Oregon adopts rules allowing industrial hemp crops
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – Oregon farmers could plant the state’s first industrial hemp crop this spring, a full year before businesses expect to start growing marijuana for recreational use, a state official said on Tuesday.
Washington state lawmaker wants to scrap daylight savings time
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A Washington state lawmaker is proposing a bill that would scrap the twice-yearly time switches required by daylight savings time and see the West Coast state join Arizona and Hawaii in sticking to one standard time.
Medical pot vending machine debuts in Seattle
SEATTLE/DENVER (Reuters) – Vending machines selling medical marijuana opened for business in Seattle on Tuesday, in what the company providing them billed as a first-in-the-state innovation that it expects to expand to other cities and states where pot…
Toyota ordered to pay $11 million in U.S. trial over fatal crash
(Reuters) – A U.S. jury on Tuesday ordered Toyota Motor Corp to pay nearly $11 million after finding that an accelerator defect in a 1996 Camry was at fault for a 2006 fatal car crash in Minnesota.
Tough talk from Shell, union as refinery pay talks resume
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Negotiations were getting underway late on Tuesday between Royal Dutch Shell Plc and union leaders over a new wage contract for U.S. refinery workers who have been on strike for three days, both sides said.
FBI offers reward for Ohio man wanted for murders, robberies
(Reuters) – The FBI on Tuesday offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man suspected of murdering an elderly Ohio couple and taking part in a string of armed robberies in three states.
Ex-NFL star consoled alleged victim’s girlfriend: witness
FALL RIVER, Mass. (Reuters) – Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez consoled the girlfriend of his alleged victim at the Massachusetts home where he lived with her sister, telling her he had “been through this death thing before,” the woma…
Lawsuit seeks to remedy foster care problems in Arizona
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Lawyers representing foster children in Arizona filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday saying a failed system had exposed the youths to unreasonable harm and complaining that officials had not swiftly investigated reports of maltreatmen…
Imprisoned shoe bomber says attack on U.S. plane OK under Islamic law
(Reuters) – More than 13 years after his failed attempt to blow up a passenger plane with explosives hidden in his shoes, Richard Reid told U.S. researchers he believes his actions were permissible under Islamic law, according to correspondence release…
Texas boy, 9, suspended from school over magic
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A 9-year-old Texas boy with a fondness for magic and “The Lord of the Rings” movies has been suspended from school after telling a classmate he would make him disappear, doing a trick he saw in one of the films, the boy’s fath…
