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The heroin epidemic that has plagued the nation’s urban and rural communities alike had not spared West Virginia, but nothing prepared Cabell County officials for 26 overdoses in a four-hour span last week. The wave of misery was focused in a Huntington public housing complex, where victims injected from a batch of the drug believed to have been laced with Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid up to 100 times more potent than morphine. Investigators believe two fatalities that occurred during the same time period could be related. “We have never seen anything like this before to this magnitude,” said Gordon Merry, Emergency Management Service director for Cabell County. Related Imag...

The storm system that wreaked havoc on Louisiana, where four people died and 20,000 had to be rescued, is working its way into the Midwest, where officials are braced for major flooding. The storm system first moved west into Texas, then pivoted northeast, prompting flood waings in southe Illinois after five inches of rain fell on the region. National Weather Service forecaster Kim Humphrey said Sunday the storm system has cleared battered southe Louisiana, but said there is now "potential for flooding" to the north. Forecaster Kim Humphrey of the NWS station in Lake Charles, said there is “potential for flooding” in that region. The bad news for surrounding regions came as parts of ...

The European policy Germans call “Willkommenskultur” -- the enthusiastic embrace of refugees from Syria and other Muslim-majority countries -- has morphed into a summer of terror. Loose screening of refugees, lax counter-terrorism policies and lenient treatment of those with terrorist links or sympathies has led to a spate of attacks by terrorists already flagged by authorities. Tuesday’s attack in France, where a jihadist already under house arrest slit a priest’s throat, came just two days after a suicide bombing in Germany by a terrorist who a medical expert had predicted would “commit suicide in a spectacular fashion.” Critics say such cases are piling up. "It has happened in Franc...

An 8-year-old boy was reportedly found unconscious in a swimming pool aboard the Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Sea cruise ship Thursday night and is in critical condition. According toCBS New York, the boy was found in the swimming pool on the ship at around 8 p.m. Officials told the station that the child had gone at least 18 minutes without oxygen. The New York Post reported early Friday the boy was in critical condition. The ship was about 10 miles offshore from Queens, New York when the child was discovered. Royal Caribbean said in a statement that its medical team onboard the ship had treated the boy, but required additional attention. The ship also altered its course and retued t...

Wildfires continued to bu in Califoia Sunday, scorching nearly 60,000 acres and claiming two lives as 4,500 firefighters battled the six blazes, which stretched from the Klammath National Forest in Northe Califoia to the Mexican border in San Diego County, according to the Califoia Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, The Los Angeles Times reported. The most destructive fire is in Ke County, known as the Erskine fire, which has bued more than 35,000 acres and destroyed more than 150 homes. At least two people were killed in the Erskine fire, and authorities have reported what may be a third victim. The Ke fire is about 5 percent contained. Gusty winds and low humidity put parts ...

Wildfires continued to bu in Califoia Sunday, scorching nearly 60,000 acres and claiming two lives as 4,500 firefighters battled the six blazes, which stretched from the Klammath National Forest in Northe Califoia to the Mexican border in San Diego County, according to the Califoia Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, The Los Angeles Times reported. The most destructive fire is in Ke County, known as the Erskine fire, which has bued more than 35,000 acres and destroyed more than 150 homes. At least two people were killed in the Erskine fire, and authorities have reported what may be a third victim. The Ke fire is about 5 percent contained. Gusty winds and low humidity put parts ...