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[h=4]The Short List: Rachel Dolezal quits; worker fired for legal pot; CVS buys Target pharmacy[/h]Out of the loop today? We've got what you missed on the Spokane NAACP president, Colorado's pot rule and the 911 from the North Carolina shark attacks.
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White Spokane NAACP president who pretended to be black says she quits
There's still a lot of gray surrounding the bizarre story out of Spokane, Wash., that's gripped the nation. Rachel Dolezal, the embattled president of the Spokane NAACP chapter, stepped down from her post amid questions surrounding her racial identity. "It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley," Dolezal wrote on Facebook. If you're not up to speed on this story, here's what you need to know: The 37-year-old artist and part-time professor became the center of controversy after her parents said Thursday that she was a white woman who had been deceiving people into thinking she was African American since 2004. Although the national NAACP announced its support of Dolezal on Friday, Spokane members began petitioning for her to take a leave of absence, and some pledged to protest outside Monday's meeting, which wound up being canceled. The question "why?" still hangs in the air: Why did she misrepresent her racial identity? Although Dolezal hasn't publicly offered answers yet, some researchers suggest the phenomenon is rooted in a need to identify and empathize with black culture. Some of those close to Dolezal, however, have a different take. Friend and Jackson, Miss., attorney Joanie Perkins-Potter remembers Dolezal as "a young girl who came here really believing in social justice and wanting to make a change in the world. … I think she had an identity crisis, and it got worse and worse."
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Rachel Dolezal, the embattled president of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP, stepped down from her post amid controversy surrounding her racial identity. VPC
Pot may be legal in Colorado, but using it can still get you fired
Quadriplegic Brandon Coats is a medical marijuana user who worked for Dish Network until he was fired in 2010 for flunking a random drug test. The company cited its zero-tolerance drug policy but acknowledged there was no evidence that Coats was high on the job. In Colorado, marijuana is legal (although against federal law). So Coats took his case to court — and the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday against him. The case is important for pot smokers and their employers in states where use has been legalized. Colorado became the first state to legalize recreational use of the drug in 2012. Monday's ruling makes it at least the fourth state in which courts have ruled against medical marijuana patients who are fired for using pot.
FILE - In this April 25, 2013, file photo, attorney Michael Evans, left, listens in his office in Denver, as his client Brandon Coats talks about the Colorado Court of Appeals ruling that upheld Coats being fired from his job after testing positive for the use of medical marijuana.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Ed Andrieski, AP)
Coming to a Target near you: a CVS/pharmacy
The two companies announced Monday that CVS is acquiring Target's pharmacy and clinic business for $1.9 billion, meaning more than 1,660 Target pharmacies in 47 states will be rebranded, and Target's clinics (about 80 across the USA) will be renamed MinuteClinic. Yeah, it seems a little odd to invite a retail competitor inside your store, but investors seem happy. Here's why the deal might make sense:Complexity. The health care business requires a workforce knowledgeable about health care. Target's primary business is selling consumer goods. Profitability. Target's pharmacy business was losing money. Lack of scale. Target is big, but its real estate footprint is not as wide as CVS. Focus. Target has other priorities that have taken on more urgency, like its grocery business. Foot traffic. Execs think Target will get foot traffic from CVS customers who visit Target stores to fill prescriptions — and just might leave with a cart full of things they weren't actually shopping for. Not that we ever do that at Target. Ahem.
Richard and Loretta Spigel of Wilmington, Del., shop at a Target store in Wilmington.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Eileen Blass, USA TODAY)
Chilling 911 calls reveal chaos — and quick action — after N.C. shark attack
They're lucky to be alive. The two teens in Sunday's shark attacks off the North Carolina coast are in stable condition but face a long road of recovery. Dispatch recordings of chilling 911 calls reveal chaotic scenes to keep the two alive following separate attacks on the same stretch of coast. Even so, it was the quick action of bystanders at both scenes that made the difference between life and death. "It looks like her entire hand is gone," a woman told a dispatcher in the first 911 call, reporting the attack on a 12-year-old girl off Oak Island, N.C. The caller said the family used a boogie board cord as a tourniquet and held a dry towel to the girl's wrist. About an hour later, a second call came in: "His arm is gone!" A 16-year-old boy had been attacked not far away. Both victims were airlifted to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries. The girl's left arm was amputated below the elbow, and she also had a leg injury, according to Brian Watts, Brunswick County emergency services director. The boy's arm was amputated below the shoulder. The attacks come just days after another incident in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., where a 13-year-old girl was bitten by a shark.
Emergency responders assist a teenage girl at the scene of a shark attack in Oak Island, N.C., on June 14, 2015.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: AP/The Pilot, Southern Pines, N.C.)
No matter what happens in Game 6, the Blackhawks have already done something impressive
One. More. Win. The Chicago Blackhawks hope to clinch the Stanley Cup tonight. (Fans looking to see it at home for the first time since 1938 face four-figure prices.) The Tampa Bay Lightning hope to stave off elimination (injured star scorer Nikita Kucherov's morning skate was a positive sign). But no matter what happens in Game 6 tonight, the Blackhawks have already done something impressive: They defied an NHL policy that was expected to prevent them from being in a position to win their third Stanley Cup in six seasons. Explain. It has to do with the NHL salary cap, which is the total amount of money a team is allowed to pay its players. When the NHL salary cap was introduced a decade ago, competitive balance was expected and close playoffs series were anticipated. Why. The idea was the salary cap would make it nearly impossible for general managers to keep their teams together. When teams win, players expect more money. That's the simplest economics of pro sports. How the Blackhawks are special. The core Blackhawks group has stayed together, making it an outlier of the salary cap system. Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville was asked whether he had a pre-game speech prepared for Game 6. "My speeches are no good," Quenneville said. "I don't want to go there. The Blackhawks don't like to talk about getting something done. They just like to get it done."
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Cleanup in the hair care aisle. An Indianapolis woman faces charges after video surfaced of her and her 6-year-old son engaged in a brawl with another shopper in a Walmart hair care aisle. In the video, the child can be seen hitting and kicking Rebecca Mills in the face and head, court documents state. The boy's mom, Amber Stephenson, 34, is being charged because she ordered her son to "punch (Mills) in her face … punch her in her (expletive) face," according to the affidavit.
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