The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, but wouldn’t legalize it for recreational use.

A raging California wildfire has displaced thousands of people in the small community of Weed about 50 miles south of the Oregon border.

A 48-year-old Spring man was sentenced to 45 years in prison Thursday after being convicted of murder for shooting his53-year-old neighbor in broad daylight as she stood with her dog in her front yard, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.