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New app helps you fight parking tickets

Parking tickets are infuriating, especially when they seem undeserved. If you familiar with parking in NYC you know the signs are impossibly difficult to understand (purposely or nah?). But most people don’t want to invest the time and energy to would take to dispute them. Now there’s a new iPhone app, Fixed, that will fight parking […]

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Colorado stash: $184M in marijuana taxes

Just in case you were wondering why states are making weed legal … hundreds of millions dollars.  Colorado expects to take in about $184 million in tax revenue from marijuana in the first 18 months after legislation — and much of that money will be funneled into teaching kids to stay away from pot.

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DEA turns to texting to fight prescription drug abuse

Atlanta (CNN) – A pharmacy tech who makes $12 an hour but drives a Mercedes. A rumor that a pharmacist may be trading sex for drugs. A prescription note with handwriting that’s a little too easy to read. The Drug Enforcement Administration in Atlanta says all of these scenarios should leave pharmacy workers suspicious of illegal […]

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NYC to pay man $6.4 million for wrongful conviction

A man whose murder conviction was overturned after he served 22 years in prison will receive a $6.4 million settlement from New York City, according to attorneys on the case. David Ranta, 60, who was imprisoned for the killing of a Brooklyn rabbi in 1990, was granted the settlement this week before his claim against […]

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“El Chapo” Mexico’s Most Wanted Drug Lord Captured

Mexico’s most wanted drug lord, Joaquin Guzman, known as “El Chapo,” was captured Saturday in a joint operation by Mexican and U.S. federal agents, a senior U.S. official said. Guzman, long considered the top prize and most elusive figure in the ongoing drug war that has left tens of thousands of Mexicans dead, was taken […]

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