Two students were killed Monday in what police believed was a gang-related shooting at a Des Moines charter school dedicated to helping at-risk youth. The founder of the facility was also shot and wounded in the attack. An 18-year-old suspect has been arrested, the police said in statement Monday night. …

New Mexico judge David Murphy has ordered former Republican state house candidate Solomon Pena held in pretrial detention in Pena’s conspiracy case, saying there were no conditions of release that would ensure public safety.  Pena is accused of leading a conspiracy of five people to fire bullets into the homes …

A lesion removed by surgeons last week from first lady Jill Biden’s left eyelid was a non-cancerous growth, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, physician to President Biden, said Wednesday. O’Connor said in a memo released by the White House that a biopsy showed that the legion was seborrheic keratosis, a “very common, …

Albuquerque police arrested a former Republican state House candidate in connection with recent shootings at the homes of Democratic lawmakers. At a news conference on Monday night, Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina announced that Solomon Pena, 39, was in police custody following a SWAT standoff in Southwest Albuquerque Monday afternoon.  …

Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to investigate documents with classified markings found at President Biden’s former office at a Washington think tank and in the garage at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Garland had previously appointed John Lausch, who is the U.S. attorney in Chicago, to …

One evening in February 2017, Sarah Dudley’s husband, Joseph, started to feel sick. He had a high fever, his head and body ached, and he seemed disoriented, she said. The Dudleys had a decision to make: go to the hospital emergency room or to an urgent care clinic near their …

Five people are dead in North Carolina on Saturday in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide, according to a news release from the High Point Police Department.  High Point police were called around 7 a.m. regarding two people screaming for help. They arrived to find the two people asking …

Last year, someone hid drugs inside a hair scrunchie and tried to get it past airport luggage scanners in Boise, Idaho. Workers at the Transportation Security Administration spotted the contraband, which now ranks No. 6 on the agency’s list of Top 10 strangest items found at airport security checkpoints in …

Washington — CBS News has learned of a series of efforts on Capitol Hill in the final days of the 117th Congress to make it easier to remove the embattled Architect of the Capitol or to reduce his ability to misuse a perk of his office.     The new efforts …

A professor at the University of Idaho has filed a defamation lawsuit last week against the internet personality Ashley Guillard, who alleged to have solved the prominent murder cases and whose TikTok videos have repeatedly alleged that the school’s history department chair was involved in the fatal stabbings of four …