(The Center Square) – Even though marijuana is legal in Illinois, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday that the smell of raw cannabis is enough for police to search a vehicle.
The case stems from a 2020 traffic stop in Whiteside County when a trooper said he smelled fresh cannabis, conducted a search of the vehicle and found several joints of marijuana in a cardboard box. Victor Molina of Moline, Illinois, was a passenger in the car and was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana…
A foreign national currently living in Florida faces jail time for allegedly stealing tools worth tens of thousands of dollars from the Wentzville area.
William "Doc" Worley, who co-founded the Kansas City Business Journal and ended up building a national chain that includes the St. Louis Business Journal, died Saturday.
Here's a nerdy puzzle for you. See if you can figure out the answer before I tell you. "Checkable" deposits represent money you can get your hands on quickly—like a checking account—as opposed to things like CDs, which you can access only when they mature. Here are checkable deposits per household: During the pandemic, what ...continue reading "Why did checking accounts surge during the pandemic?"
Yegor Denisov-Blanch, a researcher at Stanford University, says that 10% of all software engineers are "ghosts" who basically do nothing. This is based on data he's collected on 50,000 engineers at hundreds of companies. But the number varies with work arrangement. Only 6% of engineers who work at the office do nothing, compared to 14% ...continue reading "Working at home produces both better and worse software engineers"
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