Crime

Eleven people were stabbed Sunday evening at a Salem, Oregon, mission that aids homeless people, and a male suspect was in custody, police said. All the victims were brought to a local hospital with “varying types of injuries,” police said. It happened at the Union Gospel Mission, which helps “men, …

A West Virginia pharmacist who was convicted of poisoning her husband to death with insulin has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Natalie Cochran was sentenced Friday after jurors last week found her guilty of first-degree murder in Raleigh County Circuit Court, CBS affiliate WDTV reported. Cochran’s husband, Michael …

A suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman and her 4-month-old son inside a car in Hartford, Connecticut, was arrested Saturday in Puerto Rico, officials said. The U.S. Marshals Service said they found Lance “Macho” Morales at a residence in the barrio of Fajardo. Police believe the 23-year-old Waterbury, …

Two people are dead and three others are wounded following a shooting early Monday morning in Birmingham, Alabama, authorities said. At least five people were hit in the shooting, which was reported at about 2:30 a.m. Monday, and two women later died at University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital, according to …

A shooting in a Seattle parking lot Friday night wounded five people, including two who were in critical condition, the city’s police chief said. The Seattle Police Department responded to a reported shooting around 9 p.m. in the 9200 block of Rainier Avenue South. The shooting started in the parking …

Someone was shot near the waterfront in Camden, N.J. during the finale of Fourth of July fireworks, police said Tuesday night.  CBS News Philadelphia’s Tom Ignudo reports that the shooting sent a wave of panic through the people who were there to see the fireworks. The injury suffered by the …

Three San Antonio police officers have been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman who was experiencing what the city’s police chief said was a “mental health crisis.” Sgt. Alfred Flores and Officers Eleazar Alejandro and Nathaniel Villalobos were suspended without pay and later arrested on murder …

Prosecutors filed a murder charge Tuesday in the death of a teenager whose remains have not been found despite an extraordinary monthslong search last year at a suburban Detroit landfill. More than a dozen Detroit police officers wearing protective suits, respirators and goggles picked through tons of rotting summer trash …

A popular Ghanaian social media influencer has been extradited to the U.S. from the United Kingdom after being charged for her role in a lucrative romance scam targeting elderly Americans.  Prosecutors charged Mona Faiz Montrage, 30, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy, and money laundering, …

A Washington man pleaded guilty in federal court to vandalizing four power substations in Tacoma, Washington, that knocked out power to more than 14,000 customers on Christmas, the Department of Justice said in a news release on Friday. Matthew Greenwood, 32, of Puyallup said in his plea that he and …