Mother pleads guilty in the death of her 5-year-old son whose body was found in a park

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the 2021 death of her 5-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and neglected, weighing just 19 pounds when his body was found buried in a Massachusetts park, prosecutors said. Danielle...

West Virginia's new drug czar was once addicted to opioids himself

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s new drug czar has a very personal reason for wanting to end the state’s opioid crisis: He was once addicted to prescription painkillers himself. Dr. Stephen Loyd, who has been treating patients with substance use disorder since he got...

New Hampshire woman to plead guilty in the death of her 5-year-old son

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman is preparing to plead guilty in the death of her 5-year-old son, according to court documents. Danielle Dauphinais, 38, will plead guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and two counts of witness tampering in the death of her son Elijah...

2 men plead guilty to providing fentanyl-laced heroin that killed prominent NYC transgender activist

NEW YORK (AP) — Two men have pleaded guilty to providing the fentanyl-laced heroin that killed prominent New York City transgender activist Cecilia Gentili earlier this year, federal prosecutors said Monday. Michael Kuilan, 44, pleaded guilty to a charge that he distributed and...

A Soyuz capsule with 2 Russians and 1 American from the International Space Station has landed in Kazakhstan

Lindor says he'll have to play through pain when he returns to Mets from back injury

NEW YORK (AP) — Francisco Lindor knows what he'll have to endure if and when he returns to the New Yok Mets lineup. “If I play this year, I don’t think it's going to be pain free, and I'm OK with that. I just don't want it to be in constant pain where I can’t bend over, then...

Police saved a baby in New Hampshire from a fentanyl overdose, authorities say

MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Police in central New Hampshire said Friday they saved the life of a baby who was overdosing on fentanyl. A 9-month-old put the drug in their mouth at a home on Thursday and the mother called police on the way to the hospital because “the baby wasn’t doing...

McIlroy loses a club head and the lead in eventful 67 in first round at the BMW PGA Championship

VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) — Rory McIlroy lost the club head on his 9-iron and then lost a chance to take the first-round lead by going out of bounds on the last hole in an eventful 5-under 67 at the BMW PGA Championship on Thursday. The No. 3-ranked McIlroy was two strokes off...

Man who sold fentanyl-laced pill liable for $5.8 million in death of young female customer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2019, Brandon McDowell was contacted by a sophomore in college who asked to buy Percocet, a prescription painkiller. What the 20-year-old sold her instead were counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid that can be lethal in a dose as...

DEA closing 2 offices in China even as the agency struggles to stem flow of fentanyl chemicals

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is shutting down two of its hard-won offices in China, The Associated Press has learned, a move that comes even as the agency struggles to disrupt the flow of precursor chemicals from the country that have fueled a fentanyl epidemic blamed for the deaths of...