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Hearing delayed for Utah author of children's book on grief who is charged in husband's death
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah judge on Wednesday postponed a hearing to determine if prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed to trial in the case of a woman charged with fatally poisoning her husband before she published a children’s book about coping with grief. Judge...
Editorial Roundup: Minnesota
Minneapolis Star Tribune. May 10, 2024. Editorial: ‘Longer we wait, the more people will die’ Legislature should seize the opportunity to pass legislation to help those whose lives have been upended by the opioid epidemic. Serving as the jail...
Local governments struggle to distribute their share of billions from opioid settlements
Settlement money to help stem the decades-long opioid addiction and overdose epidemic is rolling out to small towns and big cities across the U.S., but advocates worry that chunks of it may be used in ways that don't make a dent in the crisis. As state and local governments navigate...
Editorial Roundup: New England
Portland Press Herald. May 5, 2024. Editorial: On gun safety, Gov. Mills fell short By vetoing a ban on bump stocks and opting not to support the 72-hour waiting period, the governor let Mainers down. Gov. Janet Mills’ veto of a bill that would have...
Seattle to open short-term recovery center for people after a fentanyl overdose
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle will open a new space for people to recover and receive treatment for nearly 24 hours after they have overdosed on fentanyl or other drugs, Mayor Bruce Harrell announced Thursday. The center is slated to open near the Pioneer Square neighborhood in mid-2025...
Editorial Roundup: Georgia
Dalton Daily Citizen. May 6, 2024. Editorial: Consider foster care In a perfect world, every child would have a home. It is not a perfect world. May is National Foster Care Month. Foster Care Month exists to raise awareness...
Pennsylvania will make the animal sedative xylazine a controlled substance
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will sign legislation to criminalize the misuse of a powerful animal tranquilizer called xylazine that is showing up in supplies of illicit drugs and contributing to a growing number of human overdose deaths, his office said Wednesday. ...
Children are dying of fentanyl by the dozens in Missouri. A panel is calling for changes
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Fentanyl deaths among Missouri babies, toddlers and teens spiked as child welfare officials struggled to adequately investigate the cases, a state panel found in a newly released report. Forty-three youth died — 20 of them under the age of 4 — in 2022...
At least 9 dead, dozens treated in Texas capital after unusual spike in overdoses
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities in Texas are investigating at least nine deaths this week in connection with an unusual spike of opioid overdoses in Austin that health officials are calling the city's worst overdose outbreak in nearly a decade. Emergency responders in the Texas...
Georgia governor signs bill into law restricting land sales to some Chinese citizens
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed a bill into law limiting the ability of some Chinese citizens to buy land in the state. The bill, SB420, echoes measures already signed into law in numerous other states. It bans any “agent” of China from buying farmland...
