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Here’s what the president said, and how it stacks up against the facts.“The federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only: because Democrats will not fund border security.”False.Democrats have offered $1.3 billion in funding for border security measures like enhanced surveillance...
U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier sentenced Anthony John Tozer, 33, on Tuesday in Fargo to 300 months behind bars after pleading guilty to a controlled substance crime that resulted in the death of Faith Burns, a 20-year-old woman who died Dec. 17, 2017, after ingesting...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc is expected on Wednesday to plead guilty to participating in a scheme to pay doctors bribes in exchange for prescribing an addictive opioid medication. FILE PHOTO: A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys, made...
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump held court front and center on Tuesday night as he delivered remarks from the Oval Office in the hopes of convincing the American public and skeptical lawmakers that there is a crisis at the southern border....
Antoun Moore was made eligible for parole at his sentencing for dealing the deadly synthetic opioid. The Erie County District Attorney's Office is pushing for a harsher sentence for a convicted fentanyl dealer who was made eligible for parole at his sentencing last week.The defendant, 20-year-old...
President Donald Trump gave his first primetime address from the Oval Office on Tuesday night to pitch his border wall to the American public.The address came amid a partial government shutdown in its third week – with no clear end in sight.During his address, Trump...
By Olivia Neeley olivia@wilsontimes.com | 252-265-7879 State officials say North Carolina saw an increase in unintentional opioid-related overdose deaths in 2017 compared to the previous year. And it was due to the increase of potent illicit drugs including heroin and fentanyl. There were 1,884 unintentional opioid-related overdose...
WASHINGTON (AP) President Trump delivered his first prime-time address from the Oval Office Tuesday night, reiterating that there is a “crisis” at the southern border but offering no new policy or approach. He did not declare a national emergency, as he has been considering. The partial government...
Trump: "The wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico."The President has made this false claim before. Trump long ago abandoned his 2016 campaign promise that Mexico would pay to build a wall. Instead, he...
In a prime-time address from the Oval Office, President Trump argued there is a "crisis of the heart" when it comes to border security. He pressed Congress yet again to pass $5.7 billion for the U.S.-Mexico border, a demand...
In his prime-time speech to the nation, President Donald Trump wrongly accused Democrats of refusing to pay for border...
President Donald Trump was holding court front and center Tuesday night as he delivered remarks from the Oval Office in the hope of convincing the American public and skeptical lawmakers that there is a crisis at the southern border. His goal: to secure billions of dollars...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Federal prosecutors filed drug-trafficking charges Tuesday against four defendants arrested following a sting operation in which agents acquired more than 10,000 fentanyl pills smuggled through San Diego-area ports of entry.According to a criminal complaint, undercover agents negotiated in December to buy...
Taylor Paul(Photo: Submitted)A woman is accused of providing drugs that led to the death of a Hanover woman in May, according to police.Hanover Police said Taylor Jade Paul provided the drugs that led to the death of Jamie Mickley, 43, on May 4. Police said Mickley's cause...
But senior Trump administration officials, including Vice President Mike Pence and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, have relied on misleading statements to make their case. Trump, who is also prone to repeating debunked talking points about immigration, is set to deliver his Oval Office address...
President Trump will argue his case to the nation Tuesday night that a "crisis" at the U.S.-Mexico border requires the wall he's demanding. (Gregory Bull/AP) Colby...
Data source: Virginia Department of Health. (Click for larger image.) Everyone seems to agree that Virginia, like the rest of the nation, is in the grips of an epidemic of opioid overdoses. Virginia Department of Health (VDH) data show that the number of overdose deaths attributable...
Drug testing groups have warned that a dangerous new strain of synthetic ketamine - a much stronger strain than usual, with longer lasting effects - has arrived in the UK. This follows several people becoming ill after taking what they thought was class B drug...
TRENTON — Eight people die of a drug overdose in New Jersey every single day. For the first time in our state’s history, drug overdose deaths within a calendar year topped 3,000. Figures from the New Jersey Attorney General’s office put the number at 3,163...
Scott Dozier spent years trying to convince the state of Nevada to let him die — even if that meant becoming the first death-row inmate in the United States to be executed using the opioid fentanyl. But months after his execution was once again...
D.C. police and federal officials seized millions of dollars worth of heroin and marijuana from a Northeast D.C. home in what the mayor called the largest-ever seizure of heroin in the region.Authorities seized more than 88 pounds of heroin laced with fentanyl, 40 pounds of...
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The latest absorbing legal puzzle of our times appears in Monday’s Vancouver Sun, which just caught up with a ruling given a few weeks ago in the local Provincial Court. We open on a typical Downtown Eastside scene: police are keeping a eye on a...
Kristen Harding, a spokesperson for the Lethbridge Police Service, said two people died in the early morning hours of Sunday and it is believed both people died of an opioid overdose. An injection kit is seen inside the newly opened Fraser Health supervised consumption site...
CLOSE The opioid crisis in the United States continues to take center stage as the National Institute on Drug Abuse says more than 115 people die of an opioid overdose every day. Buzz60Terrill Spann of Keyport is sentenced to...
A DOUBLE murderer hanged himself in his cell on death row after his execution was postponed twice and he told the state to “get to it”. Scott Dozier, 48, was found dead at Ely max security jail in Nevada, after repeatedly telling the authorities he’d rather...
Joe DiFazio The Patriot Ledger jldifazio Monday Jan 7, 2019 at 11:53 AM QUINCY — A Weymouth woman is facing fentanyl trafficking charges after a months long police investigation. Melissa A. Edwards, 28, of 26 Lakehurst Avenue, was charged with trafficking fentanyl in an amount more than 10 grams, distribution of...
In places like San Francisco, where fentanyl is clearly labeled and not disguised as heroin, some people who are addicted to opioids prefer the powerful synthetic. “Fentanyl is stronger, you need less of it, and it’s cheaper. So why wouldn’t I, as somebody with limited...
The health and social benefits of fentanyl testing were confirmed in a recent study. Most participants, on learning that they had tested positive for fentanyl despite not knowing that they had taken the drug, reported that they would subsequently warn other users about fentanyl while also...
1. Talking about resolutions for the new year, this public official in Rowan County said he or she has a single resolution each year. “I have a sticky note in my office, and it just has two words on it. It just says, ‘Do better.’...
Audrey Gibson wants her Gucci back. And her Chanel, Fendi and Louis Vuitton. Federal prosecutors contend the high-end loot was purchased with the proceeds from a drug operation that peddled fentanyl and carfentanil on the streets of Northeast Ohio. In September, Gibson cut a deal in the case —...
CLOSE The Reno Gazette-Journal reached out to two medical experts to help explain how each of Nevada's lethal injection drugs (fentanyl, diazepam and cisatracurium) work and how they're used in medicine. Marcella Corona/RGJThis undated Nevada Department of Corrections photo...
Community Support Continues to address Fentanyl scourge with Yavapai Silent Witness donation to encourage tips On Wednesday, January 2, 2019, Realtor Bob Beyea representing BloomTree Realty in Prescott, presented a $500 check to Sheriff Mascher for use in the...
Scott Dozier, a death row inmate in Nevada, was found dead in his cell Saturday of an apparent suicide, state department of corrections officials said. Dozier, 48, was hanging from a bed sheet tied to an air vent in his cell at Ely State Prison, the...
"Frightening" is the first word that comes to mind for an emergency physician at the Barrie hospital when asked to describe the city's current opioid crisis. Dr. Chris Martin, an emergency and intensive-care physician at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH)...
"Frightening" is the first word that comes to mind for an emergency physician at the Barrie hospital when asked to describe the opioid crisis. Dr. Chris Martin, an emergency and intensive-care physician at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) in...
Scott Dozier, the death row inmate who said in court he wanted to die, got what he wanted on Saturday. The Nevada Department of Corrections announced that correctional officers found him hanging from...
On this "Face the Nation" broadcast moderated by Margaret Brennan:Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. (read more)Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. (read more) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. (read more)Reps. Colin Allred, D-Texas; Jahana Hayes, D-Conn.; Max Rose, D-N.Y.; Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J. (read more)Dan Balz, Ed O'Keefe, Shannon Pettypiece, Mark...
news, worldA twice-convicted murderer who declared he wanted to die has apparently killed himself in his prison cell after his execution was twice postponed. Scott Raymond Dozier, 48, was found dead by hanging in his solo death-row cell at Nevada's maximum-security prison, authorities said. Dozier's...
Submitted photo East Liverpool patrolman Tony Savina with possible drugs police found inside the Vista Motel on Friday.EAST LIVERPOOL — What began as a vehicle chase by city police on Friday ended with the discovery of a reported missing person in a hotel where a significant...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 6, 2019 / 3:46 AM GMTBy Associated PressLAS VEGAS — A twice-convicted murderer who declared two years ago that he wanted to die, but whose execution was...
A dangerous new designer drug has been discovered in the UK for the first time. Super-strength fake ketamine was found when students fell ill after taking a substance they thought was the Class B drug. Fiona Measham, a criminology professor and director of drug safety...