Arizona State

Tucson, AZ

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Lukeville, AZ

BroBible

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of Lukeville in Tuscon, Arizona recently made the largest singular fentanyl seizure in CBP history. The seizure resulted in the confiscation of approximately 4 million blue fentanyl pills weighing more than 1,000 pounds. The bust occurred when a 20-year-old Arizona man, who is a citizen […]
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Federal Agents Make Largest Fentanyl Seizure In Border Patrol History

Texas State

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Jack Beavers

In a new wrinkle on the human smuggling front, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) apprehended eight migrants who entered the state illegally after the private plane they were aboard landed in Port Lavaca.

Texas Border: Migrants by Planeload & Truckloads

The Independent

 Birth certificates. Baby formula. Diapers.  A last set of clothes. These are some of the vital items that the Border Patrol is allegedly throwing away as it processes unauthorized migrants for return to Mexico.A woman who fled to the US from Mexico City with her husband and two children, seeking to escape violent threats towards her family, recently told Arizona Public Media that the Border Patrol threw away her cell phone, as well as diapers and wet wipes for her children. A reporter observed her breastfeeding in Nogales, Sonora, wearing a hospital-style paper shirt, because officials reportedly threw...

Migrants say border agents continue to throw away their belongings including baby food and vital medicines

New Mexico State

El Paso, TX

Latin Times

Border Patrol authorities in El Paso, Texas, are resorting to pleading with the family members of potential migrants to convince them not to try to cross the U.S. southern border, as the amounts of deaths amid scorching temperatures continues to soar. Concretely, the sector stretching from Hudspeth County to the...

Border Patrol warns relatives of migrants to not send them funds to make the journey as deaths soar

San Diego, CA

Last week, The Department of Justice indicted Abdul Karim Conteh, a man from Sierra Leone accused of leading a large human smuggling organization that brought thousands of undocumented migrants into the United States. According to the indictment, Conteh allegedly "oversaw the migrants' unlawful entry into the United States by various surreptitious and unlawful means, including the use of ladders and tunnels."

Border patrol discovers dozens of ladders to get migrants over wall in dumpster near Tijuana

CBS News

A prisoner exchange with Russia on Thursday has freed journalist Evan Gershkovich and U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. Julia Ioffe, founding partner and Washington correspondent for Puck News, joins "America Decides" to look at the role Vice President Kamala Harris played in their release.

Analyzing Kamala Harris' views on foreign policy

Two Austrian mountaineers have died while attempting to summit a 2,500-meter (8,200-foot) peak in Italy's Julian Alps, the mountain rescue service of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region bordering Austria said Thursday.Missing since Wednesday, the two men were both Alpine rescuers from the southern Austrian city of Villach close to the Slovenian and Austrian borders, the rescue service said on Facebook. Family members awaiting their return tried to reach them by phone but their calls went unanswered.They were scaling the "Cima di Riofreddo," whose peak culminates at more than 2,500 meters, when they fell either because of a mistake or a possible...

Bodies of mountaineers found dangling from climbing ropes near peak

Pennsylvania State

Luzerne County, PA

Hazleton, PA

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The body of a homicide victim was found behind a high school in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State Police Tips said in a Facebook post that troopers from the Hazleton Barracks are investigating the homicide from July 24. After receiving several tips, state police searched the wooded...

Body of homicide victim found behind Pennsylvania high school

Somerset County, PA

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A 12-year-old boy died after crashing his dirt bike into a front loader in Somerset County. CBS affiliate WTAJ-TV reported that the boy was driving a Yamaha on Augustine Road in Milford Township on Monday when he crashed into a John Deer front-end loader. Police reportedly said the boy, who was driving at a high speed, and the driver of the John Deer tried to swerve to avoid each other but crashed.

12-year-old boy in Pennsylvania dies after crashing dirt bike into front loader

Chicago, IL

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago police issued an alert to residents about an attempted child luring on the city's West Side this week. The incident happened on Tuesday just before 7:30 p.m. in the 4600 block of West Jackson Boulevard in the Austin neighborhood. Police say the minors were walking...

Chicago police issue alert about child luring attempt on West Side

California State

The Park Fire in California has been raging for a week, destroying homes and forcing thousands to evacuate. In southern California, a new wildfire exploded near San Diego. The Nixon Fire has burned nearly 5,000 acres and has also forced evacuations.

New wildfire explodes in California as efforts continue to contain Park Fire


Don Lemon, a former CNN anchor, is suing Elon Musk and his social media network X for $35 million, alleging fraud and breach of contract after the billionaire abruptly scrapped a content partnership between them in March. 


The lawsuit, posted by Variety, which earlier reported on the legal claim, claims that Musk and X promised that Lemon would have "full authority and control over the work he produced even if disliked" by the Tesla CEO and his executives. Lemon also alleges he never received any pay for his content deal, which the lawsuit states amounted to a "guaranteed" $1.5 million in...

Don Lemon sues Elon Musk and X for $35 million, claiming fraud

Border Report

Arizona deputy alerts border agents to migrant smuggling event after stopping driver who made unsafe lane change in front of semi

California man claims 5 Mexicans wearing camouflage in SUV were his relatives

Cotulla, TX

The apprehensions of groups of people being smuggled into Texas by federal and state law enforcement officers this week likely prevented some tragedies near the state's border with Mexico.

Texas Border: Arrests Save Lives

Illinois State

An Illinois sheriff told CBS News on Thursday that a former deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey last month was "a rogue individual that acted outside the scope of his authority." Roxana Saberi has more.

Illinois sheriff calls deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey "a rogue individual"

Georgia State

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Louisiana State

New Orleans, LA

Daily Coffee Press

A developing tropical disturbance in the Caribbean is showing increasing potential to enter the eastern Gulf of Mexico, intensify, and impact areas along the Gulf Coast, likely between Florida and Louisiana. If the system gains a name, it will be designated Tropical Storm Debby. This system has the potential to bring significant rainfall to the eastern Gulf Coast, and depending on its strength, could also generate hazardous winds and a dangerous storm surge.

Potential Tropical Storm Debby Could Bring Heavy Rain and Strong Winds to Gulf Coast and SE GA

Heat and humidity levels could dampen efforts to contain the Park Fire in Northern California as firefighters work to push back flames. CBS News senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy has more.

Park Fire nears another devastating record in California

A total of 700 guns were stolen from roughly 35,000 car break-ins in 2023 alone. Elliott Ramos is an investigative data journalist for CBS Chicago, responsible for the station's data-driven investigations, specializing in data visualizations, maps, and obtaining and analyzing large government databases via FOIA requests.

Guns are a target for theft as Chicago car break-ins rise

Tarrant County, TX

Kyle, TX

NORTH TEXAS — The founder of a North Texas adoption agency has been arrested on allegations of paying pregnant female inmates in the Tarrant County Jail to put their unborn babies up for adoption. Jody Hall, head of Adoptions International Inc., posted a $50,000 bond after being booked into a Central Texas jail last week. She is an attorney and founder of an adoption agency promoted as a licensed nonprofit. Back in May, the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office said it began looking into what it calls unethical adoption practices involving Hall. "During this investigation, information was discovered that Jody Hall was paying money...

Texas attorney charged with attempting to sell, purchase unborn children

Corinth, MS

Dennis, MS

Mississippi News Group

Written with A.I. assistance. In a recent incident reported by the Tishomingo County Sheriff's Department, deputies conducting a routine safety checkpoint on July 16, 2024, at the intersection of Highway 4 and Highway 25 in Dennis, MS, made a significant discovery involving a Corinth resident.

Local Man Arrested on Drug Charges Following Routine Checkpoint

Sahuarita, AZ

Rillito, AZ

Green Valley, AZ

Marana, AZ

Vail, AZ

The number of migrant apprehensions have dropped dramatically since the beginning of the year. Adam Yamaguchi visited the U.S.-Mexico border near Tucson, Arizona, to find out what's working.

Why Border Patrol agents are seeing a drop in migrant apprehensions

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