It may look like marijuana, but industrial hemp with CBD is now legal to grow across the country. Unlike its cousin with THC, hemp won’t get you high. Instead, many use CBD for pain management, anxiety, insomnia and more. For the first time, Clarence Laub III can grow CBD hemp after several years of growing Read More…
A Laramie native who was serving consecutive prison terms for taking indecent liberties with a child and drug possession has died, the Wyoming Department of Corrections announced Tuesday. Department spokesman Mark Horan said Lorenzo S. Montez, 53, died of a long-term illness Tuesday at the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution in Torrington. An autopsy has been Read More…
A 15-year-old Montana girl who escaped from a mental health hospital has died after being struck by a pickup truck on a nearby interstate highway, police say. Kayla Neal, of Missoula, was walking on the southbound lanes of I-15 around 2 p.m. Monday in Helena when she was hit by a 56-year-old woman driving a Dodge truck, police there told KURL-TV. Minutes before, she had run Read More…
MISSOULA – The University of Montana is quietly hitting a very high mark in the on-going effort to retain newly-trained physicians to work in Montana, with a strong majority of graduates deciding to stay and serve patients across the state. Just five years ago, there was a growing concern of finding enough physicians to meet Read More…
Artists withdraw from NYC museum show over tear gas link Seven artists have asked New York’s Whitney Museum to remove their work from its biennial showcase of American art over a museum board member’s ties to the sale of law-enforcement supplies including… Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Trump, Says His Immigration Policy Is ‘About Ethnicity And Racism’ Read More…
British Airways on Friday suspended for one week all scheduled flights to Cairo. The airway said the cancellations are due to a security precaution, but did not elaborate on the concerns. According to The Guardian, the announcement came as a surprise, told to passengers about to board a British Airways flight. In a statement, the Read More…
× Stepson of slain KKK leader sentenced to 59 years for his roll in the murder FARMINGTON, Mo. — The stepson of a slain Missouri Ku Klux Klan leader has been sentenced to a total 59 years in prison for his role in the murder. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Paul Jinkerson Jr. was sentenced Friday. A Read More…
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Hidden in the depths of rural Queensland is a fossil deposit so amazing that Sir David Attenborough regards it as one of the most important palaeontological sites in the world. Near the Gregory River in north-west Queensland, Boodjamulla National Park, more commonly known as Lawn Hill, has been World Heritage listed for a quarter of Read More…
A Minnesota family received a big scare on Thursday when they realized their two-and-a-half-year-old son was nowhere to be found, only to find out the young explorer left home on his toy tractor, ending up at a local fair two blocks away. The fearless youngster, Kenneth Allen, traveled at a blistering one mile per hour on his toy John Read More…
One person has been seriously injured after the car they were driving crashed into a building while fleeing police in Auckland this morning. The incident occurred after a driver crashed into a building in Onehunga Mall, Onehunga, at around 8.31am, police told 1 NEWS. “Police stopped following the fleeing driver prior to the crash due Read More…
WASHINGTON — A juvenile female was shot Saturday morning in Laurel, Md. At 12:35 a.m. Saturday, Laurel police officers responded to the area of Rosemore Lane and Cavan Court for the report of a shooting, police said. When they got there, police found one victim — a juvenile female suffering from one gunshot wound. The Read More…
Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Cody Fajardo throws the ball during CFL pre-season football action against the Calgary Stampeders in Calgary on Friday, May 31, 2019. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press) Cody Fajardo took over the reins of the quarterback role for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the first game of the season. Fajardo spent four seasons at the Read More…
A Paris court has rejected a compensation claim related to the 1994 sinking of an Estonian ferry which killed 852 people. The case was brought by the more than 1,000 survivors and relatives of the victims of the disaster which remains one of the worst in European maritime history. The MS Estonia car ferry connecting Read More…
British Airways (BA) and Lufthansa have abruptly suspended flights to Cairo over security concerns, without giving further details. BA began its seven-day suspension of its flights to Cairo on Saturday, in a move intended as a precaution to “allow for further assessment.” German airline Lufthansa also canceled flights to Cairo from Munich and Frankfurt on Saturday, but Read More…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday that there are “no indications” that Iran is willing to change its “malign behavior” as the Iranian regime continues to act aggressively on the world stage. “In the end, the Iranians, the regime, has to make a decision that it wants to behave like a normal nation,” Pompeo told Read More…
A 1989 Fargo Shanley High School graduate, Helling was set to play football at UND. But his sport switched after Helling and teammate Tim Sandy led Fargo Post 2 to a run to baseball’s American Legion World Series. Helling, whose baseball background includes stints at Lakota High School and the Devils Lake American Legion program, Read More…
A tiny shark discovered in the Gulf of Mexico with mysterious pouches near its front fins has turned out to be a new species, scientists say. The fittingly named American pocket shark, or Mollisquama mississippiensis, uses the pouches to squirt little glowing clouds into the ocean. It’s only the third shark species out of more than 500 that may Read More…
For him, that won’t be a stretch. Bradbury, taken with the No. 18 pick in April’s draft out of North Carolina State, was in for 679 snaps last season as a college senior. He sat out only 13 offensive plays, all in the fourth quarter of a rout over Louisville. And that was nothing compared Read More…
Two Michigan sisters with “polar opposite” personalities have charmed the internet with photos showing how different their styles truly are. On Thursday, Alexandria Bishop used Twitter to post a peek into the vastly different personal tastes of her and her sister, Jessica Toutant, Metro reports. “My sister and I are polar opposites,” a raven-haired Bishop captioned a selfie Read More…
He changed his mind set after a conversation with his caddie at a local pub, and now is 18 holes away from claiming not only his first major title, but the first Open Championship held at Northern Ireland’s Royal Portrush in 68 years. Lowry tied the second-lowest score in major championship history with his 8-under-par Read More…
British Airways is suspending flights to the Egyptian capital of Cairo for a week beginning Saturday over unspecified security concerns, the airline said. “We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment,” BA said in a Read More…
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – A U.S. Navy airman has been sentenced to 25 years confinement, with 15 years suspended, for attempting to kill his wife in a murder-for-hire plot. Uriel Gerardo-Olivas was sentenced Friday following a court-martial at Naval Station Norfolk. Media reports say he also will receive a dishonorable discharge. In return for pleading Read More…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents had to use tear gas and pepper spray early Saturday to stop nearly 50 “undocumented individuals” from illegally entering the U.S. after they stormed a port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, officials said. The incident at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge took place at around 4 a.m. Read More…
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) – The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says an inmate at the minimum-security Jackie Brannon Correctional Center in McAlester has escaped. A DOC news release says 39-year-old Christopher Jacobs was discovered missing around 10 a.m. Saturday. The department says other inmates told investigators Jacobs walked away from the unfenced prison and got into Read More…
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) – A Fort Wayne woman has been sentenced to six years in prison on neglect charges stemming from her 2-year-old son’s beating death. Twenty-seven-year-old Amber V. Garrett was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in June to two felony neglect counts involving her son and daughter. The Journal Gazette reports that Garrett Read More…
ENUMCLAW, Wash. (AP) – The FBI and Enumclaw police have searched the farmhouse of a former King County official who is the target of a corruption investigation. KING-TV reports that the agents searched Allan “Benny” Thomas’ property on Friday but did not make any arrests. Thomas was the longtime commissioner of King County Drainage District Read More…
ATLANTA (AP) – Jurors were unable to agree on a verdict in the trial of a 25-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a Georgia college student during a 2015 fight in the school’s student union. News outlets report that prosecutors say they will retry Justin Stephens in the death of Christopher Starks, who was Read More…
Puerto Rico is bracing for a massive protest Monday calling for Gov. Ricardo Rosselló’s resignation. Vulgar and misogynistic text messages from him spurred thousands of Puerto Ricans to demonstrate in the capital San Juan on Friday and Saturday, the Associated Press reported. There were smaller gatherings across the rest of the island, with the movement Read More…
Italy’s largest live volcano Mount Etna erupted overnight on Friday spewing out lava and filling the skies over Sicily with volcanic ash. Two airports in the island’s second-largest city of Catania were forced to close before eventually reopening on Saturday. The Europe’s tallest and most active volcano often erupts but rarely causes damage, while the Read More…
3:53 PM ET ESPN News Services PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — The cheers grew louder and Shane Lowry kept getting better Saturday in the Open Championship. The Irishman made two straight birdies around the turn at Royal Portrush to break out of a four-way tie, and Lowry later made three straight birdies to walk off the Read More…
Police have resorted to firing rubber bullets to disperse alleged land invaders in Lenasia, South of Johannesburg, while other residents marched on Saturday calling for an end to land grabs in the area. EWN reported on Saturday that tensions escalated in Lenasia where Gauteng Human Settlements MEC Lebogang Maile was on the ground. It was reported that Read More…
ALOHA, Ore. — A 47-year-old Hillsboro man who was riding a TriMet bus early Saturday morning was arrested after deputies say he attacked another passenger with a tire iron. The alleged assault occurred on the bus just before 1:30 a.m. in the 18900 block of Southwest Tualatin Valley Highway. The suspect, Michael Henry Jr., fled on Read More…
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office says six corrections officer have resigned after an internal investigation into accusations of inappropriate conduct. The Commercial Appeal reports that the identities of the deputies were not provided. A social media post from the sheriff’s office said the investigations focused on inappropriate relationships with inmates at Read More…
“Modern Family” star Sarah Hyland, who recently announced her engagement to former “Bachelorette” contestant Wells Adams, has no time for trolls — especially those who criticize her new sparkler. The actress took to Instagram on Friday to show off her engagement ring. “Blinded by the [sun] or [ring]?” she captioned the post. SARAH HYLAND AND Read More…
Prince William and Kate Middleton are said to be officially on their summer holiday and will reportedly celebrate in style with the kids – on the exclusive Caribbean island of Mustique. The Cambridge crew is rumored to soon visit the luxury destination for a second summer in a row, a royal insider claims. A royal Read More…
Criminal activity has been officially canceled in one suburban Chicago town due to the extreme heat that’s cooking most of the country. “It is just too hot to be outside committing crimes,” the Park Forest Police Department said on Facebook Friday. “We’re asking all aspiring criminals, seasoned veterans, and those who find themselves committing crimes out Read More…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – A 55-year-old man has been fatally shot outside his north Wichita home. Wichita police say the shooting happened around 10 p.m. Friday in the Benjamin Hills neighborhood. The Wichita Eagle says the man had just returned from a trip to the grocery store after work to his home when he was Read More…