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MARKHAM, Ill. – An expert on police tactics says “unreasonable and unnecessary” force was used by suburban Chicago police who fired beanbag rounds at a knife-wielding 95-year-old. Park Forest Officer Craig Taylor is on trial on a felony reckless conduct charge in the death of John Wrana. The victim refused …

SEATTLE – Marijuana-related calls to poison control centers in Washington and Colorado have spiked since the states began allowing legal sales last year, with an especially troubling increase in calls concerning young children. New year-end data show that the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center received 151 calls for marijuana …

With another snowstorm expected to bring up to a foot of snow in New England, a New Hampshire town might be without snow plows. A fire destroyed a fleet of plows in the small town of Henniker. The fire started at the Henniker Highway Department Friday night after the plows …