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DC crime lab appears to regain partial accreditation after losing ability to process evidence in 2021 12/26/2023 03:11pm • D.C. has been unable to fully utilize its crime lab since 2021, when, after months of scrutiny and evidence errors, the city's Department of Forensic Sciences lost its accreditation to perform forensic testing. However, that problem appears to be entering the embattled agency's rearview mirror. T Baltimore's new approach to police training looks at the effects of trauma, importance of empathy 12/26/2023 09:36am • BALTIMORE (AP) — A three-minute viral video shows an irate Baltimore police officer berating a teenager because he ignored orders to stop skateboarding and called the officer “dude.” “Obviously your parents don’t put a foot in your butt quite enough because you don’t understand the meani 1st Amendment claim struck down in Project Veritas case focused on diary of Biden's daughter 12/25/2023 08:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Criminal prosecutors may soon get to see over 900 documents pertaining to the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter after a judge rejected the conservative group Project Veritas' First Amendment claim. Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said on behalf of the CBS News correspondents predict the big stories of 2024 12/24/2023 12:59pm • ▶ Watch Video: A look at Trump's possible trial schedules and delay requests From former President Donald Trump's four criminal trials to the Republican presidential primaries and the crisis in the Middle East, 2024 promises to be a packed — if not chaotic — year both domestically New York governor vetoes bill that would make it easier for people to challenge their convictions 12/23/2023 04:45pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill days before Christmas that would have made it easier for people who have pleaded guilty to crimes to challenge their convictions, a measure that was favored by criminal justice reformers but fiercely opposed by prosecutors. The Democrat Police: 2 students brought loaded guns to 2 separate Prince George's Co. high schools over 2 days 12/23/2023 02:23pm • Two students who attend different high schools in Prince George's County, Maryland, are facing charges after police said they each brought a loaded gun to school. A 17-year-old male student at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Upper Marlboro was found with a loaded gun by Prince George’s Cou Paramedics were convicted in Elijah McClain's death. That could make other first responders pause 12/23/2023 02:16pm • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Two Denver-area paramedics were convicted Friday for giving a fatal overdose of the sedative ketamine to Elijah McClain in 2019 — a jury verdict that experts said could have a chilling effect on first responders around the country. The case involving the 23-year-old Black Chicago man exonerated in 2011 murder case where legally blind eyewitness gave testimony 12/22/2023 07:17pm • Darien Harris spent more than 12 years in an Illinois prison, convicted of murder in part on the testimony of an eyewitness who was legally blind. Harris, who was released from prison on Tuesday, was convicted in 2014 for the 2011 fatal shooting of a man at a gas station on Chicago's South Side. Hi Supreme Court rejects prosecutor's push to fast-track ruling in Trump election subversion case 12/22/2023 06:14pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will not immediately take up a plea by special counsel Jack Smith to rule on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted for his actions to overturn the 2020 election results. The ruling is a scheduling win for Trump and his lawyers, w Kansas attorney general urges county to keep ballots longer than is allowed to aid sheriff's probe 12/21/2023 07:33pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican attorney general in Kansas has urged the state's most populous county to postpone a legally required destruction of old ballots because the sheriff there says his investigation of possible election crimes remains open even though it's led to no criminal charges i Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy days after being ordered to pay $148 million in defamation case 12/21/2023 05:49pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, acknowledging severe financial strain exacerbated by his pursuit of former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election and a jury’s verdict last week requiring him to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers Hundreds alleged assault by youth detention workers. Years later, most suspects face no charges 12/21/2023 12:13pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Zach Robinson spent decades trying to fight off nightmares about being raped as a child at New Hampshire’s youth detention center. He died last month, still waiting for accountability for his alleged abusers. “I know that I’ll never forget about what happened,” he said Wisconsin leader pivots, says impeachment of state Supreme Court justice over redistricting unlikely 12/21/2023 11:35am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican leader of Wisconsin’s Assembly who had threatened possible impeachment of a new liberal state Supreme Court justice over her views on redistricting now says such a move is “super unlikely.” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos originally threatened to impeach Justic Were your holiday deliveries stolen? What to know about porch piracy and what you can do about it 12/21/2023 06:49am • NEW YORK (AP) — You found the perfect holiday gift online. You ordered it. A notification arrived on your phone, showing the package had arrived. But when you open your doors, the parcel is nowhere to be found. If this has happened to you, then count yourself among the unlucky group of shoppers w A white couple who burned a cross in their yard facing Black neighbors' home are investigated by FBI 12/20/2023 07:54pm • The FBI is investigating a white South Carolina couple for racial discrimination after they set a cross on fire in their yard last month facing toward their Black neighbors' home. Federal civil rights investigators searched the white couple's home in Conway on Wednesday, according to FBI spokesperso