The mother of murdered student Tanesha Melbourne-Blake told of her heartbreak as police revealed the pistol which killed her was a "gun for hire" used to kill an innocent man days earlier.

A German artist who is laying bronze-capped cobblestones commemorating members of families who were deported and killed by the Nazis says he can never honor all the victims of Hitler's atrocities, but he is going to press ahead anyway.

Callahan Walsh will never forget the day when he learned that fugitive Luis Frias was finally captured.

A 17-year-old girl killed in a drive-by shooting was shot by a "gun for hire" used in another murder, Scotland Yard has said.

Mexican authorities deported migrants to Honduras after a large group waded across a river on Mexico's southern border. Also, prosecutors in Brazil have charged 16 people with murder in last year's dam collapse that killed 270 people, and the reunited Duke and Duchess of Sussex have threatened legal action against the paparazzi in Canada. CBS News correspondent Ian Lee joined "CBSN AM" with these stories.

A Maryland man has been charged with attempted murder after engaging in a shootout with police officers responding to reports of animal cruelty and a domestic dispute in Harford County on Tuesday. 

A Utah teen accused of fatally shooting his mother and three siblings last week was charged Wednesday in their murder, according to reports.

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known as "Joe Exotic," was found guilty in a murder-for-hire plot to kill a Florida woman who fought with him over animal care.