A Nebraska widower has filed a wrongful death suit against Wal-Mart and the maker of its plastic bags after his wife allegedly died from complications related to an infection she developed after she cut her big toe on a can of food she had just purchased the retailer. So the Journal Star reports.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker's last three tax returns show he was paid $689,000 from 2010 to 2012 by the law firm where he was formerly a partner, the New York Post reports.

A New Jersey appeals court last week held that someone who sends a text message to a driver—and knows or has special reason to know that the driver might be viewing the text message while behind the wheel—may be held liable for an accident that the driver gets into while reading the text. So reports the Los Angeles Times.

In a move that the owner of one marijuana dispensary called “the beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition,” Deputy Attorney General James Cole last week sent a memo to federal prosecutors stating that the Justice Department will not sue to block laws legalizing marijuana in 20 states and the District of Columbia. So reports The New York Times.