August 21, 2019

LOS ANGELES — The major online pot shop directory and cannabis marketplace Weedmaps announced Wednesday that it will no longer allow black-market businesses to advertise on its site, a decision that . . .

August 21, 2019

TORONTO — A timeline of events in the multi-year political battle over Ontario's sex education curriculum:____September 2015: The Liberal government implements a "modernized" new sex-education . . .

August 21, 2019

TORONTO — Ontario's Progressive Conservative government released a new health and physical education curriculum Wednesday, including sex-ed components that are largely similar to the previous Liberal. . .

August 21, 2019

NEW ORLEANS — A 5-year-old boy unknowingly brought cocaine to a kindergarten in a New Orleans suburb, leading to the arrest of a man and a woman, police said Wednesday.A teacher saw the child holding. . .

August 21, 2019

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska's largest prison faces "alarming" conditions driven by staffing shortages, record overtime and inmates who are secretly using synthetic drugs and contraband cellphones, . . .

August 21, 2019

TORONTO — Ontario has selected 42 operators who can apply to run the next wave of cannabis shops in the province but some analysts say the new stores still won't be enough to combat pot sold on the . . .

August 21, 2019

TORONTO — Ontario's new sex-education curriculum retains many elements of a previous Liberal government document that the Progressive Conservatives had slammed as ideological, leading critics . . .

August 20, 2019

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Authorities say a 75-year-old woman has died after being beaten and set on fire by an appliance delivery man.Boca Raton police posted on social media Tuesday that the woman had . . .

August 20, 2019

Canoeist Laurence Vincent Lapointe is the latest Canadian Olympic medal hopeful to get caught up in a doping controversy. She has tested positive for the banned substance Ligandrol — which can help . . .