It was so serious that even after a “near death” experience, overdosing on fentanyl, the 42-year-old Manatee County woman says she didn’t immediately try to get treatment for her addiction.

What You Need To Know. Of the more than 105,000 people who died of drug overdoses from Oct. 2020 to Oct. 2021, about two-thirds of those deaths involved synthetic drugs like fentanyl (according to ...

While Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to look over bills on his desk from the 2025 legislative session, here's a look at 20 laws ...

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The legislators say they want Trump to allow pathways to legal status for non-criminal undocumented migrants ‘with ...

Grady Judd: Record-breaking bust nets enough fentanyl to kill 14.5 million people. Sheriff Grady Judd says detectives in Polk County seized 64 pounds of fentanyl and arrested eight people in what the ...

On July 1, more than a hundred new Florida laws will take effect, impacting everything from student athletes to speeding.

A sheriff’s corporal who was in the right place at the right time helped apprehend a suspected gas station thief in Ocala on ...

Woman with revoked license caught with a dangerous cocktail of illegal substances in Polk County. POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A ...

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says the drugs were seized after a three-month-long investigation conducted by them.

In 2023, the DEA seized more than 80 million fentanyl-laced fake pills and 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. Those seizures are the equivalent of 381 million lethal doses.

The son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” intends to plead guilty to drug trafficking charges in the U.S., ...