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Click here for updates on this story     PETERBOROUGH, New Hampshire (WMUR) — A drilling rig tipped over at a construction site in Peterborough on Thursday morning and fell into the Contoocook River. The massive rig was stuck on its side as it slid down the river embankment. It was being used in construction work on

Click here for updates on this story     CLINTON, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Clinton police are investigating after a baby was abandoned outside a hospital. The newborn was left in the parking lot at UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital on Monday between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. The baby was found by hospital staff in a basket and

Click here for updates on this story     SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is currently considering spending hundreds of millions of dollars to have homeless people sleep in tents on city property, it’s an expansion of the so-called ‘safe sleeping sites’. Critics say this legislation would prioritize tents over actual housing.

Neighbors on Thursday described a chaotic scene of North Carolina deputies trying to serve a warrant, a car pulling away and shots fired — leaving one man dead. The shooting took place Wednesday morning in a working-class neighborhood of Elizabeth City in the northeastern corner of the state. The Pasquotank County Sheriff Office said Wednesday

Click here for updates on this story     HAYWARD, California (KPIX) — A Hayward woman has been a mother to more than 80 babies over the years through foster care. Linda Owens has cared for a 7-week-old baby girl since she left the hospital as a newborn. She is the 81st infant Owens has brought into

The families of George Floyd and Philando Castile joined mourners in Minneapolis on Thursday to bid farewell to Daunte Wright, a Black man whose death this month at the hands of a police officer prompted renewed cries for justice and accountability. In his eulogy for Wright, whom he called the “Prince of Brooklyn Center,” the

Click here for updates on this story     SACREMENTO, California (KOVR) — A property owner says two neighbors’ German Shepherds are to blame for a brutal attack at her family’s Sacramento farm. Sebastian Garibaldi grew up alongside the animals on his family’s farm. “He’s been with these goats, he loves them as much as we do,”

An alternate juror in Derek Chauvin’s trial told reporters Thursday that Dr. Martin Tobin, the soft-spoken doctor who explained how George Floyd died, convinced her of the former police officer’s guilt. “Dr. Tobin was like the turning point for me,” said Lisa Christensen. “I appreciate him explaining it in the way that all of us

The suspect in the Colorado supermarket shooting that claimed 10 lives now faces a total of 54 charges, the Boulder County district attorney said Thursday. And more charges could follow. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was already charged with 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder for the March 22 mass shooting at

Click here for updates on this story     FREEHOLD, New Jersey (WCBS) — Call it a match made during the pandemic. Two Monmouth County residents in their 90s decided to quarantine together and they ended up finding love. On Tuesday, CBS2’s Meg Baker learned more about their love story. Bill Biega, 98, and Iris Ivers, 91,

Click here for updates on this story     MOON TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — An assignment in the Moon Area School District has at least one mother calling for change. The question was: “Would you rather have been a well-taken care of slave or risked everything for the chance of freedom?” Lisa Dacunzo said there is no

Click here for updates on this story     RIVERSIDE, New Jersey (KYW) — A South Jersey high school student is helping people with autism, with a window sticker. Joelle McElroy presented the stickers to police and fire officials from Riverside, Delanco and Delran outside of Riverside High School on Wednesday. The window stickers let first responders

Click here for updates on this story     MARLTON, New Jersey (KYW) — She’s a lawyer by day who has taken on a unique hobby in her spare time. During the pandemic, that hobby has grown into a business that’s also giving back. To make the perfect massage candle it takes skill and the right blend.

When police officers kill a person, they are rarely charged with a crime. It’s even more rare for a jury to convict an officer for murder or manslaughter. So what made Derek Chauvin’s case different? From the beginning, the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, has stood on its own as a uniquely