Tennessee State

Ohio State

A marijuana dispensary. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.) Ohio legal weed sales topped $11.5 million in less than a week. The state’s total recreational marijuana sales was $11,530,708 as of Aug. 10, according to the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Cannabis Control. Recreational sales started Aug. 6 — eight months after 57% of Ohioans voted to legalize recreational marijuana. The average of price of an ounce of flower was $266 last week, according to the division.

Ohio recreational marijuana sales surpass $11.5 million during first week

Denver, CO

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David Heitz

In addition to collecting more than 8,000 used needles in the past year from Denver drug users, the Harm Reduction Action Center passed out 10,000 meth pipes and “snort kits,” according to a newsletter sent to its supporters Thursday. They also connected about 1,700 people to medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Denver group hands out 10K meth pipes, ‘snort kits,’ connects 1,700 to treatment annually

Los Angeles County, CA

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Herbie J Pilato

[Note: Unless otherwise indicated, the commentary and quotes in this article are from the author's interview with those mentioned.]. Elizabeth Montgomery was one of the most popular actors from the 1950s to her unfortunate passing from cancer in 1995. Before, during, and after her benchmark Emmy-nominated role as twitch-witch Samantha Stephens on TV's Bewitched (ABC, 1964-1972), Montgomery made over 200 additional appearances in other weekly shows, TV-movies, and feature films.

'Bewitched' Star Elizabeth Montgomery Received Death Threats for Protesting the Vietnam War

Booneville, MS

Mississippi News Group

Written with artificial intelligence assistance. According to the Prentiss County Sheriff’s Department, a Booneville man has been charged with multiple counts of molestation following an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of a child.

Man Charged with Child Molestation; Woman Accused of Contributing to Delinquency

Colorado State

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

WyoFile

The woman who shot a video of a hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday morning told WyoFile she and her family were terrified as the blast sent boiling water and rocks skyward, destroying parts of a boardwalk, its guardrail and a nearby bench.

Yellowstone hydrothermal explosion: ‘We were terrified’

Jersey City, NJ

Essex County, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Efrin Wade, a former correctional officer at Essex County Correctional Facility (ECCF), has admitted to accepting $14,000 in bribes to smuggle contraband, including tobacco and a cell phone, into the facility for inmates. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.

Correctional Officer Guilty of Smuggling Contraband: $14K in Bribes Accepted

(Stock photo by Vladimir Vladimirov/Getty Images) A federal judge ordered Hanover County Public Schools late Friday to temporarily cease blocking a transgender middle school student from trying out for and, if selected, playing on a sports team this school year. In February, the student, represented by the American Civil Liberties...

Federal court allows transgender student to try out for Virginia school sports team

Oregon State

Idaho State

Hammett, ID

Alejandra Hernandez prepares to deliver a bag of donated clothes to agricultural workers in Hammett, Idaho. The clothes are intended to help the farmworkers deal with the record-breaking high temperatures in Idaho this summer. Hernandez is one of the founders of Latinx Farmworkers of Southern Idaho, part of the Idaho Immigrant Resource Alliance, which raises money to buy cooling and hydrating items for farmworkers. (Kyle Green/InvestigateWest)

A tale of two workers: Heat deaths on the job provoke differing responses in Oregon, Idaho

The Denver City Council accepted Monday two grants totaling $24.5 million from the state of Colorado to pay for the homeless navigation campus it opened last year. One council member wants answers as to why wraparound services at the campus aren't up and running.

Denver homeless hotel wins $24.5 million grant, experiences wraparound services delay

Virginia State

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Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. On July 28, 2024, a TikTok video posted by Erica W., known as @tasteofmelanin on the platform, garnered significant attention after she exposed disturbing racist decorations in an Airbnb rental. The incident occurred in a rental property that Erica had booked, although the exact location remains unspecified. The video has since gone viral, prompting widespread concern and leading to the removal of the listing from Airbnb's platform.

Airbnb Listing Taken Down After Black Woman Finds Hanging Monkeys and Cotton Used As Decor

Salem, OH

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

South Carolina State

Colleton County, SC

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

Arkansas State

Arkansas Department of Education Chief of Staff Courtney Salas-Ford (left) and Chief Fiscal Officer Greg Rogers explain to the Arkansas Legislative Council's Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review subcommittee why the department requested $7 million to provide lockers and pouches for students' cell phones in roughly 180 school districts statewide. (Screenshot/Arkansas Legislature)

Panel OKs $7 million for Arkansas school districts to lock up students’ phones during class time

Mississippi State

A federal judge will decide in the coming months whether Black Mississippians have a fair chance to elect candidates to the Mississippi Supreme Court and whether the Legislature should redraw districts give those Black voters more power. Attorneys representing citizens and politicians from the Jackson Metro Area and the Delta...

Trial ends in federal lawsuit that seeks more Black justices on Mississippi Supreme Court

Utah State

Media witnesses look at the lethal injection table in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility after the Taberon Honie execution Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Salt Lake City. (Pool photo by Rick Bowmer/AP) There are still unanswered questions in the wake of the execution of Taberon Honie...

How a law passed earlier this year made executions in Utah a more secretive process

Florida State

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said he will consider more DUI patrols if voters legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida. Voters will consider Amendment 3 in November. It would allow adults 21 or older to possess, purchase or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical purposes.

More DUI patrols possible if marijuana issue passes

McLean High School walkout in protest of Gov. Glenn Youngkin policies, Sept. 27, 2022. (Courtesy of Z2B Photography) Walkouts over mask mandates, overhauled transgender policies and gun violence have disrupted some high schools in Virginia in recent years. Now with public schools underway in a new year, educators are bracing...

Virginia’s public schools prepare for more political unrest in the new school year

It's been two decades since beloved actor Brian Kelly died of pneumonia at 73 in 2005. Best known as Porter Ricks in the classic TV family show Flipper(NBC, 1964-1967), Kelly had once suffered a paralyzing motorcycle accident that ended his acting career. However, he rechanneld his creative talent and became a producer. This is his story.

The Paralyzing Accident & Tragic Death of TV's 'Flipper' Father Brian Kelly: Two Decades Later

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Tennessee law to let teachers carry guns in schools caused a ruckus, but has drawn little interest

No Tennessee school district has expressed interest in training teachers to carry guns at school, following passage of a law permitting them to do so. (Photo:...

Tennessee law to let teachers carry guns in schools caused a ruckus, but has drawn little interest

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