May Day began with hardly a ripple of trouble Wednesday under the watchful eyes of police, who were hoping for calm but braced for trouble amid vivid memories of last year's destructive riots and mayhem.

Oregon lawmakers don't appear to be interested in asking voters to create a sales tax or require labels on genetically modified foods. But plenty of other ideas are still very much alive after a key deadline came and went last week.

A North Seattle resident took nonchalance to a whole new level last week when he told police he "wasn't really trippin'" after being threatened at gunpoint by an irate marijuana seller twice in two days, according to the Seattle Police Department.

The Petersons don't smoke pot, but they say their next-door neighbor does when they're not growing it. And the smell is making them ill.

A Seattle man suspects the medical marijuana he smoked made him sick, but the state was unwilling to help him find out.

Italy's highest criminal court ordered a whole new trial for Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend on Tuesday, overturning their acquittals in the gruesome slaying of her British roommate.

The operator of a Prineville medical marijuana clinic is suggesting the federal government and local police intimidated his landlord into evicting him.

A robber who shot and killed a man during a home invasion robbery in January 2012 will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Tumors in his brain cause Alex Echols to lose control and lapse into uncontrollable rages. His severe autism makes it impossible for him to explain why he is mad - and the 11-year-old takes the anger out on himself. A tincture made from marijuana seems to help.

A SWAT raid found pot, mushrooms, meth, prescription pills, cash and drug packaging paraphernalia in a home with a surveillance system Wednesday, the Linn County Sheriff's Office said.