Tom Parr, Special to The Gleaner Published 7:00 p.m. CT June 8, 2019 CLOSENarcotic overdoses have been dramatically increasing and deaths from opioid narcotics more than tripled...
Jill MoonThe Telegraph, jmoon@civitasmedia.com Updated 12:42 pm CDT, Saturday, June 8, 2019 ...
One overdose could be an accident. 25 by the same doctor probably isn’t.This week, a critical care doctor in Ohio Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System named William Husel was charged with murder in the overdose deaths of 25 patients. Allegedly, he “purposely caused the death”...
McHenry police said Friday a second man has been charged in the drug-induced death of 45-year-old Heather Crimaldi last August. William E. Anderson, 28, of the 26000 block of West Lakeview Avenue in Ingleside, was charged with seven counts of drug-induced homicide and three counts of...
Frank Fagone sentenced to 7-9 years in prison. BARNSTABLE — A 35-year-old Buzzards Bay man was sentenced to seven to nine years in prison Friday after pleading guilty in Barnstable Superior Court in two drug trafficking cases, one of which stemmed from his arrest while out...
Police praised an elementary school pupil for turning in his parents for drug possession after he delivered a suspect package to school last week. The boy told his elementary school teacher in Kennewick, Washington, that he was afraid to return home, worried about possible consequences, KEPR...
Jon Devereaux was drunk when he crashed his friend’s SUV in West St. Paul during a 2013 alcohol-fueled joyride that took the life of a passenger. Now he is linked to the mass South St. Paul overdose case from this past weekend. Police found five men —...
In case it was too much, Hogan was ready with a vial of naloxone, the overdose-reversal drug.Grim drug scenes like this play out every day on the streets surrounding San Francisco’s Civic Center—an area that spans the hard-luck sidewalks of the Tenderloin district and the...
North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP seized fentanyl, methamphetamine and other illicit drugs in two drug investigations in Duncan. In the first case, police arrested a 29-year-old woman for drug dealing in a crime “hot spot” Friday morning. Mounties were patrolling around a business in the 300-block of the...