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 <title>Fla. paramedic says addiction led to robbery...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;SPRING HILL, Fla. — A Citrus County paramedic said that his addiction to pain pills led him to rob a CVS pharmacy in Spring Hill at knife point earlier this week, Hernando deputies say.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brandon Scott Johnson, a 25-year-old Spring Hill resident, was arrested Friday evening by the Citrus County Sheriff&#039;s Office and charged with robbery with a deadly weapon.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Johnson, an employee a...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:53:02 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Va. doctor convicted of drug trafficking for  prescribing large ......</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A pain-management doctor who prescribed large amounts of opiates and drew patients from across the country to his northern Virginia clinic has been convicted on 16 counts of drug trafficking by a federal jury.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The jury acquitted William E. Hurwitz on 17 other counts on Friday, and a judge dismissed 17 others, including the most serious charge, drug trafficking resul...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:53:02 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Man Charged With Robbing Pharmacy With Butter Knife...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;SPRING HILL, FL (AP) -- Authorities say they&#039;ve arrested a Citrus County paramedic who used a butter knife to steal pain pills from a Spring Hill CVS pharmacy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deputies say Brandon Scott Johnson -- an employee with the county&#039;s private EMS service -- confessed to threatening a pharmacist with a butter knife and stealing 140 pills of Oxycontin -- a prescription pain medication.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aut...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:53:01 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Hurwitz Jurors Explain Their Verdict...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Since the verdict in the Hurwit trial on Friday, I’ve interviewed three of the twelve jurors, and they told pretty much the same story. They said that the jury considered Dr. William Hurwitz to be a doctor dedicated to treating pain who didn’t intentionally prescribe drugs to be resold or abused. They said he didn’t appear to benefit financially from his patients’ drug dealing and that ...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:53:02 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Armed standoff ends peacefully; drugs connected to armed  robberies...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Armed standoff ends peacefully; drugs connected to armed robberies&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;AUGUSTA (April 30): The following information was compiled by the Public Information Office for the Maine Department of Public Safety: Advertisement&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Trooper David Pelletier from Troop C reportedly almost single-handedly resolved the Friday, April 20 standoff inside a Wal-Mart in Augusta. Minutes after Philip Urquhart...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:53:03 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Four teens arrested for drug sales...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Four teenagers were arrested Thursday for illegal drug sales after a two-month investigation by the Douglas County Sheriff&#039;s Office Street Enforcement Team.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the investigation, officers made controlled purchases of cocaine, marijuana and Ecstasy. Large quantities of Oxycontin and morphine also were seized.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The suspects ranged in age from 16 to 18 and included three high schoo...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:53:07 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Doctor Convicted a Second Time of Drug Trafficking...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;ALEXANDRIA - A pain-management doctor who prescribed massive amounts of opiates and drew patients from across the country to his Northern Virginia clinic was convicted on 16 counts of drug trafficking by a federal jury on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The jury acquitted William E. Hurwitz on 17 other counts, and a judge dismissed 17 more , including the most serious charge - drug trafficking resulting in death...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:53:02 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Suspect says addiction led to robbery of CVS...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;News  Hernando Fill out this form to email this article to a friend&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SPRING HILL - A Citrus County paramedic said that his addiction to pain pills led him to rob a CVS pharmacy in Spring Hill at knife point earlier this week, Hernando deputies say.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brandon Scott Johnson, a 25-year-old Spring Hill resident, was arrested Friday evening by the Citrus County Sheriff&amp;#39;s Office and char...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:53:03 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Prescribing painkillers can land docs in hot water...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;MOST patients take medicines only grudgingly if at all. Even if it&#039;s something absolutely essential, like diabetes medicine or blood pressure pills, they will let themselves run out and give us fits for fear they&#039;ll have a heart attack or stroke.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But there is one subset of patients who are just the opposite. They turn up in the front office and make a scene. They call every hour. They f...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:53:03 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title> Va. Doctor Convicted of Drug Trafficking...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;A pain-management doctor who prescribed large amounts of opiatesand drew patients from across the country to his northern Virginiaclinic has been convicted on 16 counts of drug trafficking by afederal jury.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The jury acquitted William E. Hurwitz on 17 other counts onFriday, and a judge dismissed 17 others, including the most seriouscharge _ drug trafficking resulting in death.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:53:02 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Crosswalk sting planned for throughout county...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The Douglas County Sheriff&#039;s Office and the Nevada Highway Patrol will be working a joint traffic safety detail throughout Douglas County.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The specialized enforcement detail is made possible by a grant from the Department of Public Safety/Office of Traffic Safety. The officers working this enforcement detail will be concentrating their efforts on drivers who fail to yield to pedestrians ...</description>
 <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:53:12 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Kennedy completes probation he received after car crash...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;PROVIDENCE &amp;#8212; U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy has received an early release from his court-ordered probation following his late-night automobile accident in Washington, D.C., last May.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;District of Columbia Superior Court Magistrate Aida Melendez approved early termination of the congressman&#039;s probation on April 10, more than two months before it was scheduled to end.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;He finished al...</description>
 <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:53:01 -0500</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;INVERNESS — A man suspected of jumping a counter at a local CVS Wednesday night and threatening a pharmacist with a knife was arrested at a fire station Friday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brandon Scott Johnson, 25, of 3060 Barbados Ave. in Spring Hill, was charged with one count of armed robbery and was being held at the Citrus County Jail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone called a local Crime Stoppers hotline and told deputies Johns...</description>
 <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:53:02 -0500</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Indianapolis - Gov. Mitch Daniels has vetoed legislation that would have given tax breaks to the film industry, saying it would cost the state too much money.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bill would have given a 15 percent refundable tax credit for media projects produced in Indiana, including film or television projects costing more than $100,000 and commercial, music or new media projects costing more than $50,...</description>
 <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:53:03 -0500</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt; ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A pain-management doctor who prescribed large amounts of opiates and drew patients from across the country to his northern Virginia clinic has been convicted on 16 counts of drug trafficking by a federal jury.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The jury acquitted William E. Hurwitz on 17 other counts on Friday, and a judge dismissed 17 others, including the most serious charge - drug trafficking res...</description>
 <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:53:02 -0500</pubDate>
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