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FAIRVIEW PARK, OH — A Cleveland man has been accused of selling fentanyl and heroin that caused a fatal overdose in Fairview Park in 2018, the Department of Justice announced over the weekend. "Defendants like this one, who sell the opioids killing our friends and...

TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) - A man from Battleground was arrested early this morning after police found him with drugs and several guns. It happened around 1:45 Sunday morning. Deputies from the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the Speedway Gas Station on State Road 43...

Everybody could see the deadly firepower on the table at Toronto Police Headquarters in full display last week.What they couldn’t show — seized in massive quantities during Project Kraken — was the 11,033 grams of deadly fentanyl.“It’s not here because of the risk factor of...

Fentanyl continues to kill.Over a thousand people died of opioid overdose in Ontario in the first nine months of 2018.There were 3200 such deaths across the country during that period. Most of these deaths, 93%, were accidental.About 75% involved fentanyl.All those unintended deaths attest to...

By KATHRYNE RUBRIGHTStaff Writer Drug possession charges for methamphetamine are outpacing charges for heroin and cocaine this year in Hancock County, and are on track to double compared with 2018. In 2015 and 2016, just three or four charges were filed each year for meth possession, according...

Lauren Braxton, Toni Braxton’s niece, died of a heroin and fentanyl overdose, according to autopsy results. On June 26, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Maryland told People magazine that Lauren Braxton died of an overdose from heroin and fentanyl intoxication. Lauren Braxton died in...