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By Jen Christensen, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration is falling down on the job of policing online tobacco retailers, according to a highly critical new report from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General. The report criticizes the FDA for its lack of oversight, saying that children’s use
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CNN By Josh Campbell, CNN Andrew Do was afraid to play sports his last two years of high school. “I didn’t want to walk home alone after practices and be harassed, and beat up, and strangled,” he said in an interview with CNN. After law school, while out running for exercise, he said motorists would
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EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (AP) — A 76-year-old Minnesota man is facing criminal charges because he was shooting at a squirrel and a bullet went through a child’s bedroom window in a neighboring home. East Grand Forks police say they arrested the man Sunday after his neighbor reported some bullet holes in the siding of
Continue ReadingBy WJZ Staff Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Officers found the decomposing body of a pregnant woman at the Silver Spring home of a man suspected of shooting and killing a gas station store clerk Thursday, Montgomery County police said. Torrey Moore, 31, is charged with first-degree murder and possession
Continue Reading By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Pulled from a sunken trunk at an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina, work pants that auction officials describe as the oldest known pair of jeans in the world have sold for $114,000. The white, heavy-duty miner’s pants with a five-button fly were among
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PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have arrested a suspect a shooting at a drive-thru that left a fast-food worker dead and a second one wounded. Authorities said Friday that 29-year-old Christopher Candia was booked in a Maricopa County jail on several charges including murder. According to investigators, a fight occurred Thursday night between the suspect
Continue Reading FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former guest on Fox News is facing charges that she stole more than $200,000 from her mother and forced the woman into a nursing home against her will. Miami prosecutors say Cathy Areu falsified documents to take control of her mother’s home, stole from her savings and reverse mortgage
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — A Tennessee man who authorities say came to Washington ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot ready for violence in a car full of weapons and assaulted officers who were trying to defend the Capitol has been sentenced to more than five years behind bars. Ronald Sandlin, of Millington, Tennessee, pleaded guilty
Continue ReadingCNN By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Ted Barrett, CNN Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s surprise decision to become an independent has Democratic leaders struggling to answer a basic question: How should they deal with her if she runs for reelection in Arizona? In interviews with top party leaders and rank-and-file members on Monday, Democrats were sidestepping
Continue Reading By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — You could call choreographer Annie-B Parson a “downtown” choreographer. She’s known for her work on David Byrne’s “American Utopia” and as co-founder of Big Dance Theater, based in Brooklyn. Now, she’s trying her hand at the opera for the first time, with “The Hours” at
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Mackenzie Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Concerns are rising after several downtown Asheville businesses have been vandalized. Plywood and tape now cover a broken windowpane at Empire Tattoo and Piercing on Patton Avenue. Greg Phipps, manager of the shop, says a man kicked his foot through
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Three U.S. Post Offices in Riverside County will be open for the next two Sundays to accommodate the upswing in shipments and deliveries ahead of Christmas. “We’re beginning to see a surge in customers shipping their Christmas packages,” USPS spokeswoman Mayra Elena-Hernandez said. “We’re holiday ready. We want to ensure that are customers are, too.”
Continue ReadingBy KPIX Staff Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KPIX) — A federal grand jury has added murder counts to a list of previously filed racketeering charges against five inmate members of the California Aryan Brotherhood for four state prison yard slayings from 2011 to 2018. U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert said all
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By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s first retail recreational cannabis sales will begin as soon as Jan. 10. State regulators announced Friday that nine medical marijuana operators have successfully completed the steps needed to expand their businesses to include the new market for adults 21 and over. As many as 40
Continue ReadingBy Joyce Lupiani Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — The pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta is going viral again for an interesting idea on how to get Black men who smoke “weed” interested in his church. During an interview with “The Cool Soror Podcast w/Rashan Ali,”
Continue ReadingBy Andreas Copes Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled to remove the plywood structure covering the Christopher Columbus statue in South Philadelphia on Friday. The statue became a point of contention for residents in the wake of George Floyd’s murder as protests against systemic racism
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump were in court Friday for sealed arguments as part of the ongoing investigation into the presence of classified information at the former president’s Florida estate. The proceedings were taking place before U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the federal court
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Leary Click here for updates on this story DENVER, Colorado (KCNC) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife will release dozens of gray wolves in its first draft of the wolf reintroduction plan. Voters narrowly approved the reintroduction plan in 2020. CPW has spent the past two years looking at how to bring the predators
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin, for the second time this week, floated the possibility that Russia may formally change its military doctrine of not being the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict, days after he warned of the “increasing” threat of nuclear war. “They (the US) have it in their
Continue ReadingBy Marlee Ginter Click here for updates on this story COLFAX, California (KOVR) — Shock and heartbreak hit a Placer County community after the body of missing 16-year-old Dante de la Torre was found in a wooded area. The update from search crews spread fast and hit hard. “I’m just in shock right now. I’m
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