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Charlo Greene, 26, quit her job as a television reporter, using an expletive during a live broadcast on KTVA in Anchorage, Alaska, after revealing she owns a medical marijuana business and intends to press for legalization of recreational "pot" in Alaska.

Pete Holmes, Seattle's elected prosecutor, said he's dropping all tickets issued for the public use of marijuana through the first seven months of this year because most of them were issued by a single police officer who disagrees with Washington state's legal "pot" law.

Rudy Giuliani, the ex-New York mayor, was hired by Activision Blizzard Inc., the largest U.S. video game publisher, to defend the company's use of a Manuel Noriega character in its Call of Duty: Black Ops II game as an exercise of free speech.

Sharon Gleason, a federal judge in Alaska, ordered the state to take additional steps to provide voting materials to American Indian voters with limited English for the coming election.

Rizwan Akhtar, a career army officer in Pakistan with experience battling militants, was named to head the country's premier intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI.

Larry Schubert and his team from Schubert's Packing Co. in Millstadt, Ill., used about 120 pounds of meat to make a 200-foot bratwurst to help residents in nearby Belleville celebrate the Illinois city's 200th birthday.

Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas, is seeking to be excused from his next court appearance on Oct. 13 in his abuse of power case because of plans to visit Europe to encourage foreign investment in Texas, his defense team said in a motion.

Nyesha McPherson, 24, of Scarborough, Ontario, was arrested at Kennedy Airport in New York with handguns, ammunition and 33 pounds of marijuana in her checked baggage, police said.

Dartarious Graham, 20, a soldier at Fort Bliss, was charged with capital murder after he fatally beat his 2-year-old daughter with a belt because she soiled her diaper, according to West Texas police.

Samar Ali, a Muslim former member of Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam's administration who was criticized by Tea Party groups for having once worked in the area of Shariah compliant finance, is joining the Nashville law firm Bone McAllester Norton to work on international law and diplomacy issues.

A Section on 09/23/2014

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