Have you been to a licensed cannabis dispensary lately?

My team and I often visit them in the Greater Lansing area to invite cannabis users to participate in our studies. As soon as we walk in, we are met with a dazzling array of products: high-potency vape cartridges, gourmet gummies, premium marijuana flowers and more.

This ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Town Hall video depicting what a lawsuit says was a pantless Mooresville Mayor Chris Carney with a woman is public record and must be released, a judge has ruled.

The overnight surveillance videos from October 10, 2024, are neither criminal investigative materials nor sensitive public security information, as the town ...Read more

Justin Fairfax, a former Virginia lieutenant governor, fatally shot his wife, Cerina, inside their Annandale home before dying by suicide amid a “messy” divorce, police said.

The deadly violence unfolded early Thursday morning at the Fairfaxes’ residence on the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis told ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to take his economic pitch on the road to western U.S. states, as the White House grapples with an increasingly unpopular war with Iran ahead of the November midterm elections.

The president’s trip this week to Nevada and Arizona, two swing states that Trump carried in 2024, reflects a growing ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It’s job done with Artemis II, as the mobile launcher 1 tower that has sat on Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B since the historic moon mission took flight was picked up for a ride back to the garage Thursday to get ready for next year’s Artemis III.

The crawler-transporter 2, which has been hauling NASA’s ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty alleged Thursday that an ICE agent working in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge illegally pointed his gun at two motorists while he was driving to the Whipple Building at the end of his shift in February.

A nationwide warrant has been issued for Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., 35, of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Manslaughter charges were officially dismissed Thursday against two former Torrance police officers charged in the 2018 shooting death of Christopher Deandre Mitchell, a car theft suspect who was holding an air rifle at the time he was killed.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced his intention to drop ...Read more

The Lenawee County man whose wife disappeared at sea while in the Bahamas over Easter weekend has returned to the U.S., according to media reports.

Brian Hooker, 59, of Onsted, was released by the Royal Bahamas Police Force on Monday. He was arrested last week in connection with the disappearance of 56-year-old Lynette Hooker, who went missing ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania will not share disability data with the federal government under a new executive order signed this week by Gov. Josh Shapiro.

Citing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort to use Medicaid and Medicare data to determine the cause of autism, Shapiro directed Pennsylvania not to ...Read more

At Family Planning Associates in Chicago, in the office where staff take phone calls from potential abortion patients, a U.S. map colored in with red and green dry-erase markers notes the latest status of abortion access in every state. The map can change at any time.

In the center of the map’s biggest sea of red is Illinois, outlined in ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, a move that offers to ease tensions more broadly in the region while the U.S. and Iran are in discussions to extend their own truce ahead of its expiration next week.

Trump announced the Israel-Lebanon truce in a social media post on Thursday, noting that it would...Read more

BOSTON — Mayor Michelle Wu has appointed Rodney Marshall, a 35-year veteran of the Boston Fire Department, as the city’s first Black fire commissioner.

Wu announced Thursday that she has appointed Marshall as the fire department’s 45th commissioner. He replaces Paul Burke, who retired this year, and will take over the leadership position ...Read more

DENVER — A local teacher arrested during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on the Auraria campus is suing Denver police and campus leaders for violating her civil rights, including freedom of speech and assembly, according to a complaint filed in federal court this week.

The lawsuit filed by Denver firm Newman McNulty in U.S. District Court on ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida’s effort to launch a new “ideology-free” college accrediting agency could get a major boost from the Trump administration — a shift with high stakes for students, universities and the industry that sets the standards for higher education.

Accreditation determines whether colleges meet basic standards of quality and, ...Read more

MIAMI — Cubans and Cuban Americans in South Florida overwhelmingly support U.S. military intervention in Cuba and reject negotiations between the Trump administration and the communist government that could result in anything other than regime change, according to a new poll conducted for the Miami Herald.

The survey asked 800 Cubans and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man armed with a rifle that bore phrases from the Batman villain "The Joker" is facing felony firearms charges after he was seen running in traffic near the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, sheriff's officials said.

Sean Steiner, 36, of Glendale, Arizona, was charged this month with possession of an assault ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to take his economic pitch on the road to western U.S. states, as the White House grapples with an increasingly unpopular war with Iran ahead of the November midterm elections.

The president’s trip this week to Nevada and Arizona, two swing states that Trump carried in 2024, reflects a growing ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Senate on Wednesday advanced a measure without opposition that would establish a regulatory framework for electric bicycles, motorcycles and scooters, responding to the growing popularity of the devices and the safety concerns they have raised.

The bill passed 54-0 and now moves to the House. It was initiated ...Read more

Pakistan stepped up efforts to ensure the U.S. and Iran prolong a ceasefire beyond its official expiry date next week, though several barriers remain in place including Israel’s ongoing war in Lebanon.

Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, traveled to Iran this week as part of the nation’s role as mediator between the warring sides, after ...Read more