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A bull that escaped from a farm on Long Island and eluded searchers for two months has been captured, authorities said Thursday. The 1,500-pound bull, nicknamed Barney or Barnie, was corralled late Wednesday by staff from Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue, Suffolk County SPCA Chief Roy Gross said in a news release . Photos posted by the animal sanctuary on Facebook showed the bull on a bed of hay inside a trailer. "Look who we found cruising around Long Island," the organization said. "He is one handsome kid." Suffolk County police used drones and helicopters to help capture the bull, who will live out his days at the Skylands sanctuary in Wantage, New Jersey, Gross said. Rescuers had been searching for the animal ever since he broke through the fence at a Moriches farm on July 20, but he remained on the lam as residents of the area posted sightings on social media. "We would like to thank everyone for their support and concern as well as rescue groups who also …

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WASHINGTON -- The Washington National Cathedral is removing two stained glass windows that depict two iconic Confederate generals. Cathedral authorities announced Wednesday that windows depicting generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson will be removed and stored pending a decision about their future. A cathedral statement says the images are "inconsistent" with its mission and "a barrier to our important work on racial justice and racial reconciliation." CBS affiliate WUSA in Washington, D.C., posted the statement in its entirety. "After considerable prayer and deliberation, the Cathedral Chapter voted Tuesday to immediately remove the windows," Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde wrote. "The Chapter believes that these windows are not only inconsistent with our current mission to serve as a house of prayer for all people, but also a barrier to our important work on racial justice and racial reconciliation. Their association with racial oppression, human subjugation and …

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Faced with an angry backlash for defending white supremacists' right to march in Charlottesville , the American Civil Liberties Union is confronting a feeling among some of its members that was once considered heresy: Maybe some speech isn't worth defending. Cracks in the ACLU's strict defense of the First Amendment no matter how offensive the speech opened from the moment a counter-protester was killed during the rally in Virginia. Some critics said the ACLU has blood on its hands for persuading a judge to let the Aug. 12 march go forward. An ACLU leader in Virginia resigned, tweeting, "What's legal and what's right are sometimes different." "This was a real tragedy and we're all reeling," said Lee Rowland, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU's headquarters in New York City. "Charlottesville should be a wake-up call to all of us." The backlash, reminiscent of one that followed the ACLU's 1978 defense of a neo-Nazi group that wanted to march through Skokie, Illinois, a …

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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- First he noticed waitresses and kitchen staff starting to leave hurriedly through the front door. Then a man dressed like another restaurant employee, in an apron and backward ball cap, strolled into the dining room and made an announcement. "He said, 'There's a new boss in town,'" recalled Peter Siegert IV, whose family from Galesville, Maryland, was about to tuck into their fried chicken lunch at Virginia's in downtown Charleston. "I don't think anybody realized he had a gun until after he locked the door." The gunman kept his revolver by his side, never pointing it at patrons in the crowded restaurant as he ordered them to get on the floor and crawl toward the back. Then he ordered them to "get out," Siegert said. Amy Sloan was with her family inside the restaurant eating lunch at the time of the incident . She told CBS affiliate WCSC-TV that she could see the man holding a gun "He then turned around, then he told us to get on the ground," Sloan …

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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- -A fired dishwasher shot and killed a chef and held a person hostage for about three hours before he was shot by police at a crowded restaurant in a tourist-heavy area of downtown Charleston on Thursday, authorities and one of the restaurant's owners said. Charleston County Coroner's Office identified the victim as Anthony Shane Whiddon, 37, of Goose Creek, S.C. Whiddon was the executive chef at Virginia's on King Restaurant. The gunman is in critical condition, Charleston mayor John Tecklenburg said Thursday. "Several" hostages who were being held inside the restaurant, Virginia's, are now safe, he said. Officers who responded around 12:17 p.m. found one person suffering from a gunshot wound, and extricated the person from the building. That person, an employee, later died, Tecklenburg said. "This is not an act of terrorism. This is not a hate crime. It is a disgruntled employee," Tecklenburg said. Witnesses told CBS affiliate WCSC they were eating …

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Workers in Charlottesville draped giant black covers over two statues of Confederate generals on Wednesday to symbolize the city's mourning for a woman killed while protesting a white nationalist rally. The work began around 1 p.m. in Emancipation Park, where a towering monument of Gen. Robert E. Lee on horseback stands. Workers gathered around the monument with a large black drape. Some stood in cherry-pickers and others used ropes and poles to cover the statue as onlookers took photos and video. Some of the crowd cheered as the cover was put in place. "It's great. It's a good start," said Jamie Dyer, who spoke a short time later from nearby Justice Park, where workers covered a statue of Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. "They do have to go, but it is a start, and I'm glad the city has finally recognized it has to happen on some level." The city council voted to shroud the statues early Tuesday, at the end of a hourslong meeting packed with irate …

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The mayor of Charlottesville says an outbreak of anger at a city council meeting shows how deeply traumatized the community was by a violent white nationalist rally . Mayor Mike Signer told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the outbursts at the meeting a night earlier were the "beginning of the process of catharsis." The protests forced the council to abandon its agenda, and members instead took comments from the crowd. Hate Rising: White supremacy's rise in the U.S. Toward the end of the meeting, the council voted to cover two Confederate statues with black fabric to signal the city's mourning for Heather Heyer , who was killed when a car slammed into a crowd protesting the rally. Signer says city staff are sorting how to do that. He says it's "not a trivial undertaking" because the statues are large and the material needs to be able to withstand the elements. A police spokesperson said three Charlottesville residents -- ages 29, …

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There's not a window in the place and yet Miller's Bar in Dearborn, Michigan, has always had a pretty good view of history. The restaurant has been around for 81 years, said co-owner Dennis Miller. "Probably one of the longest-running restaurants here in Dearborn," Miller told CBS News' Lee Cowan. It's kept grilling its signature burgers through wars, inflation, deflation, housing market crashes — and through the coronavirus pandemic. But when the global shortage of semiconductors — a tiny piece of technology — forced the nearby Ford plant to trim production of its F-150 trucks, Dennis Miller knew his business would have to tap the brakes too. "How much of your business is tied to the auto industry, you think?" asked Cowan. "Oh, I would guess probably 60%. You know it's pretty big...I don't think anybody around here is running three shifts anymore," Miller replied. Like clockwork, his barstools would prop up the tired and the hungry line of workers just getting …

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A former Louisiana State Police trooper has been charged with a civil rights violation for pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight — the first criminal case to emerge from federal investigations into troopers' beatings of at least three Black men. A grand jury on Thursday indicted Jacob Brown for the 2019 beating following a traffic stop that left Aaron Larry Bowman with a broken jaw, broken ribs and a gash to his head. Brown was charged with one count of deprivation of rights under color of law, federal prosecutors said. Brown's indictment comes as the federal prosecutors on the case are scrutinizing other troopers who punched, stunned and dragged another Black motorist, Ronald Greene , before he died in their custody on a rural roadside. The probe of Greene's 2019 death has grown to examine whether police brass obstructed justice to protect the troopers who beat the Black motorist after a high-speed chase. Body camera video of both beatings, which took …

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SEX and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker broke her silence on the death of her friend and co-star Willie Garson with an emotional tribute, including his last words to her. The 56-year-old actress shared a gallery of sweet photos of the two of them together – talking, laughing, and simply enjoying each other’s company. Willie, who starred on Sex and the City and White Collar, died earlier this week at the age of 57 from pancreatic cancer, his obituary revealed. Alongside photos of her and her onscreen BFF, Sarah revealed that the last words he spoke to her were, “Great bangles all around." She added in the touching tribute: “It's been unbearable. Sometimes silence is a statement. Of the gravity. The anguish. The magnitude of the loss of a 30 + year friendship. “A real friendship that allowed for secrets, adventure, a shared professional family, truth, concerts, road trips, meals, late night phone calls, a mutual devotion to parenthood and all the heartaches and joy that …

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