Valium (drug)

LANCASTER — A Garrard County woman whose body was found on her porch this summer died of an accidential drug overdose, officials said. Angela “Ann” Salata, 47, was found dead on the porch of her 118 Ridgecrest Drive home on July 10,...

LANCASTER — Every single death of a person under 50 in Garrard County this year was drug or alcohol related, according to a report presented during Monday’s Fiscal Court meeting. Garrard Coroner Daryl Hodge has responded to an unusually...

A former corrections officer at Northpoint Training Center pleaded guilty Thursday in Boyle Circuit Court to attempting to bring illegal pills into the prison. Jesus Cabrera, 38, of Danville entered a guilty plea to first-degree promoting contraband...

When he died, Michael Jackson had a cocktail of anti-depressant and mood drugs in his system as well as a level of the anesthetic propofol typical of a patient undergoing major surgery. The revelation came during testimony Monday in the lawsuit Jackson'...

Michael Jackson had a long list of prescription drugs in his system when he died in the days before his anticipated comeback tour, a toxicologist with the Los Angeles County coroner's office testified Monday. Dan Anderson, the first witness called in...

Dear Pharmacist: I can't sleep well and have taken Ambien for years. What else do you recommend? — F.T., Bradenton Dear F.T.: If you can't sleep on Ambien, I'd try something different. Another novel sleep drug is coming to the market called...

Pale and emaciated, Michael Jackson lay on his bed in his $100,000-a-month Holmby Hills mansion looking like an end-stage cancer patient who had come home to die. The scene inside the house where Jackson lived as he prepared for a comeback tour was...

These were the not-so friendly skies. A man from England became such a nuisance on a recent flight from Mexico to the UK that he caused the plane to make an emergency landing. Sean Jude Kelly, 31, was so nervous about his flight that he tweeted earlier in...

The family of a 35-year-old man who was shot to death by Long Beach police after they mistook a water hose nozzle he was holding for a handgun was awarded $6.5 million in damages by a federal jury Thursday. After a day of deliberations, the jury found...

The number of oxycodone-related deaths in Orange and Osceola counties — where hundreds of people accidentally overdosed on prescription drugs in recent years — plunged during the first half of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011,...

The name of the Lakeland clinic, Uphoria Medical Clinic, should have been a big clue that something was a bit hinky. Narcotics detectives arrested a Lakeland physician, Aaron Branham Roush, who is a board certified surgeon who refers to himself as a...

The following individuals have been indicted this week by a grand jury that was seated Tuesday for the February term of Berkeley County Circuit Court. An indictment merely indicates that an individual is believed to have committed the crime. Azeez B....