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DALLAS (AP) — Former NFL wide receiver Sam Hurd, whose young career was brought to a halt by accusations that he tried to buy cocaine and marijuana last season, is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday on new charges. Arrested last December, Hurd is due in Dallas federal court Wednesday afternoon to plead on a […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council reversed course Tuesday and repealed a ban on pot shops that it passed just two months ago to shutter hundreds of medical marijuana storefronts. Council members voted 11-2 to negate its July decision to rid the nation's second-largest city of pot dispensaries. The repeal came after […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates fell in August in nearly 90 percent of large U.S. metro areas, mainly because more people gave up looking for work. The Labor Department said Wednesday that unemployment rates dropped in 329 large cities, the most in four months. Rates rose in 24 cities and were unchanged in 19. The […]
CHICAGO (AP) — In Chicago, a bustling urban metropolis where skyscrapers are as likely to sprout up as anything a farmer might plant, someone decided there was just enough room to grow something a little more organic: Marijuana. The plants grew even taller than the tallest Chicago Bulls. However, just days before the crop on […]
Audie’s dead. Audie Mickens, that is. Name doesn’t ring a bell? Mickens gained his 15 minutes of fame four years ago, when the Home Box Office documentary “Hard Times at Douglass High” was released. Actually, it was more like 15 seconds of infamy. At the time the documentary was made, Douglass, yes, […]
No doubt LeBron James has endorsed many a product, but we can assume without question, heroin is not one of them; and the Philadelphia drug dealer selling packets of the stuff labeled “LEBRON JAMES” recently got the memo. The Philadelphia Daily news reports the Upper Darby police busted a major heroin dealer from Philadelphia on […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Police investigating two gangs called the Very Crispy Gangsters and the Rockstarz didn't need to spend all their time pounding the pavement for leads. Instead, they fired up their computers and followed the trash talk on Facebook. "Rockstarz up 3-0," one suspect boasted — a reference to the body count from […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Of the four openly gay members of Congress, the two longest-serving stalwarts are vacating their seats. Instead of fretting, their activist admirers are excited about a record number of gays vying to win seats in the next Congress — and to make history in the process. When the oaths of office […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania voters won't have to show photo identification to cast ballots on Election Day, a judge said Tuesday in a ruling on the state's controversial voter ID law that could help President Barack Obama in a presidential battleground state. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson delayed Pennsylvania's voter ID requirement from taking […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives on Tuesday used a speech President Barack Obama delivered as a candidate in 2007 to accuse him of using racially charged rhetoric. "There's no way you can listen to this speech and not hear it as a deliberately divisive speech that pits Americans against each other and does so largely with […]
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Dave Bing suspended the city's top law enforcement officer Tuesday amid allegations that the married police chief of police had a sexual relationship with a subordinate. Chief Ralph Godbee and Angelica Robinson, an internal affairs officer, had been in a relationship that she eventually tried to end, said her attorney, […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday blocked Pennsylvania's divisive voter identification requirement from going into effect on Election Day, delivering a hard-fought victory to Democrats who said it was a ploy to defeat President Barack Obama and other opponents who said it would prevent the elderly and minorities from voting. The decision by […]
