Indy's heroin epidemic: It's cheap, easy to get, deadly
Indy's heroin epidemic: It's cheap, easy to get, deadly
One minute, he was sitting in his step-father's pickup truck, parked in the driveway of his mother's South Bend home. It was his 22nd birthday. His friends and family were waiting inside to celebrate. Suddenly, Fletcher was unconscious, and if not… Continue reading
60 Minutes Presents: Crime and Punishment
60 Minutes Presents: Crime and Punishment
Besides extortion and flooding the city with cocaine, Bulger routinely performed or ordered executions, some at close range, some with a hail of bullets, and at least one by strangulation after which it's been said he took a nap. Special Agent Rich … Read… Continue reading
Rob Ford and the rock star pictures
Rob Ford and the rock star pictures
Why does Mayor Rob Ford keep getting the rock star treatment? In the wake of his crack cocaine scandal, it is not unusual for Ford to be swarmed by people wanting their pictures taken with him. Critics of Ford are quick to downplay… Continue reading
Jock Cinema: Can't Stop The Music
Jock Cinema: Can't Stop The Music
… exec Robert Stigwood on prestigious (or at least not aggressively sucky) projects like Grease… but for cocaine-scorched garbage like Grease 2, the Oscars broadcast in which Rob Lowe boogied down with Snow White, and of course Can't Stop The Music … Read more… Continue reading
Smart on crime
Smart on crime
It would also make retroactive a law that narrowed the differences between sentences for possession of crack and powder cocaine, and give judges more discretion in sentencing. In 2010, Congress passed a bill that reduced the discriminatory disparity in … Read more on Toledo Blade
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