ARLINGTON â Students spent more time at Bowie High School and away from home than planned on Wednesday. About 10 minutes before school was out, Arlington Independent School District officials said there was a shooting on the grounds.The 18-year-old victim died and police arrested a suspect who faces a charge of murder.Meanwhile, safety protocol put the school on lockdown and delayed release. Parents had to go to the AISD athletic complex to pick up their children, but it was not a speedy...
An Arizona grand jury indicted 18 people Wednesday in the ongoing investigation into an alleged attempt to use alternate electors after the 2020 presidential election as part of a wider alleged conspiracy to falsely declare then-President Donald Trump the winner, the state's attorney general announced.The alleged fake electors and defendants named in the indictment were Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine...
Washington â A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris exhibited "distressing behavior" Monday morning at Joint Base Andrews and was hospitalized, authorities said. Harris was not present at the airbase at the time.In a statement provided to CBS News, the U.S. Secret Service said that at about 9 a.m. local time Monday, the agent "began displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing. The agent was removed from their assignment while medical personnel were...
OWINGS MILLS, Md (AP) â The Baltimore Ravens gave wide receiver Rashod Bateman a two-year contract extension on Wednesday that will keep the 2021 first-round pick with the team through the 2026 season.The team announced the extension Wednesday, ending speculation about whether the team would trade him. They had until May 2 to decide whether or not to exercise a fifth-year option.Bateman, drafted 27th overall, instead became the first first-round wide receiver to sign a second contract with the...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A healthcare giant in the region is laying off about 1% of its workforce. UPMC has confirmed to KDKA that they are laying off workers. The Vice President and Chief Communications Officer for UPMC said the layoffs are in response to post-pandemic challenges. Most of the layoffs are in non-clinical, non-member-facing roles. They also said they are closing open positions and getting rid of redundancies. UPMC is planning enhanced severance pay and benefits for anyone who is laid...
An Iranian court has sentenced a dissident rapper to death, local media reported Wednesday. The rapper has been jailed for more than a year and a half for supporting protests sparked by the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini. "Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court sentenced Toomaj Salehi to death on the charge of corruption on Earth," the artist's lawyer Amir Raisian said, according to the reformist Shargh newspaper.Salehi, 33, was arrested in October 2022 after publicly backing the wave of...
Washington — President Biden on Wednesday granted clemency to 16 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, pardoning 11 of them and commuting the sentences of the other five. The pardon recipients include a woman who has since earned her doctorate, a business owner and community members involved in their churches, while one of the commutation recipients will no longer have to serve a life prison sentence. In December, the president granted categorical pardons to thousands convicted of use...
Valerie Watson returned to Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport in tears on Tuesday morning in a drastic departure from how she imagined her long weekend trip to Turks and Caicos would end.Watson is home, but her husband, Ryan Watson, is in jail on the island and facing a potential mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years behind bars after airport security allegedly found four rounds of hunting ammo in his carry-on bag earlier this month."We were trying to pack board shorts and flip flops,"...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Pennsylvania's 2024 primary election is Tuesday. Check this page when polls close at 8 p.m. for live results as they come into our newsroom.Pa. primary election results Presidential PrimaryUS House PennsylvaniaGeneral AssemblyPA Attorney GeneralStatewide RacesWho was on the 2024 Pennsylvania primary ballot? PresidentThe battleground state's primary election is relatively late, and Republican Donald Trump is currently running unopposed since former United Nations Ambassador...
Mounting competition in the stuttering electric vehicle market is taking the juice out of Tesla. The automaker's first-quarter profit plummeted 55% as falling global sales and price cuts sliced into the EV maker's revenue and earnings. The company said Tuesday it made $1.13 billion in profit from January through March, compared with $2.51 billion in the same period a year ago. Revenue was $21.3 billion, down 9% from last year, the company said.Tesla executives blamed the dip partly on EV sales...
Federal regulators on Tuesday enacted a nationwide ban on new noncompete agreements, which keep millions of Americans — from minimum-wage earners to CEOs — from changing jobs within their industries.The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday afternoon voted 3-to-2 to approve the new rule, which will ban noncompetes for all workers when the regulations take effect in 120 days. For senior executives, existing noncompetes can remain in force. For all other employees, existing noncompetes are not...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Pitbull is coming to Star Lake this year. Mr. Worldwide, joined by T-Pain, will bring his 26-city Party After Dark Tour to The Pavilion at Star Lake on Wednesday, Sept. 18. The tour kicks off Aug. 21 in Bristow, Virginia, and makes more than two dozen stops across the country in cities like Cuyahoga Falls, Buffalo, Cincinnati and Salt Lake City. He also has another stop in Pennsylvania. Before Burgettstown in September, he'll be in Hershey at Hersheypark Stadium on Aug. 24....