Crime

Jorge “Jojo” Morales, a 6-year-old boy with autism, was reunited with his mother at a Miami airport on Tuesday night. He had been missing for more than two months before someone spotted him at a Walmart in Canada over the weekend.  CBS Miami captured the moment Morales was reunited with …

A teenager pleaded guilty Monday to terrorism and first-degree murder in a Michigan school shooting that killed four students and put an extraordinary focus on the boy’s home life and the alleged role of his parents in the tragedy. Ethan Crumbley pleaded guilty to all 24 charges, nearly a year after …

Danny Masterson, former star of the long-running sitcom “That ’70s Show,” is about to face three women in court who say he raped them two decades ago at a trial whose key figures are all current or former members of the Church of Scientology. Opening statements could begin as early as …

A fifth-grade teacher in East Chicago, Indiana is accused of making a “kill list” that included at least one of her students, CBS Chicago’s Jermont Terry reports. A student in the her class in the St. Stanislaus School is being credited with stepping up and telling school officials about it. …

A student at Purdue University was stabbed to death inside his dorm room on the Indiana school’s campus early Wednesday, according to officials and preliminary autopsy results. A suspect, the victim’s roommate, has been arrested in connection with the crime.  The victim was identified as Varun Manish Chheda, 20, a …

Armed attackers killed 10 people in a pool hall in an industrial region of central Mexico plagued by drug cartel-related violence, authorities said Thursday. The massacre happened on Wednesday night in the municipality of Tarimoro in Guanajuato state, according to the regional prosecutor’s office. The bodies of nine men were …

Dramatic video shows a Chick-fil-A employee tackling a man who allegedly tried to carjack a woman with a baby. The suspect, identified as William Branch, was arrested by authorities in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.  Branch is facing charges of battery and carjacking with a weapon, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said on …

San Diego — The military contractor who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the “Fat Leonard” corruption scandal and was under house arrest in San Diego is now on the run after cutting off his GPS monitoring ankle bracelet over the weekend, federal authorities said. Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Omar Castillo told …

Inmates at a troubled West Virginia prison where James “Whitey” Bulger was beaten to death found out ahead of time that the notorious Boston gangster would be arriving, according to new details revealed in court. Sean McKinnon, who is accused of acting as a lookout while two other men killed …

A 23-year-old Navy submarine technician has pleaded not guilty to charges he killed his wife with a hammer and set their house on fire in an attempt to kill their infant son. Petty Officer 2nd Class George Dodson II waived his right to a probable cause hearing Monday and pleaded …