Overdose tracking systems are giving near real-time glimpses into the ravages of the opioid-fueled drug crisis By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press December 23, 2019, 12:38 PM 5 min read ALBANY, N.Y. — Drug overdose patients rushed to some emergency rooms in New York’s Hudson Valley are asked a series of questions: Do you have stable […]
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Image copyright PA Media Image caption Caroline Flack was charged with assault on 13 December TV presenter Caroline Flack has pleaded not guilty to assaulting her boyfriend at her flat in London. Police were called to her home in Islington on 12 December after reports of a man being assaulted and she was charged the
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Image caption The pack of cards cost £1.50 from Tesco A factory in China has denied it used forced labour after a six-year-old girl found a message from workers inside a Tesco charity Christmas card. The card supplier, Zhejiang Yunguang Printing, told China’s Global Times it had “never done such a thing”. Tesco halted production
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Beethoven’s trail is around every corner in Vienna. Citywide celebrations next year include “Fidelio” in all three versions: The State Opera will present a new staging of the original score (“Leonore”) by the director Amélie Niermeyer (Feb. 1-14) and revive its classic Otto Schenk production in the final 1814 edition (April 22 to May 2).
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Over the past decade, states have increasingly turned to a powerful tool to stop drunken driving before it starts: miniature breathalyzers, wired into a car’s electronics, that prevent the engine from starting unless the person behind the wheel is sober enough to drive. These devices, called ignition interlocks, have been remarkably effective. One study found
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The Cincinnati Bengals were one loss away from getting the first pick in the NFL draft. They nearly blew it By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer December 23, 2019, 7:06 AM 4 min read They tried to give it away. But when the Cincinnati Bengals really needed to come through, they did. How many times
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OKLAHOMA CITY — At the age of 16, an “Okie” known to her friends as Liz Herring and to her family as “Betsy” graduated from Northwest Classon High School, her professional prospects limited by her gender and her politics fairly conservative. On Sunday afternoon, she returned to the high school more than a half-century later
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Russia has vowed to retaliate against the U.S. sanctions against a new Russia-Germany pipeline, the work on which was suspended on Saturday December 23, 2019, 11:18 AM 2 min read MOSCOW — The Russian government has vowed to retaliate against U.S. sanctions on a new Russia-Germany pipeline, work on which was suspended on Saturday. U.S.
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MCADENVILLE, N.C. — On the last Saturday of November, Kathy Ramsey was alone in her bakery, preparing for the onslaught. Over the next month, 600,000 people would visit McAdenville, a town of just 665 residents, for its annual spectacle: Christmas Town, USA. “Normally, I’ve got three or four other girls here helping out,” said Ramsey,
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Let’s just say absence makes the hikes grow longer. When I was 22 and in the best shape of my life, I used to hitchhike into the mountains of Réunion Island every weekend to take in the dizzying views and moss-draped forests of the highlands. I spent a year there after college, teaching English in
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