Police, Community and Calendar Briefs for April 18, 2014

Police, community and calendar briefs for April 18, 2014
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A judge has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for firing a shot at another man at a Silver Springs barbershop. A jury delivered a guilty verdict against Marcellus Charlemagne, 43, who was charged …. The deputy noted that Weaver was a habitual … Read more on Ocala

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez hailed as literary giant
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Other nonfiction pieces profiled Venezuela's larger-than-life president, Hugo Chavez, and vividly portrayed how cocaine traffickers led by Pablo Escobar shredded the social and moral fabric of the writer's native Colombia. In 1994, he founded the … Read more on WIS

 

Canada Allows Medical Marihuana Access Regulations to Continue Under

Canada Allows Medical Marihuana Access Regulations To Continue Under
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Marijuana is not a drug. It is medicine. Sometimes those lines get blurred. Even though we use "drug" interchangeably to describe medicine, drugs hurt people. Under MMAR, marijuana is still a drug. Even under MMPR it is a drug. People get hurt, not by … Read more on Seeking Alpha

 

Unwanted Prescription Drugs Can Be Discarded at Environmental Fair This Saturday

Unwanted prescription drugs can be discarded at Environmental Fair this Saturday
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National Drug Take Back Day is slated for Saturday, April 26. Officials will be … Emergency room visits involving abuse of prescription or OTC drugs increased 21% from 2004 to 2005 and nearly half of the patients under the age of 20 had abused DXM … Read more on Idaho State Journal

 

Study suggests marijuana not as benign as many think
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Shereda Finch, executive director of Council on Substance Abuse-NCADD (National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence) in Montgomery, said when a younger person uses marijuana, their brain is just not developed yet and the drug will have … Read more on Montgomery Advertiser

 

Oscar Like Eugene Terre'blanche – Jani Allen

Oscar like Eugene Terre'blanche – Jani Allen
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Paralympian Oscar Pistorius talks to his lawyer Barry Roux before the start of court proceedings of his murder trial on Monday, 24 March 2014 at the high court in Pretoria. Pistorius is accused of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp whom he … Read more on Citizen

 

1 manslaughter charge against Baldi dropped
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“Baldi never prescribed cocaine, of course,” Cook said then. The trial on the other nine charges against the doctor is expected to take several weeks. Baldi, 51, denies any wrongdoing. Cook contends the deaths were caused by patients taking more … Read more on DesMoinesRegister.com

 

Chelsea Handler to Land Daytime Show?

Chelsea Handler to land daytime show?
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The 'Wrecking Ball' hitmaker – who was admitted for medical treatment on Tuesday (04.15.14) after suffering a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics – admits she is frustrated at having cancelled two gigs on her 'Bangerz' tour and can't wait to check … Read more on Castanet.net

 

No One Walks Off The Island
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To stay awake, Despaigne says, the lancheros snorted lines of cocaine. Despaigne is not ashamed to admit that he did …. In the plan's first stage, El Rubio made use of an unlikely emissary in Pacheco, whose own options for keeping Puig to himself … Read more on ESPN

 

TIMELINE: Key Events During Mayor Rob Ford's Time in Office

TIMELINE: Key events during Mayor Rob Ford's time in office
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According to the document, Alexander Lisi, a friend and former driver for Ford, made threats, saying that he and the police would run through the neighbourhood. Lisi allegedly put … He later apologized with his wife by his side at city hall and said … Read more on 680 News

 

Police make major push against Phoenix-area drug suppliers
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PCP is an addictive hallucinogenic drug that can be snorted, smoked, injected or swallowed, according to The Partnership at Drugfree.org, a non-profit drug education organization. The drug can cause … "They were dealing in PCP, meth (and) crack cocaine. Read more on Arizona Republic