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Pot vending machines go high-tech

LOS ANGELES (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – There are a lot of things you can buy out of vending machines like pop, candy and cigarettes.   Next up is medical marijuana. Some are saying the machines could be the wave of the future.  ...... Full story

FDA is looking at Pa. 'morning-after' pill machine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is gathering facts about a vending machine at a Pennsylvania college that dispenses the "morning-after" pill.   Spokeswoman Stephanie Yao said Tuesday that the agency is contacting officials with...... Full story

San Francisco expands plastic-bag ban

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Shoppers in San Francisco will have to pay 10 cents per bag and more retailers are now banned from handing out plastic bags under a proposal approved Tuesday by the city's Board of Supervisors.   San Francisco already...... Full story

Special ops teams first in, last out in Afghan war

WASHINGTON (AP) - First in and last out - that's the current plan for elite U.S. forces in Afghanistan, according to Adm. Bill McRaven.   The top U.S. special operations commander said his troops could be tapped to lead the mission in...... Full story

Getting caffeine fix as easy as taking deep breath

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube.   AeroShot went on the market last month in Massachusetts and New York....... Full story

Court: CA gay marriage ban is unconstitutional

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.   A...... Full story

Komen official quits Planned Parenthood dispute

ATLANTA (AP) - An executive with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity has resigned after a dispute over funding for Planned Parenthood. The resignation came in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.   Karen Handel...... Full story

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New memoir outlines affair with JFK

(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A new memoir is due out tomorrow that reveals intimate details of a love affair between President John F. Kennedy and a White House intern.   The book was penned by former White House Intern Mimi Alford.   According...... Full story

Boy, 6, injured in park in mountain lion attack

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (AP) - Officials at Big Bend National Park in West Texas are looking for a mountain lion that attacked and injured a 6-year-old boy as he walked with three other people.   Park spokesman David Elkowitz says the...... Full story

More than 40 states agree to foreclosure deal

WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 40 U.S. states have agreed to a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses.   The deal would force the five largest mortgage lenders to reduce loans for about 1 million households. And the remaining holdouts...... Full story

Congress OKs bill to prod US aviation into new era

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress has passed a bill aimed at prodding the nation's aviation system into a new high-tech era in which satellites are central to air traffic control and piloted planes share the skies with unmanned drones.   The bill...... Full story

Prosecutors: Ind. woman left decomposing in chair

LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. (AP) - A southeastern Indiana woman has been charged after prosecutors say she left her morbidly obese sister alive and decomposing in a chair for three weeks.   A grand jury in Dearborn County near the Ohio state line...... Full story

Lost mushroom pickers used knife to signal rescuer

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Three family members lost six nights in the rugged forest of southwest Oregon used their dead cellphone and a sheath knife to flash a signal at the helicopter pilot who found them.   Dan Conne (con-NAY') said Sunday from...... Full story

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CDC: Too many kids breathe others' smoke in cars

CHICAGO (AP) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it's worried about the amount of second-hand smoke being inhaled by teens and middle-schoolers in cars.   In the first national estimate of its kind, a report from government...... Full story

Despite ceremony, NY fort's skeletons not buried

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) - The skeletons of French and Indian War soldiers unearthed in an upstate New York village in the 1950s were on exhibit for decades, then supposedly buried for good nearly 20 years ago.   It turns out these particular...... Full story

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