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In overdose deaths, should homicide charges be filed? These officials say no.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn Aug. 31, 2018, Heather Crimaldi asked her brother Christopher to buy her heroin in McHenry...
Drug Dealers Did Not Kill Cecilia Gentili. Prohibition Did.
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 2 months agoCecilia Gentili | Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/Newscom A federal indictment unsealed this week...
British man charged with homicide after Portugal festival attendee from UK fatally stabbed
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA British man suspected of killing a fellow festival-goer in Portugal while suffering a drug-induced...
Elgin man arrested for drug-induced homicide in Palatine motel overdose: police
WFLD via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoPictured is 34-year-old Jarrail Ford-Gresham. PALATINE, Ill. - A 34-year-old Elgin man is behind...
As fentanyl overdose deaths rise, SC lawmakers consider homicide charges for suppliers
The State McClatchy via AOL· 1 year agoWhile many states have responded to the recent rise in opioid overdose deaths by enacting tougher,...
Two arrested on murder and homicide charges
WHBF Davenport via Yahoo News· 1 month agoTwo people were arrested in conjunction with a death investigation. On December 22, the Mercer County Sheriffs Office and Mercer County Coroner’s Office...
Champaign man charged with drug-induced homicide in overdose
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOct. 16—URBANA — A Champaign man who allegedly sold a man fentanyl that led to his death in July is in police custody. Dewon D. King, 33, for whom no address was given, was arraigned Monday ...
Jailing drug dealers doesn’t save lives. KC’s opioid epidemic is a health crisis
Kansas City Star McClatchy Articles via AOL· 2 years agoThe face of Ashton Harmon-Manser on a billboard hangs high above a busy strip of Interstate 70 in...
NYC launches program to reexamine gay bar drugging and homicide cases
NBC Universal via AOL· 1 year agoNew York City officials announced Thursday a new program to re-examine unsolved drugging, robbery...
These mothers lost children to opioid overdoses. They offer new approach to drug crisis.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAimee Dunkle often ruminates about the call that could have saved her son's life. A friend was with...