Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEDec. 26, 2018 / 11:13 PM GMTBy Janelle GriffithThe former CEO of a drug company that produced a powerful and addictive painkiller containing fentanyl for cancer patients has...
Researchers have reported that a newly developed vaccine that could combat both opioid dependency and overdose has yielded what appear to be positive results in animal testing. The vaccine, which uses monoclonal antibodies – antibodies made by identical copies of immune cells – appeared to block...
FILE PHOTO: A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys, made by Insys Therapeutics Inc, is seen in an undated photograph provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama. U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama/Handout via REUTERS...
A Halifax man who was caught with large quantities of fentanyl and cocaine in his apartment has been handed a six-year...
December 26, 2018TRI-CITY AREA — Christmas came a little early for the family of John Topie, a former teacher and award-winning coach who was sentenced in March, 2017 to 5-15 years in prison for armed robbery.Lapeer County Circuit Court Judge Nick Holowka issued the sentence...
One at a home, the other at a hotel Four days before Christmas, Ocala police officers assisted in reviving two people who suffered drug overdoses. They were separate instances at different locations, with less than half an hour between the two.On Christmas Day, officers again assisted...
Christopher Ladon PopeAn Ocala man who agreed to accept a ride from a Marion County sheriff’s deputy last week became violent and had to be tasered after he was...
By Anna Rumer - December 25, 2018 Mac Miller's mother is counting her blessings during the first holiday season without her son. The late rapper's mom shared a photo of her Christmas Eve dinner...
The past week and a half has been kind of a good-news, bad-news cycle.Last week, the Brennan Center for Justice released its revised preliminary analysis of crime and murder in the nation’s most populous cities for 2018. Good news: The Brennan Center’s “early snapshot” report...