When Amanda Jarczyk rendezvoused with her drug dealer in November of last year, she thought she was buying heroin. But it was fentanyl, and the Cheektowaga woman was dead a short time later. On Thursday, Brittney Ridgeway, the drug dealer who sold the fentanyl to Jarczyk, was...
CLOSE Drug delivery resulting in death was originally classified as a type of murder in Pennsylvania, but now it's a felony and the charge is getting used a lot more frequently. Sean Heisey, York Daily RecordBrandon Beatty, 36, of...
Mom Karen Juergens and stepfather Ken Stevenson with a photo of their late son, Darren Robinson. PNG KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Darren Robinson had turned his life around.The 38-year-old met a woman, found faith, planned to attend culinary school and passed on his passion for skateboarding to his...
Lauren K. Spencer's guilty plea to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Zachary R. Brown wrapped up a case in which the drug dealer recently was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the deaths of Brown and one other man. A 28-year-old Columbus woman was...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video SCRANTON, Pa. -- The Lackawanna County coroner says a spike in deaths this week is likely tied to opioid overdoses; nine people have died in less than a week. The district attorney is...
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) - There is another indication the opioid abuse in our region remains a serious problem. The latest example is what's happening in Scranton where nine people have died of...
CONCORD, N.H. – A former physician assistant has been convicted of receiving more than $49,000 from a drug manufacturer in exchange for writing more than 700 fentanyl spray prescriptions. Christopher Clough, of Dover, New Hampshire, was convicted Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and the receipt...
NWT Chief Justice Louise Charbonneau dashed any hope Darcy Oake had of being home for Christmas, refusing the accused fentanyl trafficker’s request for bail. “I’m not insensitive to the accused’s plea to spend the next few weeks [at home with his family],” Charbonneau said in Yellowknife...
An overdose naloxone kit is displayed at a safe-injection site in Vancouver. B.C. (John Lehmann/For The Washington Post) (JOHN LEHMANN/For The Washington Post) More than 9,000 Canadians have died from apparent opioid-related overdoses since 2016 – more than 2,000 between January...