OxyContin (drug)

The Maine Department of Corrections announced Friday that its Inner Perimeter Security network has reported three recent drug busts that yielded Suboxone strips, a white powdery substance believed to be cocaine and crushed oxycodone. The first bust...

A Stafford County doctor and former hospital chief who was arrested Friday on multiple felonies prescribed tens of thousands of doses of narcotics to clinically fragile patients with existing drug addictions, according to disciplinary files and criminal...

A man who said he used a toy gun to rob a Saucier pharmacy of pain pills has received a 20-year prison term with an order to serve 12 years day for day. John William Reeter told a judge he had painted a toy gun black so it would look like a 9-mm handgun...

Oceana is a misnomer, a small town at the confluence of the Clear Fork and Laurel Fork rivers in the mountains of southern West Virginia, some 400 miles from the nearest ocean. Lately, locals have given it a more accurate appellation. They call it Oxyana....

Mark C. Jackson testified Thursday in his two-day drug trafficking trial in 12th Judicial District Court. Prosecutors rested their case against Jackson Thursday afternoon but plan to have rebuttal witnesses testify today after Jackson's defense attorney...

It's a tale of two cities. In Oceana, hardworking, God-fearing people try to make ends meet with what they have. As in many West Virginia coal mining communities, production in Wyoming County isn't what it used to be. But there is hope. In Oxyana,...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Since 2011, more than 65 people have died in Wyoming County from drug-related incidents, said T.L. Riffe, a sergeant with the Wyoming County Sheriff's Office. That includes murders that resulted from drug activity, but Riffe guessed...

Four arrested in a raid on a South Point house will be in Lawrence County Municipal Court today for arraignments on drug charges. Asim McCoy, 32, of Huntington, W.Va.; Joseph Whaley, 22 of Ironton; and Benjamin Willis, 32, and Amee Pyles, 28, both of...

On Saturday afternoon, two elderly women dropped of a small brown paper bag full of old pills to Lawrence County Sheriff Deputy Derek Newman. Newman collected the bag and gave the women a window decal to display on their home that read "no...

The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe is struggling with what its leaders call a widespread problem with prescription drug abuse and have terminated the doctor who the band says made narcotic painkillers too readily available to his patients. Dr....

Nine Lewis County residents caught up 10 days ago in "Operation Spring Sweep" swept through County Court on Friday for arraignments on felony charges that they sold drugs in the village. The suspects -- all of which were arrested April 18 stemming...

A DeLand police officer this morning ran over and killed a man who was attempting to flee a traffic stop, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The man was identified as Marlon Robert Brown, 38, of Sanford, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. A...