Ore. smokejumpers skydive into illegal pot garden A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing season. The six smokejumpers from a base in Redmond found the site Monday evening, when there was a rash of lightning strikes. More
FBI says tests link deadly ricin to Miss. suspect A dust mask and other items linked to a Mississippi martial arts instructor contained ricin, a deadly poison found in letters sent to President Obama, a U.S. senator and a state judge, according to an FBI document released Tuesday. More
Police confiscate 4-foot, 2-pound marijuana joint California police confiscated a mammoth joint during a 4/20 pot rally on Saturday, reports the Los Angeles Times. As the paper notes, hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students gather each year for the event, and each year campus police confiscate things like bongs and dime bags. More
Ricin-laced letters leading to a Miss. mystery Of three ricin-laced letters mailed this month to public officials, only one made it into the hands of an intended target, 80-year-old Mississippi judge Sadie Holland. Investigators are working to piece together what motivated someone to send the letters to her, President Barack Obama and U.S. More
On Marijuana Tax, Colorado Asks: What’s Too High? If marijuana is legalized and properly regulated, its proponents have long said, it could generate millions of dollars in state tax revenue. But how the drug should be taxed has proved to be a thorny question. More
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Medical marijuana company appeals ruling blocking weed sales at convenience stores A Florida medical-marijuana company hasn’t given up on an attempt to start selling weed alongside convenience stores, after an administrative law judge sided with state health regulators who ... 01/17/2025 - 7:34 am | View Link
Illinois approves 4 new conditions for women for medical marijuana Endometriosis, ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids and female orgasmic disorder were approved conditions to qualify for medical cannabis. 01/14/2025 - 4:41 am | View Link
Medical marijuana will be legal in KY in 2025, but don't try to light up. Here's why Medical marijuana will become legal in Kentucky next year ... Under Kentucky's new law, consuming the plant in its natural form through smoking and growing it at home could result in legal ... 12/29/2024 - 9:07 pm | View Link
MIAMI – You can’t spell Miami Heat without meh.
Which is exactly where Erik Spoelstra’s team stands at the midpoint of the 82-game regular-season schedule, at 21-20.
And you can’t find the 2024-25 Miami Heat without looking all the way down to – once again – the play-in portion of the Eastern Conference standings.
So, no, everything is not fine at midseason.
Because as much as anything, you can’t have a read on where this is headed over the second half of the schedule until you find out where Jimmy Butler is headed.
Yes, there was intrigue in Sunday’s victory over the San Antonio Spurs with Spoelstra relenting and playing Bam Adebayo and Kel’el Ware together for an extended stretch for the first time.
But that also came in a game Butler scored eight points.
Against the Spurs, you can win with eight-point Jimmy Butler.
Against the top of the East, you cannot.
But that’s also the rub, because by body language and “no comment,” it remains clear that Butler wants out.
By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press
CONCORD, N. H. (AP) — Cecile Richards, a national leader for abortion access and women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67.
Richards died Monday at home “surrounded by family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie,” her family said in a statement.
“Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives,” the family said.
FILE – Cecile Richards, former President of Planned Parenthood and daughter of the late Texas Gov.
By ZEKE MILLER, COLLEEN LONG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Minutes before leaving the presidency, Joe Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying Monday that his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.”
“Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” he said as his presidential term was ending.
The family pardons were the surprise finale in a series of unprecedented presidential actions by the Democrat, who has been known as an intuitionalist during his half-century in politics. Biden also pardoned Dr.
By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn’t eligible for parole again until 2026.
By JEFF MARTIN, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — A massive 70-member choir belted out “Hallelujah” to open a Martin Luther King Jr. Day service Monday at his former congregation in Atlanta, followed by a stern message from his youngest daughter warning against anti-woke rhetoric.
The service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was among the most prominent commemorations of King planned across the country Monday.
By GEOFF MULVIHILL, AYANNA ALEXANDER and KIMBERLEE KRUESI, Associated Press
President Donald Trump will sign executive orders Monday rolling back protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government in what he described in his inauguration speech as a move to end efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.”
Both are major shifts for the federal policy and are in line with Trump’s campaign promises.
One order would declare that the federal government would recognize only two immutable sexes: male and female.
The definition will be based on whether people are born with eggs or sperm, rather than on their chromosomes.