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Click here for updates on this story     LINDENHURST, New York (WCBS) — An initiative on Long Island is gaining attention. Customers are paying it forward, and it all begins with a post-it note. Alice Bopp and her family moved to Lindenhurst from Rio de Janeiro. “I’m from Brazil, I love coffee,” Bopp told CBS2’s Jennifer

Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr. are preparing for two upcoming spacewalks that will help to upgrade and maintain the International Space Station. The NASA astronauts will conduct spacewalks on Wednesday, January 27, and Monday, February 1. It will be the first spacewalk experience for Glover, who is a few months into his first

Click here for updates on this story     DURHAM, North Carolina (WTVD) — After more than 1,300 days, a Triangle pastor is leaving a Durham church and will be able to go home to his family. Jose Chicas is an undocumented immigrant. Since mid-July 2017 Chicas has not left Saint Johns Missionary Baptist Church in Durham.

Click here for updates on this story     MIAMI (WFOR) — As COVID-19 continues to spread across Florida, the nation and the world, a team of researchers at Florida International University have trained detector dogs to identify the virus. Dogs have highly developed senses of smell. That’s why FIU’s International Forensic Research Institute is using its

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — A man carjacked a woman and threatened to shoot her when she stopped for gas in north St. Louis, according to police. Just before 9 a.m. Thursday the 41-year-old woman stopped to get gas at the Gulf Gas Station at 5750 Natural Bridge.

When President Joe Biden sat down after his inauguration to sign a slew of executive orders, alongside the stack of navy folders was a wooden box, situated within easy reach. Inside that box, ready for use, lay a neat row of gold-trimmed navy Cross Century II pens. But why so many pens? As Biden continues

Click here for updates on this story     CARTHAGE, TN (WSMV) — The sheriff’s department confirmed a man was arrested for putting a recording device in a bathroom at a cheerleading gym in Smith County and could be connected to a similar incident. Andrew Halford was unlawful photographing and criminal attempt on Thursday. The arrest of

Click here for updates on this story     BARNSTABLE, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Students and teachers alike are learning as they go- and navigating a routine of in-person classes one day, and virtual classes the next. Dan Felix is a music teacher at Barnstable United Elementary School. He said, “basically it’s been different in a way that

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS, MN (WCCO) — While the next phase of vaccine rollout is already underway for people 65 and older, some health care workers are still waiting for their turn. Many of them work at smaller community clinics, private practices or dentists’ offices. “Mostly what I’ve heard from patients

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS, MN (WCCO) — A controversial crime-fighting tool could soon be off-limits in Minneapolis. City leaders are trying to decide whether facial recognition technology (FRT) is an asset or an invasion of privacy. Privacy is just one concern Minneapolis City Council Member Steve Fletcher has with FRT applications.

Click here for updates on this story     DURHAM, North Carolina (WTVD) — Dr. Rick Bedlack is known as a champion of ALS patients. He’s also known for his flashy clothes. Now, the Duke ALS researcher has the ultimate sparkly suit with matching mask by celebrity designer Jerry Lee Atwood, who has dressed Post Malone and

Click here for updates on this story     BALTIMORE (WJZ ) — On February 15, 2015, Baltimore resident Ron Greene was in an accident. A semi-truck smashed into him during a snowstorm, totaling his car with him inside. “My arm was split open, my head was lacerated with 17 staples, I had a severe concussion,” Greene

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO, IL (WBBM) — New cabinets, new paint, a whole new house; a Northwest Indiana couple was all ready to transition to their brand new creation, but a city rule stopped the move-in before it could start. CBS 2 Morning Insider Lauren Victory takes us inside the headache

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO, IL (WBBM) — Police Supt. David Brown said Thursday there had been 144 vehicular hijackings in Chicago in the first 21 days of January – placing the city on track to record 2,000 carjackings this year if the trend continues. “The spike in vehicular hijackings are a

Students who survived the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and families of the victims are calling for Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation, after comments surfaced that showed her agreeing with people who said the 2018 shooting was a “false flag” operation. Seventeen people, including 14 students, were killed in the shooting, which ignited a