A deadly new chapter in the fentanyl crisis has emerged in Texas as a Laredo woman becomes the first person in Webb County to face a murder charge under Texas’ tough new law.

Teen drug use is on the rise with opioids gaining popularity especially among girls ages 12 to 17, according to an alarming ...

Chris Luke, also known as C-Critt Veda, knows the siren song of addiction all too well. Now Luke is turning his past into ...

South Lake County Rotary Club is committed to fighting the scourge of opioid abuse including fentanyl, and its overdose ...

Nearly 22,000 pounds of fentanyl were seized at US borders during the 2024 fiscal year, according to data from the US Customs ...

Murder cases over drug overdoses are rare. An investigator reported cameras tied two Oklahoma County jail inmates to another ...

A UCLA research team has found that drugs being sold as fentanyl contain high amounts of the industrial chemical ...

During 2023-24 seizures of street drugs laced with carfentanil - a highly potent analog of fentanyl - rose by 720%. Despite ...

With initial tests indicating positive cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in commercial poultry in five ...

A bill that would allow New Mexico judges to issue longer prison sentences for certain fentanyl trafficking convictions cleared its first House committee hurdle Friday. But some lawmakers cautioned ...

A Webb County grand jury indicted Melanie Ashley Villarreal for the murder of Juan Miguel Esquivel on Wednesday, February 5.

An Austin-area man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on charges that he sold fentanyl-laced pills that authorities said led to the non-fatal overdose of a Hays County teen in 2022.