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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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
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
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 ReadingThe 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
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
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Over the weekend, TSA officers at Lambert International Airport confiscated four “cat eyes” from passengers. “Cat eyes” are a martial arts-type item that some people carry for self-defense. To use them, two fingers are put through the “cat’s” eyes to enable the user to
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As coronavirus shut down the world last year, Terre Baldwin was getting a life-saving heart and kidney transplant in San Francisco. With no guests allowed in her hospital room, she spent most of her days staring at the ceiling. At the same time, about 30 miles east, her brother Al Baccei was on a waiting
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Over the weekend, TSA officers at Lambert International Airport confiscated four “cat eyes” from passengers. “Cat eyes” are a martial arts-type item that some people carry for self-defense. To use them, two fingers are put through the “cat’s” eyes to enable the user to
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The in-custody death of Marvin David Scott III in Texas has been ruled a homicide by the Collin County Medical Examiner. Scott died after being placed on a restraint bed, pepper-sprayed, and having a spit mask put on his face while in custody at the Collin County Detention Facility north of Dallas in March. Scott’s
Continue Reading When humans finally have the chance to explore Mars, the members of those crewed missions will be millions of miles from home with delayed communications. Before they go, scientists want to understand as much as possible about the potential effects of microgravity and radiation on the human body. A big step toward this goal was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HILO BAY, Hawaii (KITV) — 15 officers from three law enforcement agencies conducted a sweep of all 146 rooms inside the former Uncle Billy’s Hilo Bay Hotel Wednesday morning. No one was found on the property, but there was evidence showing many of the rooms were recently occupied.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story STOCKTON, California (KCRA) — Thousands of students in the Stockton Unified School District have the opportunity to return to in-person learning on Thursday as the district opens its doors for the first time since the pandemic started. To get kids back at their desks, the district adopted a
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — A tragic death has brought a Des Moines aunt and her nieces and nephews closer than they ever imagined. Deb Simmons lost her sister, and now she’s adopting all six of her kids. From 6 to 19 years old, Simmons has her hands
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