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Pot legalized in Colorado with gov's proclamation

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

By By KRISTEN WYATTAssociated Press DENVER (AP) - Using marijuana for recreational use is now effectively legal in Colorado. Gov. John Hickenlooper declared a voter-approved marijuana legalization amendment as part of the state constitution on Monday. It was the last procedural step needed for

News Summary: Amgen nabs deCODE Genetics for $415M

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

By By The Associated Press AMGEN DEAL: Biotech pioneer Amgen will pay $415 million for Iceland's deCODE Genetics, a leader in using genetic information to find disease risk factors and treatment targets. THE RATIONALE: Amgen, the world's largest biotech company by revenue, wants to use

Former Fla. police officer scheduled for execution

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

By By TAMARA LUSHAssociated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Manuel Pardo was a decorated Florida police officer before he was fired for lying and turned to life as a vigilante, slaying nine people during a three-month crime spree. Almost 27 years later, Pardo, 56, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday

Tribe prepares to bury 5 slain members in Calif.

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

By By TRACIE CONEAssociated Press PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) - Gravediggers work the old-fashioned way on the Tule River Indian Reservation, chipping away at the hard pan by hand with pickaxes and shoveling the dirt aside. They say it's a sign of respect not to use machinery, but never has

Famed architect gets 6 months for drug smuggling

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

By By ELLIOT SPAGATAssociated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) - A highly acclaimed architect was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for trying to enter the U.S. with nearly 13 pounds of cocaine hidden in his minivan's battery. A federal judge ordered the unusually light punishment after Eugenio

NTSB: singer Rivera dead in Mexican plane crash

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

By By PORFIRIO IBARRA and GALIA GARCIA-PALAFOXAssociated Press MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - U.S. authorities confirmed Monday that Jenni Rivera, a U.S.-born singer whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles made her a Mexican-American superstar, was killed in a plane crash in

Homeless rate steady in latest government estimate

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

By By KEVIN FREKINGAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A vigorous effort to house the homeless has been countered somewhat by a sluggish economy. The federal government and local communities have greatly increased the number of beds available to the homeless over the last four years, either

Singer feared dead in Mexican plane crash

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 9th

By By PORFIRO IBARRA and GALIA GARCIA-PALAFOXAssociated Press MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - The wreckage of a small plane believed to be carrying Jenni Rivera, the U.S-born singer whose soulful voice and unfettered discussion of a series of personal travails made her a Mexican-American superstar,

Tijuana architect was an unlikely drug courier

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 9th

By By ELLIOT SPAGATAssociated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) - Eugenio Velazquez doesn't fit the mold of the down-on-his luck, uneducated, underemployed courier who ferries drugs to the U.S. for Mexican drug cartels. The dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico belongs to Tijuana's elite, equally at

Brooke Mueller hospitalized for possible overdose

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 8th

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