Waunakee, Wisconsin — According to many of her senior classmates at Waunakee High School in Waunakee, Wisconsin, 18-year-old Molly Schafer was a loner. “I haven’t talked to her in years,” one student told CBS News. “Not a lot of kids did hang out with her,” another said. That wasn’t always …
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Before the sun comes up in Shreveport, Louisiana, Jeff Ferrell arrives at the city’s National Public Radio station and turns on the lights. Ferrell is the news director of Red River Radio and its only full-time news employee. He’s also the on-air host, field reporter, writer and sound editor. Everything …
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Queen Stewart, a lawyer and mother of two, learned she had breast cancer at age 35. She found the lump herself because she was too young for insurance-paid screenings. “I just cried, and I just worried so much about whether I would be here for my girls,” Stewart told CBS …
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Umatilla, Florida — The price of orange juice is the latest item putting a squeeze on pocketbooks. The reason is citrus greening, a disease afflicting Florida orange groves that is spread by an invasive insect. “All the roots are going to go first. So when you have no roots, you …
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A whistleblower is accusing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of fraud, waste and abuse. CBS News was told the alleged practice could potentially involve hundreds of millions of tax dollars across multiple federal agencies. The whistleblower said some in administrative jobs at the agency were paid a …
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