Month: May 2021

The bodies of New York City coronavirus victims are still being stored in refrigerated trailers converted into makeshift morgues during the height of the pandemic one year ago, according to the medical examiner’s office. The long-term temporary morgue at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal holding 750 bodies — not all victims of Covid-19 — is

California’s population fell in 2020 for the first time since the state population estimates started being recorded due to Covid-19 deaths, a decline in immigration and a lower birth rate, according to the California Department of Finance. Between January 2020 and January 2021, the state lost more than 182,000 residents, per population estimates and data

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A wedding in the works is abruptly over after a drag racer hit and killed the groom-to-be and his dog last Wednesday along a Plymouth road. The bride left behind, Kary Sweeney, is now trying to figure out how to move forward without her soulmate,

Click here for updates on this story     DENVER (KCNC) — The Colorado Medical Board has ordered a man to stop using a fake Colorado medical license which he has apparently been using in other countries to secure jobs as a medical lecturer and professor. A CBS4 Investigation found the man, Osborne Embiruka Nyandiva, has also

It takes 13 weeks to complete boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, where young recruits become hardened US Marines. The three-month course is considered one of the most difficult in any branch of the US military. But before this year, male and female recruits never trained side-by-side. This week, after grinding through

Click here for updates on this story     LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — The Beverly Hills Police Department Thursday announced that a man suspected in more than 30 Los Angeles-area burglaries had been arrested. According to BHPD, 33-year-old Rockim Prowell, of Inglewood, was pulled over May 2 by BHPD officers. During the investigation they found a

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — A 43-year-old man accused of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl at a South Side motel and trafficking her to other men is now behind bars. It is part of a long pattern of assaults against the girl that the CBS 2 Investigators first reported early

The family of a Black 16-year-old is demanding accountability and transparency after authorities announced an investigation into the teenager’s death last month in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Mikayla Miller’s body was found by a jogger in the woods off a walking path during the early morning of April 18, according to a Tuesday news release from the

Jury selection will begin October 18 for the state trial of three men facing charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia last year, according to Glynn County, Georgia, court records. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was out for a jog near Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23, 2020, when he was chased down in

Click here for updates on this story     ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — Albuquerque police say a cellphone was mistaken for a gun, prompting the school to be evacuated Thursday. According to a release sent by APD after reviewing video surveillance and talking to students and staff they learned that three students were talking in a