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        <title>Crews deploy more sandbags and pumps at Cheboygan Lock and Dam amid rising water levels</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:50:56 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Crews at the Cheboygan Lock and Dam in Cheboygan, Michigan, placed more sandbags at the complex on Saturday while large pumps moved water around the structure on Saturday amid <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/sandbags-placed-rising-waters-cheboygan-river/" target="_blank">rising water levels</a></span> in the area, state officials said.</p><p>Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency for Cheboygan County on Friday due to the flood risk.</p><p>"Significant snowfall and recent rain have raised water levels, which could lead to possible flooding for areas downstream of the dam," Whitmer said in a written statement. &nbsp;</p><p>According to officials, the Michigan State Police is running the state's emergency response out of the State Emergency Operations Center.</p><p>The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said the sandbags are intended to "provide a buffer for rising water and help channel the water" and pumps are being used to move water from behind the dam to the spillway in front where it can continue flowing toward Lake Huron.</p><p>Around 1,500 sandbags were placed along the lock on Thursday, according to the DNR. Crews also removed a wooden timber debris screen in front of one of the dam's gates to help increase water flow through it.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/12/f99aa390-eb45-43f4-8fd9-92f1ea188e44/thumbnail/620x465/6fa8ca1a3adae53853cf5b0d16871059/spillway-411.jpg#" alt="spillway-411.jpg " height="465" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/12/f99aa390-eb45-43f4-8fd9-92f1ea188e44/thumbnail/620x465/6fa8ca1a3adae53853cf5b0d16871059/spillway-411.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/12/f99aa390-eb45-43f4-8fd9-92f1ea188e44/thumbnail/1240x930/734597003dae9ae963718e7bc505f2a2/spillway-411.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">&nbsp;An aerial photo of the Cheboygan Lock and Dam taken Saturday, April 11, shows water moving through the system, and flood precautionary measures, including pumps and sandbags, being taken at the dam.&nbsp;</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>The governor's office said Friday that the Cheboygan River had risen to 18 inches below the top of the dam. State officials said Saturday that additional water level monitoring equipment had been installed by the U.S. Geological Survey.&nbsp;</p><p>"The DNR is actively engaged with our partners to prevent the failure of the dam to the fullest extent possible," Mike Janisse, leader of the state agencies' Incident Management Team, said in a written statement.</p><p>Cheboygan is around 49 miles northeast of Gaylord, Michigan, and around 279 miles northwest of Detroit.</p>

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        <title>Man with machete fatally shot at NYC&#039;s Grand Central after slashing attack, NYPD says</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>A man with a machete slashed and injured three people at New York City's Grand Central on Saturday before he was fatally shot by police, officials said.&nbsp;</p><p>The NYPD said officers encountered the armed man on the 4/5/6 subway platform at Grand Central-42nd Street at around 9:40 a.m. after a civilian alerted them and they found a slashing victim.</p><p>The man, identified as 44-year-old Anthony Griffin, was armed with a large knife described as a machete and "behaving erratically, repeatedly stating that he was 'Lucifer,'" NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/nypd-update-on-grand-central-slashing-and-shooting-full-news-conference/" target="_blank">said</a></span>.&nbsp;  </p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/779bb205-6e70-4fcf-80ed-6e4f33a4c170/thumbnail/620x465/9520f82e375ab904d88dc11c9e4ab688/94908393-735f-4ae5-8b4b-581dc9c81896.png#" alt="94908393-735f-4ae5-8b4b-581dc9c81896.png " height="465" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/779bb205-6e70-4fcf-80ed-6e4f33a4c170/thumbnail/620x465/9520f82e375ab904d88dc11c9e4ab688/94908393-735f-4ae5-8b4b-581dc9c81896.png 1x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">A picture of the knife recovered at the scene.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>Griffin   refused numerous orders to drop the knife and advanced toward the officers before one officer shot him twice, Tisch said. He was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.&nbsp;</p><p>"The individual refused to comply with at least 20 orders to drop the knife. Officers also attempted to deescalate and offer assistance, saying, 'We are going to get you help,'" the commissioner said.</p><p>Police said Griffin had three prior arrests.</p><p>The slashings appeared to be random, according to investigators.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Tisch said Griffin boarded a Manhattan-bound 7 train at Vernon Boulevard in Queens at around 9:30 a.m. When the train arrived at Grand Central, he slashed an 84-year-old man on the platform and then went upstairs to the 4/5/6 platform, where he slashed a 65-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman, she said.</p><p>The victims were hospitalized with serious injuries, but they were not expected to be life-threatening. One victim suffered a skull fracture and severe lacerations, Tisch said.</p><p>Officials believe the victims were attacked at random and did not know each other.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/4a17714a-376f-49a2-a184-a36a4720320f/thumbnail/620x413/8dae2ec4373633ef1d137b1ee202a934/ap26101599598973-1.jpg#" alt="New York Subway Violence " height="413" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/4a17714a-376f-49a2-a184-a36a4720320f/thumbnail/620x413/8dae2ec4373633ef1d137b1ee202a934/ap26101599598973-1.jpg 1x, https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/4a17714a-376f-49a2-a184-a36a4720320f/thumbnail/1240x826/c0f89472dd3faa7c198031f92824a212/ap26101599598973-1.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">Police crime tape is placed at the subway turnstile after a reported slashing at the Grand Central subway station in New York on Saturday, April 11, 2026.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>The NYPD issued an alert to&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/NYPDnews/status/2042975914015744127">avoid the area</a>&nbsp;around Grand Central and the MTA said&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/essentials/n95-like-masks-for-kids/">4, 5, 6 and 7 trains</a> were bypassing the station due to the investigation. Passengers were given bus vouchers.  </p><p>"It's a little panic under there," one subway rider visiting from Montreal said.</p><p>"We get out and all of a sudden, we're herded down the aisles. There's police. There's dogs," said another subway rider visiting from Utah.</p><p>Subway service at Grand Central has since resumed.</p><p>"No officers were injured in this incident and the whole incident was captured on body-worn camera. This remains an active investigation and we will provide additional information as it becomes available," Tisch said.</p><p>The NYPD commissioner said the seemingly random attack is " exactly why we recently increased our presence in the transit system."</p><p>"We recently added more than 175 additional officers to subway patrol," Tisch said.</p><p>Transit advocate Charlton D'Souza, with Passengers United, said more mental health resources should be present at transit hubs.</p><p>"You need clinicians, you need psychologists, and you need them down there to help them," he said. "Once passengers have that traumatic experience, they don't wanna come down to the subway system anymore."</p><p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2043007926248304762">a statement</a>, "I'm grateful to the NYPD for their quick response and for preventing additional violence ... The NYPD is conducting an internal investigation and will release body-worn camera footage, as it does in all incidents involving the discharge of an officer's firearm."</p><p>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she was also briefed on the incident and "grateful to our brave officers who acted quickly to stop the suspect."</p>

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        <title>Vance says no deal reached after marathon session of direct talks with Iranian and Pakistani officials</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:21:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>U.S. naval destroyers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz, CENTCOM says</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:45:22 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Two U.S. Navy destroyers had transited the Strait of Hormuz to begin mine-clearing operations in the vital waterway, U.S. Central Command said Saturday.</p><p>The destroyers crossed through the Strait and operated in the Arabian Gulf, CENTCOM <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2043005033600479516">said on social media</a>. Additional U.S. forces, including underwater drones, will "join the clearance effort in the coming days," CENTCOM said. &nbsp;</p><p>The operation came as President Trump&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116386190374675994">said on Truth Social</a>&nbsp;on Saturday that the U.S. was doing "a favor to Countries all over the world" by clearing mines from the strait. Mr. Trump also said Saturday that all of Iran's mine-laying ships have been destroyed.&nbsp;</p><p>"They probably have a couple of mines in the water," Mr. Trump later told reporters early Saturday evening as he was departing the White House for Florida. "We have minesweepers out there. We're sweeping the strait." &nbsp;</p><p>Iran's Revolutionary Guards later released a statement threatening to deal "severely" with any military vessels transiting the strait, according to Agence France-Presse.&nbsp;</p><p>"Any attempt by military vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz will be dealt with severely. The IRGC Navy has full authority to manage the Strait of Hormuz intelligently," the Guards' Navy Command said in a statement released through state broadcaster IRIB, AFP reported.&nbsp;</p><p>The IRGC added that passage of the strait would only be "granted to civilian vessels under specific conditions." &nbsp;</p><p>Meanwhile, <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-trump-strait-of-hormuz-israel-ceasefire-talks/" target="_blank">Vice President JD Vance</a></span> traveled to Islamabad for direct trilateral talks with Iran and Pakistan. However, in a news briefing early Sunday morning local time following what he said was a 21-hour marathon negotiation session, Vance said that the U.S. had not reached a deal, adding that Iran had "chosen not to accept our terms."&nbsp;</p><p>The vice president departed Islamabad shortly after the news conference.&nbsp;</p><p>Saturday marked the first time the U.S. and Iran have held face-to-face talks since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Before Sunday's talks, the highest-level direct contact had been when former President Barack Obama, in September 2013, called the then newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to discuss Iran's nuclear program.</p><p>U.S. officials told CBS News in late March that at <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/strait-of-hormuz-mines-iran-talks-officials/" target="_blank">least a dozen underwater mines</a></span> had been placed in the waterway. Their analysis was based on American intelligence assessments. The devices include the Maham 3, a moored naval mine that uses sensors to operate, and a "sticking mine" called the Maham 7 that rests along the seabed until a target passes within range. Both devices are manufactured in Iran. Drones and missiles <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-strait-of-hormuz-ukraines-black-sea/" target="_blank">were also used</a></span> to stop ships from passing through the Strait.&nbsp;</p><p>About 20% of the <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/strait-of-hormuz-iran-oil-prices-us/" target="_blank">world's oil supply</a></span> is shipped through the strait. Throughout the war, Mr. Trump issued strong threats against Iran, threatening to <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-trump-deadline-power-plants-bridges-ceasefire-push-air-force-rescue/" target="_blank">target power plants</a></span> and warning that "<span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-iran-deal-whole-civilization-will-die/" target="_blank">a whole civilization will die</a></span>" if the Strait was not reopened. &nbsp;</p><p>Passage of oil tankers and other commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz was all but halted during the six weeks of war. Some maritime traffic has resumed since the U.S. and Iran established a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, though it remains low, according to <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/strait-of-hormuz-lower-traffic-despite-iran-war-ceasefire/" target="_blank">marine transit data reviewed</a></span> by CBS News.&nbsp;</p><p>Analysts warned that the global oil supply will <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-oil-prices-trump/" target="_blank">remain disrupted for several months</a></span>, even if the ceasefire holds and marine traffic returns to normal levels. Henning Gloystein, managing director of energy, industry and resources at geopolitical risk consultancy Eurasia Group, said it would take time to repair oil refineries and other energy infrastructure that have been damaged during the war, and shipping companies that operate oil tankers in the region will need at least two months to resume operations, he said.&nbsp;</p>

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        <title>Man in critical condition after shooting and carjacking at Detroit gas station</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:13:36 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>A man is in critical condition after a shooting and carjacking outside a gas station in Detroit on Saturday, according to police.</p><p>The man was getting fuel at the business near the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Euclid Street in the Piety Hill neighborhood around 7:35 p.m. According to officials, he walked into the store and was approached by another man as he left.</p><p>Police said the man who encountered the victim then fired a shot and stole his car.&nbsp;</p><p>According to law enforcement, the victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Police haven't disclosed how he was injured or whether the shot hit him.&nbsp;</p><p>Law enforcement also hasn't disclosed whether any arrests have been made.</p><p><em>This is a developing story.</em></p>
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        <title>Dusty May has agreed on deal to stay Wolverines coach &quot;for many years to come,&quot; Michigan AD says</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:46:53 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Michigan coach Dusty May has agreed on a deal that will have him continuing to lead the Wolverines "for many years to come," athletic director Warde Manuel said Saturday.</p><p>Manuel made the comment during a ceremony <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-mens-basketball-championship-parade/" target="_blank">celebrating Michigan's NCAA Tournament championship</a></span>.</p><p>"Dusty and I have already reached an agreement," Manuel said in a remark that resulted in a standing ovation as well as chants of "Dusty!" from the crowd that had gathered at the Crisler Center.</p><p>Manuel then finished his comment.</p><p>"And he will be the leader of this basketball team for many years to come," Manuel said.</p><p>The 49-year-old May led Michigan to a national title in his second season on the job after inheriting a program that went 8-24 the year before his arrival. Michigan went 37-3 this season and earned its first national title since <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/look-back-at-michigan-1989-ncaa-national-championship/" target="_blank">1989</a></span> by <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ncaa-mens-basketball-championship-michigan-uconn-2026-march-madness/" target="_blank">beating UConn 69-63</a></span> in the NCAA Tournament championship game.</p><p>He had been mentioned as a potential target for North Carolina, which hired former Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone on Tuesday to replace the fired Hubert Davis.</p><p>"It's been an honor for two years to represent all of you and to be called Coach by these guys," May said during Saturday's ceremony. "Anytime you have a group come together and you feel like they gave you so much more than you could ever give them, it melts you. These guys did it for each other. They did it for the staff. They did it for all of you, and they did it for all the right reasons &mdash; with class, with great effort and support for each other. That's all you can ask for as a coach."</p><p>May owns an overall coaching record of 190-82. He went 126-69 at Florida Atlantic from 2018-24 and led the Owls to a 2023 Final Four appearance before going 64-13 at Michigan the last two seasons.</p>

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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Jesper Bratt scored his second goal with 3:34 left in the third period, helping the New Jersey Devils eliminate the Detroit Red Wings from the NHL playoff picture with a 5-3 win on Saturday.</p><p>Detroit extended the league's longest active postseason drought, dating to the 2016 season when the franchise earned a berth for the 25th consecutive season in what was a remarkable run that included four Stanley Cup championships.</p><p>The Red Wings were in a playoff position for 148 days of the season, according to Sportradar, to raise expectations higher than they've been since the hockey-crazed state has experienced the playoffs a long time ago.</p><p>They went ahead against New Jersey in the first, second and third periods &mdash; and lost every lead.</p><p>On an odd-man rush, Bratt scored the go-ahead goal from the left circle off a perfect pass from Jack Hughes in the right circle with John Gibson flailing around in an attempt to stop the puck. Dawson Mercer added an empty-net goal with a minute left.</p><p>Gibson had 27 saves for the Red Wings and Jake Allen stopped 25 shots for the Devils.</p><p>Detroit's Justin Faulk broke a scoreless tie midway through the opening period.</p><p>Olympic hero Hughes, playing about 25 miles from where he skated in high school at USA Hockey Arena, scored his 27th goal of the season a minute later.</p><p>The Red Wings went back ahead on David Perron's goal with 8:01 left in the second period, but failed to keep the lead again. Bratt scored a game-tying goal, giving him at least 21 for a fifth straight season.</p><p>Emmitt Finnie scored a tiebreaking goal seven minutes into the third to put the Red Wings ahead again, but Cody Glass pulled the Devils into another tie midway through the period.</p><h2>Up next</h2><p>Devils: Host Ottawa on Sunday.</p><p>Red Wings: At Tampa Bay on Monday.</p>
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        <title>Artemis II astronauts welcomed home to Houston after historic moonshot</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>The four Artemis II astronauts, <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-ii-splashdown-return/" target="_blank">freshly back</a></span> from a historic trip around the moon, flew back to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Saturday to cheers and applause from family members and hundreds of space center workers who gathered to welcome them home.</p><p>Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artemis-ii-moon-mission-highlights/" target="_blank">splashed down in the Pacific Ocean</a></span> southwest of San Diego Friday evening <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artemis-ii-return-earth-heat-shield-reentry/" target="_blank">to close out</a></span> a nine-day mission, the first piloted flight to the moon and back since the end of the Apollo program a half century ago.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/ac2b7a0c-5332-41a7-9218-fa772d84f995/thumbnail/620x413/eb1f16c14f93f075141ecc7a8c7857ec/041126-crew3.jpg#" alt="041126-crew3.jpg " height="413" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/ac2b7a0c-5332-41a7-9218-fa772d84f995/thumbnail/620x413/eb1f16c14f93f075141ecc7a8c7857ec/041126-crew3.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/ac2b7a0c-5332-41a7-9218-fa772d84f995/thumbnail/1240x826/bd89f515e0071294237a13ab55c73e79/041126-crew3.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">The Artemis II astronauts greeting well wishers gathered in a hangar  near the Johnson Space Center in Houston to welcome the crew home. Left  to right: Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Victor  Glover and commander Reid Wiseman.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>After medical checks and phone calls home to family and friends, all four boarded a NASA jet and flew back to Ellington Field a few miles from the space center. A raucous crowd awaited them in a nearby hangar, including the crew's families.</p><p>"After a brief 53-year intermission, the show goes on, and NASA is back in the business of sending astronauts to the moon and bringing them home safely," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told the cheering crowd.</p><p>Turning to the astronauts, he said, "Thank you for showing us the moon again. Thank you for showing us planet Earth again, and thank you for contributing to the greatest adventure in human history. Welcome home, Artemis II."</p><p>Wiseman stood up and after joking with his crewmates, said "I have absolutely no idea what to say. Twenty-four hours ago, the Earth was...out the window and we were doing mach 39 (times the speed of sound), and here we are back at Ellington at home."</p><p>Speaking with clear emotion, he said "before you launch, it feels like it's the greatest dream on Earth. And when you're out there, you just want to get back to your families and your friends. It's a special thing to be a human, and it's a special thing to be on planet Earth."</p><p>Glover, a deeply spiritual man who carried a Bible with him to the moon, said that when the mission started he wanted thank God in public.</p><p>"And I want to thank God again," he said Saturday. "Because even bigger than my challenge trying to describe what we went through, the gratitude of seeing what we saw, doing what we did and being with who I was with, it's too big to just be in one body."</p><p>Koch was equally moved by the experience of seeing Earth, suspended in the deep black of space, from the vantage point of the moon a quarter of a million miles away.</p><p>"When we saw tiny Earth, people asked our crew what impressions we had," she told the crowd. "And honestly, what struck me wasn't necessarily just Earth, it was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe.</p><p>"I know I haven't learned everything that this journey has yet to teach me. But there's one new thing I know, and that is planet Earth, you are a crew."</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/5916469b-5e4b-417b-9463-d4a4d7d4a73f/thumbnail/620x577/b1746c9e1bdb7eb0c494c43050b4a987/041126-crew2.jpg#" alt="041126-crew2.jpg " height="577" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/5916469b-5e4b-417b-9463-d4a4d7d4a73f/thumbnail/620x577/b1746c9e1bdb7eb0c494c43050b4a987/041126-crew2.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/5916469b-5e4b-417b-9463-d4a4d7d4a73f/thumbnail/1240x1154/de6b30a942939345fef84813ab4dbabb/041126-crew2.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">The Artemis II astronauts pose in front of their Orion crew capsule after it was recovered from a Pacific Ocean splashdown Friday and hauled into a Navy amphibious dock ship for the trip back to shore. Left to right: commander Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and pilot Victor Glover.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>Strapped into an Orion crew capsule they named "Integrity," <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/nasa-artemis-ii-launch/" target="_blank">the astronauts blasted off</a></span> from the Kennedy Space Center on April 1 atop a Space Launch System rocket. They were the first to ride into space aboard the world's most powerful operational rocket, and the first to fly in an Orion capsule.</p><p>After spending a full day in Earth orbit checking out the Orion spacecraft's life support and other systems, they fired the capsule's service module engine to break away from Earth for a four-day flight to the moon.</p><p>It was NASA's first piloted moonshot since the final Apollo moon landing mission in 1972, and the first of what NASA envisions as a steady stream of flights while building a base near the lunar south pole.</p><p>The Artemis II mission had more modest goals, simply swinging around the moon on a free-return trajectory back to Earth, giving Wiseman and his crewmates an unprecedented opportunity to observe nearly a quarter of the moon's far side while it was illuminated by the sun.</p><p>They also were able to enjoy a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/artemis-ii-crew-views-total-solar-eclipse/" target="_blank">spectacular solar eclipse</a> when the moon moved in front of the sun from the crew's perspective, creating a ghostly glow around the darkened moon, an ethereal sight that left the crew awestruck.</p><p>"This continues to be unreal," Glover told Houston. "The sun has gone behind the moon, and the corona is still visible, and it's bright, and it creates a halo almost around the entire moon...The Earth is so bright out there and the moon is just hanging in front of us, this black orb out in front of us. We can see stars and the planets behind it."</p><p>The Orion capsule entered the moon's gravitational sphere of influence early last Monday and <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-artemis-ii-astronauts-moon/" target="_blank">flew around</a></span> the dark side of the moon about 14 hours later, passing within about 4,000 miles of the lunar surface at close approach.</p><p>Moments later, they set a new record for the maximum distance anyone has ever flown from planet Earth -- 252,756 miles -- about 4,100 miles farther than a record set in 1970 by the crew of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission during their emergency return to Earth.</p><p>The astronauts snapped thousands of photos during their historic pass around the moon, shot video and recorded their personal observations to give researchers insights based on the color sensitivity of the human eye.</p><p>"Your mission paves the way for America's return to the lunar surface very soon," President Trump radioed the astronauts. "We're going all out. We'll plant our flag once again, and this time we won't just leave footprints. We'll establish a permanent presence on the moon, and we'll push on to Mars. That'll be very exciting."</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/edc369c1-0651-4729-becb-9b7c07a8bdeb/thumbnail/620x454/d7899422f30c400a4653c5ebe792225d/041126-splash.jpg#" alt="041126-splash.jpg " height="454" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/edc369c1-0651-4729-becb-9b7c07a8bdeb/thumbnail/620x454/d7899422f30c400a4653c5ebe792225d/041126-splash.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/edc369c1-0651-4729-becb-9b7c07a8bdeb/thumbnail/1240x908/d0dcc62044e894f78dd18010494df252/041126-splash.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">The Artemis II Orion capsule carrying commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen descends toward an on-target splashdown 13 minutes after entering the atmosphere at more than 24,000 mph.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>Before launch, the science team helped identify a few relatively fresh craters that had not been previously named. The crew proposed the name of their spacecraft for one.</p><p>"And the second one, especially meaningful for this crew, is a number of years ago, we...lost a loved one," Hansen said. "And there's a feature in a really neat place on the moon. And it is on the near-side/far-side boundary...And some times of the moon's transit around Earth we will be able to see this. So we lost a loved one, her name was Carroll, the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katey and Ellie...It's a bright spot on the moon. And we would like to call it Carroll."</p><p>"Integrity and Carroll Crater," Canadian astronaut Jenni Gibbons replied from mission control. "Loud and clear. Thank you."</p><p>At the welcome home ceremony Saturday, Hansen spoke last, saying the mission showed him a successful crew had three essential ingredients. The first is gratitude for the opportunity and the support of thousands who made the flight possible. The second was sharing the joy of the experience.</p><p>Then he called Wiseman, Glover and Koch to him for a group hug, adding, "The last one is love."</p><p>"What you saw was a group of people who loved contributing and extracting joy out of that," Hansen said. "And what we've been hearing is that was something special for you to witness. And the reason I had them form up here with me is because I would suggest to you that when you look up here, you're not looking at us. We are a mirror reflecting you. And if you like what you see, then just look a little deeper. This is you."</p>

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        <title>Michigan men&#039;s basketball team marks national championship with parade and celebration</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:14:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>The University of Michigan men's basketball team hosted an on-campus parade and celebration Saturday after winning the 2026 NCAA national championship.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ncaa-mens-basketball-championship-michigan-uconn-2026-march-madness/">Michigan defeated UConn 69-63</a></span>&nbsp;Monday night for the team's second NCAA title in school history and&nbsp;<span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/look-back-at-michigan-1989-ncaa-national-championship/" target="_blank">the first since 1989</a></span>.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p>CBS News Detroit simulcasted live coverage of the parade Saturday morning. It was scheduled to start at 10 a.m. at the President's House and end at Yost Ice Arena.</p><p>After the parade, a celebration took place inside the Crisler Center, home to the men's and women's basketball programs.</p><p>The feeling of euphoria dominated the atmosphere inside the arena. Fans couldn't contain their excitement.</p><p>"Two years ago, I would have been happy with the tournament appearance. But, I mean, once I saw this team together, I think we all knew what their future entailed," Alex Shubart, a junior at the University of Michigan, said. "And it may have been hard to envision then, but I think we all knew that a natty was definitely in the scope of reach."</p><p>For some, the national title is a full-circle moment.</p><p>"My dad went here too, and so he was a freshman when they <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/look-back-at-michigan-1989-ncaa-national-championship/" target="_blank">first won the national championship</a></span>.&nbsp; I think it's a little surreal for him. I think he texted our family right after it happened. He was in shock," Kendall MacNaughton, freshman, University of Michigan, said.</p><p>Prominent alumni are honored to call themselves Wolverines.</p><p>"This is the best feeling ever that an alumni can have. I'm so proud of these guys, so proud of this team, so proud of our school. This is how we do great to be at Michigan Wolverine," Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist said.</p><p>Lifelong fan and U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, who represents Michigan's 6th Congressional District, credits teamwork for the victory.</p><p>"We are celebrating teamwork, and you know what I'm going to tell them when I speak? I wish they could teach Washington a thing or two," Dingell said.</p><p>After several speeches and interviews on stage, Athletic Director Warde Manuel <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/dusty-may-michigan-coach-deal-manuel/" target="_blank">announced that Dusty May will return as head coach</a></span>, which sent the crowd into a frenzy.</p><p>The NCAA National Championship banner was raised to the ceiling after the announcement.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/df18f3ab-6b50-48ba-8d58-ab45ae6611bd/thumbnail/620x413/2a88b30d0b7bee5a1949f51f8fb03b83/gettyimages-2270891611.jpg#" alt="Michigan Men's Basketball Celebrates National Championship " height="413" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/df18f3ab-6b50-48ba-8d58-ab45ae6611bd/thumbnail/620x413/2a88b30d0b7bee5a1949f51f8fb03b83/gettyimages-2270891611.jpg 1x, https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/df18f3ab-6b50-48ba-8d58-ab45ae6611bd/thumbnail/1240x826/6f883ea21a6997d5c4ae27c8129f3cc9/gettyimages-2270891611.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - APRIL 11: A general photo of the Big Ten Championship banner, NCAA National Championship banner, and the NCAA Final Four banner during the Michigan Men's Basketball National Championship celebration at Crisler Arena on April 11, 2026 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>"Friendship is the reason why we got this win. So, I'm just super grateful, super blessed to be playing for the Wolverines," Yaxel Lendeborg, Michigan Wolverines Forward, said. "It's still a dream. I wanted to say it felt a little real, but I haven't felt it honestly. Yeah, it hasn't hit me."</p><p>Staff, players and fans are now looking forward to next year. They're hoping to bring the same energy and get a win in Detroit.</p><p>Proceeds from the celebration are expected to go to the Champions Circle, which benefits Michigan's student-athletes.&nbsp;  </p>

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        <title>Driver arrested after hit-and-run crash in Sterling Heights, police say</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Police in Sterling Heights, Michigan, are investigating and a motorist was arrested after a hit-and-run crash on Friday night.</p><p>Officers responded to the collision at the intersection of Metropolitan Parkway and Van Dyke Avenue around 11:46 p.m., according to police.&nbsp;</p><p>Investigators said a 17-year-old boy was driving on Metropolitan Parkway through the intersection on a green light when a female driver, whose age has yet to be disclosed, traveling on Van Dyke Avenue in a Toyota Camry turned into his path. The crash caused the boy to lose control of his vehicle, which then struck a fire hydrant.&nbsp;</p><p>No injuries have been reported as a result of the incident, officials said.</p><p>According to police, the female left the scene after the collision in the Camry, which had sustained significant front-end damage. Law enforcement obtained the license plate number of the Toyota and traced it to a home in Sterling Heights.</p><p>Officers went to the home where they found the damaged Camry and spoke with the female. Police said she was arrested on suspicion of operating while impaired.</p><p>Law enforcement in a news release on Saturday afternoon said they were holding the female at the Macomb County Jail as they wait for the results of a blood test.</p><p>Anyone who saw the crash or has other details about it is asked to contact the Sterling Heights Police Department.</p>
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        <title>Tigers defeat Miami Marlins 6-1; Hinch gets 400th win as Detroit manager</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:57:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Riley Greene had a three-run homer and four RBIs, Drew Anderson ended the game by retiring Jakob Marsee in a 14-pitch at-bat for his first major league save and Detroit beat the Miami Marlins 6-1 Saturday to get A.J Hinch his 400th win as Tigers manager.</p><p>Rookie Kevin McGonigle scored twice for Detroit, which has won two straight following a five-game losing streak. Spencer Torkelson reached base three times, including an eighth-inning RBI single. </p><p>Marlins catcher Agust&iacute;n Ram&iacute;rez and first baseman Connor Norby made errors, raising Miami's NL-high total to 15 in 15 games.</p><p>Casey Mize (1-1) allowed one run and six hits with five strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings and Anderson finished with 3 1/3 hitless innings that included a pair of walks. The game-ending at-bat by Marsee, who is from the Detroit area and had a large contingent of family and friends at the ballpark, was the longest in the major leagues this season.</p><p>Colt Keith had an RBI double in the first and scored on Greene's single off Janson Junk (0-2), who gave up five runs &mdash; four earned &mdash; and five hits in five innings.</p><p>Greene boosted the lead to 5-0 in the third when he homered on a fastball to end a 10-pitch at-bat. Dillon Dingler had reached on catcher's interference </p><p>Norby hit a sacrifice fly drove in the fourth.</p><h2>Up next</h2><p>Miami, shut out in the series opener, went 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position and stranded nine runners.</p><p>Detroit LHP Tarik Skubal (1-2) and Marlins RHP Sandy Alcantara (2-0) start Sunday in a top pitching matchup.</p>
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        <title>Pope Leo criticizes &quot;idolatry of self&quot; in latest rebuke of Iran conflict: &quot;Enough with war!&quot;</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:51:30 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Pope Leo XIV offered his strongest condemnation yet of <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-trump-strait-of-hormuz-israel-ceasefire-talks/" target="_blank">the war in Iran</a></span>, appearing to take multiple veiled shots at President Trump on Saturday, speaking out against military actions "some adults proudly boast about."</p><p>The rebuke, during a prayer vigil for peace at St. Peter's Basilica, <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pope-says-trumps-threat-to-destroy-iranian-culture-is-unacceptable/" target="_blank">comes days after the pope</a></span> said it was "truly unacceptable" for Mr. Trump to declare that "a whole civilization will die" if the <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/strait-of-hormuz-naval-destroyers-cross-centcom-iran-mines/" target="_blank">Strait of Hormuz</a></span> remained closed.</p><p>"Enough with the idolatry of self and money! Enough with the display of force! Enough with war! True strength is manifested in serving life," Leo said, speaking in Italian.</p><p>The pope did not mention Mr. Trump by name during the service.</p><p>"I receive many letters from children from conflict zones: reading them, one perceives, with the truth of innocence, all the horror and inhumanity of actions that some adults proudly boast about. Let us listen to the voices of children!" the pope said.</p><p>Mr. Trump posted several Truth Social posts on Saturday boasting about the total decimation of Iran's military capabilities.</p><p>"The United States has completely destroyed Iran's Military, including their entire Navy and Air Force, and everything else. Their Leadership is DEAD!" he wrote.</p><p>Leo also appealed for leaders to engage in <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-persian-gulf-nations-are-reacting-to-the-us-and-irans-temporary-ceasefire/" target="_blank">meaningful negotiations</a> to end the U.S.-Israel war with Iran amid a tense two-week ceasefire.</p><p><span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-trump-strait-of-hormuz-israel-ceasefire-talks/" target="_blank">Vice President JD Vance</a></span>, senior envoy Steve Witkoff and Mr. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Iranian leaders in Pakistan for direct, face-to-face talks on Saturday, a senior U.S. official told CBS News. Mr. Trump warned Iran to comply with the ceasefire terms or face large-scale U.S. attacks.</p><p>"Certainly, the leaders of nations have compelling responsibilities," Leo said Saturday. "We cry out to them: stop! This is the time for peace! Sit at the tables of dialogue and mediation, not at the tables where rearmament is planned and death is deliberated!"</p><p>The pope also criticized of the war on Friday, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/Pontifex/status/2042588417578668338?s=20">writing on social media</a>, "God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs."</p><p>Fifty-five percent of Catholics voted for Mr. Trump in the 2024 election, while White Catholics favored him over Kamala Harris by a margin of 62% to 37%, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/">according to the Pew Research Center</a>.</p><p>"All of President Trump's foreign policy actions have made the world safer, more stable, and more prosperous," White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told CBS News' senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe on Wednesday. "Catholic Americans resoundingly supported President Trump in 2024, and the President's administration has a positive relationship with the Vatican, which was strengthened when Vice President Vance attended the Pope Leo XIV's inaugural mass last year."</p><p>"The President has done more than any of his predecessors to save lives and resolve global conflicts, and following the completion of his military objectives in Iran, he is hopeful that the agreement under discussion can lead to a lasting peace in the Middle East."</p>

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        <title>Michigan State University trustees approve 5% increase on housing and dining rates</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:04:51 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>A 5% increase in housing and dining rates at Michigan State University for the 2026-2027 academic year has been approved by the Board of Trustees, officials said Friday.</p><p>The double room rate for first-year and returning students will be $5,605, a $267 increase over the current academic year, according to a&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/michiganstab57e-msustrategi129d-prod9868-7e5e/media/project/msu/trustees/docs/2026/04-10-26/bf1-2026-27-housing-and-dining-rate-final-41026.pdf">university budget document</a>. Additionally, the silver unlimited meal plan will rise to $7,969, a $379 jump.</p><p>According to the document, the rate hike also applies to students living at 1855 Place and University Village Apartments during the next academic year.</p><p>University officials in a news release on Friday said rates for the 2026-2027 academic year "reflect a careful balance between affordability and the responsibility for the division to invest in high-quality residential and dining environments and services" and "continue to competitively position MSU among universities in Michigan and the Big Ten."</p><p>The increase for housing and dining rates during the 2025-2026 academic year was 2.9% over the prior year, the document said.</p><p>All freshmen and sophomores, including transfer students, are required to live in university housing, according to the university's <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://spartanexperiences.msu.edu/about/handbook/regulations/student-group-regs-rulings-policies-ordinances/housing-policy-university/housing-requirements-and-procedures.html">website</a>. Exceptions to the rule include married students, anyone who will be 20 years old by the first day of the fall semester of the current academic year, veterans with one or more years of active service, students living with parents or a legal guardian and anyone taking six or fewer credits during the semester in question.</p>
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        <title>Multiple people detained after reported shooting in Birmingham; no injuries</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:41:27 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Multiple people have been detained&nbsp;after a reported shooting in Birmingham, Michigan, on Saturday morning, according to police.</p><p>Dispatchers received several calls around 6:17 a.m. from individuals who reported gunshots being fired on the 1400 block of East Lincoln Street. Responding officers found shell casings in the area, police said.</p><p>As of early Saturday afternoon, there have been no reported injuries in connection with the incident, according to officials.</p><p>The officers learned that a party being advertised on social media had taken place at a rental home in the area, police said. Witnesses told investigators they heard a verbal dispute followed by multiple shots.</p><p>Video from nearby homes showed "numerous subjects" fleeing the home, according to police.</p><p>Law enforcement said they detained a person in possession of a handgun who had left the area. They detained "multiple other individuals"&nbsp; for questioning.&nbsp;</p><p>Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Captain Michael Simpson at 248-530-1770.  </p>
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        <title>Michigan men&#039;s basketball national championship parade</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:01:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Boy in France kept in locked utility van for nearly 2 years before being rescued this week</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:57:14 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>A 9-year-old boy was rescued this week after living locked in his father's utility van in eastern France since 2024, according to the local prosecutor. The child has been hospitalized, and his father was detained.</p><p>Police were alerted by a neighbor to "sounds of a child" coming from a van on Monday in the village of Hagenbach near the borders of Switzerland and Germany, according to a statement from Prosecutor Nicolas Heitz provided Saturday.</p><p>After forcing the van open, they found a child "lying in a fetal position, naked, covered by a blanket on top of a mound of trash and near excrement," the statement said. The child was malnourished and could no longer walk, because he had been in a seated position for so long, the statement said.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/c6b5eb99-9b9b-4dd6-b541-7a9b4e254d1a/thumbnail/620x414/93b7ecce6fd09eb97ad5bc35bcd0d113/gettyimages-2270134744.jpg#" alt="FRANCE-INVESTIGATION-ABUSE-CHILDREN " height="414" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/c6b5eb99-9b9b-4dd6-b541-7a9b4e254d1a/thumbnail/620x414/93b7ecce6fd09eb97ad5bc35bcd0d113/gettyimages-2270134744.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/c6b5eb99-9b9b-4dd6-b541-7a9b4e254d1a/thumbnail/1240x828/31bc151a37d04ba766362ce121a0808e/gettyimages-2270134744.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">A photo shows a residential building where a boy was discovered naked and malnourished on a pile of rubbish in a van where he had been kept locked up, in Hagenbach, eastern France, on April 10, 2026.&nbsp;</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>The boy's father, 43, told investigators he put the child in the truck in November 2024 "to protect him," because his partner, 37, wanted to send the boy to a psychiatric hospital, the prosecutor said. The boy was 7 at the time.</p><p>The prosecutor said there was no medical record indicating the boy had any psychiatric problems before he disappeared, and the boy had good grades in school.</p><p>The boy told investigators he had "big difficulties" with his father's partner, and thought his father "had no choice" but to lock him up, according to the prosecutor. He said he hadn't showered since 2024.</p><p>The boy told police his dad brought him food twice a day and left him water, CBS News partner BBC News reported, citing Le Parisien newspaper.</p><p>He said he had to urinate in plastic bottles and defecate in bin bags, the outlet added, and the last time he had a shower was late 2024.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/fe3ac6b7-0ca2-44b6-b699-74c57675e39c/thumbnail/620x414/6add8fa460503d55bd278e5afc6ec7f8/gettyimages-2270144253.jpg#" alt="FRANCE-INVESTIGATION-ABUSE-CHILDREN " height="414" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/fe3ac6b7-0ca2-44b6-b699-74c57675e39c/thumbnail/620x414/6add8fa460503d55bd278e5afc6ec7f8/gettyimages-2270144253.jpg 1x, https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/11/fe3ac6b7-0ca2-44b6-b699-74c57675e39c/thumbnail/1240x828/bc64332613afbccb0a94113847c79ac0/gettyimages-2270144253.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">Mulhouse Public Prosecutor Nicolas Heitz speaks to the press after a boy was discovered naked and malnourished on a pile of rubbish in a van where he had been kept locked up, in Hagenbach, eastern France, on April 10, 2026.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>The father was handed preliminary kidnapping and other charges and kept in custody. His partner denied knowledge that the boy was in the van, according to the prosecutor. She was handed preliminary charges, including failure to help a minor in danger, and released under judicial supervision.</p><p>The boy's 12-year-old sister and the 10-year-old daughter of his father's partner were put in the care of social services.</p><p>The prosecutor's office is investigating whether others were aware of the locked-up boy. Friends and family told investigators they thought the boy was in a psychiatric institution. His teachers were told he had transferred to a different school, according to the prosecutor's office.</p><p>Authorities did not release the names of the victim or family members.</p><p>Residents of the village reached by The Associated Press expressed shock Saturday at what happened and said they were unaware of the boy's whereabouts, but didn't want to discuss details.</p><p>Some neighbors told the BBC they occasionally heard noises from inside the van, but were told it was a cat.</p><p>The prosecutor declined to comment further to AP pending further investigation.</p>

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        <title>Detroit works to create safe zones, programs for minors after recent teen takeovers</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield and Police Chief Todd Bettison are addressing concerns about <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/detroit-police-crowds-downtown-campus-martius/" target="_blank">recent teen takeovers</a></span>.&nbsp;</p><p>Officials are working on creating safe spaces in Detroit for youth because Sheffield says the city is for everyone, including teens.&nbsp;</p><p>"Our young people want to be invested in. They need structure and occupied things to do. They want to be heard and feel like they belong," Sheffield said during a press conference on Friday.</p><p>This week, the city met with the organizers of the teen takeovers. Speaking to a room full of city leaders and journalists, the organizers say boredom led to establishing the widely attended meetup.</p><p>"I picked downtown because it's a common space. And everybody can get there," said organizer Davion Page.</p><p>On April 3, police responded to hundreds of teens in downtown Detroit one night during spring break. While the city says it's working on solutions. <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/detroit-businesses-concerned-downtown-teen-takeover/" target="_blank">Parents will be held accountable</a></span> if their children are caught violating the city code.</p><p>"We do have a curfew &ndash; and that's for people's safety. We want you to know where your kids are and be accountable," Bettison said.</p><p>The city is working to create a youth advisory board to be a liaison between teens and the city government. This summer, the mayor says recreational centers will begin hosting midnight basketball.</p><p>"We have weekly programming prepared for young people during the summer, and we are extending rec hours as well," Sheffield said.</p><p>Teen takeovers have recently occurred nationwide. It's a sentiment Bettison says other police chiefs in other major cities, like Chicago, have shared. A new website launching in the coming weeks will list activities for minors across the city.</p><p>"Some came from Farmington Hills, Taylor, so when everybody is looking, this is a Metro Detroit, because everybody in the region enjoys Downtown Detroit. And we're going to create a safe space," Bettison said.</p><p>The city says enforcement alone isn't the answer, which is why they're exploring safe zones citywide for minors. </p><p>Bettison says there's a flyer circulating online about a possible teen takeover on Saturday. Additional law enforcement will be deployed to monitor the situation.&nbsp;</p>

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        <title>&quot;Moon tree&quot; planted in Metro Detroit decades ago rediscovered after Artemis II mission</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>An unassuming tree in Ferndale's Wilson Park has more history than any other in the area. What is called the "moon tree" all began with a deal between NASA and an elementary school that used to be in the Ferndale neighborhood.&nbsp;</p><p>The story of the Ginkgo Biloba tree is now kept alive by both Mary K. Fredricks and a plaque in Wilson Park. In the late 80's and early 90's, students at the now-closed Wilson Elementary School responded to NASA astronauts' requests to submit seeds of trees and shrubs for a space project aimed at discerning how seeds would germinate in space.&nbsp;</p><p>"Sure enough, the seeds that they sent up did germinate, and they got their seeds back, but this time it wasn't a seed, it was a tree, and it was only about that big," said Fredericks.</p><p>While Ferndale has a little piece of cool astronomical history, one of the first moon trees in all of America is on the other side of the state at the Fernwood Botanical Garden in Niles.&nbsp;</p><p>"An astronaut named Stuart Roosa, he brought thousands of tree seeds on the Apollo 14 mission that was in 1971," said Elaine Rowland, the director of marketing and community engagement at Fernwood Botanical Garden.</p><p>Rowland says there is now a newfound bump in interest in the moon tree at the garden because of the <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-ii-splashdown-return/" target="_blank">Artemis II mission</a></span>. The botanical garden was given the seed to their moon tree in 1976.</p><p>"So we're getting ready to celebrate our 50th anniversary of getting our moon tree being planted at Fernwood. It's a very happy tree. It's a Sycamore. It's about 50 feet high," said Rowland.</p><p>The moon tree in Ferndale is a little smaller, but the history is just as long.&nbsp;</p><p>"And we have it in Ferndale, and that's what's really neat about it," said Fredericks.</p><p>Fredricks hopes that one of those students at the old Wilson Elementary School comes forward and reaches out to her about their experience helping plant the seeds for this historic tree.</p>

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        <title>Off-duty Detroit firefighter charged in suspected drunk driving crash that killed 85-year-old woman</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>A Detroit firefighter has been charged with allegedly driving while drunk, causing a crash that killed an 85-year-old woman in Roseville.</p><p>According to the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office, 26-year-old Travis Turner, of Roseville, was arraigned on one count of operating while intoxicated causing death and one count of possession of a firearm while under the influence.&nbsp;</p><p>Turner received a $100,000 cash/surety bond. He must wear a GPS tether and an alcohol monitoring device if released.</p><p>The Detroit Fire Department confirmed to CBS News Detroit that Turner was off-duty and driving a personal vehicle at the time of the April 9 crash on Groesbeck Highway.</p><p>"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and her loved ones during this incredibly difficult time," the department said in a statement. "This incident is being investigated by the appropriate law enforcement agency, and we are fully cooperating with that investigation. The member involved has been placed on leave without pay pending the outcome of this investigation. We have no further comment on this personnel matter."</p><p>Prosecutors say that Turner was driving a 2016 Ford Fusion at high speed when he crashed into a black 2006 Saturn Ion. The driver of the Saturn Ion, 85-year-old Eleanor Johnson, of Oak Park, was pronounced dead at the scene.</p><p>Prosecutors say Turner suffered minor injuries, and his girlfriend was also injured. Prosecutors say Turner had a firearm with him at the time of the crash, and his blood alcohol content was above the legal limit.</p><p>"Every time someone drinks and gets behind the wheel, they are making a conscious choice to put lives at risk. The allegations are that this defendant was legally intoxicated when the crash occurred and a woman is now deceased. There is no way to bring her back. However, my office will work to see that justice is achieved," said Macomb County Prosecutor Peter J. Lucido in a statement.</p><p>Turner is due back in court for a probable cause conference on April 22 and a preliminary examination on April 29.</p>
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        <title>Mysterious woman who entered couple&#039;s Metro Detroit home identified</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Cecilia Smith and her husband were left scratching their heads after they say a woman walked into their Garden City, Michigan, home on Wednesday and stayed inside for several minutes before driving away.</p><p>On Friday, one day after CBS News Detroit <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/video/metro-detroit-homeowners-confused-after-woman-walks-into-their-home/" target="_blank">sat down with Smith</a>, the couple contacted the newsroom and said the woman was identified as a hospice nurse who went to the wrong house.</p><p>"One of her patients called the police station and confirmed when they saw the story last night," the couple said. "There's a lot that doesn't make sense about the situation, but at least we know who it is and that she's not a threat to us."</p><p>At the time, Smith said that while she was at work on Wednesday, her husband called her saying someone was in their home.</p><p>"I just don't know who this is or what the motive for her being in there is," Smith told CBS News Detroit on Thursday.</p><p>The couple left for work that morning. Smith said she was last out of the house, and thought she had locked her door and set the alarm. Several hours later, their video surveillance caught a mysterious woman driving up and walking into the home.</p><p>The couple's security alarm triggered within seconds of the door being opened. Smith said the woman stayed in the home for roughly 10 minutes.</p><p>"The amount of time she was in there, and with that alarm going off. That alarm gets so loud that my neighbors hear it," Smith said.</p><p>The couple bought the home four years ago. As bizarre as the situation is, Smith didn't believe anything was stolen. Within minutes, her security company dispatched police. By the time they got there, the woman had left the home and driven away.</p><p>The couple told CBS News Detroit that Garden City police had planned to follow up in one week.&nbsp;</p>
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        <title>&quot;Moon tree&quot; in Metro Detroit rediscovered following Artemis II mission</title>
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        <title>Artemis II splashes down after moon mission</title>
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        <title>Kamala Harris says she might run for president in 2028: &quot;I&#039;m thinking about it&quot;</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that she might run for president in 2028, telling a gathering in New York that she is considering mounting a third bid for the White House.</p><p>"Listen, I might. I'm thinking about it," Harris said in response to a question from Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network's conference in Manhattan. "Let me also say this. I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. I spent countless hours in my West Wing office, footsteps away from the Oval Office. I spent countless hours in the Oval Office, in the Situation Room. I know what the job is. And I know what it requires."</p><p>She added: "I've been traveling in the country the last year, I've been spending a lot of time in the South and many other places. And the one thing I'm really clear about also is, the status quo is not working, and hasn't been working for a lot of people for a long time."&nbsp;</p><p>Harris lost to President Trump in the 2024 election after replacing then-President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket. She unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination in 2020 before Biden selected her as his running mate.</p><p>The former vice president has kept a relatively low profile since her 2024 defeat. Last year she <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-wont-run-california-governor/">passed</a></span> on running for governor of California, fueling speculation that she might be eyeing another bid for the White House in 2028.</p>

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        <title>See the messages Brian Hooker sent his friend after wife&#039;s disappearance in the Bahamas: &quot;The wind blew me away&quot;</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:28:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>The day after <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-woman-missing-bahams-husband-says-she-was-swept-off-boat/" target="_blank">his wife disappeared</a></span> during a nighttime boat ride in the Bahamas, Brian Hooker told a friend that she tried swimming back to the sailboat following her apparent fall overboard, but strong winds pushed them apart "pretty quickly," according to messages reviewed exclusively by CBS News.</p><p>Lynette Hooker, who is from Michigan, has been missing since Sunday. Bahamian officials <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lynette-hooker-bahamas-criminal-investigation-coast-guard/" target="_blank">arrested her husband</a></span> Wednesday night and are holding him for questioning in connection with her case, but he has not been charged with a crime, according to his attorney, Terrel Butler. Hooker can be held for 48 hours until he has to be either charged or released, Butler said, noting that officials can extend the period to 96 hours if deemed necessary.</p><p>Brian Hooker denies any wrongdoing. He previously told authorities that his wife fell from their dinghy Saturday night while the couple sailed from Hope Town to Elbow Cay in the Bahamas. He said powerful currents swept her away, along with the keys to their boat, which cut power to its engine and prevented him from reaching her.&nbsp;</p><p>He shared a similar account of what happened in Facebook messages to Daniel Danforth, a friend of the Hookers since 2023. Danforth told CBS News he met them because of their shared interest in boating.</p><p>The messages show that Danforth reached out to Brian on Monday after seeing news coverage of his wife's disappearance.</p><p>"The wind blew me away from her and she swam towards the sailboat and we lost sight of each other pretty quickly as it was just about sundown," Brian wrote in reply. "I drifted and tried to paddle with one oar for the next 7 hours until I washed up behind the shore of the next Island over and was able to get some help finally."</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/563f0452-2a73-4d67-acf2-27075a7f0271/thumbnail/620x939/b7eab5a2313e8de79b27b279d83a5fbb/hooker1-v2.jpg#" alt="hooker1-v2.jpg " height="939" width="620" srcset="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/563f0452-2a73-4d67-acf2-27075a7f0271/thumbnail/620x939/b7eab5a2313e8de79b27b279d83a5fbb/hooker1-v2.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/563f0452-2a73-4d67-acf2-27075a7f0271/thumbnail/1240x1878/bdf0e8c11ba5714688232c5536e8befa/hooker1-v2.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">Brian Hooker exchanged messages with his friend Daniel Danforth and described his wife Lynette's disappearance at sea, saying, "The wind blew me away from her and she swam towards the sailboat."</span></figcaption></figure><p>Bahamian police have said Brian Hooker arrived at the Marsh Harbor Boat Yard on the island of Abaco at 4 a.m. Sunday morning, after paddling the dinghy to shore. They said he told someone his wife was missing once he made it there, and that person informed authorities.</p><p>In the messages, he told Danforth his family was "in hell" as search crews failed to locate his wife.&nbsp;</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/3e807091-2a3b-4ac6-8328-cec73d90f217/thumbnail/620x928/7a9df723648760c5ca3b916d9564e74a/hooker2-v2.jpg#" alt="hooker2-v2.jpg " height="928" width="620" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/3e807091-2a3b-4ac6-8328-cec73d90f217/thumbnail/620x928/7a9df723648760c5ca3b916d9564e74a/hooker2-v2.jpg 1x, https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/3e807091-2a3b-4ac6-8328-cec73d90f217/thumbnail/1240x1856/177fa6e0804f2ba1695fd763be023f82/hooker2-v2.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">Brian Hooker wrote to his friend Daniel Danforth, "Our family is in hell right now" after his wife Lynette's disappearance.</span></figcaption></figure><p>When Danforth checked in again the next morning, Hooker said he had moved his boat to Marsh Harbor and had been sleeping there, but planned to relocate "for a night or two" to stay with his sister and brother-in-law, who were flying in to meet him. He told Danforth that he planned "on heading back out to the site" after that "and continuing search."</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/7cf35101-be88-41be-9888-db3cfea1cc11/thumbnail/620x941/c1318db856a159ac7d31e0c125d55a5a/hooker3-v2.jpg#" alt="hooker3-v2.jpg " height="941" width="620" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/7cf35101-be88-41be-9888-db3cfea1cc11/thumbnail/620x941/c1318db856a159ac7d31e0c125d55a5a/hooker3-v2.jpg 1x, https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/7cf35101-be88-41be-9888-db3cfea1cc11/thumbnail/1240x1882/5fa1a8851d851d4acdb8d33290708dfc/hooker3-v2.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">In a message exchange the day after his wife Lynette's disappearance, Brian Hooker thanked his friend Daniel Danforth for "reaching out and supporting us."</span></figcaption></figure><p>"I will most likely definitely need help in the future but I just don't know what it is yet I'm trying to take it a day at a time and keep the faith," he told Danforth, before congratulating him on his recent sailboat purchase.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/4e642b58-0bcc-4067-8af0-cd5c3737c8af/thumbnail/620x942/34f81b5abf38c8a0de2d0aa63a4e587d/hooker4-v2.jpg#" alt="hooker4-v2.jpg " height="942" width="620" srcset="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/4e642b58-0bcc-4067-8af0-cd5c3737c8af/thumbnail/620x942/34f81b5abf38c8a0de2d0aa63a4e587d/hooker4-v2.jpg 1x, https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/4e642b58-0bcc-4067-8af0-cd5c3737c8af/thumbnail/1240x1884/df1a5823596d297709cf67d0d4b3e80e/hooker4-v2.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">"I plan on heading back out to the site and continuing the search," Brian Hooker wrote in a message to his friend Daniel Danforth.</span></figcaption></figure><h2>"The stories don't really match up"</h2><p>Danforth told CBS News that he first met the Hookers three years ago, while sailing in the New Orleans area. A Facebook notification from Brian over the weekend initially reminded him of the couple, before he started seeing headlines about Lynette's disappearance, Danforth said.&nbsp;</p><p>He received the notification because Brian had liked his comment on a post that Danforth's wife had shared about boating. In retrospect, Danforth said the fact that his friend was scrolling social media and liking posts at that time raised some questions for him.</p><p>"You know, my wife's missing, Facebook's the last thing I'm worried about. You're going to find me on the water riding around," Danforth told CBS News.</p><p>Danforth said he was concerned that Brian moved his boat from Elbow Cay, where it was anchored, shortly after Lynette went missing. He also noted that, in comparing Brian's s retelling of Lynette's disappearance with emerging media reports, "the stories don't really match up."</p><p>While police have said Hooker recalled his wife being swept overboard and out to sea, Danforth said his messages reflected "she was casually swimming back toward the sailboat."&nbsp;</p><p>He also said the Hookers "always had their phones with them" and frequently posted videos online, so he wondered why Brian's "phone didn't work or why they didn't have their phones in the boat" the night Lynette went missing.</p><p>Danforth said his wife was friends with Lynette and he didn't have concerns about the couple's relationship, although there had been a period where Brian and Lynette "had separated for a while," he said.&nbsp;</p><p>"You know, most of the time people do get back together and you don't want things to be awkward," he said. "So we didn't &mdash; I don't really get into a whole lot of personal business because of those reasons."&nbsp;</p><p>Lynette Hooker's daughter, <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lynette-hooker-missing-american-boater-bahamas-update/" target="_blank">Karli Aylesworth</a></span>, told CBS News in a separate interview that her mother and Brian Hooker had broken up and gotten back together in recent years. Aylesworth said she is seeking answers about the circumstances surrounding her mother's disappearance and has said she doubts the sequence of events described by Brian Hooker.</p><p>"For one, I don't understand how she got the key," Aylesworth said. "Brian's always driving. So he basically is in charge of the key. So the fact that my mom had it doesn't make any sense."</p><p>In an earlier statement, Butler, Hooker's attorney, said he denied the allegations made by Aylesworth, and added, "He has been cooperating with the relevant authorities as part of an ongoing investigation."</p><p>Butler has spoken to Hooker on the phone and told CBS News that he was focused on continuing the search for his wife.</p><p>"That's all he's been talking about," Butler said. "Yesterday&hellip; he made arrangements to go back out and search for her."</p><p>The whereabouts of the boat key was also an issue for Danforth, who said pictures and videos the Hookers took while on the dinghy never show either of them with the key, which is usually attached to a lanyard. But he said it's possible that Lynette Hooker would "reach out in desperation" to grab hold of something as she fell overboard, and "that's the closest thing."</p><p>Ultimately, Danforth said he didn't fully believe strong winds and ocean currents could separate Hooker's small dinghy from his wife so rapidly. And, if she were swimming toward the dinghy, as Brian Hooker said in his messages, Danforth asked: "Why didn't he try to go get her?"</p><h2>Brian Hooker's messages to daughter, stepdaughter</h2><p>CBS News also obtained text messages Brian Hooker sent to his daughter Rosie and Lynette's daughter Karli (which he misspelled as Carly) earlier this week. In a message Tuesday night, he wrote that he planned on "going out on a boat tomorrow to continue searching" for Lynette. "I'm not giving up and I don't want you to give up either," he wrote, followed by emojis of kisses and hearts.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/0d5fc78c-219b-4637-958d-d2f0dea393d0/thumbnail/620x1248/74286d41befa339650eb6ad9f7c3e04d/img-5871.jpg#" alt="img-5871.jpg " height="1248" width="620" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/0d5fc78c-219b-4637-958d-d2f0dea393d0/thumbnail/620x1248/74286d41befa339650eb6ad9f7c3e04d/img-5871.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/0d5fc78c-219b-4637-958d-d2f0dea393d0/thumbnail/1240x2496/550d036f44a88d650e63ae2502c9da56/img-5871.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">In a text message to his daughter and stepdaughter, Brian Hooker said he planned on "going out on a boat" to "continue searching" for his wife Lynette. "I'm not giving up and I don't want you to give up either," he wrote.</span></figcaption></figure><p>In another message the next morning, he wrote that he was "hassled at dinner by reporters last night." He said he posted a statement on Facebook and then "locked down" his page.&nbsp;</p><p>"Our family has lots of support from people all over the world but there are of course always some haters," he wrote. "They're saying ridiculous stuff and so I will do some push back on that when I can." He signed off, "I love you and I'm not giving up or stopping."</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content"><img src="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/c29af3e5-df54-4ec3-bc96-e6a8f1f41c32/thumbnail/620x1260/fbe896dd29488f572d98058d7a5faa73/img-5870.jpg#" alt="img-5870.jpg " height="1260" width="620" srcset="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/c29af3e5-df54-4ec3-bc96-e6a8f1f41c32/thumbnail/620x1260/fbe896dd29488f572d98058d7a5faa73/img-5870.jpg 1x, https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/04/10/c29af3e5-df54-4ec3-bc96-e6a8f1f41c32/thumbnail/1240x2520/79fa16a1ce37dbb52301bfc41741ca80/img-5870.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">In a text to his daughter and stepdaughter, Brian Hooker wrote, "Our family has lots of support from people all over the world but there are of course always some haters."</span></figcaption></figure><h2>Brian Hooker told his attorney he fell into the water during his arrest</h2><p>In their first in-person meeting late Thursday, Brian Hooker told his attorney he almost drowned after falling in the water as police were taking him into custody.&nbsp;</p><p>"He [Brian Hooker] had a really traumatic experience being transported here to Grand Bahama," Butler told CBS News on Thursday. "He was taken to his vessel for a search, and when he went there, he was handcuffed and was told he could have a change of clothes and he was requested to disembark while handcuffed."</p><p>According to Butler, that's when his client went overboard.&nbsp;</p><p>"When he fell overboard, he had to be rescued by officers," Butler said.</p><p>In a new statement released Friday morning, Butler said he had visited with Hooker at the Central Police Station in Grand Bahama and was requesting immediate medical attention for him. He said the fall had taken place in "choppy and dangerous sea conditions" as Hooker lost his footing on the wet boat flooring while handcuffed.&nbsp;</p><p>A CBS News team saw Hooker being taken to a local hospital to get checked out.</p><p>Butler's statement also said, "Brian appears completely heartbroken and deeply distressed. His primary concern and source of intense frustration is his inability to continue the search for his wife of 25 years. The trauma of her disappearance, coupled with his current detention as a suspect, has left him in an extremely fragile state."</p>

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        <title>The U.S. faces an air traffic controller shortage. It&#039;s turning to gamers for help.</title>
        <link>https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/faa-video-gamers-increase-air-traffic-controllers/</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Young people told by their parents to stop wasting their time playing video games and get a job now have a way to meld the two together, courtesy of the Department of Transportation.</p><p>As the U.S. deals with <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-traffic-controller-shortage-government-shutdown/" target="_blank">a dangerous shortage of air traffic controllers</a></span>, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Friday the department would be targeting gamers to join the ranks of employees sitting in airport control towers.</p><p>"To reach the next generation of air traffic controllers, we need to adapt," Duffy said in a statement. "This campaign's innovative communication style and focus on gaming taps into a growing demographic of young adults who have many of the hard skills it takes to be a successful controller."</p><p>The agency has been dealing with ATC shortages at many airports across the country over the past decade. Increasing numbers is a top priority for Duffy. The Federal Aviation Administration employed 6% fewer air traffic controllers in fiscal year 2025 versus 2015, despite a 10% increase in total flights between fiscal years 2015 and 2024, according to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-107320">a report</a> by the U.S. Government Accountability Office released in December.</p><p>Newark Liberty International Airport <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/newark-airport-air-traffic-control-outage/" target="_blank">was particularly hard-hit</a></span> last year due to staffing shortages at the Philadelphia air traffic control facility that manages flights into the New Jersey airport. The government shutdown last November also exacerbated many issues with air traffic controller shortages as employees were forced to work without pay for more than a month. Others decided to leave the industry entirely.</p><p>"The failure to pay air traffic controllers for 44 days created uncertainty, drove many experienced controllers out of the profession and harmed the recruitment pipeline," a spokesperson from the Department of Transportation told CBS News in November.</p><p>The government points out that more than 200 million people in the U.S. regularly play video games.</p><p>"With only about 25 percent of controllers holding a traditional college degree, this effort is focused on reaching talented young people pursuing alternative career paths, many of whom are active in gaming," the department said in its press release. "Feedback from controller exit interviews reinforces this, with several controllers pointing to gaming as an influence on their ability to think quickly, stay focused, and manage complexity."</p><p>Even though it doesn't require a traditional college degree, prospective air traffic controllers must pass an aptitude test and get medical and security clearance before they can begin training, according to&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.gao.gov/blog/while-thousands-applied-become-air-traffic-controllers-theres-still-shortage-we-looked-why">GAO</a>. They then progress to a four- to six-month training course at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City, and extensive on-the-job training, according to GAO. In total, it could take two to six years to become a certified air traffic controller.</p><p>The agency touted that it met its fiscal year 2025 goals with more than 2,000 air traffic controllers being hired, and said it is already halfway to its 2026 goal.&nbsp;</p><p>In 2024 &mdash; the last year for which federal data is available &mdash; the median annual wage for air traffic controllers was $144,580,&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/air-traffic-controllers.htm">according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>But pay varies widely based on experience and location. Annual income for less experienced controllers at smaller airports is closer to $60,000, according to aviation experts.</p>

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