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VAN BUREN COUNTY, MI – A former police chief is accused of stealing and selling drugs. Now-retired Hartford Police Chief Tressa Beltran, 57, was arraigned on Wednesday, May 31, on eight felonies and one misdemeanor in Van Buren County District Court. She is charged with one felony count each of delivery or possession with the intent to deliver less than 50 grams of a controlled substance;

Democratic and Republican leaders in the Washington Statehouse have reached a tentative deal on a major new drug policy, one that would avoid making the state the second to decriminalize the possession of controlled substances. Lawmakers will consider the compromise Tuesday when they return to Olympia for a special session. Gov. Jay Inslee called them back to work after they failed to pass a

A Medicare plan for covering new Alzheimer's drugs treatments is reviving thorny questions about whether pricey treatments with modest success slowing the disease's progression are worth the cost and safety concerns. Driving the news: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday outlined conditions under which it would expand coverage for a specific class of Alzheimer's drugs,

Two 17-year-old boys shot and killed a man inside a parked car on Minneapolis' North Side last month during a drug deal caught on surveillance video, according to murder charges. Jordan Deontre McFarland and Monte Dondada Wise, of Minneapolis, were charged in Hennepin County District Court with aiding and abetting second-degree murder in connection with the May 8 killing of 27-year-old Derrell