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Yes, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington already legalized recreational marijuana use. Yes, California, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts joined them this year. And yes, the general trend is that states are relaxing their pot prohibitions. But no, the federal government has not decriminalized cannabis. So yes, you can still get busted for pot possession on federal land, even if you’re in a legalized state. As State House News Service so helpfully points out, weed in the newly legalized state of Massachusetts remains illegal at places like “Hanscom Air Force Base, aboard the Acela or at Race Point Beach on the tip of Cape Cod....

The private affairs of Secret Service agents in Colombia are under scrutiny, after one agent’s alleged argument with a prostitute at a hotel. The woman allegedly refused to leave the agent’s hotel room until he paid her $47 for the night, the website Examiner.com reports. Hotel managers called police, who forwarded their incident report to the U.S. embassy. In all, 11 Secret Service agents, part of an advance team ahead of President Obama’s visit to Colombia on Friday, were sent home for alleged “personal misconduct,” CNN reports....

Sen. John Kerry’s daughter was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles and booked on suspicion of DUI, police said. According to the Associated Press, officers stopped Alexandra Forbes Kerry for expired registration tags. The 36-year-old film producer and director was booked at the Hollywood police station, where she was given a formal blood alcohol test. The former US presidential candidate however defends his eldest daughter pointing out that she blew under California’s legal limit of ....

Taylor Swift’s alleged stalker has been slapped with a restraining order after claiming that he’d “kill anyone who stands between them.” The man accused, Timothy Sweet, 33, claims that he and Swift are married, but TMZ reports that Sweet has been stalking her since 2011. If Swift knew Sweet was trouble three years ago, why the restraining order now? According to TMZ, Sweet had allegedly dogged the 24-year-old singer since 2011, sending her emails, letters, and posting on social media....

White-collar criminals might not look like the typical gangster in TV or movies, but they are breaking the law nonetheless, and often doing serious financial damage in the process. Whether bilking your grandmother out of her retirement funds or embezzling from your retirement fund, white-collar crime can take many forms and is often perpetrated by people trusted with access and authority. Here are seven of the biggest white-collar crime concerns right now:...

Does Wesley Snipes really have a shot at getting his tax evasion conviction before the U.S. Supreme Court? It’s not an easy path to argue before the Justices at the High Court, after all. A quick recap: Wesley Snipes was convicted of tax evasion and other crimes in November 2008. He has been appealing the conviction ever since and was recently began serving his time. Snipes was initially denied his request for a new trial based on arguments that his conviction rested on a prejudiced jury....

Eli Lilly, the maker of the anti-psychotic pharmaceutical Zyprexa today issued a press release today announcing a large-scale settlement with 14 plaintiffs’ law firms (or groups of plaintiffs’ law firms) that are involved in Zyprexa product liability litigation. It is estimated that at least 18,000 cases – the vast majority of existing Zyprexa product liability litigation cases – are covered by this settlement. Approximately 1,200 claims that have been identified to Eli Lilly are not included in this settlement....

Warner Brothers, the makers of the 2016 comedy War Dogs, have been hauled into a Florida federal court by the very person the film is based on. The subject of the film, Efraim Diveroli, is a convicted arms dealer who is currently incarcerated. Diveroli is asserting that the film was advertised as being a true story, his true story, and does not actually accurately depict the true story. While the case is still relatively new, Diveroli has cleared the first hurdle in bringing his claim and survived a motion to dismiss....

Ryan Seacrest may be able to rest a little bit easier knowing that his stalker was handed down a maximum two year prison sentence. A judge sentenced Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr. to a maximum sentence in state prison after pleading no contest to stalking E! and “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest, the Associated Press reports. Uzomah Jr. also recently completed a 90-day psychiatric evaluation. In addition to his two year prison sentence, the 26-year-old has been ordered to stay at least 500 yards away from Seacrest for 10 years....

The Big Apple loves Apple – so much so that about one in seven crimes in NYC involves an Apple product getting stolen, according to the New York Police Department. So far this year, NYPD officers have taken a bite out of more than 79,000 crimes, according to New York’s WABC-TV. More than 11,000 of those crimes – about 14%, or nearly one in seven – involved the theft of an iPhone, iPad, or another Apple product....

Embattled comedian Bill Cosby has responded to the lawsuit filed against him by a woman claiming Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974. In court documents filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Cosby demurred to the complaint, reports the Los Angeles Times. Cosby asserts that plaintiff Judy Huth and her attorney attempted to extort him prior to filing the lawsuit, the factual basis of which the documents characterize as “patently false....

Bill Cosby, widely viewed as the first #MeToo defendant, was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004. He was also classified as a sexually violent predator (SVP), which requires a lifetime registration, lifetime mandatory sex offender counseling, and notification to the community that a sexually violent predator lives in the area. He was also fined $25,000....

A dancer is suing pop star Britney Spears, claiming the oft-troubled singer hit her, baby, one more time, fracturing her nasal bone and resulting in “permanent disability.” The complaint was filed by dancer Dawn Noel, NBC News reports. It alleges that Spears committed battery and negligence when she showed up to a rehearsal for her “Work B**ch” music video in what the complaint describes as “a disheveled and confused state.” Spears then allegedly “twirled in an unbalanced and reckless manner… and forcefully backhanded (Noel) in the face” while performing a basic dance move....

Today the CPSC, in conjunction with the company Dorel Asia SRL, of Barbados, announced a voluntary recall of drop side and non-drop side cribs. Consumers are asked to stop using the Dorel cribs immediately until they receive and install a repair kit. The CPSC reports that suffocation or strangulation can occur when the drop side detaches and creates a space that the infant can become trapped in. The same dangers can occur when a slat on the side of the crib becomes damaged....

A five-figure confidential settlement between a former headmaster and a Florida school was blown after the plaintiff’s daughter told the school to “SUCK IT” on Facebook, a state appellate court has ruled. Patrick Snay, 69, had managed to settle a discrimination suit with Miami’s Gulliver Preparatory School, which allocated $80,000 for Snay to walk away with, reports the Miami Herald. Too bad Snay’s daughter Dana Snay blew the deal by blasting the school in a Facebook post....

A 24-year-old doctor is an impressive feat. In addition to an undergraduate education with stellar academic credentials, doctors attend four years of medical school then four more years of residency. But when Daniel Stewart began posing as a doctor in a North Carolina emergency room, it wasn’t his young age that gave him away. It was his lack of proper identification. Stewart worked in the emergency room for two weeks before a physician’s assistant eventually noticed he was not wearing a badge and his tenure as a fake ER doctor came to a quick end....

Several famous authors filed a brief with the Supreme Court, asking it to hear a lawsuit over Google digital book library. Malcolm Gladwell, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, Steven Sondheim and others lent their names to the brief, contending Google is guilty of “massive copyright infringement. The Supreme Court has yet to decide whether it will hear an appeal from the Second Circuit Court’s decision, but you can read the authors’ arguments in their filing below:...

A New Jersey woman has received $1.4 million in damages in a lawsuit against the rock band Fishbone for a stage dive gone wrong. At a music festival in 2010, Kimberly Myers broke her skull and collarbone when Fishbone’s lead singer Angelo “Dr. Madd Vibe” Moore dove into the crowd. A Pennsylvania federal judge recently ordered the band and Moore to dive deeply into their pockets to compensate Myers for a variety of damages....

A Girl Scout cookie manager is being accused of theft of more than $10,000 worth of cookie money. Tarra Kopp, 32, allegedly never turned in the $10,285 from cookie sales after a cookie drive for her Girl Scout troop in Ohio. Instead, she kept it for herself and made many excuses as to why she couldn’t make the deposit, police say. Investigators also allege Kopp made nearly $12,000 in withdrawals from the troop’s checking account between December 2012 and April 2013....

The legal drama continues to heat up as Guns N’ Roses front man Axl Rose has filed a counter claim against Front Line Management. Axl Rose filed a $5 million counter lawsuit against his former manager, Irving Azof, who also is the founder of the music management company Front Line Management, the New York Times reports. In general, a counterclaim contains assertions that the defendant could have made when starting a lawsuit, if the plaintiff had not already begun the action....