparent fate of companion

JOHANNESBURG — A pride of lions have killed a suspected poacher, according to managers of a wildlife area in South Africa. The Umbabat Private Nature Reserve said the man was killed last week and that two sets of human tracks were found nearby, suggesting the alleged poacher had companions who escaped. The tracks indicated that the companions were “fleeing the…

IRS issues warning on tax fraud schemes

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3 shot dead, 5 wounded amid Mardi Gras celebrations

The scene of a deadly shooting in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans Tuesday WWL NEW ORLEANS – A festival close to Mardi Gras was marred by shootings across New Orleans that left three people dead and five others wounded. The first two shootings happened in the afternoon, when fights broke out near the traditional parade route.  Police clarified…

Dad who walked miles to work gets life-changing gift

Trenton Lewis is a single dad who works at a UPS facility in Little Rock, Arkansas. His shift starts at 4 a.m. And without a car, he got there on foot, walking 11 miles round trip every day to keep his job. Lewis’ legs ached from his long daily trek, but his 14-month-old daughter, Karmen, is the reason he persists….

Court acquits man accused of hiding Paris attackers

21 Photos Hooded police officers stand guard outside the Fresnes prison, where Jawad Bendaoud is expected to be jailed, outside Paris, Jan. 24, 2018. AP PARIS — A French court has acquitted a man of charges of harboring killers who carried out the 2015 Paris terror attacks in the first trial related to the country’s deadliest extremist violence since World…

Driver captured on Snapchat steering with foot just before crash

The crash occurred Monday night in Santa Clarita, California. CBS Los Angeles SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — The driver behind the wheel of a crash in Santa Clarita Monday night was captured on Snapchat with his foot on the wheel moments before the incident, CBS Los Angeles reports. Shaiela Phillips said her 21-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son were passengers in the…

Israeli PM shrugs off “biased, extreme” corruption allegations

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday shrugged off police recommendations that he be charged with corruption, calling the allegations “biased, extreme: and “full of holes, like Swiss cheese” and vowing to remain in office. Speaking at a local government meeting in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said his government remains stable despite the police announcement, and that “the truth…