Coca-Cola Urged to Close an Indian Plant to Save Water

NEW DELHI — A leading environmental research group based here has asked Coca-Cola to consider shutting down a bottling plant in the drought-stricken state of Rajasthan, saying that the plant is depleting scarce water supplies.
The recommendation came in a report released Monday by the organization, Energy and Resources Institute. The report was commissioned by Coca-Cola [...]

29 year old dies of taser jolt by Minnesota Troopers

Authorities are investigating the death of a 29-year-old Fridley man shot with a Taser by state troopers, who said he had become “uncooperative” after a rush-hour crash Tuesday evening.
The victim was identified by his father as Mark C. Backlund. Gordon Backlund said his son was on his way to pick up his parents at the [...]

BREAKING: BA flight lands short of runway

A passenger plane has crash-landed short of a runway at Heathrow Airport, ripping off part of its undercarriage.
All 136 passengers and 16 crew escaped from the British Airways flight BA038 from Beijing. Eighteen people have been taken to hospital with minor injuries.
An airport worker told the BBC the Boeing 777 pilot, named later as [...]

Medical Marijuana Payback Burns Colorado Police

Policing pot in Colorado is about to get a lot more complicated. The kick-in-the-door raids SWAT teams have long employed could now cost cities hundreds of thousands of dollars following two landmark court decisions upholding the state’s constitutional protection of medical marijuana. Under the rulings, police departments are required to return any marijuana and paraphernalia [...]