Pa. Judge OKs Killing Bugs on Drugs
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ERIE, Pa. - These weren't just bugs. These were bugs on drugs.  Tiny drain flies infested 70 pounds of seized khat - an illegal, leafy drug - being held as evidence by Erie police, and they tried to infest the rest of the evidence room.
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SCRANTON, Pa. - Schuylkill County Prison officials took an inmate's prosthetic leg when they found tobacco hidden in it, tossed it around until they broke it and refused to return it, the former inmate said in a federal lawsuit against the county, the prison and officials.
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Leaders of a Pennsylvania town that cracked down on illegal immigrants went to court to defend their practices Monday, as a judge in Missouri ruled that nearly identical ordinances in a St. Louis suburb violate state law.
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By Rusty Marks  rustymarks@wvgazette.com  Tuesday was a bad day to make methamphetamine.  A countywide drug sweep sent at least three people to jail on drug charges.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio  - The state of Ohio on Thursday put to death a man who killed his prison cellmate, after executioners worked for more than an hour to find the right veins in which to inject lethal chemicals.
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WILLIAMSON COUNTY -- Franklin-Williamson Bi-County Health Department officials reported Friday that a blue jay found dead near the Williamson County Courthouse in Marion Thursday has tested positive for West Nile Virus.
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KANO, Nigeria  - A Nigerian court on Monday ordered the arrests of three of the defendants in a trial over a drug test conducted by Pfizer  in 1996 which Nigerian authorities say killed 11 children and left others disabled.
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KANO, Nigeria  - A Nigerian court on Monday ordered the arrests of three of the defendants in a trial over a drug test conducted by Pfizer in 1996 which Nigerian authorities say killed 11 children and left others disabled.
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EcoSMART, a plant oil pesticide launching at retail stores in the Boston  area this week, kills bugs just as effectively as traditional pesticides  registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), without  risk to humans, pets, endangered species and the environment.
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A manufacturing plant in Ohio was using the banned substance that ended up in feed for farmed fish, shrimp and livestock.
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SPRINGFIELD - Hoping to curtail the illegal production of methamphetamine, Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday signed into law a measure restricting the sale of certain over-the-counter medications that can be used to make the drug.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. May 26--A federal judge ruled Friday that the permit that allows massive Delta water delivery projects to kill a tiny endangered fish is illegal.
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China's food and drug agency announced stricter rules Wednesday for approving new drugs, a day after its former head was executed for accepting bribes to approve untested medicine. The government also ordered small, loosely regulated food producers to clean up their act.
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State officials said a 49-year-old woman from Lancaster County has been diagnosed with West Nile virus. This is the fourth human case of the virus in Pennsylvania confirmed by state officials this year.
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Harris County health officials raised concerns last week when they suggested pesticides that are safe enough to spray in residential neighborhoods might no longer kill mosquitoes within a decade.
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Nine suspected drug dealers were sent to county prison Friday after a sweep by the county's Drug Task Force.           Police served search warrants on suspects they allege were involved in dealing heroin, crack cocaine and powdered cocaine on Lancaster City streets during the past year.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. An 86-year-old man is Pennsylvania&#39;s first fatality of the year from West Nile virus. The Health Department says the victim was a York County resident who had been hospitalized with complications from the disease.