Drug Enforcement Agents Probe NFL Docs, Anonymous Hacks Ku Klux Klan Twitter, Dark Days for Mississippi Prisons: A.M. Links

• Federal drug enforcement agents paid visits to three NFL teams
  Sunday to
  spot check doctors for suspicious prescription drugs. Medical
  staff from the San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and
  Seattle Seahawks were checked “as part of an ongoing investigation
  into potential violations” of the Controlled Substances Act,
  according to DEA spokesman Rusty Payne; no arrests were made.
• Several supposed Ku Klux Klan Twitter accounts
  were taken over by Australian Anonymous hackers after KKK
  members threatened to use “lethal
  force” against Ferguson, Missouri, demonstrators.
• Congressional Republicans
  don’t appear inclined to block the District of Columbia’s
  recently-passed measure to legalize marijuana.
• An online poll from PBS finds most folks would
  not support
  an outright ban on tobacco sales.
• The federal jury
  indictment of Mississippi’s longest-serving chief of prisons,
  Christopher B. Epps—he’s accused of accepting more than $1 million
  in bribes from a former state legislator who now owns and
  represents private prisons—could require the state to undertake “a
  top-to-bottom reassessment of its prison-contracting system”.
• Pope Francis
  has confirmed a trip to the U.S. to participate in the
  2015 World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.

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