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Thursday November 9th, 2017 day edition

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CVS Caremark plans to stop selling tobacco products in all of its stores starting Wednesday — a move health experts hope will be followed by other major drugstore chains.

CVS announced in February that it planned to drop tobacco by Oct. 1 as the sales conflicted with its health care mission.

To bolster its image as a health care company, CVS will announce a corporate name change to CVS Health.

CVS, which has 7,700 retail locations, is the second-largest drugstore chain in the USA, behind Walgreens.

The American Pharmacists Association called on drugstores to stop selling tobacco in March 2010 and several small, independent chains have done so, APA spokeswoman Michelle Spinnler says.

Smokers didn't just switch where they bought cigarettes and other tobacco products, some stopped buying them altogether.

"The contradiction of selling tobacco was becoming a growing obstacle to playing a bigger role in health care delivery," Merlo says. »

Terry Crews Files Police Report After Alleging He Was Groped

Authored by variety.com

Terry Crews filed a report with the Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday a month after publicly alleging that he was groped by an entertainment executive, Captain Cory Palka with the LAPD Hollywood station confirmed to Variety.

Last month, Crews tweeted that the unfolding Harvey Weinstein scandal hit close to home for him, as he said he was groped by a “high-level Hollywood executive.”

In his tweets, Crews said the incident occurred in full view of his wife. »

'Incel': Reddit bans misogynist men's group blaming women for their celibacy

Authored by theguardian.com
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The 40,000-strong ‘support group’ was largely populated by men who appear to hate women and in some cases advocate rape.

Reddit has banned a community dedicated to the “involuntarily celibate” that was largely populated by men who appear to hate women and in some cases advocate rape.

The 40,000-strong community was nominally a “support group” for people who lack romantic relationships and sex. »

From Defendant to Defender: One Wrongfully Convicted Man Frees Another

Authored by nbcnews.com

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Three weeks later, as Adams was getting ready to start junior college in the fall of 1998, he was arrested.

Inside prison, Adams met a cellmate who worked for the prison law library and encouraged him to try to get his conviction overturned. “ »

Sorry, Comcast: Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado

Authored by arstechnica.com

Industry groups tried to convince voters to reject the municipal broadband network; the city's mayor called it a "misinformation" campaign by the broadband incumbents.

The anti-municipal broadband group, called "Priorities First Fort Collins," spent $451,000 campaigning against the broadband network ballot question.

The pro-municipal broadband group in Fort Collins, the Fort Collins Citizens Broadband Committee, spent less than $10,000 in the campaign. »