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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A group of marijuana dispensaries in New York has sued the state after cannabis regulators admitted they accidentally allowed pot shops to open too close to schools, putting the future of the businesses in jeopardy. The lawsuit asks a state Supreme Court judge in Albany to rule that the marijuana shops’ [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio has reversed the tax assessment and penalty levied against a Monroe County timber farm related to the operator’s purchase of an off-road Mercedes SUV used in the daily management of the farm. The state Board of Tax Appeals previously had affirmed the $9,461.58 use-tax assessment, which included unpaid tax, preassessment [...]
MIAMI (AP) — The fate of a makeshift immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” hung in the balance last week as a federal judge considered whether building on sensitive wetlands violated environmental laws. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered a 14-day halt on additional construction at the site [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The agency that oversees sports gambling in Ohio says it is working with Major League Baseball on the investigation of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, but had no further comment. The Ohio Casino Control Commission said it was notified on June 30 by an Ohio licensed sportsbook of suspicious [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general has sued the parent company of the Zelle payment platform, months after the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau abandoned a similar case. Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, sued Early Warning Services in New York state court, alleging that the company, which is owned by a group [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court was not convinced a 32-year-old Dayton man was unaware his actions — showing up on the doorstep of a woman he only knew as a grade-school classmate after noticing and commenting on an Instagram post — would cause her mental distress. The state high court determined had Dorian Crawl not intended [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio this week ruled that Henry County was the proper venue to try the state’s case against a Toledo gang member who supplied the cocaine for sale to a confidential informant in the neighboring county. The high court concluded that because the gang’s drug distributor participated in the activity in which [...]
Billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk says he plans to sue Apple for not featuring X and its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot app in its top recommended apps in its App Store. Musk posted the comments on X, saying, “Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok [...]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Epic Games, the company behind the popular online game Fortnite, won a partial victory in an Australian court in American billionaire Chief Executive Tim Sweeney’s claim that Google and Apple engaged in anti-competitive conduct in running their app stores. Federal Court Justice Jonathan Beach upheld key parts of Epic’s claim that [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, won’t be released, a judge decided this week. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in a written ruling that the government had suggested that the materials could be released publicly “casually [...]