Officials in Boulder, Colorado, have released new information about the attack Sunday on a group of peaceful demonstrators who were marching to support Israeli hostages in Gaza. They now say 15 people were injured, up from eight reported earlier, when the suspect hurled Molotov cocktails at the crowd. The incident …
Read More »Top prosecutor says 2 remaining New Orleans jail escapees may be in other cities: “They can’t hide forever”
Two inmates — Antoine Massey and Derrick Groves — who were among 10 people who escaped from a New Orleans jail nearly two weeks ago may be in other cities, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told CBS News in an interview on Wednesday. Eight of the 10 Orleans Parish Prison inmates …
Read More »Police arrest 85
Police arrested an 85-year-old man on Tuesday, decades after he allegedly stabbed a 27-year-old woman to death in Texas, according to police. Barbara Villarreal was found dead on Nov. 7, 1986, in Garland, about 20 miles from Dallas. She had been repeatedly stabbed and a large kitchen knife was found …
Read More »El Paso mass shooter gets 90 consecutive life sentences for killing 23 people in Walmart shooting
The white Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences Friday, after relatives of the victims berated him for days over the shooting that targeted Hispanic shoppers on the U.S.-Mexico border. Patrick Crusius, 24, was …
Read More »How does air quality affect our health? Doctors explain the potential impacts
A thick haze that’s been taking over the skies of parts of the U.S. in recent weeks has intermittently prompted numerous cities to urge people to stay indoors — and for good reason. The smoke swirling in from wildfires in Canada has spiked air pollution in some cities to levels that could …
Read More »Body of escaped Ohio prison inmate, convicted murderer Bradley Gillespie, believed found in Ohio River
Police believe they have found the body of a convicted murderer who escaped from an Ohio prison in the Ohio River near Henderson, Kentucky, officials said. Bradley Gillespie was reported missing Tuesday along with another inmate, James Lee, who was captured early Wednesday morning. The body was recovered near Gillespie’s …
Read More »Rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years in prison for drug trafficking charges
Rapper Fetty Wap has been sentenced to six years in prison for drug trafficking, officials said Wednesday. The rapper, whose legal name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, was one of multiple defendants charged and found guilty of being part of an organization that distributed more than 100 kilograms of cocaine, …
Read More »Idaho murders: Court denies request to lift gag order in case of Bryan Kohberger, man accused of killing 4 college students
Watch “48 Hours: The Idaho Student Murders” — correspondent Peter Van Sant reports on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. The Idaho Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by 30 news organizations to lift a gag order in the criminal case of a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students …
Read More »Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 92, charged with sexual assault over alleged 1977 incident
Theodore McCarrick, a defrocked former cardinal who once served as the archbishop of Washington D.C., is facing new sexual assault accusations tied to an alleged incident that occurred more than 40 years ago, authorities announced this week. McCarrick, now 92, is charged in Wisconsin with one count of sexual assault …
Read More »Failed Signature Bank will be taken over by New York Community Bancorp
Signature Bank, which collapsed last week in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure, will be taken over by New York Community Bancorp, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced Sunday. With deposits of $88.6 billion and more than $110 billion in assets at the end of 2022, Signature Bank’s collapse …
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