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A Detroit-area couple have been charged in the Christmas Day death of their 18-month-old daughter who died of a drug overdose, according to prosecutors. Antonio Floyd, 28, and Shantanice Barksdale, 27, were charged in the December 25 death of Ava Floyd in Clinton Township, reported the Detroit...
Fatal overdoses are continuing their grim march upward in Maryland, and the bulk of the deaths continue to be...
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Two Michigan parents were charged Tuesday with the murder of their infant daughter, who prosecutors say had an “extraordinary” amount of fentanyl in her system at the time of her death. Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith announced second-degree murder charges for Antonio Floyd, 28, and Shantanice...
A Beaverton man who used a darknet marketplace to buy 86,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills filled with fentanyl and then distributed most of them in Oregon was sentenced Tuesday to eight years and one month in federal prison.Assistant...
America has a national security and humanitarian crisis at our southern border, and President Donald Trump has promised to end it. We’ve already taken important steps, but rather than work with us to make further progress, Democrats in Congress have refused to compromise on the...
Still reeling with grief over the death of his wife, David Austin said he was "dumbfounded" when he received a call from Mount Carmel Health System in December to tell him that she had been given an overdose of drugs."In other words, they killed her," Austin...
JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - A Jackson County deputy is recovering after an accidental Fentanyl overdose Tuesday. Sheriff's officials say the deputy responded to a call about a shoplifter at the Goodwill on Highway 71 in Marianna when it happened. When deputies approached the suspect, Wanda Mercer...
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A second lawsuit has been filed against a Mount Carmel doctor who has been accused of prescribing “grossly inappropriate” lethal doses of fentanyl to 27 patients.The latest lawsuit was filed in Franklin County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday. It names Mount Carmel Health...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 16, 2019, 2:23 AM GMTBy Associated PressCOLUMBUS, Ohio — An intensive care doctor ordered "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of pain medicine for at least 27...
Black Mountain resident David Steven Bell. (Photo: Asheville Police Department)ASHEVILLE — The North Carolina man accused of pushing and punching a child Saturday at the Asheville Mall also was charged with assault against two 13-year-old girls, according to arrest warrants obtained Monday.David Steven Bell, 51, is due...
CLOSE The newest tool in the fight against opioid overdoses is an inexpensive test strip that can detect the presence of a potentially deadly painkiller. (Sept 17) APA Michigan couple is facing murder charges in the Christmas Day death of...
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- For the third time in less than a week residents living near a Tower District complex have crime scene tape, patrol cars and hazmat teams surrounding their neighborhood."I came earlier and they wouldn't let me out of my home," neighbors didn't...
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Police announced Monday that troopers confiscated $16,982,054 worth of cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin, fentanyl and other prohibited drugs in the fourth quarter of 2018. From Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, state police seized nearly 224 pounds of cocaine and 26 pounds of heroin. Troopers also confiscated...
Officials at Mount Carmel Health System says they’ve notified authorities about a doctor accused of giving “significantly excessive and potentially fatal doses” to more than two dozen near-death patients. In a statement Monday, Mount Carmel CEO Edward Lamb said they’ve fired the doctor, identified in...
Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus investigating intensive care doctor. COLUMBUS An intensive care doctor in the Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus has been fired after being accused of giving excessive and potentially fatal doses of the powerful painkiller fentanyl to at least 27 patients...
Some roads were closed in Fresno’s Tower District on Monday afternoon as police searched for evidence at a residence related to a fentanyl investigation.Earlier in the day, a coalition of law enforcement and health officials held a news conference at the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office...
OROVILLE — The man who died Saturday in what Chico police have described as a massive overdose incident has been identified. The Butte County Coroner’s Office said Monday he is Aris Turner, 34, of Chico. The Coroner’s Office said an autopsy is pending, and it was not...
One person died and 12 others were hospitalized in a mass overdose in Chico on Saturday. (Kayla Fitzgerald -- Enterprise-Record) (Photo: Picasa)Butte County officials are trying to determine whether overdoses reported today at the casino in Oroville are related to the mass overdose that happened over...
CLOSE The newest tool in the fight against opioid overdoses is an inexpensive test strip that can detect the presence of a potentially deadly painkiller. (Sept 17) APA Michigan couple is facing murder charges in the Christmas Day death of...
FRESNO, Calif. - A Fresno man is dead, and two other men have been hospitalized, after police said they overdosed on fentanyl last Monday. The opioid...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WBNS-TV) -- A Mount Carmel West doctor, nurse and pharmacist have been accused of ordering and providing lethal doses...
CHICO (CBS13) — The opioid epidemic is hitting close to home. This weekend in Chico one man died and a dozen others were rushed to the hospital after overdosing on fentanyl. The incident happened on the 1100 block of Santana Court. Chico Police Chief Michael O’Brien says...
A California journalist reporting at the scene of a mass overdose was attacked during a live broadcast, footage shows. KRCR reporter Meaghan Mackey was livestreaming a report on fentanyl overdoses in Chico that left at least one dead and 12 hospitalized on Saturday when bystanders interrupted...
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(ABC News) Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. (ABC News) CHICO, Calif. (ABC News) - One person is...
One man dead and 12 more hospitalized after 'mass overdose' in California caused by fentanylAuthorities arrived at a home in Chico around 9am on Saturday after receiving a 911 call from someone insideOne...
A man was killed and 12 other adults were injured after overdosing on what is believed to be fentanyl...
(CNN) — For the first time on record the odds of accidentally dying from an opioid overdose in the United States are now greater than those of dying in an automobile accident. The grim finding comes from the National Safety Council which analyzed preventable injury and...
CHICO -- California authorities believe the powerful opioid fentanyl is responsible for a mass overdose event that left one person dead and hospitalized over a dozen others. Chico police responded to a call at a home on Santana Court early Saturday morning. When they arrived they...
One person is dead and 12 others hospitalized after suspected fentanyl overdoses in California that sickened two responding police officers, authorities said. Of the 12 overdose victims, four remained in critical condition hours after authorities responded to a 911 call around 9 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday at...
More people died nationwide of drug overdoses in 2017 than ever before, with a high concentration of those deaths in mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. (Photo: DNY59, Getty Images/iStockphoto)For the first time ever, Americans' odds of dying from an accidental opioid overdose are higher than from a...
Image: GettyIn Northern California, a “mass causality overdose” caused by fentanyl has left one dead and 12 hospitalized, with four of the victims in critical condition.According to NBC News, authorities in Chico, California were called at 9 a.m. on January 13 and arrived to...
The Daily Mail is reporting one man dead and 12 more hospitalized after ‘mass overdose’ in California caused by fentanyl. According to The Sacramento Bee, authorities arrived at a home on the 1100 block of Santana Court around 9am on Saturday after receiving a 911 call from someone...
A two-month-old infant narrowly survived a fentanyl overdose in a Sherbrooke, Que. hospital after she was given nearly three times the necessary dose by hospital staff, according to a medical report reviewed by Radio-Canada."The doctor told us, if she had been in a room elsewhere else, if she had...
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CHICO, Calif. — A mass drug overdose at a home in Chico, California, has killed one person and sent more than a dozen people to hospitals, police said. Chico Police Chief Michael O’Brien said the main substance involved is believed to be fentanyl — the most...
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Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 13, 2019, 9:44 PM GMT / Updated Jan. 13, 2019, 9:45 PM GMTBy Daniella SilvaThe chief of a Northern California police department investigating what is suspected to be a...
A mass fentanyl overdose incident in Northern California on Saturday left one dead and at least a dozen others hospitalized.At a news conference, Chico, California police captain Mike O’Brien said one man died at the scene and four other victims are in critical condition, reported...
Police in Northern California responded to a “mass casualty overdose” situation on Saturday that resulted in one death and a dozen people hospitalized.Authorities said that the incident was caused by exposure to the deadly opioid fentanyl, which also affected two responding officers, according to NBC...
Police said a mass overdose at a residence in Chico, California, has caused one death and 12 people to be hospitalized, adding that the number of fatalities could still rise. “Certainly there is potential for additional fatalities, I want to emphasize that,” Chico Police Chief Michael...
It could be considered more than a little perverse to greet the news of a fentanyl overdose event in Chico with a demand that drugs should now be legalised. But it is actually logical to do so. For what has killed here is the dosage...
A “mass overdose” in a California home Saturday morning left one person dead and another 12 hospitalized after police say the victims may have ingested fentanyl, a powerful opioid.Chico Police Chief Michael O’Brien said at a press conference that police received a 911 call from someone...
CHICO, Calif. — Around 9 a.m., Chico Police and Fire departments responded to a house in the 1100 block of Santana...
One person is dead and a dozen others were rushed to the hospital after an apparent mass fentanyl overdose in Chico, California, on Saturday morning. Four of those taken to the hospital are in critical condition, according to authorities. Police called the 13 people "friends and...