Last Updated Jan 8, 2018 4:26 PM EST DALLAS — Dallas police officers recently swarmed an apartment complex on in Dallas northwest side. But there was no crime committed at the scene — just a villain, and sadly, a victim. If only police could put handcuffs on cancer. According to CBS […]
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Dozens feared dead after smuggling boat sinks
ROME — As many as 64 African migrants, including a mother whose surviving 3-year-old child desperately clung to her as she drowned, are feared dead after a traffickers’ overcrowded rubber dinghy from Libya started sinking in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said Monday. The Italian coast guard rescued 86 people from […]
Manhunt after girl, 4, found dead with “severe burns”
SUMPTER TWP., Mich. — Federal authorities are joining police in southern Michigan in the search for a couple after a 4-year-old girl was found dead New Year’s Day with “severe burns.” 24-year-old Candice Renea Diaz, the child’s mother, as well as Diaz’s boyfriend, 28-year-old Brad Edward Fields, are charged in […]
Natural disasters cost U.S. a record $306 billion last year
WASHINGTON — With three devastating hurricanes, extreme wildfires, hail, flooding, tornadoes and drought, the United States tallied a record high bill last year for weather-related disasters: $306 billion. The U.S. had 16 disasters last year with damage exceeding a billion dollars each, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported Monday. […]
Publisher: Trump effort to suppress book “flagrantly unconstitutional”
WASHINGTON – The publisher of a book that questions President Trump’s fitness for office said any effort by Mr. Trump to suppress the book would be “flagrantly unconstitutional.” Henry Holt In a letter to company employees Monday and shared with CBS News, Macmillan CEO John Sargent wrote “no American court” […]
How color, smell and sound impact the flavor of food
How food tastes is not just determined by its ingredients. At a research kitchen in London, a psychology professor and a top chef are trying to see how big a role perception plays in flavor. The promotional video for Kitchen Theory, a combined London restaurant and food lab, sounds like […]
Woman dies of flesh-eating bacteria from oysters
Last Updated Jan 8, 2018 7:50 PM EST Back in September, Texas residents Vicki Bergquist and wife Jeanette LeBlanc were visiting family in Louisiana. They went crabbing with friends and family on the coast, picking up a sack of raw oysters in a market in Westwego. It wasn’t long after […]
Police arrest suspect in Washington deputy’s death
Last Updated Jan 8, 2018 8:23 PM EST FREDERICKSON, Wash. — Police have arrested a suspect in connection with an armed burglary that led to the death of 34-year-old deputy in Washington state. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department announced the arrest Monday and said a 32-year-old male suspect was responsible for […]
Stolen N.J. Transit police car crashes into train terminal
HOBOKEN, N.J. — New Jersey Transit says a person jumped into a police K-9 SUV and drove it into the doors of the waiting room at the Hoboken rail terminal. No injuries have been reported. The suspect was arrested after the incident, which took place at about 8 a.m. Monday. […]
Trump makes appearance at NCAA football championship game
In a first for his presidency, President Trump attended the NCAA championship football game Monday evening, as the Georgia Bulldogs faced off against the Alabama Crimson Tide in Atlanta, Georgia, though he left at halftime, well before the Crimson Tide won in overtime in a dramatic finish, 26-23. Monday night […]