CLEVELAND, Texas – The number of adolescent overdoses involving fentanyl has been on the rise for over a decade causing some school districts to stock up on the opioid reversal drug Narcan. Superintendent, Stephen McCanless of Cleveland Independent School District, just outside of Houston, Texas, says shocking statistics drove him …
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ALBANY, N.Y. – A revised plan for dealing with non-native mute swans in New York involves less shooting and more management. The original plan proposed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation in 2013 called for eliminating wild populations of the elegant white birds by shooting them and destroying their …
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MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. – Police say a 2-year-old Pennsylvania boy found a handgun on a bed and shot himself in the leg while his mother and her boyfriend were showering. Investigators say the toddler took the .45-caliber gun from an upstairs bedroom at the boyfriend’s Montoursville home Thursday and played with …
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POST FALLS, Idaho – The distraught woman messaged police this week telling them she was going to hurt herself, but she refused to pick up her phone. So dispatchers with Post Falls police used text messages — about 60 or so over the next hour — to help the woman. …
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SAN FRANCISCO – The booming popularity of outdoor kitchens among homeowners in the San Francisco Bay Area has an increasing number of their neighbors coughing and hacking from the smoke, leading air-quality officials to consider tightening rules on wood-burning pizza ovens and smokers. Residents are calling complaint lines and public …
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JACKSON, N.J. – New Jersey authorities have decided that pictures posted on social media by a teenager of herself dressed like Hitler and of a popular Orthodox Jewish gathering spot with the caption “perfect bombing time” were not criminal. Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, …
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ASPEN, Colo. – The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado says the body of a skier who died in an Aspen Mountain avalanche has been recovered. The body had been found Monday afternoon at the bottom of a snow-covered chute at about 9,400 feet after a fellow skier notified emergency …
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The American Civil Liberties Union is calling for an independent investigation into conditions at Ohio’s super-maximum security prison amid a long-running hunger strike. The protest at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown began March 19 to draw attention to recreation and programming restrictions, including a ban on …
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A former mob enforcer in Rhode Island with ties to late New England crime boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca has died in a federal prison in North Carolina. Gerard T. Ouimette was 75. The Federal Bureau of Prison’s website reported that Ouimette, who had lived in Fall River, …
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BISMARCK, N.D. – A federal jury in North Dakota will soon be deciding the fate of a man accused in a Jamaican lottery scam that authorities say cost victims around the country millions of dollars. Attorneys are giving closing arguments in U.S. District Court in Bismarck in the case of …
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