At the Shrimp Basket restaurant in Pensacola, Florida, a customer consistently ordered a cup of gumbo for lunch and for dinner for 10 years. When he didn’t show up one week, the chef went to his house to check on him. Steve Hartman goes “On the Road” with the story, months later. Source link
By the time Derion Blackman collapsed in front of a Dollar General in Kissimmee, Florida, in March, he had been waiting two months to regain access to some of the vital medications he’d been taking since undergoing a heart transplant two years ago. “He was on a nasty, dirty ground in front of a store,” … Read more
Yorktown, New York — For 10 years, Rishi Sharma has crisscrossed the country on a mission to preserve history, interviewing more than 3,000 World War II combat veterans, and he’s not done yet. “For the last 10 years, I’ve been on the mission to interview every single World War II combat veteran,” the 28-year-old said. … Read more
Joe Gillette’s morning commute hadn’t changed in years — until the three-lane highway became four lanes one day. He realized he was seeing double out of one eye. He thought it might be a side effect from a recent bout of COVID-19 and immediately booked an appointment with his doctor. Gillette’s physician suggested he see … Read more
South African authorities arrested a 28-year-old man whom they caught trafficking 150 venomous scorpions through Cape Town airport, police said on Saturday. The man had concealed the live arachnids between his clothing inside his luggage, police said. His arrest on Friday followed an intelligence operation in which officers circulated his description before intercepting him at … Read more
The Michigan Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned a conviction against a man in connection with the 2020 plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Joseph Morrison was found guilty and sentenced in 2022 after prosecutors argued that he provided material support for a terroristic act as a member of the Wolverine Watchmen. Morrison, as well … Read more
Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad, a CBS News contributor, is reacting to the New York sentence for a man accused of plotting her assassination. Source link
One man’s determination to preserve a small Ohio town’s civil rights history – CBS News Watch CBS News David Butcher’s family settled in Tablertown, Ohio in 1830. He spoke with “CBS Saturday Morning” about his goal to preserve local civil rights legacy with the Tablertown People of Color Museum. Source link
The Mississippi Court of Appeals has reversed a judge’s ruling that Rankin County deputies bore no blame for the 2021 death of Damien Cameron after witnesses said one deputy sat on Cameron’s back while another kneeled on his neck. In a ruling Tuesday, the appeals court revived the civil lawsuit and sent it back to … Read more
A dramatic video shows a man’s rescue from under a bridge in Washington state, after emergency responders said he fell down a steep embankment and became stranded in the area’s slick, mountainous terrain. In the footage, a rescuer is seen using a rope to reach the man by scaling down the side of the embankment, … Read more