Chicago gang targeted in heroin deaths
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Federal prosecutors Wednesday charged more than three dozen members of a Chicago street gang with running a drug ring that sold crack cocaine, marijuana, heroin and the potentially lethal prescription painkiller fentanyl.
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Diabetes killed an increasing number of New York City residents last year, ranking for the first time among the five leading causes of death in an annual summary of vital statistics released yesterday by the health department.
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Three brothers and a friend were killed in a neighborhood not far from the French Quarter, and two other people were gunned down in separate incidents hours later, authorities said Saturday.
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Five slain prostitutes were mourned Thursday at a memorial service, and police identified one victim as a woman who told reporters days before her death that she was afraid of a suspected serial killer but ...Comment
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The death of the influential Southern rapper Pimp C, below, has been ruled an accident attributable to an overdose of drugs celebrated by Three 6 Mafia and the Pimp C group Underground Kingz in the 2000 single âSippinâ on Some Syrup,â The Associated Press reported. The Los Angeles County coronerâs office identified the drugs as codeine and promethazine, essential ingredients of âsyrup.â The coronerâs office said Pimp C, whose real name was Chad Butler, had sleep apnea, an ailment that can cause breathing during sleep to stop for as long as 30 seconds. Capt. Ed Winter of the coronerâs office said that sleep apnea, combined with large amounts of prescription-strength cough syrup, killed Pimp C on Dec. 4 in West Hollywood, Calif. He was 33.
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The death last month of troubled 25-year-old actor Brad Renfro was caused by a heroin and morphine overdose, according to the coroner's report released Friday.
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Six prison workers were shot to death and left outside a lockup in this border city, officials said Thursday, following a crackdown against drug gangs at jails across the nation.
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. (antiMUSIC) Medical examiners have found that rapper Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard died from an accidental overdose of cocaine and a prescription pain medication.
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Police in South America&#039;s largest city have been placed on maximum alert following a shootout in which 13 suspected gang members were killed trying to carry out a plan to attack prison guards.
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At least 13 performers have been murdered this year, in apparently drug-related bloodshed. Are musicians being targeted, or merely collateral damage in the drug war?
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Three more people in Wayne County have died from what authorities suspect is a combination of heroin or cocaine and fentanyl, a prescription painkiller.
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Gang killings in the city dropped sharply last year after local, state and federal agencies worked together to crack down on street violence
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Three people were shot to death and two others were wounded Saturday in what authorities say was a targeted attack at an apartment.
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DEKALB, Illinois  - A man who killed five students and himself during a shooting spree at an Illinois college had stopped taking medication and become erratic in the last two weeks, buying two guns used in the bloodbath just six days ago, officials said on Friday.
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Three people were fatally shot and several people injured, including two police officers, in a shooting at a strip club early Tuesday morning, authorities said.
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YELLOWKNIFE (CP) - The case of a parole officer apparently killed while she was visiting a client has devastated her colleagues.
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Victims who lost relatives, homes and belongings in Tropical Storm Jeanne are now tormented by street gangs who attack food convoys, raid homes at night and shoot those who get in their way.