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Driver in fatal hit-and-run caught with drugs in jail
SAN DIEGO -- A woman who recently served time for a 2010 hit-and-run fatality on a Rancho Penasquitos freeway and admitted helping a prisoner sneak drugs into jail pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlawful possession of marijuana and prescription drugs at...
Tags: Punishment, Trials, Prisons, Judges, Justice System
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Man's drug overdose in Jerome brings murder charge for girlfriend
ghartley@schurz.comROLLA, Mo. -- A woman from Jerome is accused of supplying the prescription drugs that killed her boyfriend last winter. The Phelps County prosecuting attorney last Friday charged Laurie Ann Wilkinson, 43, with second-degree murder and distribution of a...Tags: Trazodone (drug), Murder, Prescription Drugs
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Arrested Glendora doctor was duped by dog X-ray, police say
L.A. NOWThe undercover sheriff’s deputy pretending to be a patient in pain presented a Glendora physician with an X-ray to accompany her tale of an injured back and neck. The only problem was the X-ray revealed a "tail" of a different...... -
Drug-bill battle is lucrative for lobbyists, legislators
TALLAHASSEE — It's a fight between Capitol insiders with pocketbook implications for thousands of injured workers, a battle between doctors selling marked-up medications and insurers trying to protect their bottom lines.
But the two-year conflict...Tags: Corporate Officers, Budgets and Budgeting, Companies and Corporations, Bill McCollum, Regional Authority
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Feds: Chiropractor wanted to start new life, planned to flee country
A Daytona Beach chiropractor who knew he was under investigation planned to flee to the Dominican Republic earlier this month and start a new life there, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. Joseph Wagner, who operated the Wagner Chiropractic &...
Tags: Lawyers, Dominican Republic, Volusia County, Health and Medical Professionals, Justice System
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Rx for Danger: Records: Chiropractor illegally prescribed drugs to patients
In July 2010, a patient of Daytona Beach chiropractor Joseph Wagner accidentally overdosed within days of being prescribed painkillers, muscle relaxers and anti-anxiety drugs.
That patient lived. Five months later, another one of Wagner's patients ...Tags: Daytona Beach, Prisons, Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Alprazolam (drug)
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Monday chatter
Change of SubjectJohn Williams and I touched on four topics today during our weekly chat on WGN-AM 720: 1. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper's announcement that he's gay. My take is that such revelations from already-famous people will become increasingly rare as society...... -
Time for Americans to embrace World Baseball Classic
The World Baseball Classic is coming back next spring, and it's time for the U.S. to remember who invented the game. While the chance to play against the best players in the world is a huge deal for the competitors and fans in places like Japan, Korea,...
Tags: San Diego Padres, Tampa, Freddy Garcia, Grapefruit League, Jason Vargas
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Mom, son educate teens on drug abuse consequences
FOX 5 San Diego Anchor/ReporterPOWAY, Calif. - There is a growing movement to educate parents and students about the dangers of prescription drugs in San Diego. The problem of teenagers using and abusing prescription medication has become such an epidemic, a group of local leaders and...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Heroin, Facebook, Health, Heart Attack
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News Briefs: Syrians attack Damascus suburb
Activists: Syrian troops launch major offensive in suburb of capital Damascus BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say Syrian troops are attacking a suburb of the capital Damascus in what they described as one of the most violent campaigns since the year-old...
Tags: Mitt Romney, OxyContin (drug), Grammy Awards, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chemical Industry
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Houston Drowned With Cocaine In System
Whitney Houston was submerged in bathwater for nearly an hour before a personal assistant found her dead in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, an autopsy report released Wednesday said. The report provided new details on the death of the 48-year-old singer who...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Alprazolam (drug), Health, Heart Attack, David Campbell
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Whitney Houston final autopsy report released
Whitney Houston drowned face down in a tub of hot water about 12 inches deep, the final autopsy report on the singers death said. The Los Angeles County coroner ruled that Houston's February 11 death was an accidental drowning with the "effects of...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Flexeril (drug), Grammy Awards, Heart Disease, Whitney Houston
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