Tag: drugs

GALLIANO, La. (AP) — Louisiana authorities are perplexed over why a man left apparent designer bags holding drugs, a gun, cash and a digital scale in a convenience store. The man went into the store…

TOPEKA, Kansas — One solution to Kansas prisons’ woes could come with a $35 million price tag for three new specialty prisons. The state’s corrections system only treats half of its inmates who struggle with…

It’s official: Americans are dying earlier. Preliminary signals of declining health were neither a false alarm nor a statistical fluke. A reversal of American life expectancy, a downward trend that has now been sustained for…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — More than 450 inmates walked out the doors of prisons across Oklahoma on Monday as part of what state officials say is the largest single-day mass commutation in U.S. history. The…

A collaborative effort involving the Allen and Bourbon county sheriff’s departments and the Chanute Police Department brought about multiple arrests and citations. The results were announced Sunday by Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy. The operations…

Riley Schmidt, a junior at Humboldt High School, worries her peers are putting themselves in danger by vaping. ?They don?t understand the health effects it has and will have on them,? she said. ?I don?t…

We offer our thanks to the volunteers from out of state who came to Baltimore to clear trash and found themselves helping save two apparent overdose victims. They were here to do a good deed…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 30-year-old woman admitted to punching, biting and kicking a child she accused of stealing her drugs, according the Leavenworth County District Attorney’s office. Amber Nicole Bass pleaded guilty Monday to…

CHANUTE — Allen County sheriff’s deputies partook in a joint investigation that led to 16 arrests Thursday related to distribution of methamphetamine. The Chanute Police Department detailed the arrests in a press release, calling the…

MAPLE HILL, Kan. (AP) — Northeast Kansas officials say they found drugs worth about $9 million after a police dog alerted them to the presence of narcotics. The Wabaunsee County Sheriff’s Office said in a…