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By STEVEN SENNE and BOB SALSBERG LEICESTER, Mass. (AP) — Customers waited in long lines, sometimes for hours, on a cold and rainy New England day to be among the first people to legally buy recreational marijuana on the East Coast. More than two years after Massachusetts voters approved of legalizing marijuana for adults, the […]

By Susan Svrluga The former president of Michigan State University has been charged with allegedly lying to police about the investigation into Larry Nassar, the former sports medicine doctor at the school who sexually abused girls and women under the guise of medical treatment. Lou Anna Simon faces two felony and two misdemeanor counts of […]

By Darryl Fears | Washington Post The federal government issued an ultimatum to an energy company that has failed to stop its damaged oil platform from leaking thousands of gallons into the Gulf of Mexico every day for more than 14 years. In an order issued by the U.S. Coast Guard, Taylor Energy Co. was […]

By Kristine Phillips The teenager lying in Brian Varela’s bed had snorted “a fat line” of crushed Percocet. She seemed “really out of it” while Varela was having sex with her, he later told police, tilting his head and rolling his eyes to the back of his head to show detectives what he meant by […]

By Danielle Paquette OXNARD, Calif. — Smoke stung his eyes and throat, but Santiago said his supervisor told workers to go faster because ash from the wildfires could wreck the produce. As public health officials urged people to stay inside, Santiago remained bent in the field. No one gave him a protective mask against the […]

The demonstrators who call themselves Gilets Jaunes — the Yellow Vests — staged a fourth day of disruption Tuesday on roads across France as they protested fuel tax hikes. A summary of the issue and the events: What are they protesting? Taxes have been raised on gasoline and diesel fuel, principally as an environmental measure […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. — A California woman who won $5.2 million in a lottery has pleaded guilty in federal court in South Dakota to scamming six people in the wake of her win. Judy Carroll, 59, of El Cajon, California, and her husband won the California lottery in 1989. Authorities say Carroll later scammed people, […]

By Meagan Flynn | The Washington Post “Clack clack clack clack” was how they described the sound of your worst nightmare. Just after midnight Friday, a group of six people was descending from the 95th floor of Chicago’s 875 N. Michigan Avenue building, the famous, 100-story skyscraper formerly known as the John Hancock Center, when […]

MIAMI (AP) — Two children of a 52-year-old Alabama woman who died on a cruise from Florida to Aruba say she was nervous about taking the trip. Timothy Tenorio told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday that his mother, Almarosa Tenorio, told him when she said goodbye that it might be the last time she […]

By AMANDA SEITZ and DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An argument outside a Chicago hospital turned deadly when a man pulled out a gun and killed an emergency room doctor whom he knew, then ran into the hospital and fatally shot a pharmacy resident and a police officer, authorities said. The attacker, Juan […]

Frank Rzucek leaned forward on a courtroom bench and sobbed as a prosecutor detailed the horrible ways his pregnant daughter and two young granddaughters were murdered by Christopher Watts, the husband and father whom the victims loved and trusted. The details were gruesome — how 4-year-old Bella bit her tongue while fighting back as her […]

CHICO, Calif. — It’s been 12 days since Christina Taft started the frantic search for her mother Victoria, who refused to evacuate their Paradise home as flames neared, and six days since she gave authorities a cheek swab to identify remains that are likely her mother’s. She still hasn’t received confirmation that her mother is […]