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Former NFL star O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of double murder, dies at 76 – CBS News Watch CBS News O.J. Simpson, a former NFL star who was acquitted of double murder, died following a battle with cancer at the age of 76. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

La comida nunca surgió de la nada para Karla Tatiana Vásquez. Las historias siempre seguían. Cada vez que su abuela o su madre cocinaban, Vásquez sabía que algo especial se avecinaba. Su comida desveló recuerdos, especialmente sobre El Salvador, la patria de la que habían huido a finales de los años 1980 durante la guerra civil del país. Vásquez nació en el país centroamericano pero no tenía ningún recuerdo de ello. Era una bebé cuando su familia se la llevó a Los Ángeles, donde muchos miembros de la familia terminaron estableciéndose. Cuando era niño, a Vásquez le costaba mucho decir “salvadoreño” sin tropezar en la montaña rusa de una palabra. En la escuela, luchó contra la ansiedad y el sentido de pertenencia. Se sintió perdida. Pero en la mesa se sintió castigada. Entre bocados de tortilla y el plato frío de carne picada salpicón de res, la abuela, la madre, el padre y las tías de Vásquez se turnaron para desentrañar historias que sirvieron como fragmentos de un tapiz más grande que constituía su identidad. El plato favorito de Vásquez cuando era niño: salpicón de

A notorious fake priest who left a trail of doubt and disbelief among the faithful he’s accused of swindling from coast to coast will soon face judgment in Riverside County, sheriff’s officials say. For months, Malin Rostas, aka “Father Martin,” donned black garb and showed up at Catholic churches across the U.S. and Canada claiming to be “a visiting priest from Chicago,” according to investigators. But when his all-too-trusting hosts would leave him alone in the rectory — a priest’s personal quarters next to the church — investigators say Rostas would rifle through their valuables and make a hasty exodus with their cash. In March, Father Peter Raydar, of the appropriately named American Martyrs Roman Catholic Church in Queens, N.Y., got burned for $900. “He’s a vulture, he’s a vulture,” Raydar told a local TV station. “It’s very sad that someone is going to come to any house of worship and just violate everybody.” But, Raydar confessed, the alleged fake priest had done his homework. He’d learned the names of people at the church, used ecclesiastical vocabulary and knew where to find the loot, he

In just the last few years, two former Los Angeles City Council members have gone to prison for corruption, one more has been sentenced for fraud and bribery and two current members face accusations of ethics violations. At least four high-ranking city officials have pleaded guilty to or been found guilty of roles in various corruption schemes. It should be obvious that L.A. needs a stronger, more independent Ethics Commission to prevent and penalize corruption and help rebuild public trust in scandal-plagued City Hall. But doing so requires voter support, and time is running out to get a comprehensive reform package on the November ballot. This is a test for Council President Paul Krekorian and his fellow council members’ commitment to fixing City Hall. If they fail to act quickly, it will be clear that they cannot be trusted to make substantial changes to the city’s political structure. Activists and civic leaders will have to organize and impose reform from outside. The City Council has about two months to sign off on the proposals, which may sound like a long time. But there’s been almost

My mother, a UCLA graduate, switched her allegiance on a dime the day I enrolled at USC. She and my father attended every Trojans home game from that day forward. Familial blood may be thicker than alumni water but not so, it seems, when it comes to spousal relations. And I know about it all too well. My husband, Brad, and I, both divorced and not in the market for anyone who didn’t ooze quality, had engaged in a keyboard courtship. He was avid, while I was reluctant at best. I refused to meet him for months, having been single for six years and not the least bit interested in sharing anything with anyone ever again. But he said he was willing to wait however long it took for me to muster up the courage, and he would even manage to overlook the fact that my diploma was from USC because he (unfortunately) was a devoted Bruin. Letters soared back and forth between us, and because we were both 50 and counting, once I caved and we came face to face we wasted no time

Many state capitol buildings feel unapproachable, tucked away downtown or barricaded behind lanes of noisy traffic. Not so in Salt Lake City. The Utah Capitol sits at the mouth of a verdant canyon, flanked by parks and neighborhoods, perched below the Wasatch Mountains and presiding over the city with authority. It’s a grand building , just over a century old, with a copper-clad dome and a neoclassical design that mirrors the U.S. Capitol. Inside, the state Legislature convenes every January for 45 days. In deeply conservative Utah, the Republican supermajority passes one law after another that outrages progressives, educators, young people and more. Outside the walls, these marginalized groups protest these same bills. Ten years ago, my wife and I moved a block away from this stately old building, serendipitously finding our new home an easy launchpad to attend rallies. The stack of homemade signs accumulating in our basement testifies to our proximity. In January 2017, we joined 6,000 Utahans in the Capitol rotunda — 1,000 more than the official capacity of the space — for the existential roar of the Women’s March. The following

By Jordan Kinsey Updated on: April 12, 2024 / 7:56 AM EDT / CBS News Sneak peek: The Disappearance of Maddi Kingsbury Sneak peek: The Disappearance of Maddi Kingsbury 03:46 The morning of March 31, 2023, for Megan Kingsbury began with a funny text exchange with her younger sister, 26-year-old Madeline “Maddi” Kingsbury , who lived in Winona, Minnesota. But that would be the last communication, Megan Kingsbury says, she would ever have with her sister. Later that evening, Megan Kingsbury says her mother, Krista Naber, reached out to see if she had spoken to her sister recently because Naber had not heard from Maddi Kingbsury in hours. Megan Kingsbury says she wasn’t worried at first, but then Maddi Kingsbury did not respond to her new messages or phone calls either.  “…regardless of how busy she was or what she had going on, she always got back to us,” Megan Kingsbury told “48 Hours” correspondent Peter Van Sant. Her interview is featured in “The Disappearance of Maddi Kingsbury,” an all-new “48 Hours” airing Saturday, April 13, at 10/9c on CBS and Paramount+. Madeline “Maddi” Kingsbury Maddi

Like a lot of parents, I’ve carried a picture of my son everywhere I go for many years. Unlike a lot of them, I have a child who never ages: My son George was shot and killed on July 17, 1996. My photos of my son remind me of the days before I had to tell my grandson Gabriel, on what happened to be his 6th birthday, that his father had died. The scream I heard on the other end of the phone is one I wouldn’t wish on my enemies. Though I turned my pain into purpose as the president of the anti-gun-violence group Brady California , I trudge through every day with unanswered questions, one of which echoes the loudest: Who killed my son? That’s because my son’s killer has never been brought to justice. Not knowing who killed George is unfathomably difficult but not unusual. California’s statewide case clearance rate for homicides has been near or under 65% for the last decade. That means more than a third of the state’s killings go unsolved, leaving families and communities to bury people they

April 12, 2024 / 7:02 AM EDT / AP Detroit — The U.S. government’s auto safety agency has opened an investigation into a Ford recall for gasoline leaks from cracked fuel injectors that can cause engine fires, saying in documents that the remedy doesn’t fix the leaks. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in the documents posted Friday on its website that the probe will “evaluate the adequacy and safety consequences of the remedy” that Ford specifies in the recall. The agency moved with unusual speed, posting documents detailing the “recall query” just two days after the recall was made public. The recall covers nearly 43,000 Ford Bronco Sport SUVs from the 2022 and 2023 model years, and Escape SUVs from 2022. All have 1.5-liter engines. The NHTSA said that fuel injectors can crack, causing gasoline or vapors to leak at a high rate onto hot surfaces in the engine compartment. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Ford’s remedy for the leaks is installation of a drain tube to send the gas away from hot surfaces and a software update to detect a pressure

Updated on: April 12, 2024 / 6:22 AM EDT / CBS/AP Inside Mexican/American gunrunning networks Inside Mexican/American gunrunning networks 03:12 The head of traffic police was shot to death Thursday in Mexico’s troubled Pacific coast resort of Acapulco . The city government said gunmen killed Eduardo Chávez, the head of municipal traffic police. The assailants opened fire on Chávez on a street relatively far away from the resort’s beaches. The crime is under investigation. Drug cartels in Mexico often force bus and taxi drivers to work for them, and thus could have been angered by traffic stops of such vehicles. Videos posted on social media in March showed drug gang enforcers brutally beating bus drivers in Acapulco for failing to act as lookouts for the cartel. One video showed a presumed gang enforcer dealing more than a dozen hard, open-hand slaps to a driver and calling him an “animal,” and demanding he check in several times a day with the gang. It was the latest incident of deadly violence in Acapulco, which is still struggling to recover after being hit by Category 5 Hurricane Otis