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Maine marijuana shops report brisk business despite pandemic

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s rollout of legal marijuana sales has been muted compared with other states because of the coronavirus pandemic, but shops are reporting brisk business nonetheless. Maine wasn’t able to replicate the grand opening scenes that have followed the first sales in other states. But regulators reported more...
U.S. motions expand drug claims against Honduras president

NEW YORK — U.S. federal prosecutors have filed motions saying that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández took bribes from drug traffickers and had the country’s armed forces protect a cocaine laboratory and shipments to the United States. The documents quote Hernández as saying he wanted to “‘shove the drugs right...
AP Explainer: Who has been charged in the deadly Capitol riot?

Dozens of people have already been arrested and prosecutors across the U.S. have vowed to bring to justice those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, sending lawmakers into hiding as they began their work to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. The top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia...
Georgia’s GOP governor under fire after U.S. Senate losses

ATLANTA — Even though he wasn’t on the ballot, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has been painfully bruised by the 2020 elections. In a state long dominated by Republicans, Democrats won Georgia’s electoral votes for president in November and two U.S. Senate seats in runoff elections Tuesday, defeating Kemp’s hand-picked Senate...
More arrests in Capitol riot as more video reveals brutality

Police charged more Capitol rioters on Saturday, including a man who carried off the House speaker’s lectern, as more graphic details of the insurrection emerged, revealing the violence and brutality of the mob that stormed a seat of American political power. A bloodied officer was crushed in a doorway screaming...
Queen Elizabeth II and husband receive covid-19 vaccinations

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, have received their covid-19 vaccinations, royal officials said Saturday. Buckingham Palace officials said in a statement that the 94-year-old monarch and Philip, 99, received their jabs Saturday, joining some 1.5 million people in Britain who have been given a first...
Snow blizzard kills 4, brings much of Spain to standstill

MADRID — A persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of Spain with 50-year record levels of snow, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling on Saturday. The bodies of a...
Pennsylvania adds another day of 10,000 coronavirus cases, 273 deaths

Pennsylvania on Saturday reported 10,045 new coronavirus cases, making this the first time the Keystone State has posted consecutive 10,000-case days in nearly a month. The last time commonwealth posted back-to-back cases of that amount was Dec. 12 and 13, when 11,084 and 10,684 cases were reported. The new data...
Indonesia jet carrying 62 goes missing on domestic flight

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A jet carrying 62 people lost contact with air traffic controllers minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on a domestic flight on Saturday, and debris found by fishermen was being examined to see if it was from the missing plane, officials said. Transportation Minister Budi Karya...
Greensburg Salem foundation targets hybrid learning needs

Members of the Greensburg Salem Education Foundation were already hard at work raising money for classroom grants before the covid-19 crisis began. That made it easy to pivot a bit and focus their efforts this year on supplying educators with the tools they’d need to teach in a new hybrid...
Favorable odds: Pennsylvania sportsbooks have handled $4.5B in bets since opening in 2018

With the NFL playoffs kicking off this weekend, eager fans are expected to flock to sportsbooks across Western Pennsylvania, helping to bolster an industry that in its infancy already has seen billions wagered in the state. Since sports betting became legal in November 2018, wagers on sports events have totaled...
Haley: Trump was ‘badly wrong’ in stoking crowd before riot

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, often mentioned as a possible 2024 GOP presidential contender, is among the latest from her party to denounce President Donald Trump’s comments stoking supporters to mount a violent assault on the Capitol. “He was badly wrong with his words,” Haley said Thursday...
Lawyers: Woman on U.S. death row not competent for execution

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for the only woman on federal death row are asking a judge to halt her execution and arguing she isn’t competent and can’t be put to death. Lisa Montgomery’s lawyers filed a petition Friday in federal court in Indiana seeking to halt the execution, which is scheduled...
A farewell to @realDonaldTrump, gone after 57,000 tweets

WASHINGTON — realDonaldTrump, the Twitter feed that grew from the random musings of a reality TV star into the cudgel of an American president, died Friday. It was not quite 12 years old. The provocative handle was given birth by a New York real estate tycoon who used it to...
White man who drove into Iowa protesters avoids prison

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A white man who deliberately sped his car through a crowd of racial injustice protesters in Iowa City, striking several, will avoid prison and have the incident erased from his record if he stays out of trouble for three years. A judge last month granted a...
Colorado officers won’t be charged for detaining Black girls

DENVER — Suburban Denver police officers won’t be charged after detaining four Black girls by gunpoint this summer and handcuffing two of them after wrongly suspecting they were riding in a stolen car, prosecutors said Friday. The same day, the Colorado attorney general opened a grand jury investigation into the...

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