Another spike in opioid overdoses has public-safety and health officials scrambling to locate the source and sound the alarm. According to Lowell Fire Chief Jeff Winward, three people died from suspected overdoses last weekend in Greater Lowell. There were 21 overdoses overall last...
LOWELL -- The Police Department has formed a three-member Board of Inquiry to investigate three patrolmen who have been placed on paid administrative leave for potential inconsistencies with evidence, The Sun has learned. While the board investigates, the Lowell Police Department will not...
Eager for a historic trade agreement, US President Donald Trump is claiming done deals with China that are not measuring up to the hype. He describes last week’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as “extraordinary” and a “big leap forward”. China,...
About a week ago at the G20 meetings in Buenos Aires, over a dinner that featured sirloin steak, caramel-rolled pancakes and glasses of Malbec, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly talked trade, tariffs and fentanyl. The first two have grabbed headlines...
In a race between law enforcement and narco-criminals, chemistry is king and the drug makers have numbers on their side.Between 2012 and 2015, six fentanyl-related drugs were developed in China for the black market. In 2016, that number was 66, and in the following year...
A Hollywood man accused of selling the synthetic opioid fentanyl to buyers on Craigslist was indicted Friday, Dec. 7 on charges of selling the powerful drug to a customer who died of an overdose. A federal grand jury in Los Angeles charged Andrew Madi, 25, with...
The number of WA state residents who've died from overdoses or misuse of illicit versions of the powerful narcotic Fentanyl in the first half of 2018 is nearly double that of 2017.The Washington State Department of Health (WSDH) released new information this week, showing 81...