Emergency response teams from the U.S. Coast Guard along with state and local officials are responding to a tug and barge accident on the Ohio River n.
welcome back to first look. here s some of the top stories making news this morning. the justice department says arizona sheriff joe arpaio and his deputies violated civil rights laws by engaging in racial profiling of latinos and making unlawful arrests in their bid to crack down on illegal immigrants. arpaio called the move politically motivated. authorities say chicago bears wide receiver sam hurd has been arrested with a kilogram of cocaine in a drug sting operation. federal prosecutors say hurd wanted to buy five to ten kilos of coke and 1,000 pounds of marijuana to distribute in chicago. in india, 162 people are dead and dozens more have been sickened by bootleg liquor containing toxic methanol. 12 suspected bootleggers have been arrested. controversial reporter and author christopher hitchens has died of pneumonia as a