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Drug sweep nets six By: Kristen Garrett, Times Staff 04/19/2007 Email to a friend Printer-friendly Six people were arrested on drug charges, and warrants were issued for three more people after police swept portions of Beaver County on Wednesday and early Thursday.

The following people were charged with controlled substance possession:

Daniel Costo, 20, of 197 Holt Road, Raccoon To...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Map , News ) -A father says he wasn't trying to shame his 14-year-old son when he made the boy wear a large sandwich-board sign saying, "I abused and sold drugs."

"I'm not out here doing this to humiliate my son," the father told WATE-TV as the teenager walked up and down the sidewalk Wednesday in front of Cedar Bluff Middle School.

"I'm doing this because I lo...

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Prescott Valley Police detectives, who worked 36 hours straight to break the case, arrested Michael Jon Silvius, 20, of Prescott, and David Jacob Madrid, 22, of Glendale, on suspicion of a...

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A father says he wasn't trying to shame his 14-year-old son when he made the boy wear a large sandwich-board sign saying, "I abused and sold drugs."

"I'm not out here doing this to humiliate my son," the father told WATE-TV as the teenager walked up and down the sidewalk Wednesday i...

The Dr. Sean Buckingham trial has been postponed after four jury members and two alternates were excused from duty in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court Thursday morning.

Justice James Adams excused the jurors at their request, for reasons varying from exceptional work commitments to personal health matters.

With only eight jury members left, Adams was forced to delay proceedin...

Science Daily - University of California is launching a new study to evaluate treatments for addiction to prescription painkillers and has openings for patients to enroll.

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Apr. 19 - BCN - The University of California, San Francisco, will participate in the first national effort to study how drugs used to treat heroin addiction might be used to treat prescription drug addiction, the university announced today.

According to the university, an estimated 2.2 million Americans age 1...