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Murkowski becomes third Republican U.S. senator to back gay marriage
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits next to U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) during the Arctic Council Ministerial Session at City Hall in Kiruna, Sweden, May 15, ...
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Watch Boy 13 Accused of Killing 5-Year-Old Half-Sister
A thirteen year old boy is accused of killing his own five year old half sister with wrestling moves he learned on TV while their mom was out shopping. Deputies say the teen called 911 on ...
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Watch The Hunt for Jimmy Hoffa FBI Calls Off Search
The FBI called off its search this morning for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa in a suburban Michigan field. The announcement came just hours after agents began their third day of digging in the ...
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Most Wanted Professor Nabbed in Mexico
This 2011 image shows Walter Lee Williams, 64, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives who has been arrested in the resort city of Playa del Carmen, Mexico, June 18, ...
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College Students Body Found in Lake Michigan
A body found in Lake Michigan has been identified as missing Chicago student Austin LaPore, investigators said. "The family of Austin Hudson LaPore positively identified his body earlier today," an official with the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office told ABC News. Authorities pulled the body of LaPore, 20, out of Lake Michigan this morning after he ...
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Four Keys For Bruins In Game 4 Of Stanley Cup Final
BOSTON (CBS) — This just in: Winning a Stanley Cup is difficult. Most of the current Bruins roster knows that firsthand, as two years ago they had to erase 2-0 and 3-2 deficits against Vancouver. They, of course, did that, forcing a Game 7 in Vancouver and winning 4-0 to earn that title. This year, it’s too early to say whether or not their season will have the same end result, but ...
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New ‘World’s Ugliest Dog’ To Be Crowned Friday
PETALUMA (CBS SF) – Will Icky get picked or will Boolah win the moolah? Both have been entered in this year's Ugliest Dog Contest, which takes place Friday at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma. It's the 25th year of the contest. Besides worldwide acclaim, the prizes for the winning dog and its owner are $1,500, a trophy, a photo session with photographer Kira Stackhouse, and ...
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‘Ron Burgundy’ Gets Racy In New ‘Anchorman 2′ Trailer
CBS NEWS ) – Ron Burgundy and his Channel 4 News Team reporters are moving from San Diego to the Big Apple in the new trailer for ';Anchorman: The Legend ...
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BART Conducting Internal Review Of Naked Acrobat Incident
OAKLAND (CBS SF)-- BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey said Wednesday that he has ordered an internal review of how his department responded to an incident at a San Francisco station last month in ...
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Bay Area County Fair Guide
A familyadventure tothe County Fair is one of our favorite summer pastimes. Corn dogs and carnival rides, fireworks and farm animals; there is something fun forevery ranch-hand on your farm at any one of these Bay Area's County ...
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Oscar Grant Film ‘Fruitvale’ To Be Screened At Oakland’s Grand Lake Theater
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — After earning top marks at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, the film "Fruitvale Station," which depicts the last day of Oscar Grant III's life before he was fatally shot by a BART police officer, will be screened for the first time in the Bay Area on Thursday. The film, directed by Bay Area native Ryan Coogler and featuring actors Octavia ...
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Emily VanCamp on Living in New York Working with Samuel L. Jackson and the Intimidating Set of Captain America
Emily VanCamp has been working in New York this summer. "I'm shooting a couple of movies, actually," she said at Clinique's Dramatically Different party on Tuesday. "I'm wrapping up Captain America on Monday. I'm also, at the same time, shooting a little indie film here in New York, called The Girl in the Book, which I'm really passionate about and ...
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A Drone Shadow That Stalks the White House
A white, life-size outline of a reaper drone lays in front of Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art at the corner of 17th Street and E Street, only a few blocks from the White House. The work, titled "Drone Shadow 004," is part of a small exhibit – five in all – at the museum's Gallery 31, which examines the use of ...
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Group Exclude Chad troops from UN force in Mali
UNITED NATIONS -; A network of human rights groups on Wednesday criticized plans to include Chadian troops in a new U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali while Chad's military remains on a U.N. `list of shame' for child recruitment. But U.N. officials made clear they had no intention of excluding a country whose soldiers are considered among the best African desert ...
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Feds in Calif. bust international gambling ring
SAN DIEGO -; Federal authorities have charged 18 people with involvement in an illegal gambling ring they say spanned from California to Peru and used violence against customers with outstanding ...
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Zimmerman jurors asked about neighborhood watch
George Zimmerman smiles in response to a juror's answer during questioning in Seminole circuit court on the eighth day of his trial, in Sanford, Fla., Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe ...
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Uncertain future for border prosecution program
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents keep watch at a checkpoint station, on Feb. 22, 2013, in Falfurrias, Texas. Some drug smugglers caught at the highway checkpoint about an hour north of the Texas-Mexico border are losing their drugs, but not facing prosecution because cooperation between local and federal prosecutors has broken down. (AP Photo/Eric ...
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Montana court says bison transfer legal
BILLINGS, Mont. -; The Montana Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that blocked transfers of Yellowstone National Park bison as part of a government-sponsored conservation ...
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Ex-BP employees face new indictments over spill
Federal prosecutors have secured new indictments against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing probes of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of ...
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Obesity Is Now A Disease American Medical Association Decides
Obesity has been officially recognized as a disease by the American Medical Association, an action that could put more emphasis on the health condition by doctors and insurance companies in order to minimize its effects. The new decision was made at the AMA's annual meeting on Tuesday by delegates in Chicago, and went against a recommendation by a committee that had studied the subject. ...
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Is America’s Iraq Imploding
In March 2013, America's invasion of Iraq reached its 10th anniversary. After a decade of nation building, Iraq is falling apart. In April 2013, deadly clashes between government forces and demonstrators in the city of Hawija set off a chain reaction of retaliatory attacks across Iraq. The situation now threatens to plunge the country into the kind of war it experienced in the midst of the ...
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Federal Reserve Stimulus Program to Stay in Place
Washington (dpa) - The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it would continue its bond buying program to bolster the US economy and kept its benchmark interest rate at record low levels. Speculation about whether the central bank would continue with its 85-billion-dollar a month bond buying programme had left world bond and equities markets yo-yoing in recent weeks. The Fed signalled ...
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More fun with the State Department whistleblower harassment and possible perjury
The State Department investigator who accused colleagues last week of usingdrugs,soliciting prostitutes, and havingsex with minorssays that Foggy Bottom is now engaged in an ';intimidation'; campaign to stop her. Last week’s leaks by Aurelia Fedenisn, a former State Department inspector general investigator, shined a light on alleged wrongdoing by U.S. officials around the ...
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Rupert Murdoch Splits News Corp. Confidence Waning in Emerging Markets Inflation at 53-Year Low… Means Very Little to Middle America
Bloomberg ) Rupert Murdoch relented to shareholder demands, splitting his News Corp. media empire into two separate investments. Tuesday's move was a procedure more akin to separating Siamese twins than spinning off a new company, as two new, nearly equal businesses were created. The new entities are: "News Corp." (NNC), which consists of the Wall Street-based publishing company ...
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Federal Reserve more optimistic about US economy keeps stimulus program unchanged
Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it will maintain the pace of its bond-buying program to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. But it offered a more optimistic outlook for ...
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