Former Alabama Governor Out Of Hospital After Heart Surgery
The former governor was released from federal prison last year after serving time on a bribery conviction.
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House Panel Advances Bond Bills, Including 1 For Shipyard
The bills go to the full House for more work.
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…
Caledonia Woman Indicted For Child Abuse
Investigators say the suspect was intoxicated when they arrived last fall.
Local Man Indicted On Child Sex Crime
Investigators say the alleged victim is under the age of 16.
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…
Man Arrested After Alleged Meth Found In Rental Vehicle
Drug arrest made after Tishomingo County Deputies find possible methamphetamine in rental vehicle.
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…
Report: $560M Powerball winner losing $14K a day in interest, attorney says
A New Hampshire woman who says she won a $560 million Powerball jackpot in January is losing about $14,000 a day in interest as she fights a legal battle to remain anonymous, according to her attorney, the New Hampshire Union Leader reports. “Time is of the essence in this matter,” said the attorney, Steven Gordon, who is representing the winner known…
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…
Auto-Burglary Suspect Arrested In Oxford
Police were tipped to her as a suspect after Ivy cashed the victim’s money order at a bank.
Armed vet shot by Fla. officers was facing eviction over dogs
Miami-Dade police responded to reports of an elderly man brandishing a handgun and threatening suicide. Officers fatally shot the 84-year-old veteran. CBS Miami NARANJA, Fla. – An 84-year-old military veteran who had been fighting eviction from his apartment near Miami was fatally shot by at least four Miami-Dade police officers. Police were responding to reports of an elderly man brandishing…
Body of slain UConn prof may have been in home for months
Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi was found beaten to death in his Burlington, Conn. home on Feb. 5, 2018. WFSB BRISTOL, Conn. — A scientist is charged with fatally beating her husband, a University of Connecticut doctor, and the body may have been left inside their home for months. Neighbors say they hadn’t seen him since last summer, CBS affiliate WFSB reports….
Trump hosts National Sheriffs Association
Last Updated Feb 13, 2018 2:56 PM EST President Trump is holding a roundtable discussion with representatives from the National Sheriffs Association Tuesday, as he continues pushing his tough-on-crime agenda from the White House. The president’s invitation comes soon after Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday mentioned sheriffs’ “Anglo-American heritage” during remarks he gave to law enforcement officials in Washington,…
Oxford Police Make Burglary Arrest
Oxford man arrested accused of stealing items, then selling them on social media.
Philippine president slammed over threat to shoot rebels in the genitals
In this Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte addresses the troops during the 82nd anniversary celebration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. Human rights groups say the Philippine president’s recent remarks about troops shooting female communist rebels in the genitals to render them “useless” can encourage sexual…