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New York to probe sputtering legal marijuana program as storefronts lag, black market booms
Read full article: New York to probe sputtering legal marijuana program as storefronts lag, black market boomsNew York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing program as lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles have severely hampered the legal market and black-market sellers have flourished.
Maine family gives up on proposal to honor veterans with the world's tallest flagpole
Read full article: Maine family gives up on proposal to honor veterans with the world's tallest flagpoleA family with an audacious plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole as a centerpiece for a billion-dollar project honoring veterans is abandoning the idea.
New York man convicted of murdering woman who wound up in his backcountry driveway after wrong turn
Read full article: New York man convicted of murdering woman who wound up in his backcountry driveway after wrong turnA man has been convicted of second-degree murder for fatally shooting a young woman after the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his rural driveway in upstate New York.
New York's cannabis board votes to settle lawsuits that have stalled legal dispensaries
Read full article: New York's cannabis board votes to settle lawsuits that have stalled legal dispensariesNew York cannabis regulators have approved a deal to settle lawsuits that have blocked recreational marijuana shops from opening.
Suspect in killing of judge who presided over divorce case found dead in rural Maryland
Read full article: Suspect in killing of judge who presided over divorce case found dead in rural MarylandAuthorities say a man suspected of killing a Maryland judge last week has been found dead in a heavily wooded area about a mile from where authorities had earlier spotted the his abandoned SUV.
US regulators might change how they classify marijuana. Here's what that would mean
Read full article: US regulators might change how they classify marijuana. Here's what that would meanWhen it emerged this week that U.S. health regulators are suggesting that the federal government loosen restrictions on marijuana, the news lit up the world of weed.
Marijuana recommendation by US health agency hailed as first step to easing weed restrictions
Read full article: Marijuana recommendation by US health agency hailed as first step to easing weed restrictionsThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has delivered a recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration on marijuana policy, and Senate leaders are hailing it as a first step toward easing federal restrictions on the drug.
Neighbor: Man in wrong-turn shooting disliked trespassers
Read full article: Neighbor: Man in wrong-turn shooting disliked trespassersWhen Kaylin Gillis and her friends took a wrong turn into an upstate New York driveway last weekend, they wound up on the property of a man bitter about people driving onto his land by mistake.
Pipeline section in Kansas with oil spill is back in service
Read full article: Pipeline section in Kansas with oil spill is back in serviceA pipeline operator has put a damaged section in Kansas back into service, a little more than three weeks after a spill dumped 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a creek.
Company: Regulators OK reopening of Kansas pipeline segment
Read full article: Company: Regulators OK reopening of Kansas pipeline segmentThe operator of a pipeline that spilled about 14,000 barrels of heavy crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek says it has permission from U.S. government regulators to reopen the repaired segment where the rupture occurred.
Company reopens most of pipeline following Kansas oil spill
Read full article: Company reopens most of pipeline following Kansas oil spillThe operator of a pipeline with a large onshore crude oil spill has reopened all of it except for the stretch in Kansas and northern Oklahoma that includes the site of the rupture.
Lawsuit says woman gave birth alone on Maryland jail floor
Read full article: Lawsuit says woman gave birth alone on Maryland jail floorA woman who said she was left to give birth to her baby alone on the dirty floor of her jail cell in Maryland last year is suing, alleging that jail nurses ignored her screams and pleas for help for six hours.
Beyond Meat executive charged with biting man in fight
Read full article: Beyond Meat executive charged with biting man in fightA top executive at plant-based food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery after a fight outside a college football game in which he was accused of biting a man’s nose.
Duggar trial focusing on computer where child porn was found
Read full article: Duggar trial focusing on computer where child porn was foundComputer forensics experts have testified that a computer used by Josh Duggar at work contained child pornography behind a partition that allowed the user to circumvent an application that monitors internet use.
Past molestation evidence allowed in Duggar child porn trial
Read full article: Past molestation evidence allowed in Duggar child porn trialA federal judge says that jurors in Josh Duggar's child pornography trial can hear evidence that the former reality TV star molested four girls nearly 20 years ago.
Judge refuses to suppress video evidence in Josh Duggar case
Read full article: Judge refuses to suppress video evidence in Josh Duggar caseA federal judge has denied motions to suppress video evidence found on electronic devices seized from former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who is facing child pornography charges.
Josh Duggar released as he awaits trial on child pornography
Read full article: Josh Duggar released as he awaits trial on child pornographyFormer reality TV star Josh Duggar has been released from an Arkansas jail as he awaits trial on federal charges that he possessed and downloaded child pornography.
Ex-VA doctor who misdiagnosed patient sentenced to prison
Read full article: Ex-VA doctor who misdiagnosed patient sentenced to prisonFILE - In this Aug. 17, 2019 file photo provided by the Washington County, Arkansas Sheriff's Department, Robert Levy is pictured in a booking photo. Levy, a former pathologist at an Arkansas veterans hospital has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, after pleading guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient he'd misdiagnosed. – A former pathologist at an Arkansas veterans hospital has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient he misdiagnosed. Robert Morris Levy, 54, of Fayetteville was sentenced Friday in federal court. Prosecutors said Levy diagnosed a patient with lymphoma when the patient actually had a small-cell carcinoma.
Missing 7-year-old Florida girls found safe
Read full article: Missing 7-year-old Florida girls found safeUPDATE: Authorities say the missing girls have been found safe. WASHINGTON COUNTY, Fla. – A missing child alert has been canceled for two 7-year-old girls who had been reported missing. Brylee and Braylen Pate both have brown hair and hazel eyes. They are 4 feet tall and weigh 50 pounds. Cotromano has brown hair and hazel eyes and is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 135 pounds.