Every year on April 20, thousands of people gather in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to hold a marijuana festival. A San Francisco mayoral candidate has expressed her firm stance against this festival. “This event is a violation of [the] Constitution,” Ellen Lee Zhou, said. “It’s...
"I'm used to being off camera," says Bob Anderson. "The producer is better not seen and not heard."But on 60 Minutes this week, the longtime producer was both seen and heard while conducting what's known as an...
Everyone here at Patch hopes you had a great weekend this weekend. If you were off your phones, tablets, or computers, here is a rundown of some of the news and posts you missed: The latest drug death data shows fentanyl still ravaging the...
Chicago police say two West Side men with criminal histories going back decades were arrested last week as part...
ALBANY - Kate Centofanti is believed to have been clean from heroin for more than a year prior to her September 2016 death. But troubles in her life, a car break-in and loss of hours at work, are believed to have led her to relapse,...
By now, you may know a family shattered by the opioid epidemic. In 2017, there were 47,000 opioid deaths. That's more Americans than were killed in vehicle accidents or by firearms. One drug, fentanyl, is like rocket fuel in the sharp rise of this crisis....
RED BOILING SPRINGS, Tenn.—A mayor in Tennessee who is up for re-election has been arrested after allegedly attempting to get a pill press used to make illegal drugs. The Macon County Sheriff’s Office on April 25 arrested Red Boiling Springs Mayor Joel Coe two days before...
Vials and patches of fentanyl were reported missing from Canadian hospitals at a rate of about twice a week over a 15-month period ending on Jan. 1, 2018, according to federal records obtained by the Star.In total, the records reveal 138 incidents of lost fentanyl,...
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