Overdose Response & Public Health

5+ hour, 14+ min ago   (161+ words) JOPLIN, Mo. (KOAM) -- Joplin police arrested a man in a suspected drug overdose investigation at the city jail. Multiple ambulances responded to the Joplin City Jail on Tuesday regarding inmates who were unresponsive from suspected overdoses. During the ongoing investigation,…...

18+ hour, 18+ min ago   (655+ words) Two kittens rescued after being buried alive in Hobe Sound are recovering in foster care and showing signs of remarkable progress just days after investigators say they survived a tragic act of animal cruelty. Kali and Amara, two approximately 4-week-old…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (223+ words) College is an exciting time of independence, learning, and trying new things. However, sometimes dangerous situations arise, and professional help is necessary. Did you know that the state of Nebraska has a Good Samaritan Law specifically to protect underage students…...

23+ hour, 58+ min ago   (556+ words) EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- Doña Ana Fire Rescue crews assisted Doña Ana County Animal Control in rescuing a cat that was reported stuck under a car. Just after 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, firefighters were dispatched to a home off North…...

22+ hour, 8+ min ago   (378+ words) Four people, including three children, were killed and others injured in an Oregon elementary school shooting. The shooter is dead. by Brian Schnee, KUTV SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Two years after Gov. Spencer Cox announced Utah’s Fentanyl Task Force, its…...

21+ hour, 54+ min ago   (455+ words) Published Oct 15, 2026 at 5:49 p.m. ET Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday announced the unsealing of an indictment charging two men in connection with the fatal fentanyl poisoning of a college student who authorities say was also raped, and the near-fatal…...

18+ hour, 6+ min ago   (83+ words) WECT Man charged with death by distribution in July overdose death Car flips, lands on roof in rollover crash at River Road and Sedgley Drive Two people from central North Carolina die from West Nile virus Judge declares mistrial in…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (518+ words) Words said in anger can come back to haunt you. In a recorded call, Gypsy Rose Blanchard admitted to telling Urker that she “hoped” that he would overdose. It is believed that he died precisely that way earlier this month,…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (416+ words) Newly obtained 911 audio is shedding light on the frantic response when Hayden Panettiere was found unresponsive in a Greenville, South Carolina, apartment in August. “Oh, god, oh, my god — you do like CPR or something?” the caller can be heard…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (108+ words) The Draconid meteor shower should be visible again Friday night, but there could be an equally impressive light show worth looking up for: the… There is no denying the Pittsburgh Steelers are shorthanded on offense in terms of playmakers at…...