Morgan and the others who were seriously injured were airlifted to the Robert Woods Johnson University Medical Center in New Brunswick, NJ, where he apparently remains in intensive care.

DENVER (AP) -- The Hershey Co. has sued a Colorado marijuana edibles maker, claiming it makes four pot-infused candies that too closely resemble iconic products of the chocolate maker.

The trademark infringement lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver this week against TinctureBelle LLC and TinctureBelle Marijuanka LLC.

It alleges TinctureBelle's Ganja Joy, Hasheath, Hashees and Dabby Patty mimic Hershey's Almond Joy, Heath, Reese's peanut butter cups and York peppermint patty candies, respectively.

TinctureBelle did not immediately return messages seeking comment. The Denver Business Journal first reported about the lawsuit filed Tuesday.

11-Year-Old Long Island Girl Wins Google Doodle Contest

An 11-year-old Long Island girl's drawing was featured on Google's homepage Monday after she beat thousands of other young artists in the yearly Doodle 4 Google competition.

Audrey Zhang of Levittown drew a whimsical water cleaning machine, titled "Back to Mother Nature," for the contest, which was based on the theme "If I could invent one thing to make the world a better place."

Zhang created what she called a "transformative water purifier" that would clean dirty rivers, lakes and oceans.

Zhang's drawing will be on Google's homepage through the end of the day.

RICHMOND -- Republicans appear to have outmaneuvered Gov. Terry McAuliffe in a state budget standoff by persuading a Democratic senator to resign his seat, at least temporarily giving the GOP control of the chamber and possibly dooming the governor's push to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Sen. Phillip P. Puckett (D-Russell) will announce his resignation Monday, effective immediately, paving the way to appoint his daughter to a judgeship and Puckett to the job of deputy director of the state tobacco commission, three people familiar with the plan said Sunday. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

The news prompted outrage among Democrats -- and accusations that Republicans were trying to buy the Senate with job offers in order to thwart McAuliffe's proposal to expand health coverage to 400,000 low-income Virginians.

Va. lawmaker to resign, paving way for jobs for self, daughter, according to associates

RICHMOND -- Republicans appear to have outmaneuvered Gov. Terry McAuliffe in a state budget standoff by persuading a Democratic senator to resign his seat, at least temporarily giving the GOP control of the chamber and possibly dooming the governor's push to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Sen. Phillip P. Puckett (D-Russell) will announce his resignation Monday, effective immediately, paving the way to appoint his daughter to a judgeship and Puckett to the job of deputy director of the state tobacco commission, three people familiar with the plan said Sunday. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

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Because of outrage over the attempted bribe, Puckett won't be taking the job. Even still, he's leaving the Senate and giving Republicans the majority they need to block Obamacare in Virginia. (And it appears his daughter will get her judgeship.)

If this were just another round of routine political combat, it would be annoyingly venal--irksome but not consequential. L'affaire Puckett, however, is a big deal. Under the Medicaid expansion, an estimated 400,000 Virginians would get health insurance, as well as access to needed health services like check-ups, medicines, surgeries, and cancer treatments. It's no exaggeration to say that there's a health access crisis in Virginia, which Medicaid could ameliorate, if not solve altogether.

And Puckett isn't some bystander to these problems. The former state senator represented the 38th District, which draws from 10 counties in southwestern Virginia: Tazewell, Pulaski, Russell, Buchanan, Dickenson, Wise, Radford, Bland, Smyth, and Norton. This is one of the poorest corners of the state. The poverty rate in Russell County, for instance, is 20.4 percent, compared to 11 percent for the state writ large.

Even worse is Buchanan County, where 25 percent of residents live below the poverty line. Not only is it one of the poorest counties in Virginia, it's one of the most impoverished in the entire United States. And according to a recent analysis from the Commonwealth Institute, it contains a chunk of the estimated 20,170 uninsured adults in Puckett's district who are eligible for coverage under the Medicaid expansion.

I don't know anything about Coburn's station in life, what his background is, but he does seem to be lacking in manners,

IOW....  I have good breeding, and class..

Waving your flag so swiftly?  Hmmmm..

The story, beginning with the run-up to the Derby, was about these ordinary folks,

commoners?

If is clear that you used folksy to point out that Coburn was a commoner. In the context of Belmont and triple crown, class is the subtext here..  

Breeding of horses is a metaphor for upper class breeding and clearly a sub-text of the whole cinderella fantasy Coburn represents.

The fact that he is uncouth, and representative of his class should come as no surprise. But to make a big deal about it, like the media has done, and the sheep here, makes it clear that keeping Class fantasies alive is tantamount.

Cinderella? Try Wizard of Oz... Refined manners is the glues that keeps the curtain pulled on some of the most heinous crimes that are committed.

"What kills the most-resistant cancer cells is the intracellular synergy of these components and the events we trigger in cells," said Lapotko in a press-release. "This synergy showed a 100-fold amplification of the therapeutic strength of standard chemoradiation in experiments on cancer cell cultures."

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America [Hardcover]

John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?
     Before he leaves for this bizarre adventure, Waters fantasizes about the best and worst possible scenarios: a friendly drug dealer hands over piles of cash to finance films with no questions asked, a demolition-derby driver makes a filthy sexual request in the middle of a race, a gun-toting drunk terrorizes and holds him hostage, and a Kansas vice squad entraps and throws him in jail. So what really happens when this cult legend sticks out his thumb and faces the open road? His real-life rides include a gentle eighty-one-year-old farmer who is convinced Waters is a hobo, an indie band on tour, and the perverse filmmaker's unexpected hero: a young, sandy-haired Republican in a Corvette.

I sincerely hope that one of these days, we'll finally cast off our collective folly with regards to firearms policies, and come to realize that our citizens enjoy a constitutional right to live in peace and security, which should logically and rightfully trump the so-called right of demented malcontents with axes to grind to first arm themselves to the teeth, and then site the innocent in their crosshairs.

Computer passes Turing Test for first time by convincing judges it is a 13-year-old boy

Eugene Goostman seems like a typical 13-year-old Ukrainian boy -- at least, that's what a third of judges at a Turing Test competition this Saturday thought. Goostman says that he likes hamburgers and candy and that his father is a gynecologist, but it's all a lie. This boy is a program created by computer engineers led by Russian Vladimir Veselov and Ukrainian Eugene Demchenko.

That a third of judges were convinced that Goostman was a human is significant -- at least 30 percent of judges must be swayed for a computer to pass the famous Turing Test. The test, created by legendary computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, was designed to answer the question "Can machines think?" and is a well-known staple of artificial intelligence studies.

South Korea is sometimes known for it's strange and unusual paintings and sculptures..... but this one takes the cake. No, it wasn't an anime version of Miley Cyrus twerking....

Lotte Shopping Center in Busan, South Korea has been home to a Spider-Man sculpture by an artist Eunsuk Yoo for over a year. What makes this even more unusual is that this was "erected" over a children's play area. Nice work, Eunsuk! It's a rather unusual, somewhat amusing sculpture of Spider-Man with a raging boner.

The artist was quoted as saying, " My reason for making this piece was to apply the natural and physical phenomenon to a Superhero and depict it natural in the morning without lies and being superficial in a comical way".