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Police seized a 1995 Chevrolet Cavalier and approximately $450 from a drowsy driver taken into custody in late March after an officer allegedly found more than 100 prescription pills associated with drug abuse in the vehicle he was driving. An Orland...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents of preschoolers at risk for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may first want to try behavior training before they put their children on medications, suggests a new analysis of past studies. Researchers...

Joe Herb McFarlane's legs shook nervously as he awaited the first time he would be in the same room as the man charged with killing his 18-year-old daughter. Jim McPherson, 21, was arraigned this morning on first-degree murder charges in the death of...

Playing Judy Garland in the months leading up to the actress' fatal 1969 overdose, Tracie Bennett spends much of "End of the Rainbow" horizontal — though rarely for more than 10 seconds at a time. The central prop of the bio-musical now playing at...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new government survey suggests the number of people seeking emergency treatment after consuming energy drinks has doubled nationwide during the past four years, the same period in which the supercharged drink industry has...

As long as passions are running hot and heavy in Allentown over whether to hock the city's water system decades into the future, it may be a good time to consider whether to continue injecting poison into that system's drinking water. A little bit of...

An Aberdeen man admitted Thursday to two felony drug charges stemming from incidents in March. Zachariah S. Gage, 25, pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and possession of with intent to distribute 1 once or less of marijuana. He was not sentenced....

Don't get into business to make money. The temptation to quit will be strongest just before you succeed. And take big risks — even if that means angering a ruler-wielding, 6-foot-tall nun. Those were among the lessons billionaire Bob Parsons, the...

It’s a shocking statistic impacting lots of local families – last year in St. Joseph County, more people died from accidental drug overdoses than in car accidents.  Many of those deaths were caused by prescription drugs.  It’s a...

You've got to love Texas. Texas, the state that likes to remind the rest of the nation that it is bigger than England and France combined and was an independent republic before it deigned to be a state. Texas, the state that gave us both the money to...

The family of a 7 year-old is suing, after he almost died when a drug mixup by his pharmacy left him accidentally overdosed on the wrong medication.  The pharmacist's mea culpa may not be nearly enough to avoid legal action and the threat of losing his...

Monday, July 9 2:09 a.m. Assisted sheriff's office with domestic incident on Boyne City Road 8:29 a.m. Report of Florida driver's license lost downtown 10:08 a.m. iPod found over the weekend turned in to police department 10:10 a.m. Civil complaint...