Texas nurse gets life in 10 drug deaths
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A former nurse was sentenced Thursday to life in prison on charges that she killed 10 hospital patients with drug injections because she found them too demanding.
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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  - A nursing student shot two women to death and killed herself in front of horrified classmates at a college in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana on Friday, police said.
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Thailand on Tuesday morning confirmed infection of bird flu virus was the cause of a woman&#39;s death, the 10th death of the epidemic in the kingdom.
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A former nurse told investigators in a recorded interview last year that depression drove him to kill as many as 40 patients over a 16-year period.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. The family of a Tennessee woman who died while taking experimental AIDS drugs blames her death on doctors and drug makers.
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A teenage student has become the latest victim in Dallas to die from a powerful and highly addictive new street drug known as 'cheese'. The rise of the drug, a mixture of black tar heroin and powdered headache tablets, has been described as an epidemic.
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Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to receive a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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A $10 million dollar lawsuit has been filed by the family of Joyce Ann Hafford, a pregnant woman who died while taking experimental AIDS drugs.
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The husband of former state Controller Kathy Augustine was convicted Friday of killing her by injecting her with a paralyzing drug that FBI experts detected in her system months after her death.
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A former prison nurse pleaded guilty Monday to killing a corrections officer while helping her inmate husband escape and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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More than half of women imprisoned in Mexico are convicted for drug-related crimes.
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Colorado State University officials said a 20-year-old student whose body was found over the weekend appears to be the latest in a string of alcohol-related deaths involving Colorado students this fall.
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The family of a woman who died in hospital while on suicide watch say lessons must be learned.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Ten gang members were given  lengthy prison terms for the murders of 12 women in a Mexican  city on the U.S. border where hundreds of women have died in a  mysterious 12-year killing spree, court officials said on  Friday.
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When Romelia Vargas was gunned down in the catering truck where she fried taquitos, police had few answers for her husband. Maybe the mother of twin baby boys got into trouble selling drugs &#151; that was the best they could offer.
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Nurse Teresa Mazeika has known the woman knitting in the blue reclining chair for months. But she asks Carolyn Harlow her name and birthday anyway, as she approaches with chemotherapy for Harlow's blood cancer. Mazeika, a 17-year nursing veteran at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, isn't taking any chances that she is about to give the drug to the wrong patient.
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C arolyn McCarthy was a content homemaker and a nurse before gun violence blew up her life. Yesterday, she found a moment of peace when a promising piece of gun-control legislation cleared the House.