| Illinois considers legalizing marijuana for medical uses Nov 28th 2012, 16:37 SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (Reuters) - The Illinois General Assembly on Wednesday will consider whether to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes and join a growing group of states that officially approve pot as a medicine. The proposal for a three-year pilot program would make Illinois the second most populous state in the nation to allow medical marijuana after California. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana. Colorado and Washington state voters decided on November 6 to allow recreational use of cannabis. ... |  | New York nanny pleads not guilty in deaths of two kids Nov 28th 2012, 16:03  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York nanny accused of the stabbing deaths of two young children last month pleaded not guilty to murder charges Wednesday in a rare judicial proceeding conducted inside a hospital where the 50-year-old woman is recovering from self-inflicted wounds. Yoselyn Ortega was indicted two weeks ago on two counts each of first- and second-degree murder in the killings of Lucia Krim, 6, and her brother, Leo, who was days shy of his second birthday, in their parents' luxury apartment. ...
| | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania may soon renew bankruptcy threat as ban ends Nov 28th 2012, 14:15 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Pennsylvania's capital city Harrisburg, neck-deep in more than $340 million debt, is on the verge of getting a powerful negotiating tool with creditors: the threat of bankruptcy. A state ban that prevented Harrisburg from filing for municipal bankruptcy protection is set to expire after November 30. A year has passed since Harrisburg first tried filing for bankruptcy in October 2011. The city is now deeper in debt and there is no guarantee that it will not seek court protection once again. ... | |
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