America’s first major landscaped public park, the 840-acre park in Manhattan welcomes more than 37 million visitors every year Source

Plastic straws are losing popularity but cigarette butts are the real environmental problem Source

A brilliant Ivy League student is murdered after he went to a California park with a former high school classmate. Was he killed because he was gay and Jewish? “48 Hours” correspondent Tracy Smith investigates. Source

“I’m the only person alive that has ever walked out of his own grave” murder-for-hire target tells “48 Hours” Source

The stabbing death of a bright college student raises troubling questions concerning anti-Semitism and homophobia — issues that are at the heart of the nation’s current struggle to define itself Source

Close friends of the slain college sophomore share stories about the chef, writer and aspiring doctor who left their lives too soon. Source

Up to 200 million people could be affected from the central U.S. to the East Coast this weekend Source

After overhearing a conversation about a plot to kill his friend, Mundo and the target, former pro boxer Ramon Sosa, bring their evidence to investigators. Source

On July 23, 2015, detectives with the Montgomery County Texas Constable’s Office arrive at the Houston gym owned by Ramon Sosa and his wife, Lulu, to arrest Lulu on suspicion of plotting her husband’s death. Source

When Olga Kasian did not hear from her daughter Iana after several days, she began repeatedly calling 911. Concerned about Iana’s well-being and her recent C-section, Kasian desperately asks police — through the help of an Russian interpreter — to enter the home her daughter shared with boyfriend Blake Leibel. Source