Poplar Bluff police are worried that tainted heroin, possibly laced with fentanyl, is on the streets of the southeast Missouri town after one death and five overdose calls in the past several days.
A St. Louis County man is charged with two counts of second-degree assault after police say he overdosed on heroin and drove into a couple pushing a toddler in a stroller.
A 37-year-old Kansas City man has been ordered to forfeit more than $800,000 that authorities say he made selling large amounts of heroin and methamphetamine.
An Illinois man is charged with abandonment of a corpse for allegedly dumping the body of a cousin who died of a heroin overdose near a St. Louis County creek.
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say more than 50 people were arrested recently as part of a plan to fight a growing heroin problem in St. Charles County. The Post Dispatch reports James Shroba, agent in charge of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration's St...
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials have called a news conference to discuss details of what they call a major heroin enforcement operation in the St. Charles area. The news conference is scheduled Wednesday afternoon...
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis-area woman is accused of endangering her two children by overdosing on heroin while cooking dinner. St. Charles County prosecutors have charged 29-year-old Amber Strong with endangering the welfare of a child and possession of a controlled substance...