Muscle Relaxers

CALEXICO — Four teens are in critical condition after overdosing on the prescription medication Baclofen on Wednesday night. The teens, ranging in age from 14 to 17 years, were found floating in water in the spa section of an apartment complex in...

CALEXICO — The teens who overdosed on prescription medication here Wednesday night are in much more stable conditions, authorities said Friday. Three of the four teens who were hospitalized are now in stable conditions and off ventilators, with an...

Most of us have seen the commercials warning parents and other adult family members to safeguard their prescription medications from teenagers. Those warnings hit home this week when eight Imperial County teens in two cities and two separate cases...

More details are being released about the four Calexico teens who overdosed on medication Wednesday night. Two boys and two girls were airlifted after taking 10-milligram pills of Baclofen, a muscle relaxant, said Calexico Police Chief Jim Neujahr. The...

A Volusia County chiropractor accused of prescribing painkillers and muscle relaxers to patients using another doctor's name pleaded guilty to federal charges in Orlando on Tuesday. Joseph Wagner, who is prohibited from prescribing controlled...

BROOKLYN, NY (KTLA) -- A former butcher who plead guilty to kidnapping, killing and dismembering an 8-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison on Wednesday. The 36-year-old Aron admitted killing the child after the boy...

Monterey Park police Monday arrested a man in connection with a string of ginseng and sea cucumber burglaries over the last month, authorities said. Man Van Truong, 56, of Van Nuys, is believed to have driven a dark-colored Honda used......

A Van Nuys man was under arrest Wednesday in connection with a string of ginseng and sea cucumber burglaries over the last month in Monterey Park....

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...

ROLLA, 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...

The 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......

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...