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Apr 19 2024
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NBA YoungBoy orchestrated 'large scale prescription fraud' scheme, Utah police say
Rapper NBA YoungBoy and several of his associates orchestrated a “large scale prescription fraud ring” to illegally obtain prescription drugs from multiple Utah-area pharmacies, police allege. An affidavit filed Thursday by an officer for the Cache County Sheriff’s Office named the rapper (born Kentrell DeSean Gaulden) as a primary suspect in a months-long scheme that involved posing as a
Los Angeles TimesOct 17 2023
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As Rite Aid closes some pharmacies, neighborhoods could lose a 'pivotal' piece of America's health system
In many parts of America, it’s easy to find a nearby pharmacy — but closing just one or two local pharmacies can easily disrupt Americans’ access to healthcare. That’s a prospect more people are facing as both Rite Aid and Walgreens have announced store closures this year. Rite Aid RAD, plans to close some of its approximately 2,100 stores while undergoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Rite Aid hasn’
MarketWatchApr 14 2023
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Little Village Neighbors Slam Walmart For Closing Local Store And Pharmacy
LITTLE VILLAGE — Southwest Siders rallied outside the Little Village Walmart Friday afternoon, blasting the company for pulling out of the neighborhood. The Little Village location, 2551 W. Cermak Road, is one of four Chicago stores the company will close Sunday due to poor sales and lack of profitability. Three of the locations are on the South and West sides. Isabel Neri Flores and her three
Block Club ChicagoMar 10 2023
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New York Urges Pharmacies To Commit To Fulfill Abortion Pill Prescriptions
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday called on the CEOs of major pharmacy chains to reject anti-abortion pressure and pledge they’ll continue dispensing a medication abortion drug.
Walgreens, which runs New York-based Duane Reade, last week said it wouldn’t fulfill prescriptions for mifepristone in 20 GOP-led states after state attorneys
HuffPostApr 18 2024
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New owners want to restore entrepreneurial spirit to South Downtown Atlanta
On Mitchell Street, a painted advertisement for hotel rooms at 50 to 75 cents a night stands as a reminder of the vibrant past of what was once Atlanta’s Hotel Row. Steps away, the shuttered Miller’s Rexall drug store on Broad Street graced the cover of a 1999 Paul McCartney album. Soda water that helped popularize fountain drinks was once made in a building on Nelson Street, a few blocks from
Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionApr 18 2024
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Dakota County attorney calls 180-day sentence for girl's overdose death "unfortunate"
MINNEAPOLIS — A Bloomington man has been sentenced to nearly six months in jail for his role in the overdose death of a 15-year-old West St. Paul girl two years ago. Parker Benson, 19, was convicted of third-degree murder in February for selling a young girl the fentanyl pills that caused her death. Court documents say the two spoke via text message and met outside a Walgreens pharmacy in West
CBS News (Online)Jan 05 2023
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FDA Allows Pharmacies To Dispense Abortion Pills—What Happens Next?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday approved a rule change allowing retail pharmacies—from major chains to mail-order companies—across the country to offer abortion pills. Until now, abortion pills could only be dispensed by clinics, doctors and a few mail-order pharmacies.
The change is significant: with the new rule, those in need will be able to access mifepristone, the
NewsweekApr 18 2024
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Rapper NBA YoungBoy suspected of leading Utah prescription drug fraud ring
Rapper and Utah resident NBA YoungBoy is suspected of being behind a prescription drug ring that worked to fraudulently obtain narcotics from pharmacies in 11 different cities throughout the state, court records show. Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, also known professionally as “YoungBoy Never Broke Again” or just “YoungBoy,” was arrested Tuesday after federal agents investigating the case executed a
The Salt Lake TribuneApr 11 2024
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25 Women for 2024: Dr. Selika Sampson has a passion for community service
Dr. Selika Stackhouse Sampson left her hometown of New Orleans for Tallahassee in 1995 to attend Florida A&M University and study pharmacy, which she knew she would do since her junior year in high school. “My mother was an educator, and every summer I would go to an enrichment program on the campus of Xavier University,” she said. She thought she might become a physician but, “that
Tallahassee DemocratApr 17 2024
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Slidell native's musical tells story of gay love during WWII. It's coming to life on stage.
Ten years ago, Mike Braud was taking a musical theater class at LSU in Baton Rouge and decided to write a love story set during WWII that largely hadn't been seen on stage or screen. The Slidell native would go on to graduate from college, go to pharmacy school and enlist in the Air Force in 2018. The military took brought him to close to home in 2021, and now his family, friends and New
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