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AP Explains: The origins of 4/20, marijuana's high holiday
SEATTLE - Thursday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather - at 4:20 p.m. - in clouds of smoke on campus quads and when pot shops in legal weed states thank th...
Kayla Derkach Apr 20, 2017

Slain trooper's widow angry 'I can't grow old with him now'
MILFORD, Pa. - The widow of a state police trooper shot and killed by a survivalist in a 2014 ambush described a sad, lonely life without him and said their two young sons are struggling. “I don...
Kayla Derkach Apr 20, 2017

Fresno gunman gave police blow-by-blow of shootings of 3 men
FRESNO, Calif. - Five days before a rampage that left three men dead, Kori Ali Muhammad shot an unarmed security guard who he felt had insulted him at a Motel 6 when he visited a woman at the hotel, p...
Kayla Derkach Apr 20, 2017
Arkansas overcomes legal hurdles, carries out execution
VARNER, Ark. - Arkansas overcame a flurry of court challenges that derailed three other executions, putting to death an inmate for the first time in nearly a dozen years as part of a plan that would h...
Kayla Derkach Apr 20, 2017

'Infowars' host Jones says his on-air persona not a 'trick'
AUSTIN, Texas - Right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones testified Wednesday that he’s sincere in his “Infowars” commentary but acknowledges he also uses satire and c...
Kayla Derkach Apr 20, 2017

$13 a pack? NYC mayor wants highest cigarette prices in US
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing for the nation’s biggest city to also be the country’s priciest spot to buy a pack of smokes. De Blasio is backing an effort to raise the price of ...
Kayla Derkach Apr 20, 2017

Coca-Cola in North Korea? It's (usually not) the Real Thing
PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - Coca-Cola is possibly the world’s most recognizable brand, an almost inescapable symbol of the global appeal of American-style consumer ...
Kayla Derkach Apr 20, 2017
Bosnia to Pakistan to prison: Ex-fighter reflects on life
MCLEAN, Va. - Randall Royer grew up in the Midwest, a suburban St. Louis kid. By the time he was 21, he had converted to Islam and changed his name to Ismail Royer, fighting in Bosnia alongside fellow...
Kayla Derkach Apr 20, 2017
China left as observer as tensions rise on Korean Peninsula
BEIJING - China’s foreign minister recently likened the U.S. and North Korea to two speeding trains hurtling toward each other, an analogy that would seem to place China in the role of helpless ...
Kayla Derkach Apr 20, 2017
Starbucks barista has meltdown over Unicorn Frappuccino
SEATTLE - A Starbucks barista has taken to social media hoping to make orders for the coffee chain’s much buzzed about Unicorn Frappuccino disappear. Starbucks’ entry into the unicorn food...
Kayla Derkach Apr 20, 2017

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