Garcia said the new initiative is funded by $1.5 million appropriated by the Harris County Commissioners Court earlier this year. Harris County began implementing a new ankle-monitoring policy in an effort to reduce law enforcement response times when a monitor is…
October 27, 2026 / 9:25 AM EDT / CBS News Federal prosecutors filed new criminal charges on Tuesday against two ex-FBI counterintelligence officials, accusing them of obstructing a congressional proceeding and lying to lawmakers about their roles in the bureau's investigations of Hunter Biden. The…
October 27, 2026 / 8:03 AM EDT / CBS/AP A man serving a life sentence for killing his co-worker four years ago has escaped from a prison in northwest Tennessee by slipping through a fence, authorities said. Investigators have since released surveillance footage that…
By Gabe Kaminsky, Steve Reilly and Daniel Klaidman Published October 27, 2026 It was the summer of 2017 when Thomas Franco met Carlos Watson, a journalist and political commentator who seemed to be building a media empire. Over the next five years, Franco…
October 26, 2026 / 9:51 AM EDT / CBS News A preliminary survey released on Monday found that the rate of violent crime victimization in 2025 fell by about 25% compared with the prior year, a significant drop that the Justice Department claimed represents the largest decline…
Dating violence at University of Houston experienced the sharpest surge of VAWA crimes, rising from 18 in 2024 to 41 reported incidents in 2025. Reports of violence against women at University of Houston increased 61.11% from 2024 to 2025, according to the university's annual Security and Fire…
March 21, 2026 / 11:24 AM EDT / CBS/AP The NCAA accused online sportsbook DraftKings of trademark infringement associated with the association's men's and women's basketball tournaments and filed a complaint in federal court seeking an emergency restraining order. In the complaint filed in…
October 24, 2026 / 11:01 PM EDT / CBS News The lake country straddling the Kentucky-Tennessee border has a quiet, majestic beauty. But in September 2022, that vast landscape seemed to have swallowed up Mike Harding, a California transplant who disappeared without a trace. JULIE HARDING…
October 24, 2026 / 1:26 PM EDT / CBS/AFP German police, acting on an FBI tip-off, arrested an alleged online sadist accused of driving a 14-year-old U.S. girl to hang herself, prosecutors said Friday. The 18-year-old German was arrested in Hamburg on Thursday, accused of…
October 24, 2026 / 9:03 AM EDT / CBS News A letter making a "number of claims" against the father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, was received by the Metropolitan Police in 2019, a Scotland Yard spokesperson confirmed to CBS News on Saturday. Police said…
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