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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced a new unit within Bureau of Indian Affairs that plans to tackle the decades-long crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans. “Violence against Indigenous peoples is a crisis that has been underfunded for decades,” Haaland said in a statement Thursday. “Far too often, murders and missing persons cases in Indian

Students at Lake Superior State University have had the unique opportunity to pursue a degree in cannabis chemistry since 2019. Now, they can also get cash to do it. The university in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, is offering its first cannabis chemistry scholarship. Steadfast Labs, a cannabis testing facility in Hazel Park, Michigan, is funding

Click here for updates on this story     BROWARD, Florida (WFOR) — A ShotSpotter alert has led to the arrest of two convicted felons and the seizure of illegal drugs and a stolen gun. Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony held a news conference on Tuesday morning to explain how the ShotSpotter technology allowed his deputies to

Click here for updates on this story     NEW YORK (WCBS) — Hundreds of New York City public housing apartments are getting a makeover. It’s part of a public and private initiative to improve the image of affordable housing, CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez reported Monday. Many public housing tenants have been plagued by rundown kitchens and bathrooms,

Click here for updates on this story     ALLEN, Texas (KTVT) — A welfare check just before 1 a.m. on April 5 led Allen police to the discovery of six bodies in the 1500 block of Pine Bluff Drive. Police confirmed the identities as 19-year-old twins Farhan and Farbin Towhid, their older brother Tanvir, 21, and

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — Hundreds of thousands of people in Illinois and Indiana are still out of work. They spend every day looking for a job – more than a year into the pandemic. Just when they think things are looking up because they get an interview – they

Click here for updates on this story     NEW YORK (WCBS) — Another random assault has been caught on camera. Police say a 75-year-old woman was punched in the face on a Harlem sidewalk as she was walking to Easter Sunday dinner. “No exchange of words. Just one hell of a punch to the face. It

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — Police and Cook County prosecutors say Antonio Butler is an 18-year-old carjacker who recently went on a crime spree. As CBS 2’s Chris Tye reported Monday night, that wild day reportedly included robbing a judge, ramming a handful of police cruisers, and boasting about it

Click here for updates on this story     BOSTON (WBZ) — All Northeastern University students will be required to have the COVID vaccine by the first day of classes for the fall semester, the school announced Tuesday. “In order to get herd immunity, we need to get a maximum number of people possible vaccinated,” Ken Henderson,

Thousand-year-old Native American petroglyphs, or rock carvings, in Georgia have been vandalized, the US Forest Service said Monday. The petroglyphs in Track Rock Gap, located in the Chattahoochee National Forest, were carved by Creek and Cherokee people over 1,000 years ago, the Forest Service stated. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is sad and frustrated

Click here for updates on this story     PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Some Pennsylvania lawmakers are introducing a bill to ban transgender girls from competing in women’s school sports teams. The “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act” bars anyone assigned male at birth from competing with female players. Rep. Martina White (R-Philadelphia) is a sponsor of the bill,

Click here for updates on this story     PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — The body of an Upper Darby pregnant woman, who had been missing since last week, was found in a wooded lot in Southwest Philadelphia overnight. Philadelphia police say the body was identified as 21-year-old Dianna Brice who was last seen last Tuesday and was four-and-a-half

Click here for updates on this story     CINCINNATI (WLWT) — Cincinnati Zoo’s first zoo babies of 2021 are undergoing swim lessons. The two little blue penguin chicks, Mars and Rover, hatched in January. The penguins are also called fairy penguins due to their tiny size. A little penguin torpedoes through the middle of a school

Click here for updates on this story     PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — We may not talk about it as much with the pandemic, but the opioid crisis continues. An estimated 10.1 million people abused opioids last year. Now doctors are looking for alternatives and using prescriptions less. “If you can prevent somebody from ever turning to opioids,