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  • Buried in opioids, sickened community eyes drugmakers' role

    ANGIE WANG and JOHN MINCHILLO|Jul 19, 2019

    JACKSON, Ohio (AP) — The numbers are staggering: An average yearly total of 107 opioid pills per resident were distributed over a seven-year period in this rural Appalachian county. The newly released federal data is shocking even to people who live here in Jackson County, where nearly everyone seems to have known someone who died from drug-related causes. Five children in one elementary school class were said to have lost a parent to an overdose death this past academic year. Standing at his son's grave in Coalton, a village of fewer than 5...

  • 1 dead, 130 injured as twisters rip through Ohio and Indiana

    ANGIE WANG and JOHN MINCHILLO|May 29, 2019

    BROOKVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A swarm of tornadoes so tightly packed that one may have crossed the path carved by another tore across Indiana and Ohio overnight, smashing homes, blowing out windows and ending the school year early for some students because of damage to buildings. One person was killed and at least 130 were injured. The storms were among 55 twisters that forecasters said may have touched down Monday across eight states stretching eastward from Idaho and Colorado. Tuesday offered no respite, as a large and dangerous tornado touched d...