PARIS, Tenn. – Three people are facing a multitude of charges after police found a caged toddler in a filthy Tennessee mobile home that also contained dogs, rodents and snakes, authorities said Friday. Authorities went to the home Thursday after receiving an anonymous tip about… Read More »Animal cruelty tip leads to caged toddler, drugs, guns
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Russian computer hacker who facilitated $20 million in credit card fraud and ran a sophisticated clearinghouse for international cybercriminals was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison. Prosecutors say Aleksei Burkov of St. Petersburg, Russia, filled a unique niche in the… Read More »Russian cybercriminal gets 9 years for online fraud website
TIRANA, Albania – An Albanian appeals court on Friday ordered the re-trial of a former interior minister who was convicted of abuse of office last year. The basis for the Tirana Appeals Court judges’ decision to overturn last year’s conviction was not immediately clear. The… Read More »Court orders abuse of post retrial for ex-Albanian minister
Kingston Police, the OPP and officers with the correctional service of Canada spent Tuesday searching the Collins Bay Institution property for a downed drone, believed to have been used in an alleged attempt to deliver contraband over the prison walls. According to the OPP, a… Read More »Drone sighting at Kingston, Ont., prison sparks all day search – Kingston
A Williams Lake First Nation is building a $2.5 million cannabis cultivation facility, but the city says it wasn’t consulted about the project. Aaron McArthur reports. Source link
LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles City Council committee Tuesday approved a series of changes to reset the city’s troubled legal marijuana market, including bolstering programs intended to help operators who suffered during the nation’s long-running war on drugs. Los Angeles was once seen as… Read More »Los Angeles looks to boost ailing legal marijuana market
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A South Dakota couple have pleaded not guilty to charges that they gave four children illegal drugs and zapped them with a cattle prod to get them to comply with orders. Lance Long, 36, and Crystallynn Long, 40, of Sioux Falls,… Read More »South Dakota couple plead not guilty to using prod on kids
More than a year after legalization, B.C’s unlicensed cannabis production still hadn’t caught up to the revenue generated by unlicensed producers, according to Statistics Canada data supplied by the province. Unlicensed cannabis producers in B.C. brought in $1.24 billion in revenue in 2019 — about… Read More »B.C.’s unlicensed cannabis producers brought in $1.24B in 2019
A 36-year-old Cambridge, Ont., man was arrested Friday morning after allegedly trying to smuggle more than 400 pounds of cannabis over the border in a garbage truck, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Monday. According to CBP, the man was driving the trash hauler… Read More »Cambridge man arrested after 400 lbs. of pot found in garbage truck at U.S. border
Aurora Cannabis Inc. is making its second round of significant cuts this year as it continues with a restructuring plan meant to address profitability struggles. The Edmonton-based cannabis company announced Tuesday that it will reduce its selling, general and administrative workforce by 25 per cent… Read More »Aurora Cannabis to lay off staff, close 5 sites in 4 provinces