Alabama basketball player Darius Miles and another man have been charged with capital murder after a fatal shooting near campus. Tuscaloosa Police Capt. Jack Kennedy said that the shooting occurred early Sunday morning in the Strip off University Blvd. near campus. He said Jamea Harris, 23, of the Birmingham area …

Will Smith, who is receiving praise for his role in the film “Emancipation,” is among this year’s NAACP Image Awards nominees.  The film — which earned Smith a nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture — is Smith’s first major project since he slapped Chris Rock on stage during the …

One-party rule in Washington ended this month, as the split 118th Congress gaveled into session — Republicans narrowly hold the House, Democrats have a slight edge in the Senate and a Democrat sits in the White House. It won’t be easy getting much through this sharply divided Congress, but there …

Investors suffered a brutal 2022, with the S&P 500 tumbling 19% as the Federal Reserve cranked interest rates higher to smother inflation. But 2023 may offer up more misery, with a looming recession providing another dose of risk, according to Morgan Stanley chief U.S. equity strategist Michael Wilson.  The S&P …

Florida lawmakers will move to increase state control of Walt Disney World’s private government, according to a notice published Friday, the latest development in a feud over what law critics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.” The notice posted on the Osceola County website says the Republican-controlled statehouse will take up …

Watch “48 Hours: The Idaho Student Murders” — correspondent Peter Van Sant reports on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. The DNA of the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students was found on a knife sheath at the crime scene, an investigator said in court documents unsealed Thursday. The …

Many Americans may be pondering their 2023 goals, and for many that will include buying a new home. Competition in the residential real estate market is unlikely to be as intense next year as it was in 2022, experts told CBS MoneyWatch, as the soaring price of homes and mortgages …

President Biden on Friday announced six full pardons for people who were convicted either while they were relatively young or decades ago, and have since served out their sentences.  The pardons cover five people convicted of drug or alcohol offenses, and one woman convicted of murdering a husband she said …

The Drug Enforcement Administration seized 2,000 fentanyl pills hidden in a dictionary, the agency posted on Twitter. The DEA’s Las Vegas office shared a picture of the bust that showed two large ziplock bags filled with blue fentanyl pills that were hidden in a hollowed-out English dictionary.  This comes after …

Reality TV personality Jamie Lopez, who starred on We TV’s “Super Sized Salon,” has died, her company announced on Instagram Monday. She was 37. No details were immediately provided. Lopez’s Las Vegas-based company, Babydoll Beauty Couture, did not specify a cause of death. “On behalf of the Babydoll Beauty Couture …