Video shows couple before being killed near notorious highway
Investigators are still looking for leads in the crime, which took place near Canada's notorious "Highway of Tears"
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Investigators are still looking for leads in the crime, which took place near Canada's notorious "Highway of Tears"
Investigators have released a sketch of a person of interest in the murder of an American woman and her Australian boyfriend along a remote Canadian highway. Authorities in British Columbia are also searching for two missing teens. While looking for them, they found a man's body on the side of the road. Police are investigating whether any of these are connected, as families of the young couple are grieving. Nikki Battiste reports.
Already, it's been a big week for high-profile legal cases. Newly unsealed documents pertaining to Michael Cohen shows Trump's alleged involvement in a hush money scheme. Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein recently had his bail request denied. Criminal defense attorney Vinoo Varghese breaks down the two major cases.
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham on Monday called for residents to report illegal guns after a four-day spate of violence left seven dead in the nation's capital. Among the slain was 11-year-old Karon Brown, who was in the back seat of a car when a gunman opened fire on the vehicle Thursday.
Officials urge community members to come forward with information about illegal guns to help combat increase in violence
Canada's "highway of tears" is a remote stretch of road where at least 18 women in the last 40 years have disappeared or been found murdered
More than 3,000 federal inmates were released Friday as part of the First Step Act. Former Arizona Republican senator and CBS News contributor Jeff Flake co-sponsored the bill, and he joins CBSN to talk about the legislation. He also shares his reaction to the president's recent remarks against four congresswomen of color.
Darrell Johnson says the R&B singer facing new sex crime charges is "a mess right now. He's scared, he's isolated"
On Friday, the Justice Department announced the release of more than 3,000 federal inmates as a result of the First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill President Trump signed into law last December. Former Arizona senator and CBS News contributor Jeff Flake recently met with two former colleagues, Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Mike Lee, to discuss the groundbreaking legislation.
R&B singer R. Kelly will appear in federal court in Brooklyn court next month to face new sex crime charges. Federal prosecutors in Illinois and New York have charged the musician with a combined 18 counts including child pornography. Kelly is accused of sexually exploiting women and girls over more than two decades. He has denied all allegations. Kelly is being held in a Chicago jail without bond. His crisis manager, Darrell Johnson, joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss Kelly’s mental state and whether or not he believes he will be acquitted.