Leaders of Greece's third largest political party, the extreme right Golden Dawn, go on trial Monday on charges of operating as a criminal organization that allegedly carried out a campaign of violence against immigrants and left-wing opponents.
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A pit bull attacked and killed a Dallas toddler Sunday afternoon, after the dog was left along with the child for a few minutes, according to the parents.
Police responded to the 6800 block of Beechnut Street, shortly before 5 pm on Sunday, to reports of an animal attack.
Police say the father told them he had stepped outside to turn off the sprinkler system and returned to find the dog attacking the child in his bouncing seat. The child’s mother was also bitten twice by the dog while trying to free the child from the dog.
Police say the father grabbed the dog by the neck, took it outside and shot it twice.
No word on the mother’s condition.
ARLINGTON (CBS 11 NEWS) – Pam and Mike Philley aren’t fancy folks. Not usually.
“It’s difficult with our four kids,” says Mike.
Mike is a Plano police officer.
Pam works for Plano 911.
Sunday, the hard-working high school sweethearts checked into the Ritz-Carlton, Dallas and caught a chauffeured ride to the ACM Awards.
They even got a $1,000 gift card to Cavender’s, spending it Friday on outfits for the big event.
“I was blown away. I couldn’t believe I’d won all that,” said Mike.
The grand prize winners in a CBS11/Cavender’s ticket give-away almost missed out on it all.
It was their youngest daughter, 15 year old Mary, who signed them up to win tickets for the show.
But, being a police family, well…
“Everything is suspicious,” said Mike.
That includes calls from CBS11, trying to let them know they’d won!
“She was leary about it because it was an unknown number,” said Pam.
It took several days and several calls before Mike called the “suspicious” number back, just in time to claim the prize.
“It’s just been a whirlwind ever since,” said Mike.
Even their daughters made it to the show, making it a family night to go down in history.
Luke Bryan won his first Entertainer of the Year award at the ACM Awards in 2013, and though George Strait took the honor last year, it was Bryan’s to take back two years later.
Bryan scored the Entertainer nod at Sunday night’s ACMs, held in Arlington, Texas on April 19. Bryan, who released his last full-length studio album Crash My Party in 2013, was also one of the co-hosts of the evening, along with Blake Shelton.
He had to beat Miranda Lambert, Florida Georgia Line, Garth Brooks and Jason Aldean for the award.
Related: 2015 ACM Awards Winners: See the Full List
Bryan won one other award in the evening: Vocal Event of the Year, doing so as part of his “This Is How We Roll” duet with Florida Georgia Line.
For the first of two big collaborations on the ACM Awards that connected pop and country, Christina Aguilera and Rascal Flatts traded off on
It began with Aguilera’s “Shotgun.” Unfamiliar? It’s a new one; it comes from Aguilera’s Nashville guest-starring role from earlier this month. Aguilera took the lead on the song, joined by Rascal Flatts in harmony before a white backdrop.
Related: The 2015 ACM Awards Live Blog
Afterward, Rascal Flatts took on new single “Riot,” a slow burner on which Aguilera assumed lead vocals on the second verse before she and lead vocalist Gary LeVox harmonized on the chorus.
For the finale, they were joined by a black-clad gospel choir.
Miranda Lambert is becoming quite the force to be reckoned with when it comes to the ACM Awards’ Song of the Year honor.
Sunday night (April 19), Lambert scored the win for Song of the Year with her song “Automatic,” the titular track from her 2014 album that’s also nominated for Album of the Year.
And in doing so, the country singer has now won the award three of the last five years, dating back to 2011.
Related: 2015 ACM Awards Live Blog
It dates back to 2011, when Lambert won for “The House That Built Me,” though the song was not written by Lambert, instead penned by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin.
OKLAHOMA CITY (CBSDFW.COM) – CBS 11’s Steve Pickett was born and raised in Oklahoma City and returned to his hometown Sunday, to remember lives lost one devastating day.
Christi Jenkins lived two blocks from the house I called home in Oklahoma City.
Sunday her sister Tracie made the same trip I made from Dallas to attend the same gathering.
“I received a call about an explosion and my sister was in the building,” recalls Tracie.
The people returning to the site of the former federal building in Oklahoma City are all connected. They may be families, neighbors, coworkers but they are Oklahomans tied by terror.
A plot to target the U.S Government killed 168 of its men, women and children.
The explosion that ripped apart the Murrah Federal Building on April 19th 1995 became known as the Oklahoma City Bombing…America’s deadliest domestic act of terrorism, until 9-11.
Calvin and Peola Battle died in the building together. I’ve known their daughters since our teenage years.
“The 20th anniversary it just came too fast, just like April 19th came too fast,” says LaDonna Battle who’s parents were killed in the bombing. “You turn back the clock 20 years ago, we were in our darkest hour.”
Sunday’s 20th year remembrance spoke not just of yesterday’s pain, but a community’s perseverance.
How this city fought through the despair that terror brings.
“For 20 years you’ve honored your loved ones, inspired us with renewal, and reminded us that we should all live by the Oklahoma standard,” says Former President Bill Clinton, who was in office during this incident.
Oklahoma City now shines in a light of growth, instead of a day of darkness. They can’t forget what to happen to them, but instead deciding a bombing, should no longer define them.
Tonight (April 19), the biggest stars in country music convene for the 50th annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Arlington, Texas.
The whole ceremony will be broadcast on CBS starting at 8 p.m. ET. Multiple awards will be given out in midst of star-studded performances, including the hotly coveted Entertainer of the Year, for which Jason Aldean, Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert and Florida Georgia Line are nominated.
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Get the full winners list on Radio.com!
The World Health Organization has admitted serious failings in its handling of the Ebola crisis and pledged reforms to enable it to do better next time, its leadership said in a statement seen by Reuters on Sunday.
After Saturday’s storms it’ll be nice to talk about a wonderful Spring day. That would be the forecast for tomorrow:
But its’ been a wet start to the year, especially when you consider the historically dry start to last year. In 2014 it took us all the way to August to get to 12″ of rain:
Rain chances start to show up on Tuesday, The better chances are around the Red River on Tuesday and along the dry line to our west on Wednesday:
Storm chances jump up on Thursday. The dry line should be closer to the Metroplex by afternoon with a stationary front serving as a focus:
Some of these storms could be severe. But the best chance of a repeat of Saturday will be on Friday:
The last weekend of April might turn out to be the first weekend in April to stay dry:
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — About 1,000 people gathered Sunday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which was the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil until the Sept. 11 attacks six years later.
Former President Bill Clinton and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin were among those who spoke at Sunday’s service at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood.
The service started with a 168-second moment of silence to honor each of the 168 people who died in the April 19, 1995, attack. It concluded about 90 minutes later with survivors and tearful relatives of the dead reading the names of those killed.
“This was a place of unspeakable horror and tragedy,” said Frank Keating, who completed his first 100 days as Oklahoma’s governor the day before the attack. “How some evil individual would do what he did … is unforgiveable and absolutely unimaginable.”
“The agony was consistent. The agony appeared never to end,” Keating said.
FBI Director James Comey and others paid tribute to those who took part in the recovery efforts.
“In an instant, this day was transformed into a moment of history, a moment of unspeakable horror and darkness,” Comey said. “It is not the moment that defines us. It is not the act itself that shapes our destiny. It is what comes next.”
After the service, LaDonna Battle and her family were standing between two of the 168 metal and glass chairs that now stand as a testament to those who were killed. The two chairs were inscribed with the names of her parents, Calvin and Peola Battle, who were arranging to receive Social Security benefits when the bomb detonated.
“We’re completing a journey with steel hearts. We’re rebuilding our lives.” LaDonna Battle said.
Timothy McVeigh, an Army veteran with strong anti-government views, planned the bombing as revenge for the deadly standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, that killed more than 70 people on April 19, 1993 — exactly two years earlier.
McVeigh was convicted on federal murder and conspiracy charges in 1997 and executed in 2001.
His Army buddy, Terry Nichols, was convicted on federal and state bombing-related charges and is serving multiple life sentences in a federal prison.
CARROLLTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Four people are injured after a suspected drunk driver going in the wrong direction caused a four-vehicle wreck.
The incident happened early Sunday morning on a Carrollton freeway and all northbound lanes were closed for hours during the cleanup and investigation.
According to Carrollton police, an SUV and a truck collided in the northbound lanes of I-35E at Whitlock Lane.
Carrollton Police spokesman Jolene DeVito says the SUV was traveling south in the northbound lanes when the wreck happened.
DeVito also says that two other vehicles were involved in the wreck. They hit the debris from the original accident.
The driver of the SUV is under investigation for driving while intoxicated.
Two other vehicles were involved in the wreck when they hit debris from the original collision. DeVito says the SUV driver is under investigation for driving while intoxicated.
No information about the extent of the injuries was available, but victims were and the SUV driver was taken to Parkland Hospital.
Music, modern art and fashion collided in the Coachella Arts and Music Festival's second weekend in Indio, Calif.
United Airlines stopped Chris Roberts, a prominent security researcher, from boarding a California-bound flight late Saturday, days after the researcher posted a tweet suggesting the airline's onboard systems could be hacked.
CBC's Paul Hunter visits Louisiana to find out how BP's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is still affecting residents.
A video released by ISIS appears to show the killing of two different groups of captured Ethiopian Christians by the extremist group's Libyan affiliates.
A UN report says more than 40 million tonnes of electronic waste has ended up in landfills around the world, with China and the U.S. contributing the greatest amounts.
The Calgary Zoo had some fun with the the rivalry between the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks. On Friday it placed a straw-filled Canucks jersey inside its gorilla habitat.
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An Egyptian court on Sunday took a step toward imposing the death penalty on 11 men for involvement in deadly soccer stadium violence in 2012, a televised session showed.
A major air and sea search and rescue operation is under way south of the Italian island of Lampedusa after a migrant ship capsized. Italian media reports say an estimated 700 people were on board.
Reporter Natalia Antelava says that television news and propaganda are having a profound impact on the fight between pro-Russian rebels and Ukraine.
