CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Charges have been upgraded for an Ohio man accused of driving into a crowd of counter-protesters during an August white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, killing a woman. James Fields, Jr, 20, now faces a first-degree murder charge following a Thursday preliminary hearing for the death of Heather Heyer, […]
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Charges upgraded vs. Charlottesville car attack suspect
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Charges have been upgraded for an Ohio man accused of driving into a crowd of counter-protesters during an August white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, killing a woman. James Fields, Jr, 20, now faces a first-degree murder charge following a Thursday preliminary hearing for the death of Heather Heyer, […]
Army dad surprises son at school ahead of Christmas
BALTIMORE — When cameras arrived at Millersville Elementary School in Maryland, 9-year-old Eben Pardue thought CBS Baltimore was covering a story about his school’s cafeteria. But Wednesday’s lunch was extra special. What the third grader didn’t know was that his father was about to walk through the doors behind him. Master […]
Fathers of shooting victims share special connection
Greg Gibson will never forget where he was five years ago. It’s where he’s been every Dec. 14 for the last 25 years. “We were in the graveyard,” Gibson said. “Putting up a tree over our son’s grave.” His son Galen was a sweet, empathetic 18-year-old who was killed in […]
Cops bust multimillion-dollar weed “fortress” in California
Last Updated Dec 14, 2017 4:51 PM EST LOS ANGELES — Police in Southern California raided a weed “fortress” on Wednesday, seizing 35,000 marijuana plants and shutting down an operation they believe was bringing in millions of dollars a month. San Bernardino Police say eight people were detained Wednesday when police […]
Review: “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” a mythic spectacle
There are lessons to be learned in failure, and even a wise old Jedi master like Luke Skywalker can fail to appreciate them. That’s the cutting irony of Episode VIII in the Skywalker saga, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” Picking up virtually after the final moments of 2015’s “The Force […]
Two new planets found orbiting distant suns
Scientists using advanced “neural network” machine-learning software to sift through thousands of weak, previously unstudied signals from NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft have identified two new worlds orbiting distant suns, researches announced Thursday. One of them is the eighth planet now known to be orbiting the star Kepler-90, the first solar […]
Trump talks up deregulation efforts
Last Updated Dec 14, 2017 3:19 PM EST White House staff show flow chart illustrating regulatory actions, which the president says “really explains the disaster.” https://t.co/YLTvxYwr9u pic.twitter.com/gHhD2qpgvz — CBS News (@CBSNews) December 14, 2017 President Trump talked up his deregulation efforts Thursday at the White House, saying his administration has […]
How one Sandy Hook mom is keeping her 6-year-old’s dream alive
When Catherine Hubbard wasn’t in class at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the 6-year-old was most likely spending her time lining up her stuffed animals, playing with her 13-year-old yellow Lab named Sammy and running around her backyard attempting to catch (and release) butterflies. “It wasn’t like she […]
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s partner opens up on actor’s death
Last Updated Dec 14, 2017 3:24 PM EST Mimi O’Donnell, partner of Philip Seymour Hoffman for 15 years and mother of his three children, opened up about her relationship with the late actor and his struggles with addiction. O’Donnell, who is a director and producer, spoke about Hoffman in a […]