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A fraternity suspended its Rutgers University chapter days after a student suffered serious injuries at an off-campus house and was hospitalized. Alpha Sigma Phi said Sunday it placed the New Brunswick, New Jersey, chapter on an interim suspension amid an investigation into whether the 19-year-old was being hazed. A source, however, told CBS News New York’s Naveen Dhaliwal the incident appears to have been an accident, adding the student apparently stepped on an exposed wire and was shocked. The Rutgers University chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi has been suspended indefinitely after a student was injured at an off-campus house on…
James Franklin said Saturday he was shocked when Penn State fired him hours after a loss in which the Nittany Lions also lost quarterback Drew Allar to a season-ending injury, but that he cannot wait to coach again elsewhere. Franklin said during an appearance on ESPN’s “College GameDay” that Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft visited him ahead of a meeting and practice last Sunday and told him the university was making a change. Franklin said he had an emotional team meeting to tell people he was leaving. “To think essentially six games ago we were fighting for a chance…
The U.S. military struck another alleged drug-carrying vessel on Friday, killing three people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Sunday. It is the seventh known attack since last month. Hegseth said Friday’s strike targeted a boat linked to Ejército de Liberación Nacional, a Colombian guerrilla group that the U.S. has considered a terrorist organization since the 1990s. He alleged in a post on X that the boat “was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route, and was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics.” The defense secretary said the strike took place in international waters and within the U.S. Southern Command’s area of…
After his best performance of the season, Jalen Hurts’ phone started to ring during his postgame press conference. “When you win, everybody wants to call you,” the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback said. Hurts hasn’t been able to say that the last two weeks, but it changed Sunday in a 28-22 win over former Birds franchise quarterback Carson Wentz and the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. Hurts had his best passing performance of the season, completing 19 of his 23 passes for 326 yards and three touchdowns and a perfect 158.3 passer rating. He’s the third quarterback in Eagles history to…
From budgeting advice to investment strategies, more people are turning to artificial intelligence for help with money. Asking financial advice is now the second most common use for generative AI platforms, like ChatGPT, just behind health and wellness, according to a new survey conducted by Intuit Credit Karma. The survey finds 66% of Americans now say they’ve used AI to seek out financial advice, with the number rising to 82% among Millennials and Gen Z. But can you trust the results? Before you act on any recommendations, experts say it’s important to know the risks. Thomas Nitzsche with the non-profit…
A cancer doctor in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is marking breast cancer awareness month by wearing a different kind of pink for each of the 31 days in October, and it’s more than a fashion statement. Advocates say the color pink is linked to breast cancer because it symbolizes femininity, care, and solidarity. Dr. Lori Alfonse at Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute has a lot of snazzy pink shoes. “Each shoe has its own personality, its own shade, its own fabric and those are personality traits that are very similar to my patients,” Alfonse said. In honor of her patients, the surgical…
A New Jersey woman who bought Broadway tickets online to celebrate her 9-year-old daughter’s birthday says they were turned away at the theater because the tickets were invalid. For weeks, she was unable to get a refund from the site where she purchased the tickets, StubHub, a secondary ticket marketplace where fans buy and sell seats. So, she turned to the CBS News New York investigators to get results and warn others about what to know before clicking buy. Tickets would not scan at the venue On the day of the show, Courtney DeRocini went to the theater and showed…
An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies. On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many others. Amazon Web Services said on the site where it provides updates that services in its eastern U.S. region were disrupted and engineers were working to understand what was causing the problem. AWS customers include some of the world’s biggest businesses and organizations. At 5:27 a.m.…
The body found near the vacant Ada H. H. Lewis Middle School in Philadelphia’s East Germantown neighborhood belongs to Kada Scott, police sources told CBS News Philadelphia Sunday night. The remains, which police said they found on Saturday after receiving an anonymous tip, were DNA-tested and confirmed to belong to the missing 23-year-old, police sources said. Scott, who lived in East Mount Airy, has been missing for about two weeks. Her family reported her missing on Oct. 5, and she was last seen leaving her job at an assisted living facility in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia the prior…
In the quiet evening of Saturday, October 18, law-enforcement and emergency crews responded to a home on the 10800 block of W. Greenfield Avenue in West Allis, Wisconsin — a Milwaukee County suburb — where they found a 4-year-old child inside a vehicle the family used as living quarters, unconscious and not breathing. Despite efforts by first responders, the child was pronounced dead at the scene. What initially appeared to be a tragic collapse escalated quickly into a suspected homicide investigation. Scanner recordings captured minutes earlier described the child as having been beaten, and the day before, according to dispatches, the child…