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US authorities have revealed that they captured the convicted killer of the professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson with a clever ruse: by placing an advertisement on social media purportedly seeking a yoga instructor, which in turn lured the fugitive out of hiding. Investigators with the US Marshals Service came up with the ad idea while on an international manhunt for Kaitlin Armstrong, a former yoga instructor who had fled to Costa Rica after killing the 25-year-old Wilson in May 2022 in Austin, Texas, according to newly released information on the case reported on Sunday by the CBS News show 48...

More that 1,300 offshore workers are to stage a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay. Unite warned that dozens of oil and gas platforms will be brought to a “standstill” by the walkout from April 24. The union has previously warned of a “tsunami” of industrial unrest in the offshore sector over pay and conditions. Unite general secretary, Sharon Graham, said: “Oil and gas companies in the offshore sector are enjoying record windfall profits. “There’s no question that contractors and operators can easily afford to give Unite members a decent pay rise. “The scale of corporate greed in the...

To this day, Jake insists his mind was not his own when he set out to kill Dr. Michael Weiss at his office on Nov. 12, 2012. Jacob Nolan interview with "48 Hours" Jake Nolan speaks out to "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant. CBS NEWS Jake Nolan: There's never gonna be a night I don't fall asleep feeling awful for what I've done. Jake Nolan: The knife was in my pocket. And the sledgehammer was over my shoulders … He sees the sledgehammer and charges at me … and I reached for the knife. … Here I am with...

“The war in Ukraine will continue until the complete defeat of Russia,” protested Igor Girkin, a far-right nationalist, in a video address to his 430,000 Telegram followers on Monday. “We have already lost, the rest is just a matter of time,” he writes characteristically.

We are at the crossroad where change is unavoidable. We all must make choices that determine our future. To many, this looks like a war… but what we need to find is peace. I am going to find peace through this sacrifice.Just to be clear, ALL my content will be removed. This includes articles on:Great Reset,General nutrition,the coronavirus,and my interviews with expertsThese will be removed to appease the individuals in power who have an arsenal of overwhelming tools at their disposal, and are actively engaged in using them. COVID-19 has activated and authorized emergency powers that have weakened our constitutional...

A team of journalists and a retired Woodbury police officer have followed the Jodi Huisentruit case and held a dedication ceremony in June 2018 for new billboards placed in Mason City, Iowa on what would have been her 50th birthday. The TV show “48 Hours” promises to reveal “new information” Saturday in the unsolved case of Iowa anchorwoman Jodi Huisentruit, who disappeared 23 years ago. The 27-year-old Minnesota native vanished while heading to work one morning in June 1995, leaving behind evidence of a struggle in her apartment parking lot but few clues as to who assaulted her. In the...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Dallas County Deputy who showed up to an urgent care facility yesterday complaining of symptoms of Ebola has tested negative for the virus, the Department of State Health Services announced Thursday.

On June 24, 2012, the body of Shane Todd, a young US electrical engineer, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment. The Singapore Police say it was suicide, but the Todd family believes he was murdered. -excerpt- ... Shane told his family that he was being asked to compromise US security and he feared for his life. Shane refused to do what he was being asked to do and turned in his sixty day notice at IME. Shane found a good job with a company in Virginia, and bought a ticket to fly back to the US on July 1,...

Everybody who is anybody in television news — with one glaring omission — showed up for last week’s twentieth-anniversary blowout for 48 Hours, which, after 60 Minutes, is CBS News’ most durable magazine program. On hand for the party in the twentieth-floor lounge at 230 Fifth Avenue were CBS chairman Leslie Moonves, CBS News president Sean McManus, 48 Hours executive producer Susan Zirinsky, former CBS president Sir Howard Stringer, and former news president Andrew Heyward. Missing was Dan Rather. The original anchor of 48 Hours — who, along with Stringer, got the show off the ground in 1986 with a...

Tin SoldierAn American Vigilante In Afghanistan, Using the Press for Profit and Glory By Mariah Blake In April 2004, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier named Jonathan Keith Idema started shopping a sizzling story to the media. He claimed terrorists in Afghanistan planned to use bomb-laden taxicabs to kill key U.S. and Afghan officials, and that he himself intended to thwart the attack. Shortly thereafter, he headed to Afghanistan, where he spent the next two months conducting a series of raids with his team, which he called Task Force Saber 7. By late June, he claimed to have captured the...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Parents would be told when their minor daughters seek abortions under a bill the Legislature passed Friday. A 96-14 vote in the House sent the measure (CS-HB 1659) to Gov. Jeb Bush, who had signed a similar parental notice bill into law in 1999 only to have it blocked by the courts. Lawmakers were widely expected to pass a new parental notice law this session after voters approved a constitutional amendment in November to address the legal obstacles. But the House and Senate developed parental notice bills that had significant differences. The two chambers worked out...

The president addresses the nation; the debate on Iraq ends; and the future of two countries now lies just over the horizon. I DIDN'T THINK the president was at his best tonight. His reading was not smooth. I'm sure that many French, British, and high-toned American viewers will have their opinion confirmed that George W. Bush simply hasn't read enough books to be president, let alone lead the nation into war. The speech was simple, unremarkable, and direct; more Karen Hughes, I'm guessing, than Mike Gerson. And that is appropriate. For America is not going to war in a moment...

Lesley Stahl kicks off her new role tonight as anchor of '48 Hours' with a fresh look at the Jon Benet Ramsey case.She has the first interview with Patsy Ramsey since the latter was diagnosed with a recurrence of ovarian cancer..Shows never before seen tapes of police interrogations..Boasts an exclusive with Lou Smit, one of the original investigators of the Boulder, Colorado case.. (he thinks the Ramseys are innocent)And there is new evidence, including fiber presence linked to one of the parents.The local police department offers its relevations and private views of the Ramseys as potential suspects.

2002-09-21 21:42:49 PT Dan Rather and Bill Whitaker air a biased report against the auto insurance industry, quoting three critics of the practice of credit scoring for insurance customers and only one defender. The piece begins with a profile of a woman whose insurance rates went up when she missed two credit card payments in the aftermath of her daughter's death six years ago. Not mentioned is the size of her unpaid bills, or when her rates rose. Whitaker also doesn't allow a representative from her company (or any other company) to respond the woman's charges. The next portion of...