Jim Axelrod

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Pat Milton |Jim Axelrod |Michael Kaplan

Detective digs up graves to solve cold cases Kristina Morris never knew what happened to her father. He disappeared in 1995 when her mother was five months pregnant with her. All she had was faded photographs, family stories and endless questions. She yearned for answers to her father's mysterious disappearance. As a child, she even fantasized that her father worked undercover for the FBI and couldn't disclose his whereabouts.

3 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Jim Axelrod

Sneak peek: My Mother's Murder Trials Dana Chandler has spent decades maintaining her innocence against allegations she was responsible for the 2002 murders of her ex-husband, Mike Sisco, and his girlfriend, Karen Harkness. In 2025, Chandler took on her own defense, representing herself in the third trial the state brought against her for the murders. DANA CHANDLER (in court, closing): My liberty, my freedom is hanging in the balance.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Jim Axelrod

When Kristine Wojnovich and her husband bought their home 20 years ago in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, it was everything they wanted — until one day in 2023, when she turned on her kitchen faucet. "It tasted weird and smelled like oil," Wojnovich said. "It was very disconcerting."Wojnovich called Sunoco Pipeline, operator of the Twin Oaks pipeline that runs just across their street. It carries jet fuel underground from a fuel terminal outside Philadelphia to Newark Terminal near the airport.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Jim Axelrod

Horse trainer behind Kentucky Derby favorite Now may be a tough time for journalism — unless you're a horse, Journalism is your name and you're favored to win the Kentucky Derby. And Michael McCarthy, Journalism's trainer, has been in the game long enough to know horses like this don't come along very often. He says Journalism is his best shot so far at winning a derby on his own. "Anybody who's in the horse business, this is kind of where they want to be," McCarthy said.

Mar 12, 2025 | cbsnews.com | Jim Axelrod

Military bases revert to old names, with a twist Fayetteville, North Carolina — For the second time in less than two years, the largest U.S. military base has a new name — but the new name is also its old name. For more than a century, North Carolina's Fort Bragg honored Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. In 2023, it was changed to Fort Liberty by a congressionally mandated commission to rename nine bases that honored Confederate generals.