East St. Louis, Illinois -- Two Head Start teachers in East St. Louis are on paid administrative leave after allegations that preschoolers were forced to strip off all their clothes as part of punishment for misbehaving, reports CBS St. Louis…
Vice President Mike Pence will visit Nebraska Tuesday to survey the damage caused by historic flooding responsible for killing at least three people. The Midwest is bracing for more flooding as rivers in 40 locations have risen to historic levels.…
Toms River, N.J. -- The man charged with killing the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family wrote pro-Donald Trump slogans on his hand and flashed them to journalists before a court hearing Monday. Anthony Comello, 24, was arrested Saturday…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for an end to the Electoral College as a way to guarantee that "every vote matters." Her comments came at a CNN town hall in Jackson, Mississippi, in response to a question about voter disenfranchisement.…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that now makes smokable medical marijuana legal in the Sunshine State, which had been a priority for the Republican governor since taking office in January. However, qualified patients may have to wait…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - A new restaurant opens for the first time in Chattanooga. Newk's Eatery officially opened up Monday. The fast-casual restaurant offers sandwiches, soups, salads, and more. The restaurant is located in the Village at Waterside. This is…
Trinity Love Jones seen in undated photos. CBS Los Angeles The mother of Trinity Loves Jones — a 9-year-old girl whose body was found in a duffel bag near a suburban horse trail near Los Angeles earlier this month —…
Washington — Representatives of National Assembly President Juan Guaidó, who has been recognized by the U.S. and more than four dozen countries as Venezuela's legitimate leader, said they took control of three diplomatic offices in Washington and New York that…
You may have seen the creative work of Howard High School students around town. In fact, one piece of art work is now getting sold.
Some have been waiting a month to get through the Chickamauga Lock.
Baltimore's violent crime rate spiked in the years following the death of Freddie Gray, which set off a series of protests and fueled the Black Lives Matter movement, according to a new report. In 2017, there were 342 murders in Baltimore, the highest…
Jackson, Miss. — Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. and a recent survey found 57 percent of American adults have received a surprise medical bill, often for treatment they later learned was "out of network."…
College basketball players will be battling it out in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. But there's one pair of twins who have already beaten the odds. Caleb and Cody Martin were born one minute apart and have just…
Trump's response to attacks sparks criticism Alabama Sen. Doug Jones on Tuesday became latest Democrat to criticize President Trump for not condemning white nationalism more forcefully after a man who killed 50 people in a mass shooting at a New Zealand mosque…
Omaha, Neb. — A historic flood emergency in the Midwest has claimed at least two lives in Nebraska and another in Iowa. More than 4,500 people have been evacuated from their homes in Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin. Countless homes and…
Pennsylvania State Police acted recklessly when troopers used a bulldozer to pursue a Grateful Dead fan caught growing marijuana on public land, killing him when he wound up under the machine's treads, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed Monday.…
The battle for the last scrap of land held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Syria has taken longer than expected, with the terror group vowing to fight to the last man in Baghouz. In the…
Some teachers in Hamilton County say they are against Governor Bill Lee's school voucher program.
Top tech gadgets at CES 2019 Google is expected to unveil a new streaming game service at the 2019 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this week. The tech giant will be making its foray into online gaming, joining Microsoft,…
Nearly 50 million Americans will wager a collective $8.5 billion on the NCAA men's basketball tournament better known as March Madness, according to the American Gaming Association (AGA). This year's tournament — in which 68 college teams will compete for…
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is mulling a White House bid, leads declared and potential Democratic presidential candidates in support among millennial voters, according to a new poll of adults aged 18 to 34. The poll, organized by the…
The spiritual leader of an upstate New York self-help group that has been compared to a cult pleaded not guilty on Monday to newly filed child pornography charges at a hearing where it became clear that his co-defendants are trying to…
Record-breaking, historic, even Biblical — that's how many are describing the scale of flooding in the Midwest, where thousands of people in Iowa and Nebraska have been forced to flee their homes. In a region that's no stranger to rising…
