Eight people have died of drug overdoses in Richland County so far this year. Several other cases are pending. “It’s just a continuation of what’s been happening,” Richland County coroner’s Investigator Tom Stortz said. “We’re hoping at some point it starts to slow down. It’s so hard to stop it.” Because of the scope of […]

Anthony D. Scott, 28, of Columbus was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 240 months in prison for distributing the heroin that led to the overdose death of a Columbus man in August 2013. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, James V. Allen, Acting Special Agent in Charge […]

On May 14, 2014 the Chillicothe Police Department with assistance from the Ohio Organized Crime Commission served a search warrant at 151 E. Fairview St., Chillicothe, Ohio. This came about after investigation by narcotics detectives in reference to three overdoses at that residence in that last month. Four persons were located in the house and […]

The country’s drug abuse problem has plagued the American dream, but lives have been shattered at a local level and officials have seen enough. Lorain County recorded 67 deaths related to opiates last year. According to City Manager Eric Norenberg, four opiate-related overdoses in 2012 resulted in two deaths in Oberlin, where a forum was […]

No peeking. Off the top of your head, what's in your medicine cabinet? BandAids, antibiotic cream, perfume (you're supposed to keep good perfume out of the sunlight), tweezers, antacids, aspirin or one of the aspirin substitutes, cough syrup and, probably, leftover prescriptions. You know the prescriptions I mean. The pain killers you got when you […]