President Jose Mujica of Uruguay signed into law the government’s plan to create a regulated, legal market for marijuana.
Bubba Murphy, an Atlanta-area homeowner, offered an apology to anyone he may have offended with his Christmas display, a mannequin entangled in a string of Christmas lights and clinging to a ledge, which prompted an emergency response to his house.
Alonza Bryant, 16, whose glasses blunted the force of a bullet that entered the bridge of her nose when shots were fired outside her Seattle house, credited them for her survival, saying, “That’s why I’m getting another pair just like them.”
G. Todd Baugh, a Montana judge who drew calls for his removal when he said a teen rape victim appeared “older than her chronological age,” has sentenced a man convicted of punching his girlfriend to write “Boys do not hit girls” 5,000 times.
Amy Herring, a researcher who co-wrote a study of women’s answers on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, reported that about 1 of every 200 American women claim to have become pregnant as virgins.
President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela said on Twitter that he met with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana and the two talked about their late friend and Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, seeking money for programs that the former secretary of state said will help preschoolers, young job-seekers, and women and girls “in every aspect of our society,” said her husband, former President Bill Clinton, will match any donation made to the Clinton Foundation through Tuesday.
Sonja Farak, a former chemist charged with stealing drugs from the state crime laboratory in western Massachusetts where she worked, is spending Christmas in jail after a judge revoked her bail after cocaine was found in her system during a random drug test.
Kentrell Collins, 26, the leader of the Prancing Elites, an all-male dance squad that wore skimpy Santa costumes during a Christmas parade in Semmes, Ala., said the group is upset after being asked not to show up for a New Year’s Eve procession in Mobile.
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