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Virginia Middle School Students Suspended for Oregano Possession
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsA few Virginia parents would probably like to know what local school administrators are smoking. Seventh-grader Adam Grass and three other students at Hickory Middle School in Chesapeake, Va., were suspended last week after being caught with what teachers initially thought was a bag of marijuana but turned out to be a stash of oregano, The Virginian-Pilot reports. Unfortunately for the disciplined boys, now facing expulsion, there isn't much of a difference between Italian herbs and Mary Jane, at least in the state's eyes. According to school board member Christie Craig, Virginia has a ...
Strange Confessions: Inmate Allegedly Admits Hiding Pills in Her Privates
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsHonesty is the best policy -- except when you're trying to sneak drugs into a jail. Corrections officials in Florida say inmate Sara King openly admitted she was carrying contraband in her vagina while being strip-searched before beginning a 30-day drug possession sentence Feb. 23. According to a police report obtained by the The Smoking Gun, when a deputy at the Manatee County Jail asked "if she had anything on her she was not suppose [sic] to have," the 25-year-old inmate offered this response: "Just my pills in my vagina." ...
Cops: Cheech and Chong Duo Sold Pot From Ice Cream Truck
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsSome movies are ripped from the headlines, but this crime story seems like it comes straight from the movies. In a scheme reminiscent of the plot of a Cheech and Chong film, police in Louisiana have accused two men of possessing marijuana and selling it out of an ice cream truck in Mathews, radio station WWL reports. Deputies from the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office say Johnathan Trahan and Hunter Pitre were pushing pot from a dessert truck -- much like the protagonists of the 1981 marijuana comedy "Nice Dreams," in which Cheech and Chong peddle a potent form of marijuana ice cream from an ...
Study: 'Fragile' Progress in Halting AIDS Epidemic
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Nov. 23) -- The number of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths has fallen dramatically worldwide, leading researchers to cautiously report that the deadly epidemic has been slowed or even halted for the first time, according to a global study. The UNAIDS annual report found a nearly 20 percent decrease in new HIV infections globally and an almost 20 percent decline in deaths among those infected with HIV from 2004 to 2009. Sergei Supinsky, AFP / Getty Images A nurse cares for a terminally ill patient at an HIV/AIDS clinic in Kiev, Ukraine. A new study shows a dramatic drop in the ...
Every Cop in Mexican Town Quits After Station Attack
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- The entire 14-man police force in a northern Mexican town has resigned en masse after their station came under fire from suspected drug traffickers. The police headquarters in Los Ramones, a rural town about 40 miles east of Monterrey, is pockmarked with bullet holes after gunmen drove up to the station and unleashed a torrent of automatic weapons fire that also included barrages from grenade launchers. More than 1,000 bullet casings littered a yard where local officials had held a ceremony to inaugurate the new station just three days earlier. No one was injured, but six ...
GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $750M Fine for Sale of Bad Drugs
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 26) -- Another day, another hard pill to swallow for GlaxoSmithKline. On Tuesday, the pharmaceutical giant agreed to pay $750 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging that the company sold defective and potentially dangerous medication. The U.S. Justice Department brought suit against GSK after finding that the company's Cidra, Puerto Rico, factory produced drugs sold to consumers that were often mislabeled, of the wrong dosage and contaminated with micro-organisms. "Today's settlement reminds the pharmaceutical industry that they must observe those standards and reflects ...
Arrested Man Thanks Police For Finding Long-Lost Bong
By Ben Muessig - AOL News
(Oct. 20) -- Getting arrested for drug possession doesn't have to be a complete buzz kill. The deputies who arrested a Florida man on marijuana charges reportedly helped him find a bong he had lost seven years earlier. Police pulled over Mark Fiasco and Matthew Hawley, both 23, in Manatee County just at midnight on Friday because their license plate light was out, according to Bradenton.com. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=686529&pid=686528&uts=1287518413 ...
Police: 5th-Grader Takes Pot to School, Turns in Parents
By David Lohr - AOL News(Oct. 18) -- An elementary school student in North Carolina took lessons he learned from a drug awareness program to heart last week by turning in his own parents for breaking the law, police say. The fifth-grader, who attends an elementary school in Matthews, N.C., recently took part in a DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program at his school. The program, which was started in California in 1983, is intended to give children valuable skills for resisting the allure of drugs, gangs and violence. The Matthews community has its own DARE officer who spreads the organization's message to ...
Police Raid Wrong Home, Frighten Elderly Couple
By David Lohr - AOL News
(Oct. 8) -- An elderly couple say a Chicago police narcotics unit mistakenly raided their home late at night, causing thousands of dollars in damages. Eighty-four-year-old Anna Jakymek said she was preparing for bed late Thursday, when she heard loud noises in her Southwest Side home. Jakymek initially thought her 89-year old husband Andrij, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, had fallen out of bed, but quickly realized something else was going on, the Chicago Tribune reported. E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune / MCT Andrij and Anna Jakymek where startled by a late-night raid on their ...
Seattle Genetics Develops New Tumor-Shrinking Cancer Treatment
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Sept. 27) -- A collaboration between a pharmaceutical company and a biotech firm has yielded a new Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment that can shrink tumors by 75 percent in a wide swath of patients. Seattle Genetics is the biotech innovator behind the new therapy, which was designed in conjunction with Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. In a company-funded trial of 102 advanced lymphoma patients, who hadn't responded to other treatment efforts, researchers determined that the new drug -- SGN-35 -- radically reduced tumor size in more than half of the patients. Although lymphoma treatments have made ...
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