Salem, Oregon — The man who allegedly drove into a homeless encampment in Salem, Oregon, killing four people, had roughly double the legal limit of alcohol in his blood, prosecutors said Monday. Enrique Rodriguez Jr., 24, was ordered jailed without bail by a judge on Monday after being charged with four …

Dropbox is among the tech firms that have declared themselves “virtual first” employers since the pandemic normalized remote work, for the first time in corporate history. Amanda Miller, a parent and Dropbox employee, said she is more productive working from home, where she has been doing her job for two …

Americans have gotten used to low interest rates for borrowing money, making it cheap to take out a loan for a home, car or other needs. But consumers will now find themselves paying more for all types of loans and credit this year now that the Federal Reserve has raised …

CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago police officers who shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo and 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez in separate foot chases just days apart last March won’t face any criminal charges, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced Tuesday. Foxx said neither her office nor an appellate prosecutor’s office could …

Two school staff members were wounded Friday in a shooting at Kansas’ Olathe East High School, police said. No students were injured in the shooting, and a suspect is now in custody, according to local authorities.  The Johnson County prosecutor’s office announced Saturday that Jaylon Desean Elmore, 18, was charged …

The U.S. Navy has retrieved the F-35C Lightning II plane that crashed in January in the South China Sea. A team made up of divers from the 7th Fleet’s Task Force and a Navy salvage and diving team recovered the wreckage from the bottom of the South China Sea, about …

With President Biden nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the president appears to have fulfilled one of his campaign promises to put the first Black woman on the high court. But the groundwork for the choice was laid far earlier.  Attorney Kim Tignor tapped some of her lawyer …

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in a quadruple slaying in 2005. Gilbert Ray Postelle, 35, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, and prison officials declared him dead at 10:14 a.m. It was Oklahoma’s fourth execution since October, when the state resumed lethal …

Congressman Henry Cuellar is fighting for his political life in the upcoming Texas Democratic primary, hoping to prevail in the rematch against progressive immigration lawyer Jessica Cisneros, a former intern for his office who came within 3,000 votes of beating him in 2020.  There’s another candidate in the race for …

The Biden administration and Congress are grappling with how to address soaring prices as annual inflation increased at its fastest pace in 40 years.  The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data Thursday showed prices rose 7.5% over the past 12 months. Americans have seen the cost for gas rise by …