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arent education may be key to stemming the alarming increase of substance abuse among Westford youth, according to substance abuse prevention experts.

Westford Against Substance Abuse (WASA) will hold a panel discussion about substance abuse prevention at 7 p.m., Tuesday Nov. 8 in the Stony Brook School Auditorium. Parents and students may attend the panel, which will include Kathy Sizer,...

(AP) NEWARK, N.J. Five people including a father and his two sons pleaded guilty Wednesday to running an illegal drug distribution ring that flooded Connecticut and the Boston area with the powerful painkiller OxyContin.

Louis Gallicchio Sr., 65, and his two sons Nicholas, 38, and Michael, 36, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy, as did Nicholas Gallicchio's girlfriend, G...

For starters, why can't conservative talkers and bloggers accept the fact that Valerie Plame was undercover until exposed in Bob Novak's column? Patrick Fitzgerald spoke in English and did not stutter when he said very clearly at the start of his press conference last Friday, "Valerie Wilson's cover was blown". You can only blow a cover if a cover exists. I can understand why Rush Limbaugh h...

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Carson City deputies are searching for Death in connection with a pharmacy robbery on Halloween.

Deputies say a man dressed as the Grim Reaper entered the Rite Aid at Winnie Lane and Carson Street.

A pharmacy employee told deputies the man said he was hurt and handed-over a note demanding drugs. He then pressed his hand up against his black robe, revealing what the clerk believed w...

Francis Guido's troubles with the developer next door began last winter, when he was in the hospital for knee surgery. Workers for Aberdeen Investments began digging holes for a cluster of new townhouses next to Guido's Old Brooklyn home.

Problem was, they also dug out dirt that held up Guido's driveway. Then they tore out half his fence, propping up what was left with wooden planks. G...

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MORTON--The latest felony arrest for identity theft has police warning the public to take extra precautions with personal information.

Nancy Gonzalez Lopez, of 268 Butane Rd., Morton, was charged with felony identity theft last week after she used someone else's social security number to establish employment at Koch Foods.

Police were alerted to the theft when Crystal Walker report...

A drug round-up took place Tuesday morning, as officers from the Kentucky State Police, KSP Drug Enforemcement/Special Investigations Section, Operation UNITE, and HIDTA participated in the execution of 25 arrest warrants in Pike County, according to a press release from the Kentucky State Police.

The arrests were part of an ongoing investigation by these agencies. Most of the arrests wer...

While Duane Reade is considered convenient for one-stop shopping, a number of people lately have found it an ideal place for one-stop shoplifting.

Police sources said the drugstore chain's branches on the Upper East Side have been targeted by burglars and robbers at an alarming rate, with 40 incidents above 59th Street this year. That number does not include petit larcenies.

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