6,000 prisoners being released early under new federal rules

Up to 40,000 more nonviolent drug offenders may be eligible for early release under government's sentencing reductions

• Oct 30, 2015

Alabama's Teacher of the Year told she's unqualified

Alabama officials told state's reigning top educator she lacks the certification to teach in her fifth-grade classroom; teacher resigns

• Oct 30, 2015

Body found in search for American man missing in London

An unidentified body was found by the train tracks between Feltham and Staines stations, near where Josh Sanchez-Maldonado was last seen

• Oct 30, 2015

Jury makes decision in case of boy killed by fallen tombstone

4-year-old Carson Dean Cheney was crushed by historic 250-pound tombstone while he took pictures with his family in Utah

• Oct 30, 2015

Suspected tornado roars through south Texas

Fast-moving storm packing heavy rain and destructive winds overwhelms rivers; RV ends up on roof of Holiday Inn

• Oct 30, 2015

This Morning from CBS News, Oct. 30, 2015

"CBS This Morning" marks a significant milestone, senators pass a comprehensive budget deal, and we look at the wide range of rules for police in classrooms

• Oct 30, 2015

Bus driver jailed after allegedly assaulting special needs teen

Students on crowded Iowa bus captured the violent confrontation on their cellphones

• Oct 30, 2015

Police: Kentucky fugitive killed in shootout

Floyd Ray Cook, 62-year-old convicted rapist and robber, had been on the run 6 days; woman who spotted him tells of terrifying moments

• Oct 30, 2015

Doctor who helped launch modern paramedic system dies at 98

Dr. Walter S. Graf so-called "Heart Car" helped jump start "a movement that has been responsible for saving innumerable lives worldwide"

• Oct 30, 2015

Teen girl in Oregon has bubonic plague, health officials say

Eastern Oregon girl is believed to have acquired the disease from a flea bite during a hunting trip, officials say

• Oct 29, 2015

Florida executes man convicted of fatally stabbing ex-wife, daughter

Jerry Correll put to death nearly three decades after being convicted of killing four people, including his 5-year-old daughter

• Oct 29, 2015

2 women found dead in L.A. park, police on high alert

Women were fully clothed and appeared to be in their 20s; police release sketch of suspect

• Oct 29, 2015

Chilling police 911 logs reveal horror of Charleston church shooting

"So many people dead, I think" says caller whose husband was among the murdered in massacre inside Charleston church

• Oct 29, 2015

"There was like smoke all over the place"

Passengers describe scary moments as plane on Fort Lauderdale tarmac bursts into flames

• Oct 29, 2015

Military once claimed blimp tether nearly foolproof

Runaway ​Army blimp in Maryland dragged a tether that shorted out power lines before descending in central Pennsylvania

• Oct 29, 2015

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