As 5:00 p.m. rolls around my interior clock starts chiming. I'll have an ice-cold, bone-dry martini, thank you. Jalapeno olives and a twist. If the occasion calls for it (temperatures in the twenties, a hot political debate on the tube) ...Read More
ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director ...Read More
ROME (Nov. 20) - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday. Paolo Galluzzi, director of the ...Read More
Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday. Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History ...Read More
LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles County's top prosecutor says he will target marijuana dispensaries that violate state law, even if the City Council does not ban sales of the drug. District Attorney Steve Cooley said in a release Tuesday that he will ...Read More
Two Los Angeles City Council committees rejected the advice of the city attorney and voted Monday to approve an ordinance that allows marijuana dispensaries to continue to sell the drug to people with a doctor's recommendation.
The city attorney's office has ...Read More
CLEVELAND—The Cleveland Rape Crisis Center is launching a special hot line in hopes of hearing from those who survived encounters at the house where remains of 11 women were found.
Police say the women were lured to the home of registered ...Read More
CLEVELAND (AP) - The Cleveland Rape Crisis Center is launching a special hot line in hopes of hearing from those who survived encounters at the house where remains of 11 women were found.
Police say the women were lured to the ...Read More
CLEVELAND—FBI agents are digging through the backyard of a Cleveland home where the remains of 11 women have been found.
The agents used rakes and shovels Saturday in their search for evidence in the yard of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell. ...Read More
MADISON, Wis.—A not guilty plea has been entered for former Vikings first-round draft pick Erasmus James, who is charged with felony battery and misdemeanor disorderly conduct in a Madison bar fight. James was arrested last weekend after police says he lost ...Read More
As hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries have opened this year in a startling rollout across California, unnerved local officials have started to push back aggressively.
Many cities and a few counties have banned them. Others have imposed emergency moratoriums. And some ...Read More
In Mississippi, where Dr. David Allen worked as a heart surgeon, authorities seized his home and ranch this year after finding $800 worth of marijuana and $1,000 in hashish. A grand jury is to consider a cultivation charge that could ...Read More
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user.
The report says Diane Schuler's husband told ...Read More
In the beginning was Apple's iPhone. It was a phone -- but that wasn't the half of it. In one sleek little handheld package were a computer, a Web browser, a music player, a video player, and a thousand other ...Read More
PORTLAND, Maine—With Tuesday's election, Maine becomes the fifth state to allow dispensaries where marijuana can be distributed to medical patients. But medical marijuana advocates say Maine won't become like Los Angeles, where hundreds of dispensaries have popped up and come ...Read More
SANTA CRUZ — In a city famous for its tolerance of marijuana, leaders will consider allowing no more than the two existing medical dispensaries within city limits, despite the federal administration's increasing acceptance of the medicinal herb. The recommendation comes after ...Read More
Leaves are decaying in soggy piles in the city's parks, and the first cold snap has come and gone, awakening anxiety about the prospect of a chilly winter. But permanent sunshine can confidently be predicted for the vicinity of the ...Read More
PORTLAND, Maine - Call it a culture clash, trans-Atlantic style.
The Brits think the Americans are puritanical and somewhat batty. The Americans find the Brits morally lax and too willing to bend the rules.
It all started at a high school in ...Read More
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A calculated move to inspect a heavy chessboard paid off for customs officers at Philadelphia International Airport. Federal officials seized more than two pounds of hashish and more than half an ounce of marijuana hidden inside the wooden ...Read More
Apple said its net income rose 47 percent in the most recent quarter as more people bought Mac computers and gave in to the iPhone craze. The results sent Apple shares surging 7 percent in extended trading Monday to an ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -A new Obama administration policy loosening guidelines on federal prosecution of medical marijuana on Monday signaled to users that they had less to fear from federal agents but still left their suppliers to contend with a tangled mesh ...Read More
