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Lip balm containing pot ingredient thrown out at base

ANCHORAGE, Alaska

Officials say they had to discard hundreds of tubes of lip balm that were distributed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richards after they were found to contain trace amounts of THC, an active ingredient in marijuana.

The base’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office had been distributing the lip balm as it typically does with other promotional items, such as water bottles and calendars, The Alaska Dispatch News reported. JBER spokesman 1st Lt. Michael Harrington said the lip balm was purchased mistakenly.

“Not everybody thinks to check the ingredients list on ChapStick,” said Harrington.

The lip balm contained hemp-seed oil, which is banned under U.S. Army and Air Force regulations.

The base’s public-affairs team had emailed JBER employees Wednesday, asking them to toss out the 400 tubes of lip balm.

Though the lip balm “does not have a significant amount of THC to register on a drug test,” the email says, it still falls under the ban on hemp-seed products.

Suspect on cellphone during Pittsburgh bank robbery

PITTSBURGH

It must have been an important call.

Pittsburgh police say a man who robbed a downtown bank Thursday morning had a cellphone to his ear the whole time.

Police released the photo of the man who robbed the Dollar Bank on Smithfield Street in hopes someone recognizes him.

Police say the man claimed to have a gun and demanded money but never showed a weapon. Nobody was hurt.

Police say he is a black man who appears to be in his mid-30s with a slightly stocky build. Police believe he’s between 5-feet-9 and 5-feet-11 and weighs about 210 pounds. He can be seen wearing a light-blue or gray hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses.

Cowboys ride to the rescue of deer trapped in Ariz. canal

PEORIA, Ariz.

Two cowboys are being credited with coming to the rescue of a deer stuck in an Arizona canal.

The state Game and Fish Department received several calls Thursday reporting a deer was trapped in a canal northwest of Phoenix.

The animal apparently slipped into the cold water and couldn’t scale the canal’s steep, concrete walls to get out.

Game and Fish officer Reuben Gonzales says two cowboys with lassos happened by and stopped at the scene to help.

Video the agency posted on YouTube shows one man standing on a bridge above the canal and dropping a lasso around the deer’s antlers as it swims below.

Gonzales says Game and Fish officers then carried the stressed, shivering animal out of the water and loaded it into a truck. They then took it to Lake Pleasant Regional Park and released it.

Associated Press