A Cop’s Worst Nightmare
Photo: Sandra Standbridge (Getty Images) When you’re a cop, terror lurks around every corner. You’re working the 22nd-most-dangerous job in the United States, with nearly as many annual deaths as …
Fentanyl
17 arrested in alleged scheme to smuggle drugs including fentanyl from Mexico to California
Federal authorities say they have broken up an alleged scheme to smuggle drugs, including fentanyl, from Mexico to the United States by hiding the illegal drugs inside fire extinguishers. A …
Opinion | China-US cooperation on fentanyl shows value of putting politics aside
A year later, a bipartisan team of US lawmakers led by Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer highlighted the necessity for resumption of talks on a visit to Beijing a year …
Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola case: Digital evidence leads to clues in deaths of friends dumped outside LA hospitals by masked men
This story originally aired on April 15, 2023. Hilda Marcela Arzola-Plascencia, a doctor in Durango, Mexico, was used to handling medical emergencies. But nothing prepared her for the call she …
Santa Clara County supervisor blasts secrecy of state report in baby Phoenix’s death
SAN JOSE – Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian railed against the California Department of Social Services on Tuesday for refusing to release an investigation of the county’s child welfare …
Torrance man who provided fentanyl that killed 2 people in Redondo Beach is sentenced to 26 years – Daily News
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County man who admitted supplying fentanyl that caused two deaths on consecutive days in Redondo Beach hotel rooms was sentenced Monday to 26 years …
Oregon decriminalized drugs in 2020. Now officials are declaring a fentanyl state of emergency
The governor of Oregon has declared an emergency in the city of Portland a few years after the state became the first in the nation to largely decriminalize drug use. …
US, China launch working group to address opioid crisis
Senior officials from the US and China will meet in Beijing on Tuesday to launch what is described as a high-level working group to resume formal bilateral cooperation on counternarcotics …
B.C. sets grim record with 2,511 toxic drug deaths in 2023
The B.C. Coroners Service says there were more than 2,500 suspected illicit drug deaths in the province last year, the highest annual number recorded. In announcing the grim number, B.C.’s chief coroner Lisa Lapointe …
“PBS NewsHour” spotlights Colorado’s surge in alcohol deaths
“PBS NewsHour,” the nightly newscast seen on hundreds of public television stations across the United States, on Wednesday evening spotlighted The Denver Post’s four-part special report on the surge …