A judge in Vermont has ordered a mental evaluation for a homeless shelter resident accused of using an ax and knife to kill the shelter’s coordinator in front of horrified workers. Zaaina Mahvish-Jammeh, 38, purchased the ax from a hardware store before requesting a meeting with the shelter coordinator, and …
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Good savers, beware. The money you’re stuffing into your 401(k) and other retirement accounts has to be withdrawn someday. If you’re not strategic about how you save, you could face unnecessarily high tax bills and inflated Medicare premiums in retirement — plus, you could be saddling your heirs with higher …
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Floridians will be able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill the Legislature sent to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The governor, who is considering a presidential run, has said the issue is one of his priorities. The Senate passed the bill on a 27-13 vote. It will …
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A memorial at the gates of the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, continues to grow — filled with flowers, stuffed animals and balloons in honor of the six people, including three children, who were killed in Monday’s shooting. “You just wonder: when is the call coming for you? You know? …
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President Biden early Sunday issued an emergency declaration for Mississippi, making federal funding available to Carroll, Humphreys, Monroe and Sharkey counties, the areas hardest hit Friday night by a deadly tornado that ripped through the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions of the U.S. CBS News has confirmed at …
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Panera Bread is rolling out palm scanners that will link customers’ handprints to their loyalty accounts — a move the company paints as convenient but that privacy advocates have decried. The biometric-gathering technology, developed by Amazon, will hit stores in the next few months, Panera said on Wednesday. The gadgets …
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Police in Nashville are searching for two suspects who allegedly spray-painted hate symbols on homes in the city’s Sylvan Park neighborhood. Surveillance video shows the suspects painting swastikas on a home at around 1:28 a.m. on Monday, said in a statement. Five other homes were also vandalized with swastikas and hate …
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Ford has issued a safety recall for 1.28 million Fusion and Lincoln MKZ sedans sold in the U.S. over faulty brake fluid hoses that can rupture, requiring more distance to stop the vehicles and “increasing the risk of a crash,” according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The affected …
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Ohio filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday. The federal lawsuit also seeks to force the company to pay for groundwater …
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Angelina Fernandes vividly remembers the night that changed her life forever. She was just 11 years old, and woke up to the sound of her screaming mom. “I just hear my mom screaming and crying,” Angelina told “48 Hours.” She said she looked down the stairs and saw blood everywhere. …
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