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CNN reports that it was a Happy New Year indeed for Illinois, which saw a haul of nearly $3.2 million in sales of recreational marijuana on its first day. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation revealed that the state’s 37 dispensaries accounted for 77,128 transactions, which totaled more than $3.17 million. According to the Chicago Tribune, Illinois’ first-day sales were one of the […]
A California woman has filed a lawsuit against the Marriott hotel chain, claiming she was asked to sign a “no party” pledge because she was black. According to the Oregonian, the case stems from January 2019, when 51-year-old Felicia Gonzales was checking into the Residence Inn by Marriott Portland Downtown/Convention Center. Gonzales said that upon arrival, a front-desk employee […]
A troll has sparked one of Twitter’s first major firestorms of the decade after he said Ari Lennox and Teyana Taylor have “dangerously high sex appeal” but look like dogs. “Ari Lennox and Teyana Taylor’s ability to have dangerously high sex appeal while simultaneously looking like Rottweilers will always amaze me,” the Twitter user wrote on […]
A white nationalist and featured speaker at the fatal Unite the Right rally was arrested earlier this week on multiple charges including kidnapping. 36-year-old Augustus Sol Invictus was arrested Monday at a mall in Florida by Brevard County Sheriff’s deputies acting on a warrant from South Carolina, The Miami Herald reported. He’s being held without bond and […]
Shots rang out as people were ringing in the new year, injuring seven people at a bar in West Virginia, the Associated Press reports. Interim Huntington Police Chief Ray Cornwell said, according to WOWK-TV, that the early Wednesday morning incident stems from a dispute between individuals that started inside the Kulture Hookah Bar before being taken outside. More than a dozen shell […]
YG kicked off the New Year with an apology. On Wednesday, the West Coast rapper took to Twitter to tell the LGBTQ he was sorry for his past ignorance: “It’s been brought to my attention that my old views on life was ignorant,” he wrote. “I apologize to the LGBTQ kommunity for ever komin across like […]
Mobile Police Chief Lawrence Battiste released a statement Tuesday, apologizing for the viral photo posted on Facebook showing two of the department’s officers holding up what they jokingly called a “homeless quilt.” “As a police department entrusted with serving and protecting our community, we offer our sincerest apology for the insensitive gesture of a Facebook post […]
A Kansas police officer resigned Monday after he admitted to fabricating a story about an anti-cop note he received at a McDonald’s, the New York Times reports. The incident made headlines over the weekend, after Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday shared a Facebook photo of a McDonald’s coffee cup inscribed with the phrase, “F**king pig.” In […]
New Year’s Eve is a night of joy and celebration, part of which means people will be getting extremely intoxicated. To keep you safe and your wallet full, here’s where to get free/discounted rides to and from your destinations, California For California residents, the Los Angeles Metro system is offering free bus and rail services from 9 p.m. on […]
The man that attempted to abduct a woman on a New York City train arrested, the local New York’s Pix11 reports. On Monday, police arrested 48-year-old Sonny Alloway in the Bronx. Alloway is accused of being the subject of a now-viral video. In the clip that was taken around 2:30 a.m. on Monday, Alloway is seen looking […]
