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Around Town Police Blotter Men rob city resident of wallet, phone in parking garage
Two men robbed an Evanston resident in a parking garage Thursday evening. The men approached the resident after he parked his car in a lot in the 700 block of Hinman Avenue, Parrott said. One man pushed the resident from behind and held him to the ground so that the other could take the resident’s wallet and cell phone. The robbers implied that they were carrying a gun, Parrott said.
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Police: South Evanston robberies connected
A series of recent robberies in south Evanston appear to be connected, police said. Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott issued a community alert Friday warning residents about the pattern. Police believe two teenagers are responsible for four robberies during the last week. On Tuesday night, robberies in the 200
block of Custer Avenue and the 400 block of Callan Avenue were reported. In both incidents, the teens displayed a handgun, Parrott told The Daily last week. The teens also robbed residents Wednesday night in the 300 block of Custer Avenue and the night after in the 700 block of Hinman Avenue. The teenagers have been approaching residents after they park their vehicles and start walking toward their homes, police said. — Ciara McCarthy
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As marijuana attitudes shift, this may be a year of legalization
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SEATTLE — The new year is shaping up to be one of the marijuana movement’s strongest ever. The first legal pot storefronts in America opened to long lines in Colorado this month. Washington state is poised to issue licenses for producing, processing and selling the Schedule I drug — once officials sift through around 7,000 applications. Signature gatherers have been at work in at least five states to put marijuana measures on the ballot in 2014. On Wednesday organizers announced they had gathered more than 1 million signatures in favor of putting a medical marijuana measure before voters in Florida, a high-population bellwether that could become the first Southern state to embrace pot. “Florida looks like the country as a whole,” says Ben Pollara, campaign manager for the Sunshine State’s effort. “If Florida does this, it is a big deal for medical marijuana across the country.” Just three months ago, a clear majority of Americans for the first time said the drug should be legalized — 58 percent of those surveyed, which represents a 10-percentage-point jump in just one year, according to the Gallup Poll. Such acceptance is almost five times what Gallup found when public opinion polling on marijuana began in 1969. — Maria L. La Ganga (Los Angeles Times)
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