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Click here for updates on this story     NEW YORK (WCBS) — An attack on a 7-Eleven worker is being investigated as a possible hate crime. The victim was punched in the face and called an anti-Asian slur, CBS2’s Kiran Dhillon reported Sunday. The incident happened at around 5:30 a.m. on Saturday inside the store at

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — Rideshare drivers are a big target for carjackers in Chicago. One was killed last week by someone he picked up. Now drivers are demanding major safety changes from Uber and Lyft, some of them spoke with CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey. The drivers point out

Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo on Monday thoroughly rejected Derek Chauvin’s actions during the arrest of George Floyd last May as contrary to department policy. “Once Mr. Floyd had stopped resisting, and certainly once he was in distress and trying to verbalize that, that should have stopped,” Arradondo testified during Chauvin’s criminal trial. “There is

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — Dozens of Des Plaines residents are blaming the city’s new trash and recycling company for bins blowing down the road. And delivering broken containers. CBS 2’s Brandon Merano spoke to neighbors about their garbage gripes. The biggest complaint from people is the wheels falling off

The Ingenuity helicopter survived its first night on the freezing-cold surface of Mars, a major milestone in the rotorcraft’s journey ahead of its historic first flight. Jezero Crater, an ancient lake bed on Mars and the current site of the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter, can drop to temperatures of minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s

Officials say drones may have detected a second breach in a Florida wastewater reservoir containment wall that could collapse — creating what the governor has called a “real catastrophic flood situation.” “At approximately 2 a.m., an infrared drone identified a signature that could indicate a second breach” in the Piney Point wastewater pond, Manatee County

Click here for updates on this story     MADISON, Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal) — There isn’t much remaining of the town of Blooming Grove. Once a rural enclave east of Lake Monona, most of the town over the years has been consumed by the cities of Madison and Monona. It’s been dissected by Interstate 39-90 and

Click here for updates on this story     LAWRENCE, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Three multi-family homes were destroyed Sunday in a fast-moving fire in Lawrence, officials said. The fire, which started shortly before 7 p.m., affected buildings on Saratoga Street and Bennington. At the height of the fire, flames were shooting out of the windows and roofs

Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo testified in Derek Chauvin’s criminal trial on Monday about the importance of training, deescalation and respect as prosecutors sought to show Chauvin did not follow department policy. After going through his own resume, Arradondo described the department’s training programs and the core value of treating everyone with “dignity and respect.”

Click here for updates on this story     TULSA, Oklahoma (KOCO) — Tulsa police arrested a man accused of stalking a former coworker, trying to kidnap her, and shooting her husband, police officials said. According to a post on Tulsa police’s Facebook page, officers responded on Friday to a report of a man trying to kidnap

Click here for updates on this story     HARRISONVILLE, Missouri (KMBC) — A judge ruled Monday he will allow a camera to record the murder trial of Kylr Yust, the man accused of killing two women and leaving their bodies in a Cass County, Missouri, farm field. The ruling by Cass County Judge William Collins was

Click here for updates on this story     FRESNO, California (KFSN) — Easter ended in tragedy after an 18-year-old man was killed in a southwest Fresno drive-by shooting. Shots rang out in the southwest Fresno neighborhood near Pottle Avenue and Merced Street on Sunday afternoon. Investigators say as the 18-year-old pulled up to a stop sign

Click here for updates on this story     FRESNO, California (KFSN) — Susan Rutkowski graduated from the Lighthouse Recovery Program six years ago but continues to volunteer to give back to the organization that blessed her with new hope. “Going to the program, I feel like I got so much more,” she said. “I feel like