Archives: 2018

Man charged in wife's 1988 death he reported as suicide

POYNETTE, Wis. — An Arizona man has been arrested in the 1988 death of his wife, a Wisconsin case that was initially reported as a suicide. Investigators re-opened the case as a homicide in 2014, exhuming the victim’s body and re-interviewing witnesses, according to police. Mark Bringe, 70, was arrested at his home in Sahuarita, Ariz. on Monday and charged…

U.N. warns of “major new emergency” in Rohingya refugee crisis

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. refugee chief warned Tuesday that conditions aren’t right for Rohingya Muslims to voluntarily return to Myanmar because its government hasn’t addressed their exclusion, denial of rights and lack of citizenship. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi also warned that another “major new emergency looms” with the arrival of the monsoon season in March and…

Even as Marlins CEO, Derek Jeter is still a Yankees fan

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Volunteers get high to help cops spot pot users

Volunteer users took field sobriety tests at the beginning of the evening, then went into a tent and smoked marijuana. CBS Los Angeles SANTA ANA, Calif. — Even though recreational marijuana is legal in California, most people probably wouldn’t be comfortable smoking around police officers. But that’s exactly what Edson Villegas volunteered to do, CBS Los Angeles reports.  Villegas took…

“Chelsea bomber” learns fate in NYC, N.J. blasts

NEW YORK — A man who set off small bombs in two states, including a pressure cooker device that blasted shrapnel across a New York City block, was sentenced Tuesday to multiple terms of life in prison. Ahmad Khan Rahimi, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Afghanistan and lived in New Jersey, injured 30 people when one of…

Man acquitted in pier shooting enters plea on gun charges

SAN FRANCISCO — A Mexican man acquitted of murder in a San Francisco shooting that ignited a national immigration debate has pleaded not guilty to U.S. gun charges. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate appeared in federal court Tuesday to face two illegal gun possession charges.  They were filed five days after a jury in November found him not guilty of killing…

Measles cases in Europe tripled last year, officials say

Measles can be prevented with the MMR vaccine. CBS News LONDON — The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control says the number of measles cases across the continent tripled last year and is continuing to cause new outbreaks due to low immunization rates. In an update published this month, the agency said more than 14,400 cases were reported by…

Police recommend corruption charges against Israeli PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in Jerusalem on Feb. 13, 2018. POOL / REUTERS JERUSALEM — Israeli police on Tuesday recommended that Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted in a pair of corruption cases, media reported, in an embarrassing blow to the embattled prime minister that is likely to fuel calls for him to step down. In a live televised…

Iran says prof who died in custody worked for spy agencies

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s official IRNA news agency reports that a dual Iranian and Canadian citizen who killed himself in custody was sending information to the U.S. and Israeli intelligence services. The report Tuesday says Kavous Seyed-Emami, a university professor, was in custody for passing information on the country’s missile bases to the CIA and Mossad and planning to create…

Jury in ex-pastor's trial hears 911 plea from woman shot in head

Prosecutors played a recording of Kimberly Cherry speaking to 911 operators after being shot twice in the head WBTV CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina minister with a violent past is being tried on charges that he wounded an ex-girlfriend and killed her new boyfriend with close-range gunshots. On Monday, a jury heard audio of the woman talking to 911…

Woman on JetBlue flight allegedly assaults crew, touches male passenger

A JetBlue plane is seen at John F. Kennedy International Airport April 27, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City. Getty Images/Allison Joyce NEW YORK — A woman is scheduled to be arraigned Friday after she was kicked off a JetBlue plane last summer for kicking a flight attendant, throwing snacks and flirtatiously touching a male passenger without…

Tennis player Donald Young accuses opponent of racist comment

Tennis player Donald Young is accusing fellow American Ryan Harrison of making a racist remark to him during a match Monday. Sixth-seeded Harrison, the last champion of the Memphis Open, beat Young 6-3, 7-6 (4) in his first round match in the New York Open tournament in Uniondale, New York. During a changeover, the two players could be seen having a…

Laura Liswood on the future of progressive moments like #MeToo

DAVOS, Switzerland — The rising #metoo movement is a response to years of wrongdoing, but also has plenty of potential positive outcomes, according to Laura Liswood, secretary general of the Council of Women World Leaders Liswood co-founded the White House Project in 1997, which is dedicated to electing a female president of the United States, and she sees that the movement may…

Card companies take on a new look and tone to lure millennials

Americans will spend nearly $20 billion this Valentine’s Day and millennials are shelling out the most. On average, they will spend about $200 on cards, gifts, and other celebrations. With many of that generation growing tired of impersonal text messages and social media posts, greeting card companies are seeing an opportunity, reports CBS News’ Meg Oliver.  “We should throw a…

Mardi Gras parade-goers disturbed by blackface figurines

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans resident Carmen Cousin says her 4-year-old son was given blackface figurines during a Mardi Gras parade over the weekend, CBS affiliate WWL-TV reports. “I was just totally perplexed,” Cousin said. “I didn’t know what to think!” Her son was on her fiancee’s shoulders Saturday off of Canal Street when someone on a float during the Krewe…