Michigan sales top $1.6M in first week of recreational pot
Recreational marijuana sales totaled about $1.6 million in the inaugural week of business at the first retail shops in Michigan.
Sales during the Dec. 1-8 period brought the state roughly $270,400 in revenue from the excise and sales taxes levied on pot, the Detroit Free Press and MLive.com reported.
As of Monday, Michigan’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency issued 10 retail licenses for recreational marijuana, five of which began selling last week.
More than 1,400 of the state’s roughly 1,800 cities, townships and villages aren’t allowing pot shops.
Michigan voters approved recreational marijuana last year. Illinois starts recreational sales in January.
Court temporarily shields president’s bank records
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has temporarily shielded the bank records of President Donald Trump and three of his children from House Democrats.
In an order signed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the House cannot enforce subpoenas issued to Deutsche Bank and Capital One at least until Dec. 13.
The justices are scheduled to discuss at least one and maybe two other similar cases at their private conference that day. One concerns a subpoena from the House for Trump’s financial records and the other is a demand from the Manhattan district attorney for his tax returns.
The court already has blocked the House from getting the financial records while it considers what to do with the cases. The district attorney has agreed to hold off enforcing his subpoena until the justices act. A decision on whether to hear the cases could come by mid-December.
Trial judges and appellate panels in all three cases have ruled that the records held by the banks and Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, must be turned over.
The subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One also seek documents pertaining to three Trump children, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump; the Trump Organization; and other Trump business holdings.
Without a Supreme Court order, the banks would have had to begin turning over records to House committees this week.
Ginsburg oversees emergency appeals from New York.
Teen runaway found ‘camping’ inside Bed, Bath & Beyond
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Employees at a Bed, Bath & Beyond in North Carolina discovered an uninvited sleepover guest hiding in the store when they opened up Monday morning.
The Greenville employees called local police around 8:30 a.m. and officers responded to a “breaking and entering in progress,” according to The News & Observer.
The intruder turned out to be a 14-year-old runaway who had “camped out” at the store overnight after leaving home, Greenville police spokeswoman Kristen Hunter said.
The teen wasn’t harmed and was taken back to his house. His name wasn’t immediately released.
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