People on parole in Pennsylvania can continue medication for opioid withdrawal under settlement
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — State courts in Pennsylvania must allow people on probation to continue to take medication for opioid withdrawal as part of a Justice Department settlement announced Thursday.
Several plaintiffs had complained they were banned from taking the mediations. One Jefferson County woman experienced severe withdrawal symptoms rather than test positive and return to prison.
“Too many people have died and suffered under these kinds of policies. But we are heartened to see that the court system has finally agreed to do the right thing,” said her lawyer, Sally
Meta posts sharp profit, revenue increase in Q4 thanks to cost cuts and advertising rebound
Meta Platforms Inc. tripled its profit and posted sharply higher revenue in the final quarter of 2023, boosted by a rebound in digital advertising as well cost cutting and in what CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the “year of efficiency.”
“The company can talk all it wants to about AI and the metaverse, but it’s still a social media company that gets nearly all its revenue from advertising, and advertisers still clearly love Meta,” said longtime tech analyst Debra Aho Williamson.
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A look at atmospheric rivers, the long bands of water vapor that form over oceans and fuel storms
The storm that this week was fueled by an atmospheric river, a plume of moisture that extended across the Pacific to near Hawaii. Here’s a look at the phenomenon:
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WHAT IS AN ATMOSPHERIC RIVER?
Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, transporting much of the moisture from the tropics to northern latitudes.
They occur globally but are especially significant on the West Coast of the United States, where they create 30% to
5 World Junior players’ sex assault case to be before London, Ont. court on Monday
Editor’s note: The following story deals with sexual assault and may be distressing for some readers.
The sexual assault case of five players from Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team is set to be before a London, Ont., court on Monday.
A court document shows Dillon Dubé, Cal Foote, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Michael McLeod are each charged with one count of sexual assault.
The document shows McLeod is also facing an additional charge of sexual assault for “being a
US center’s tropical storm forecasts are going inland, where damage can outstrip coasts
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The “cone of uncertainty” produced by the National Hurricane Center to forecast the location and ferocity of a tropical storm is getting an update this year to include predictions for , where wind and flooding are sometimes more treacherous than damage to the coasts.
The Miami-based hurricane center said Thursday on the X social media platform that the new, tool will be ready around Aug. 15, just before the traditional peak of the hurricane season that begins June 1.
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Air Transat flight attendants reject tentative deal for a second time
MONTREAL — The union representing 2,100 Air Transat flight attendants has rejected a tentative agreement for the second time this year.
Some 82 per cent of the votes cast were opposed to the would-be deal, which the Canadian Union of Public Employees had reached with the airline in early January.
Compensation for hours worked before landing and after takeoff remained a key sticking point, the union said.
Flight attendants also voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new strike mandate, which will remain in effect until April 1
She hoped to sing for a rap icon. Instead, she was there the night Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay died
NEW YORK (AP) — She was a teenaged aspiring R&B singer and rapper who had gotten an appointment at Jam Master Jay’s recording studio.
But just minutes after Yarrah Concepcion met the Run-DMC star, he was shot dead.
Concepcion was brought to tears as she testified Thursday in of two men charged in the 2002 killing. One of several people in various parts of the studio on the night of , she recalled seeing the slain DJ on the studio floor.
“I knew
Health officer advises B.C. to offer smokable fentanyl in report backing safer supply
VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s provincial health officer says there are serious concerns among clinicians over diversion of drugs from the province’s safer supply programs, but there’s a lack of evidence about how pervasive the problem is.
Dr. Bonnie Henry’s remarks came as she issued a report about the programs on Thursday, including a recommendation that the province increase the range of drugs available to include smokable fentanyl and other substances.
Henry said it was important not to let “rhetoric in the public domain … overcome the
Durham mother seeking answers after autistic son leaves school, walks through woods in a storm, found by neighbour
After her seven-year-old autistic son went missing for over a half hour from his school this January, a Durham mother is speaking out against the administration that she says lied about the circumstances and the lack of resources that allowed it to happen.
Zak is in Grade 2 at a Durham District School Board school. He has an educational assistant assigned to him due to his risk of elopement.
His mother, Neelam Rasheid, said on Jan. 9 this year, a day with one of the first snowstorms of
`This House’ by Lynn Nottage, daughter and composer Ricky Ian Gordon, gets 2025 St. Louis premiere
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ricky Ian Gordon’s ”This House,” with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber, will be given its world premiere at the Opera Theater of Saint Louis in June 2025.
The commission was first announced in 2022 and was to have premiered this year. Daniela Candillari will conduct as part of Opera Theater’s 50th season. The company said Thursday that Candillari’s contract as principal conductor had been