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DENVER (AP) — Colorado made roughly $2 million in marijuana taxes in January, state revenue officials reported Monday in the world’s first accounting of the recreational pot business. The tax total reported by the state Department of Revenue indicates $14.02 million worth of recreational pot was sold from 59 businesses. The state collected roughly $2.01 […]
LYON, France (AP) — Interpol has released an image of two Iranians who were traveling with stolen passports on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner. The image showed the two Iranian men boarding a plane at the same time. Interpol secretary general Ronald K. Noble said Tuesday the two men traveled to Malaysia on their Iranian […]
Ebony Steele explains how some of your favorite fast food meals are cooked that may make you reconsider the next time you order. Listen to…
Just in time for Women’s History Month, three powerful female figures are teaming up to ban the word bossy, a negative label they say is…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A marathon spelling bee between two Kansas City-area students who exhausted the initial word list last month ended after 29 more rounds Saturday when the eventual runner-up stumbled over the word “stifling.” For more than an hour, seventh-grader Kush Sharma and fifth-grader Sophia Hoffman went toe-to-toe in the continuation of […]
George Zimmerman refuses to stay under the radar. On Saturday, March 8, 2014, Zimmerman did a special appearance at a gun show in Orlando, Florida. According to the New York Daily News, he greeted “fans” and signed autographs on a photo of him posing with his dog. See more related content here —–>>>> The New […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Rescue helicopters and ships searching for a Malaysia Airlines jet rushed Monday to investigate a yellow object that looked like a life raft. It turned out to be moss-covered trash floating in the ocean, once again dashing hopes after more than two days of fruitless search for the plane that […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — International intelligence agencies joined the investigation Sunday into the two passengers who boarded the missing Boeing 777 jetliner with stolen passports, as Malaysian authorities revealed that radar images showed the plane may have turned back before vanishing. More than a day and half after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing, […]
No person of minority status wants to believe that the police have it out for them. No matter what the rappers and the celebrities and…
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers approved legislation Thursday to crack down on those who secretly take photographs of “the sexual or other intimate parts” of women or children in public. Approval of the bill, which also would apply to male victims, came a day after the state’s highest court ruled that a man who took […]
The SXSW Interactive Festival has only gotten bigger and bigger with each year. This year’s SXSW, this weekend, includes more than 800 sessions on a variety of innovative…
A debate over an anti-abortion bill in Alabama quickly turned controversial, after one Democrat said white Republican lawmakers would force their kids to abort babies…
