Scooter rider hit by car in Nashville
As Chattanooga debates scooters on bike paths, a driver on the streets of Nashville gets plowed over.
SpaceX launches 64 small satellites
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Dec. 3, 2018, carrying a payload of 64 small satellites. SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket using a first stage making a record third flight vaulted away from the California coast Monday to boost 64 small satellites into orbit for a wide variety of government, academic and private-sector users — including artists —…
Do you remember these Toy Crazes from the past?
How many of these toys did you get, or stand in line to buy for your kids? (Plus a bonus video of Luther & the Cabbage Patch Kid)
Payless sold discount shoes at luxury prices
As part of a marketing stunt, Payless duped fashion influencers by charging more than $600 for discount shoes. Payless Shoesource Payless Shoesource pranked VIP shoppers into paying markups of up to 1,800 percent for the bargain retailer’s shoes as part of a viral advertising campaign designed to shift consumers’ perceptions of the brand. So-called fashion influencers — essentially trendsetters that…
Grundy man indicted for stealing from his military museum
Ronald Alred is accused of selling vehicles from the Sam Werner Military Museum to private collectors.
Almanac: Andrew Carnegie
On November 25, 1835, the steel industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland. CBS News On November 25, 1835, 183 years ago today, Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland. At age 13, Carnegie moved to the U.S., settling outside Pittsburgh, where he was immediately put to work in a factory. Through diligence and hard work, Carnegie lifted himself…
Radio host who mocked Assad shot dead in Syria
BEIRUT — U.S. and British officials mourned the loss a Syrian anti-government activist and radio host seen as a “symbol” of the uprising who was shot dead along with his colleague by unidentified gunmen in a rebel-held area in the country’s northwest, where government strikes on Saturday killed at least five people in violation of a cease-fire. Dozens of Raed…
Dolce & Gabbana founders issue video apology to China
BEIJING – The founders of Dolce & Gabbana have apologized in a video on Chinese social media after promotional videos seen as racist and subsequent Instagram messages stoked a furor in one of the world’s largest markets for luxury goods. The Italian fashion house has been in hot water for the videos and also insulting remarks made by the Instagram…
Dolce & Gabanna founders issue video apology to China
BEIJING – The founders of Dolce & Gabbana have apologized in a video on Chinese social media after promotional videos seen as racist and subsequent Instagram messages stoked a furor in one of the world’s largest markets for luxury goods. The Italian fashion house has been in hot water for the videos and also insulting remarks made by the Instagram…
Ethnically diverse singers have historic week on country music charts
By MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) – Jimmie Allen has made history as the first black artist to have his debut single reach No. 1 on country radio, and it happened in the same week Kane Brown, who is biracial, has the top country album in the U.S. Allen says he cried when he got the news…
Senators press Facebook for response to reports that they retaliated against critics
Several Democratic senators said they’re dismayed by reports that social media giant Facebook hired contractors to retaliate against its critics by spreading inflammatory information about them. In response to a New York Times report this week detailing those efforts, Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Mark Warner, Chris Coons and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg requesting that he respond to…
The Latest: Stacey Abrams says Brian Kemp has won
Hear her “non-concession” concession of the race.
UTC opens new sports complex
The 17 acre complex will be used for several sports from soccer to volleyball.
Foothills Parkway extension opening in Smoky Mountains
WEARS VALLEY, Tennessee (WDEF) – A long planned extension to the Foothills Parkway finally opens to the public this weekend. Today Senator Lamar Alexander and Governor Haslam joined National Park officials to cut the ribbon on a 16 mile extension. The final link to the Parkway runs from Walland to Wears Valley in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Senator…
More than 100 animals trapped in “whale jail” off Russia’s coast
More than 100 whales are being held in cramped and potentially illegal enclosures on Russia’s Pacific east coast. Prosecutors are investigating the site near the city of Nakhodka, which has been dubbed a “whale jail” by local media. Eleven orca and 90 beluga whales are being held in the pens, and activists fear they are illegally being sold to Chinese…
Justice Department urges SCOTUS to hear DACA case
On the eve of the midterm elections, the Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bypass three federal appellate courts and allow President Trump to terminate the Obama-era DACA program, which shields hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation. In court documents filed late on Monday, Solicitor General Noel Francisco said the government was petitioning the nation’s…
Lisbon street artist “Vhils”: How Alexandre Farto scrapes and carves art into cityscapes
Fitted with a hard hat and respirator, and hoisted well above street level, Alexandre Farto paints an unlikely image of a portrait artist at work – one who uses not a delicate brush, but drills and jackhammers to create very large-scale pieces. Seth Doane asked, “When you’re doing this, are you constantly running back and forth, trying to get the…
Russians pinpoint cause of Soyuz launch abort
Russian investigators have traced the cause of the sudden Soyuz launch abort Oct. 11 that triggered a dramatic emergency escape for the Russian mission commander and his NASA co-pilot. Senior managers said Thursday the mishap was due to a “deformed” sensor in a system that controlled the separation of a strap-on first-stage booster from the rocket’s central core stage. Oleg Skorobogatov, who…
Video shows passengers board doomed flight as fuselage apparently found
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A massive search effort has identified the possible seabed location of the crashed Lion Air jet, Indonesia’s military chief said Wednesday, as Indonesian TV broadcast a smartphone video of passengers boarding Flight 610, its mundane details transformed into unsettling moments by knowledge of the tragedy that would transpire. The 2-month-old Boeing plane plunged into the Java Sea…
Man plays piano to soothe ailing elephants
Last Updated Oct 30, 2018 9:38 PM EDT They say an elephant never forgets, and those at Elephants World in Thailand will certainly never forget Paul Barton. Barton is the man who introduced these elephants to classical music. Barton is a classical pianist who has shared his talents with some very big audiences — literally big. He spends a lot of his…
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Titanic II could set sail by 2022, following original route
Titanic II could set sail in 2022 and follow the same route as its namesake. Blue Star Line A replica of the Titanic could embark on its maiden voyage by 2022 and eventually follow its doomed predecessor’s original route from Southampton to New York, the company behind the “Titanic II” project says. Clive Palmer, an Australian businessman and chairman of…
Alabama music fest ends after weather plagued 2018’s event
Birmingham’s The Sloss Music & Arts Festival is dead after 3 years.
DeSantis says Trump is a role model for children because he keeps his promises
Last Updated Oct 22, 2018 6:37 PM EDT Ron DeSantis, the Republican running for governor in Florida, defended the idea that Donald Trump is a positive role model for children, saying in an interview with CBSN’s Elaine Quijano that the president should be admired for keeping his word. “We all have our faults and what-not,” DeSantis told Quijano. But “even…
