First Responders

If five pedestrians died at a busy crosswalk in a 72-hour period, or five people died in a week from toxic lettuce, the clocks would stop, as the poets say, the authorities would cluster, everything menial set aside.But five sons or fathers or mothers who...

At the beginning of a video released by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a police officer is exposed to fentanyl and experiences symptoms of an overdose. The video serves to highlight the risks to first responders who may be exposed to...

North Bay Police Service SUV. Photo by Stu Campaigne, Moose FM An update on a late February motor vehicle collision and the subsequent investigation that has led North Bay Police Service to lay charges beyond the scope of the collision itself. The crash resulted in Pinewood...

A Philadelphia man who has been in the Blair County Prison since his arrest for heroin sales in August 2017, stated in a federal petition that he wants help for his mental health problems and he is not getting it.Keith Charles Christian, 45, filed a...

Maine State Police said they have arrested a New Hampshire woman who was listed on Strafford County New Hampshire’s most wanted list. In a post on Facebook, state police said they arrested 34-year-old Lace Meatty of Rochester, New Hampshire, at a home in Lebanon on Friday...

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,...

Addiction is a difficult subject to discuss because it is often complex. For one, drug addiction is a law enforcement matter, which brings a moral element to the discussion. Theft is clearly wrong, as is assault. But moral judgment when it comes to drug addiction...