FEDS MAY TAX POT

SEATTLE (AP) – An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax.

While passage this year could be a longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jared Polis of Colorado plan to introduce Tuesday, Blumenauer told The [...]

BREAKING: Large Car Bomb in Gaziantep, Turkey near Syrian Border. Many Injuries Reported.

Gaziantep, previously and still informally called Antep is a city in southeast Turkey and amongst the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. The city is located 127 kilometres by road north of Aleppo, Syria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaziantep

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Gaziantep, a huge explosion occurred in front of the police station in Karsiyaka. The blast followed by two public bus and two cars began to burn. Injured at the scene learned that a large number [...]

UPDATE: Teen Gets 5 Years in Prison For MCDONALD’S beatdown

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) –It was a scandalous hate crime caught on camera that grabbed national headlines. Now one of the two young women accused of beating a transgender woman at a McDonalds learns her punishment.

Derek Valcourt has details on the sentencing.

Convicted of a hate crime and first degree assault. Five years in prison.

Over and over again, two teenage girls attack and beat Chrissy Polis inside a Baltimore [...]

UPDATE: Woman Pleads Guilty In MCDONALD’S Beat Down

BALTIMORE — The woman caught on tape brutally beating a transgendered woman at a Rosedale McDonald’s has pleaded guilty to the attack.

Teonna Brown, 18, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of first-degree assault and one count of a hate crime in the attack of 22-year-old Chrissy Polis.

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Teonna Monae Brown

The incident, which occurred in April, gained nationwide attention after a McDonald’s employee recorded the beating [...]

Two charged with hate crimes for MCDONALD’S transgender beatdown

TOWSON, Md. – A Baltimore County grand jury has indicted two teens in a beating of a transgender woman at a McDonald’s restaurant that was caught on video.

The indictment returned Monday charges Teonna Brown with assault and hate crime in the attack on Chrissy Lee Polis at the restaurant last month. She is also charged with assaulting a customer and a McDonald’s employee who tried [...]

2nd Victim Details MCDONALD’S Beatdown

BALTIMORE — Bail was denied Monday for the woman accused of brutally beating a transgender woman inside a Baltimore County McDonald’s restaurant last week, and the woman who tried to help break up the assault is telling her side of the story.Teonna Brown, 18, faces felony assault charges, among others, after a cellphone video was posted online last week showing her and another person [...]