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Box Office Milestone The Great Gatsby Crosses $100 Million in North America
From Flappers to Rappers: 'The Great Gatsby' Music Supervisor Breaks Down the Film's Soundtrack Internationally, the Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures production has earned $64.4 million to date, ...
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U.S. awards medals to four girls killed in 1963 civil rights bombing
1 of 6. U.S. President Barack Obama signs a bill designating the Congressional Gold Medal commemorating the lives of the four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of Birmingham, Alabama, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, May 24, ...
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1st Place On The Line As Giants Rockies Clash At ATT
Brandon Crawford #35 of the San Francisco Giants is greated at home plate by Gregor Blanco (R) and Hector Sanchez (L), both who scored on Crawfords three-run home run against the Colorado Rockies in the six inning at AT&T Park on April 9, 2013 in San Francisco. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ...
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A’s Look To Continue Dominance Of Young Astros Team
Oakland is 6-0 against Houston so far this season, outscoring the Astros 45 to 19. All-time the A's are 11-1 versus Houston, including winning the last eight meetings. The lone Astros' victory in this series came on June 12, ...
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SFPD Says Distracted Walkers Making Roads More Dangerous For Everyone
"That happened about three months ago, but she's still in the hospital," Lum said. Awareness about distracted driving has not nearly kept pace with the parallel behavior ...
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Annual Vigil Set For Murdered Castro Valley Girl Case Still Unsolved After 19 Years
CASTRO VALLEY (CBS SF) – Nearly two decades after a Castro Valley teenager was killed in her home, her family is honoring her memory with a ceremony, candlelight walk and art contest Friday night. Jenny Lin, known for her good grades and musical talents, was murdered at her family's home on May 27, 1994. She was 14. In the 19 years since the unsolved murder, Jenny's family has ...
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Phil Matier Santa Clara In Shadow Of San Francisco’s Super Bowl Spotlight
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- This week’s vote by the NFL to play Super Bowl L at the new Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara in 2016 – and name San Francisco as official host city – will create an interesting dynamic between SF and the South Bay. Former Mayor Willie Brown thinks that the symbol of the Super Bowl really is San Francisco--not necessarily the stadium where the game is ...
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Jan Wahl Movie Review ‘The Hangover Part III’
(KCBS) - KCBS Entertainment Editor Jan Wahl reviews "The Hangover Part III", the final chapter of the raunchy trilogy starring Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ken ...
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United offering more premium perks from New York
United Airlines says it now offers flat-bed seats and on-demand personal entertainment systems in premium cabins on every international flight from New York area airports. No matter what the surveys say about the quality of its service, Chicago-based United Airlines is charging ahead with upgrades of its service in a variety of ways. Today, United bragged that it is now the only United ...
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Americans plan summer vacations but with incomes stagnant some families keep trips modest
NEW YORK - This summer, high rollers are flying to lavish hot spots for their vacations. The rest of us are driving to less luxurious places like nearby campgrounds. The good news: At some U.S. campgrounds these days you get live bands, air guitar contests and chocolate pudding slip `n slides. Americans' plans for summer travel mirror the current state of the economy. Rising home prices ...
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Wis. farmers firefighters partner on hazards maps
To help rescuers reach people quickly and safely, a handful of Wisconsin farmers - Ortner included - have been working with researchers and firefighters on an online program that maps farm hazards. The recently completed pilot project built upon earlier work done with paper maps, and researchers at the National Farm Medicine Center hope the project can expand, with the online program eventually ...
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Adam Kokesh Calls For “New American Revolution”
Imprisoned activist and former Marine Adam Kokesh – arrested last Saturday for exercising his First Amendment right at a protest – has called for a ';new American revolution'; to begin on July 4 with a march on all 50 state ...
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Can Tornado Alley become safer Yes within limits
With its single-story design and cinder-block walls, Plaza Towers Elementary School may have seemed sturdy when it was built a couple of generations ago. But a powerful tornado revealed the building's lack of modern safety standards, destroying the school and killing seven ...
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Lawyer wants documents in Maine teen death sealed
Police laid out their case Wednesday against a man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl whose body was found in a wooded area miles from her home, but the details remained hidden from public view after a judge sealed a crucial affidavit at the request of the suspect's ...
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Horrified trucker watches I-5 bridge collapse behind him
A dented upper right corner and a scrape along the upper side are visible on the "oversize load" equipment casing being hauled a truck parked southbound on Interstate 5 south of the collapsed portion of the highway bridge at the Skagit River Friday, May 24, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine ...
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Pedro Portugal Ecuadorean businessman found in New York after kidnapping
NEW YORK – Police have rescued an Ecuadorean businessman who was kidnapped in New York City and held hostage for a month while his captors demanded his family pay ...
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Illinois judge charged with possession of heroin guns
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A southwestern Illinois judge already under scrutiny after a colleague died of a cocaine overdose at his family's hunting lodge was charged Friday with possession of heroin and guns. Wearing cutoff shorts and a T-shirt with the slogan "Bad is my middle name," St. Clair County Circuit Judge Michael Cook pleaded not guilty to federal counts of possessing heroin ...
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Obama reframes the rules of engagement on terrorism
i think a lot of people had billed it as a speech about drones and clarifying the president's policy on drones and it certainly was that. but lost in a lot of the shiny metal object stuff of the interrupter who had interrupted three time, anti-war protester, you know, this was a speech, i think historians will look back on it and say let's look for an obama doctrine. let's look ...
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Is the US entering a new phase in the fight against terror
lone wolf , boston, what we saw happen in london. but how, how is he redefining it? we've yet to hear more about exactly what the new strategy is going to be going ...
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How the military can help stop suicides
US Army vet Wes Moore discusses with Alex Wagner about military suicide and if the culture of the military can shift so as to allow soldiers to admit they may need ...
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Obama tries to redefine the war on terror
white house lawn. tony, thank you very much. first, the drone war. and how the president tried to redefine it. he, he redefined it to include a new standard of near certainty that there would be no collateral damage in using drones. is that a, either reliable or reasonable standard? some would say that it is too high a standard. how do you live up to ...
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Working to reverse the trend of suicide in the military
As America honors its armed service members this Memorial Day, there is a sobering reality about the epidemic of suicide in the military. But new initiatives are fighting to reverse this trend. Alex Wagner has ...
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Inequality is the air we breathe now says author
you're talking about inequality and it's, it's a central problem and it's so vast and it affects so many parts of our life and our culture that you almost can't even get your hands on it. it's everywhere and yet it's sort of invisible in the sense that it's just, in the air we breathe now. there have been a lot of books written about inequality and about ...
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Obamas counterterrorism speech Most important of his presidency
Addressing an issue that has dogged his presidency and given ammunition to his critics, President Obama yesterday tackled head-on his administration's counterterrorism policy. Chairmen for Center of American Progress John Podesta joins the ...
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Why GOP wont stop trying to connect Obama to IRS
The GOP appears unwilling to abandon the idea that President Obama had a hand in the IRS' targeting of conservative groups. US Army vet Wes Moore, Politico's Maggie Haberman and Buzzfeed's Ben Smith join Alex Wagner to discuss. Former White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod also joins the ...
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