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"North To the Future" is the official state motto of Alaska. That future may soon include the legal, recreational use of marijuana. Voters in Alaska will go to the polls this year to decide whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
A retired police captain accused of fatally gunning down a fellow Navy veteran in a Florida movie theater because he was texting pleaded not guilty Wednesday.In addition, a Pasco County judge ruled that infrared surveillance video taken from the theater where former cop Curtis Reeves Jr.
With the Super Bowl just ending, fantasy football fans will have to wait until next season to ponder the success of Russell Wilson. But it turns out there is a fantasy league for economists. So sorry to those of you with Paul Krugman on your team, because I am siding with Joseph Stiglitz in the argument on why income inequality is slowing the recovery.
Two dozen members of a violent ring that used bogus clinics to put half a billion dollars worth of the powerful pain pill Oxycodone on the streets have been busted in a sting operation, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
As storm after ferocious storm wallops the the country this winter, many cities have been forced to ration resources amid a shortage of the road salt used to melt snow.
Service resumed to a major subway artery Wednesday morning, about two hours after a “significant” power outage crippled service on at least three major lines in Manhattan amid a snowy morning rush.1, 2 and 3 trains resumed service between Times Square and 137th Street around 11:00a.m.
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).