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Escaped circus elephant, Viola, stops traffic in Montana city – CBS News Watch CBS News Viola the elephant was scheduled to perform with the Jordan World Circus in Butte, Montana, before she escaped her handler and took a walk through the city. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

By Meredith Gordon Updated on: April 16, 2024 / 9:10 PM EDT / Essentials CBS Essentials is created independently of the CBS News editorial staff. We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. This content is sponsored by Hulu. Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors and LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers joke around with one another during their game at Chase Center on January 27, 2024 in San Francisco, California.  Ezra Shaw/Getty Images The 2024 NBA Playoffs are here and conference leaderboards are looking very different than in years past. There’s a new class of NBA stars, led by OKC Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, looking to dethrone league legends like LeBron James and Steph Curry. Judging by this season’s standings, the 2024 NBA Playoffs are going to be one of the most dramatic series’ to date. Hulu + Live TV is one of the few live TV streaming apps on which you can watch every game of the 2024 NBA Playoffs. That’s

Paris Olympics flame lit as athletes prepare for Summer Games – CBS News Watch CBS News The 2024 Olympic torch has been lit ahead of the Summer Games in Paris. CBS News producer Elizabeth Campbell joins with a preview of the event. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Biden hits campaign trail as Trump’s New York trial enters 2nd day – CBS News Watch CBS News Both presidential candidates were in their hometowns for very different reasons Tuesday. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes explains. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

A 23-year-old woman who went missing in Inglewood was found, authorities said Tuesday. Noelle M. Lynch was last seen around 5 p.m. on April 3 walking from an apartment building in the 900 block of East Redondo Boulevard, near Florence Avenue and the Inglewood Park Cemetery, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Detective said that Lynch has since been safely located. No further details were available.

Sheriff’s detectives Tuesday are investigating the circumstances surrounding the body of a 28-year-old man found near a creek bed in Hawaiian Gardens. Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were called at just after 11 p.m. Monday to a remote area near Coyote Creek, regarding a shots fired call. Upon their arrival, they found the man’s body with multiple gunshot wounds near a hillside, Fox 11 reported. “There was information about shots being fired in the area,” sheriff’s homicide Lt. Omar Camacho told Fox 11. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner later identified the man as Markus Michel, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Throughout the one-week trial of Eddie Gonzalez, prosecutors painted the former Long Beach school officer as a wannabe cop who wildly overreacted to a minor fight between girls and turned it into a lethal situation. Gonzalez’s attorneys — defending him for shooting 18-year-old Manuela “Mona” Rodriguez in the back of the head as she fled the scene of the incident — called the 2021 killing a “tragedy, but not a crime.” But the jurors deciding Gonzalez’s fate deadlocked Tuesday, seemingly split not by the dueling narratives presented in court, but whether the defendant was guilty of murder or manslaughter. The jury had the option to convict on the lesser charge if they determined he killed Rodriguez in an act legally defined as “imperfect self-defense.” On Tuesday, seven jurors said they were ready to convict Gonzalez, 51, of murder, while another five said they could only convict him of voluntary manslaughter. Jurors on Monday asked if they could consider a charge of involuntary manslaughter, but Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Richard Goul said they could not. Prosecutors could still choose to retry the case. A

LeBron James has scored more points than anyone in NBA history. The four-time champion and 20-time all-star has been named league MVP and Finals MVP four times each. He also has finished second in defensive player of the year voting twice. Apparently that last part really bugs the Lakers superstar. “I mean, that’s the only award that I don’t have in my house. It kind of stings,” James said in a clip released from the latest episode of “The Shop: Uninterrupted,” which will drop Thursday on HBO. “I’ve talked about this before, like, it don’t make sense. It’s almost what [Jay-Z] just said about [Beyoncé]. How could she have the most Grammys, but never won Album of the Year?” James won his first league MVP award as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2009. He finished second to Orlando’s Dwight Howard for defensive player of the year and the voting wasn’t close. Howard received 105 first-place votes and 542 total points from the 119 sports writers and broadcasters who cast ballots; James got four first-place votes and 148 points. The one that really seems

The sun was barely up at the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin, but the prisoners knew there was something afoot. The inmate workers still hadn’t left for their jobs that morning, and there were extra guards at the troubled federal facility in Northern California. “We could tell these were not new officers,” Rhonda Fleming, a woman imprisoned at Dublin, told The Times in an email. “We knew they came from the men’s prison.” But the women could only guess what was happening — and it made them tense. After years of controversy, lawsuits and sexual abuse scandals, on Monday the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced plans to close the facility. But instead of bringing relief, for many prisoners the news sparked fear and confusion as the women worried about being moved far away from their families. The facility in Dublin had been garnering headlines for years, and usually for nothing good. Inmates and their advocates cited problems with medical care, mold and overcrowding. But the prison was most notorious for a sex abuse scandal that earned it a reputation as the “rape club.” After the

It’s the same old song when it comes to Kawhi Leonard and his availability for the Clippers when they meet the Dallas Mavericks in Game 1 of the Western Conference playoffs on Sunday at Crypto.com Arena. It remains uncertain — a mystery even — if Leonard will play in the first game of the best-of-seven series. He missed the last eight games of the regular season because of right knee inflammation. The Clippers had their first practice Tuesday in preparation for the Mavericks, leaving the media to ask coach Tyronn Lue if Leonard would fully practice. “No, not fully,” Lue said. “But he’s going to be a part of practice.” Lue was asked how much Leonard can participate in practice. “Um, he’s going to do a quarter of the practice,” Lue said. LIke running, Lue was asked. “Just a quarter of the practice, yeah,” Lue responded. Is it because Leonard hasn’t played in an NBA game since March 31? “Yeah, just bring him along slowly,” Lue said. By the time Sunday rolls arrvies, Leonard will have missed three weeks of NBA game action. So, Lue

Police have released a grainy image taken from surveillance footage of a man believed to be responsible for a violent sexual assault on a woman who was sitting in her car outside of a restaurant in Pasadena on Saturday. The terrifying ordeal unfolded at around 8:40 p.m. on Sierra Madre Villa Avenue, north of Foothill Boulevard, authorities with the Pasadena Police Department said in a news release.   “The suspect got into the car with her,” PPD Lt. Tim Bundy told KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw. “He produced a knife and forced her to drive to another location in Pasadena where he then sexually assaulted her.”   Police said the woman was able to fight back, fend off the man and call 911 when he fled the area.   “It’s absolutely scary and this guy is a straight predator,” Lt. Bundy said. “That’s why we want to get the word out there. We’re actively searching for him, obviously, but we want people to be aware that he’s still out there at this point.”   The suspect is described as an approximately 30 to 40-year-old Black male, around

Prosecutors in Arizona have filed felony charges against a woman who accused former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexual assault, alleging she defrauded the former Cy Young winner. The charges come after a Grand Jury in Maricopa County handed down an indictment against Darcy Adanna Esemonu on one count of fraud and one count of theft by extortion. She is due to be arraigned on April 26. In a videotaped statement, Bauer acknowledges having sex with Esemonu in 2020, which he claims, was consensual. Former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer admits ‘mistakes,’ seeks MLB comeback She sued Bauer in 2023, alleging he raped her and got her pregnant, and demanded more than $1 million to terminate the pregnancy. He eventually paid her “thousands of dollars,” which Esemonu used for an “all-expense paid” trip to Philadelphia to get LASIK surgery, his lawyers claimed in a countersuit. “She never had an abortion because she was never even pregnant,” Bauer said in the video, which included a screenshot of a negative pregnancy urine test. KTLA 5 News’ attempts to reach Esemonu were unsuccessful. FILE – Los Angeles

Black market marijuana farms in Maine allegedly tied to Chinese criminal networks – CBS News Watch CBS News Hundreds of unlicensed marijuana farms have cropped up in Maine in recent years, a CBS News investigation has found. Officials believe criminal networks tied to China are behind some of these illegal operations. Nicole Sganga has the story. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

USC valedictorian responds after university cancels graduation speech – CBS News Watch CBS News The University of Southern California canceled the traditional speech from the valedictorian at its upcoming graduation ceremony after some criticized her pro-Palestinian views. But the move to cancel Asna Tabassum’s speech is receiving backlash as well. Carter Evans spoke with Tabassum, who says she feels betrayed by the school. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

A Florida homeowner was treated to a shocking surprise when a jettisoned piece of metal from the International Space Station crashed into his home in March. On Monday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed the space station was the source of the debris. The debris “tore through the roof” of Alejandro Otero’s home on March 8, passing through two floors and nearly hitting his son, the Naples resident said in a March 15 post on X. A month later, NASA released a public statement taking responsibility. “The hardware was expected to fully burn up during entry through Earth’s atmosphere,” NASA said. “However, a piece of hardware survived re-entry and impacted a home.” The remaining piece of debris, a stanchion, weighs 1.6 pounds, NASA said. The object is 4 inches tall and 1.6 inches wide. An external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries is released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm as the International Space Station orbits 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean west of Central America. (NASA) Increasing amounts of space debris — due to an explosion in the number of satellites launched into low

Disgraced former Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar has been allowed to delay the start date for his 13-year prison term, citing confidential medical information, according to recent court filings. The 55-year-old former head of the council’s Planning and Land Use Committee was sentenced in January for his role in a sprawling federal corruption case that involved him taking cash payouts and other bribes while in office. He was ordered to surrender to federal authorities April 30. But in federal court filings this week, Huizar requested that his surrender date be pushed to Aug. 30. The application, filed under seal, did not publicly disclose reasons for the request. However, a separate motion to seal the application asked for secrecy because the application “contains private medical information,” Huizar’s attorney Cuahtemoc Ortega, a federal public defender, wrote in court papers. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge John F. Walter found that “good cause” was shown in the request and approved the four-month delay for Huizar’s surrender date. The motions said prosecutors did not oppose the request or object to it being filed under seal. A spokesperson for

The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating after a body was found inside a “sealed trash can” in Sunland Tuesday morning. The gruesome discovery was made around 10:30 a.m. on the 8500 block of Wentworth Street. Details are limited at this time, but the LAPD said its homicide detectives have been assigned the case. Around 3:30 p.m., video from Sky5 showed several law enforcement officers investigating the black trash can, which appeared to have been placed along the curb as if it were waiting for a normal trash pickup. Later, a crime scene van arrived to the scene and a white tent that is typically used to conceal the bodies of deceased people was placed above the trash can. The area was blocked off with crime scene tape and traffic was being diverted. It was not immediately clear how long the road would be closed or how long police would remain on scene.

Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood in Burbank will be taking guests back in time to Hollywood’s heyday as it launches a new classic films tour in partnership with Turner Classic Movies. The new 3.5-hour tour will take riders through the Golden Age of Hollywood as part of a celebration of 30 years of TCM, with iconic films from the Warner Bros. library featured along the way. The 90-minute guided tour portion will be aboard new TCM-themed carts with the focus of the tour being the early days of Tinseltown. “Casablanca,” “My Fair Lady,” “The Music Man,” “Blazing Saddles” and more are highlighted along the tour, with brand new stops related to the films found on Turner Classic Movies. An exterior view as Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood and Turner Classic Movies launch new TCM Classic Films Tour at Warner Bros. Studios on April 16, 2024 in Burbank, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood) Costumes are displayed as Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood and Turner Classic Movies launch new TCM Classic Films Tour at Warner Bros. Studios on April 16, 2024 in

By Tom Horton Updated on: April 16, 2024 / 7:14 PM EDT / Essentials CBS Essentials is created independently of the CBS News editorial staff. We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. Looking for a healthy way to use your EBT SNAP benefits that will make life easier to boot? The government-run Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps low-income households stay healthy by helping to pay for certain foods.  Shoppers use an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card to pay for grocery items like fresh vegetables and baby food — but did you know it could also be put toward select meal kit purchases?  Most home delivery services don’t accept EBT SNAP benefits for subscription fees, but meal kits like Home Chef have a workaround for low-income households looking for quick, easy, and — most importantly — nutritious meals.  SNAP benefits can be used for a number of healthy foods, but there are some limitations. Eligibility requirements  can be confusing, so here’s the main thing to keep in mind: Grocery items like breads, cereals, and

By Jason R. Rich Updated on: April 16, 2024 / 7:08 PM EDT / Essentials CBS Essentials is created independently of the CBS News editorial staff. We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. Troy-Bilt, John Deere One of the biggest responsibilities of living with a lawn is keeping it looking lush. And if your property is a decent size, a traditional push mower just won’t cut it (pun intended). That’s where a riding lawn mower (also called garden tractors) comes in handy. These mowers are ideal for typical home lawns from .75 acres and up. Based on the make and model riding mower you choose, most offer optional attachments, such as a mulching kit, bagger option for capturing clippings and leaves, the ability to easily spread seed and aerate your lawn, or a detachable snow plow (or snow blower) which make your investment something you’ll use year-round.  Best riding mower overall for most yards: John Deere 170 lawn tractor (42-inch deck) Best electric riding mower for most yards:  Greenworks Crossover Z (42-inch

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