Chris Mackie, the top public health official for London and Middlesex County, held a Friday press conference with London police chief John Pare to discuss the rash of recent drug overdoses that have killed five London men in the past six days. (MIKE HENSEN, The...
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb has reintroduced legislation creating a grant program to help police obtain portable, chemical-screening devices that can be used to detect the dangerous drug fentanyl.Lamb, D-17, Mount Lebanon, along with U.S. Reps. David Joyce, R-Ohio, and David Trone, D-Md., introduced the Providing...
President Donald Trump doubled down on his claims that there is an immigration “emergency” at the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, during a visit to the border in Calexico, California. “This is an absolute emergency,” Trump said, speaking at a U.S. border patrol station in Calexico, where...
An incapacitated man lies crumpled on the sidewalk in front of the Salvations Army's Centre of Hope in London, Ont. on Friday April 5, 2019. He and a woman ingested what police said was likely fentanyl, leading to the woman overdosing. The woman was revived...
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) — A 42-year-old Rancho Cordova nurse has been indicted by a federal grand jury in a six-count indictment charging her with distribution of fentanyl and oxycodone on the dark net. According to court documents, Carrie Alaine Markis was a registered California nurse accused...
Westbrook police and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested two people at a Saco Street apartment Thursday night and charged them with aggravated drug trafficking of fentanyl and methamphetamine. Aaron Dansky and Kelly Palmer Photo courtesy of Westbrook Police Department Charged were 34-year-old Aaron Dansky...
On March 28, over 77 pounds of suspected heroin or fentanyl were seized in Harlem, New York City. Ariel Hernandez faces drug charges and Luisuidyn Garcia Mena has been charged with conspiracy in the second degree and false personation. Fentanyl is an extremely dangerous substance, with...
A citizen of Mexico living in America who was busted trafficking 25 kilograms of...
COUDERSPORT — Following a three-day trial this week in Potter County Court, a...
Alarmed that Ohio's highest drug overdose death rate now belongs to black men, Gov. Mike DeWine is calling for increased efforts to battle addiction in the minority community.DeWine on Thursday appointed a minority health working group to develop recommendations as part of his RecoveryOhio initiative...