The Biden administration will need to continue to build up bed capacity and drastically reduce the time it takes to release unaccompanied migrant children to a sponsor like a parent or relative in the US to avoid backlogs in Border Patrol facilities in the coming months, according to internal government documents obtained by CNN. The
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A Minneapolis Police use-of-force training instructor testified Tuesday that Derek Chauvin’s kneeling on George Floyd’s neck is not a trained neck restraint tactic. “We don’t train leg-neck restraints with officers in service, and as far as I know, we never have,” Lt. Johnny Mercil said. Mercil’s testimony came as a series of police experts testified
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with a southeast breeze. Showers and storms move in by sunrise with lows falling into the low 60s. TOMORROW: Morning rain and thunderstorms followed by a brief break by late morning. Mostly cloudy with another line of potentially stronger storms by late afternoon. A few of those storms could produce isolated damaging
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Click here for updates on this story ARLINGTON, Texas (KTVT) — As many as 40,000 fans were inside Globe Life Field in Arlington Monday afternoon for the Texas Rangers’ home opener. The full capacity crowd is one of the first since the COVID-19 pandemic began more than a year ago. There was lots of energy
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As April begins, the March weather story has come to an end. You’ll want to take a look back at the weather we saw in March because looking back at a month’s weather can be almost as interesting as looking forward to what’s coming next. You may be familiar with the Climate Prediction Center outlooks
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Click here for updates on this story BROWARD, Florida (WFOR) — A ShotSpotter alert has led to the arrest of two convicted felons and the seizure of illegal drugs and a stolen gun. Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony held a news conference on Tuesday morning to explain how the ShotSpotter technology allowed his deputies to
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Just as Grape Nuts come back to stores, Americans are faced with yet another shortage — this time, of oat milk at some Starbucks cafes. Starbucks rolled out oat milk lattes at about 1,300 stores in the Midwest last year. It added Oatly-brand oat milk to the menu nationally in March. But now, a mere
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President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he is moving up his deadline for states to make all American adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by almost two weeks, but said Americans must remain on a “war footing” to beat the virus. With all states having opened eligibility to the public or at least having
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — Hundreds of New York City public housing apartments are getting a makeover. It’s part of a public and private initiative to improve the image of affordable housing, CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez reported Monday. Many public housing tenants have been plagued by rundown kitchens and bathrooms,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ALLEN, Texas (KTVT) — A welfare check just before 1 a.m. on April 5 led Allen police to the discovery of six bodies in the 1500 block of Pine Bluff Drive. Police confirmed the identities as 19-year-old twins Farhan and Farbin Towhid, their older brother Tanvir, 21, and
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Southeastern Conference named Mizzou’s Jenna Laird as SEC Freshman of the Week, following a big win in South Carolina. Laird is batting .439 on the season, even increasing her average in conference play by hitting .471 over the last nine games. The week started in a 3-for-3 outing against St. Louis
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Hundreds of thousands of people in Illinois and Indiana are still out of work. They spend every day looking for a job – more than a year into the pandemic. Just when they think things are looking up because they get an interview – they
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The long history of Ken Burns documentaries ranges from places to people to entire wars. His latest collaboration with Lynn Novick, “Hemingway,” falls in that middle category, portraying Ernest Hemingway’s war-spanning, tumultuous life over six hours, which might not qualify as Hemingway-esque brevity, but proves fascinating nevertheless. Seeking to bring the written words to life,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — Another random assault has been caught on camera. Police say a 75-year-old woman was punched in the face on a Harlem sidewalk as she was walking to Easter Sunday dinner. “No exchange of words. Just one hell of a punch to the face. It
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Police and Cook County prosecutors say Antonio Butler is an 18-year-old carjacker who recently went on a crime spree. As CBS 2’s Chris Tye reported Monday night, that wild day reportedly included robbing a judge, ramming a handful of police cruisers, and boasting about it
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol is reporting a Fayette man is seriously injured after he was ejected from the truck bed Tuesday on Highway 5, two miles north of Highway 3. According to the crash report, Little Charles Belsher, 29, stood up in the truck bed and then was ejected onto the road.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — All Northeastern University students will be required to have the COVID vaccine by the first day of classes for the fall semester, the school announced Tuesday. “In order to get herd immunity, we need to get a maximum number of people possible vaccinated,” Ken Henderson,
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Migrant families are “self-separating” in Mexico, sending children alone to cross into the United States after first having been expelled, the US Border Patrol’s chief patrol agent of the Rio Grande Valley sector told CNN. “What we are seeing, more and more, is the families are self-separating in Mexico,” Brian Hastings, who leads the busiest
Continue Reading Thousand-year-old Native American petroglyphs, or rock carvings, in Georgia have been vandalized, the US Forest Service said Monday. The petroglyphs in Track Rock Gap, located in the Chattahoochee National Forest, were carved by Creek and Cherokee people over 1,000 years ago, the Forest Service stated. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is sad and frustrated
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A Michigan man says government officials erroneously placed him on the “No Fly List” after he refused to become an FBI informant, according to a new federal lawsuit. Almost three years ago, Ahmad Chebli was approached by FBI agents who accused him of being part of Hezbollah, a terrorist organization — an allegation that “shocked”
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