Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Two men working in the same building met by chance. The rest is an incredible story about giving the gift of life. Treat others how you’d like to be treated. That’s how one man lived his life, but he never knew one small act of
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Community Remembrance Project of Boone County will hold a ceremony on the MKT Trail near Providence and Stewart roads to rededicate a plaque marking the site of the county’s last documented lynching. The event is set for 4 p.m. James Scott, a Black man, was lynched 98 years ago by a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAREDO, Texas (KTVT) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted methamphetamine with an estimated street value of more than $1.9 million in one enforcement action over the weekend. A container stores more than 98 pounds of methamphetamine discovered by CBP officers within a passenger vehicle at Laredo’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Does your family know if you’d like to be an organ donor? It’s not exactly a conversation you’d have over breakfast. As National Donate Life Month wraps up, the Morning Insiders take you inside a mother’s decision -full of pain and pride. CBS 2’s Lauren
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri has reported just 14 breakthrough COVID-19 cases among people who are fully vaccinated to federal health officials, even though 96 such cases have been detected in just the state’s largest county. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked states at the start
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The top US military intelligence official said during a congressional hearing on Thursday that the Russian military is an “existential threat” to the United States. “The Russian military is an existential threat to the United States,” Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story New York (WCBS) — A bird-smuggling suspect was stopped at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday when live finches were found stuffed into hair curlers. CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez spoke with New York City finch owners about why the birds are worth a lot of money. They may
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN JOSE, CA (KPIX) — Students at a school in San Jose make history again, as the youngest group to advance to the semifinals of a prestigious international robotics competition. Despite pandemic school closures, they’ve managed to compete against adults twice their age from 16 countries to create
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football newcomer Jadarrius Perkins is leaving the program less than four months after arriving on campus. A Mizzou spokesperson confirmed Perkins entered the transfer portal on Thursday. Perkins was the No. 3 ranked junior college transfer this past year. The junior defensive back chose MU over several offers, including Alabama, Texas
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story New York (WCBS) — A child was left with no choice but to jump from six stories up after a fire broke out at a Bronx apartment building Wednesday. She is critically injured but expected to survive. It happened at a 17-story high-rise apartment building near 169th Street
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When President Joe Biden drops by Jimmy Carter’s two-bedroom ranch house in Plains, Georgia, on Thursday — a pilgrimage to visit a man he vocally supported as a young senator decades ago — it will be at least the fourth time he’s spoken with one of his presidential or vice-presidential predecessors this month. He phoned
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GRANITE BAY, CA (KOVR) — An unusual sight at Folsom Lake has become an overcrowding headache. The Lupine super bloom is getting so much attention that park rangers are doing non-stop traffic control, trying to prevent backups and illegal parking. Word about the flowers is spreading fast. “I
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORRANCE, CA (KCAL, KCBS) — A family said they came home from dinner one-night last week and walked into a scene that looked like it was taken out of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror movie, The Birds. “We walked right into a nightmare,” said Patrick Belleville. “The birds were stuck
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Click here for updates on this story LEXINGTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — (CBS) — A woman in Lexington is helping hundreds of families deal with severe food allergies. Amy Thieringer is the creator and CEO of A.R.T. Allergy Release Technique. She started this holistic alternative treatment after nearly losing her own son to a severe allergic
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The BBB Scam Tracker is receiving reports of con artists creating fake airline ticket booking sites or customer service numbers.
Continue Reading The Ingenuity helicopter had risen to every challenge it faced on Mars so far, and now it’s confronting a new one. The little chopper was supposed to lift off Thursday for a flight that pushed it further, faster and longer than before. However, the flight didn’t happen as planned. “Aim high, and fly, fly again.
Continue Reading The family of Andrew Brown Jr. and a district attorney offered different accounts Wednesday as to what led to the fatal police shooting of the Black man last week in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The family and their attorneys have been allowed to see some of the police bodycam footage and a judge ruled Wednesday
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Click here for updates on this story ROOKLINE, Massachusetts (WBZ) — This week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said Gerald Alston was wrongfully fired after complaining of a racist work environment at the Brookline Fire Department. “The truth is the truth and I knew it was going to come to the surface and right now
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Get ready for a Big Apple summer. Mayor Bill de Blasio is targeting July 1 for New York City’s “full reopening,” telling MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” “we’re ready to come back and come back strong.” “We are ready for stores to open, for businesses to open, offices, theaters, full-strength,” de Blasio said Thursday. That will likely
Continue Reading Atlanta police are assisting Arizona authorities in the search of a homicide suspect who escaped custody at the Atlanta airport Thursday morning. Investigators from Maricopa County, Arizona, were transporting Jsaan Carlos Strover, 20, from Georgia to Arizona when he escaped just before 9 a.m at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, police said. Strover was handcuffed at
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