Here’s what the president said, and how it stacks up against the facts.“The federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only: because Democrats will not fund border security.”False.Democrats have offered $1.3 billion in funding for border security measures like enhanced surveillance...
U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier sentenced Anthony John Tozer, 33, on Tuesday in Fargo to 300 months behind bars after pleading guilty to a controlled substance crime that resulted in the death of Faith Burns, a 20-year-old woman who died Dec. 17, 2017, after ingesting...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc is expected on Wednesday to plead guilty to participating in a scheme to pay doctors bribes in exchange for prescribing an addictive opioid medication. FILE PHOTO: A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys, made...
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump held court front and center on Tuesday night as he delivered remarks from the Oval Office in the hopes of convincing the American public and skeptical lawmakers that there is a crisis at the southern border....
Antoun Moore was made eligible for parole at his sentencing for dealing the deadly synthetic opioid. The Erie County District Attorney's Office is pushing for a harsher sentence for a convicted fentanyl dealer who was made eligible for parole at his sentencing last week.The defendant, 20-year-old...
President Donald Trump gave his first primetime address from the Oval Office on Tuesday night to pitch his border wall to the American public.The address came amid a partial government shutdown in its third week – with no clear end in sight.During his address, Trump...
By Olivia Neeley olivia@wilsontimes.com | 252-265-7879 State officials say North Carolina saw an increase in unintentional opioid-related overdose deaths in 2017 compared to the previous year. And it was due to the increase of potent illicit drugs including heroin and fentanyl. There were 1,884 unintentional opioid-related overdose...
WASHINGTON (AP) President Trump delivered his first prime-time address from the Oval Office Tuesday night, reiterating that there is a “crisis” at the southern border but offering no new policy or approach. He did not declare a national emergency, as he has been considering. The partial government...
Trump: "The wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico."The President has made this false claim before. Trump long ago abandoned his 2016 campaign promise that Mexico would pay to build a wall. Instead, he...