Posted 5:14 PM 5/23/2012 by David Fitzpatrick and Drew Griffin, CNN Special Investigations Unit
The Senate Finance Committee is launching an investigation to determine whether a charity intended to help disabled veterans deserves its tax-exempt status after doling out millions of dollars to a direct-mail company.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana, chairman of the committee, announced the (More)
Posted 9:38 PM 5/22/2012 by Casey Wian (CNN)
YAKUTAT, Alaska -- Residents of towns in the Alaska Panhandle have begun picking up plastic bottles, chunks of foam insulation and floating buoys from Japan's 2011 tsunami now turning up across the Pacific Ocean.
"This is urethane spray building foam," Chris Pallister, president of the (More)
Posted 9:39 PM 5/21/2012 by Elaine Quijano - CBS News
The pop music world has lost another giant.
Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.
It happened just a few days after the death of Donna Summer.
Gibb and his brothers had a career, and influence, that went far beyond the disco (More)
Posted 8:18 PM 5/20/2012 by Stephanie Gallman, CNN
A prison guard was killed and several employees injured Sunday in a riot at the Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez, Mississippi, officials said.
The 23-year-old guard appeared to suffer "blunt trauma to the head," said Adams County Coroner James Lee.
The riot, which began (More)