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Produced by Resa Matthews, Mary Ann Rotondi, Marc Goldbaum and Stephanie Slifer It’s a murder case that shook a community and one that hinges on a personal activity tracker and another technology: Google Dashboard, a tool that many people don’t even know they have. But could it convict a killer? […]

GADSDEN, Ala. — An Alabama sheriff was defiant on Friday as he defended his practice of pocketing leftover money from inmates’ food budget. It’s been legal since 1939. But some accuse the sheriff of turning the jail into his personal piggy bank. “Me, my family, my office, the citizens of Etowah […]

SACRAMENTO — The police killing of 22-year-old Stephon Clark brought a second day of angry protests to Sacramento on Friday. The demonstrators were largely peaceful, although there were brief confrontations with drivers stuck on blocked streets. Clark was shot while holding a cellphone that police said they thought was a […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Americans looking for love or companionship on Craigslist can’t make a connection. The classified ads site on Friday has taken its personals section offline in the United States. The action comes after the U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed an anti-sex trafficking bill that could hold the website […]

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors slapped criminal charges on nine Iranians Friday. The men are accused of hacking to steal scientific research and other information from more than 300 universities and private companies. The men, now wanted by the FBI, are allegedly the hackers-for-hire behind a massive cyber theft campaign backed […]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Friday that the Department of Justice is officially proposing a change to federal regulations to ban bump stock devices, devices that transform legal, semi-automatic firearms into automatic weapons. A bump stock device was used in last year’s deadly Las Vegas shooting.  Specifically, the DOJ is […]

NEW YORK — A New York City man was convicted Friday of first-degree murder for the broad daylight killings of a Muslim cleric and his assistant. A state supreme court jury convicted Oscar Morel, 37, in the fatal shootings of Imam Maulana Akonjee and Thara Uddin, his friend and assistant. […]

TEMPLE, Texas — A 7-month-old who was shot by his 4-year-old brother Thursday afternoon remained hospitalized Friday morning in serious condition, reports CBS affiliate KWTX. According to Temple police spokeswoman Ellen Morton, the 4-year-old is in the custody of Child Protective Services. Police said they received a 911 call from […]

A Russian Soyuz ferry ship carrying a Russian commander and two NASA astronauts caught up with the International Space Station Friday and executed a flawless docking to close out a two-day rendezvous that began with launch Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. With commander Oleg Artemyev monitoring an automated […]

Last Updated Mar 23, 2018 5:05 PM EDT Investigators are searching the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the analytics firm at the center of the Facebook (FB) privacy controversy, report BBC and Reuters. A U.K. court granted a warrant on Friday to search Cambridge Analytica after news reports that the company used […]