This story first aired on Feb. 16, 2019. It was updated on Dec. 14. “I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Lynne Westafer said of the moment she heard gunshots. “None of us know what’s going to happen.” “A hundred-percent, I thought it was a mass shooting,” Arta Gjonbalaj told “48 Hours.” “We’re all going to…
Two TSA agents uncovered a sharp object that could have been plucked from the pages of a comic book or a horror film, while scanning luggage at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. One agent said he’d never seen anything like it since joining TSA two years ago, while the agency described the offending item as “mutant…
A New York woman is accused of plotting “a major attack” on the state capitol building in Albany, authorities said Thursday. In a criminal complaint, federal prosecutors in the Northern District of New York charged Jessica Bowie, 35, with attempting to provide material support for foreign terrorist organizations. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence…
Paris, France — A French off-duty policeman on Monday detained a man after he allegedly attacked and wounded three women in Paris with two kitchen knives, a minister and police said. The identity of the suspect and his motive were not immediately clear. Parisian authorities were still determining whether to launch a terrorism investigation into the…
London — A charity has been hard at work turning thousands of knives taken off the streets of London into a new type of weapon to counter a youth violence crisis facing many British cities. In the East London neighborhood of Langdon Park, more than a dozen teenagers met up recently for fitness training on equipment…
Washington — The White House Correspondents’ Association announced Tuesday that it will reschedule its annual press dinner for July 24 after the initial event was disrupted when a gunman attacked the gathering attended by President Trump, senior administration officials and scores of journalists. Weijia Jiang, who is the president of the association and a CBS…
