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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed one of the nation’s largest drug distributors to keep shipping addictive painkillers for nearly four years despite a judge’s recommendation to strip its license for turning a blind eye to thousands of suspicious opioid orders.

A frighteningly toxic mix of synthetic opioid fentanyl and a human flesh-eating animal sedative has been blamed for an increasing number of U.S. overdose deaths, prompting a rare public health warning at the federal level last week and now, calls for more assistance at home. Longtime New York Sen. Chuck Schumer called on the feds Sunday to send a...

Even as law enforcement in New Jersey tries to wrap a criminal investigation into fentanyl overdoses of five women, one of whom died, at an upscale mall, federal drug authorities are warning of even more dangerous substances. Fentanyl, which is what the women in the Shops at Riverside mall case ingested last week, can be used to lace drugs like…

Everything to know about the the veterinary tranquilizer linked to an increase of overdose deaths nationwide.

During a traffic stop in Fort Lee, the agents opened fire on a man who was said to be under investigation. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration opened fire on a man in New Jersey after he tried to run them down with his car during a traffic stop that went wrong, according to officials.

Alison Russo, de 61 años, quien fue socorrista del World Trade Center y veterana de EMS por 25 años, fue apuñalada al azar en Nueva York.

Alison Russo was a 9/11 first responder who went on to answer more than 25,000 911 calls for the city of New York with EMS — and she was stabbed more than 20 times on the sidewalk by a stranger in an unprovoked attack last week not far from the Astoria stationhouse where she served for decades.

Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration said their latest seizure of “rainbow fentanyl” is the largest ever in New York, with 15,000 brightly colored pills containing the drug found hidden in children’s toys.

Investigators say a woman in Manhattan was busted for selling rainbow fentanyl and hiding it in Lego boxes, Erica Byfield reports.

A North Carolina man is accused of selling nearly 50 pounds of crystal meth in Manhattan and Queens, prosecutors announced Friday. Juvenal Andrade-Mora, 37, was arraigned Thursday night Manhattan criminal court on one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree. The arraignment comes one day after Andrade-Mora was arrested on 155th Street in Manhattan following…

Juan Orlando Hernandez will face drug trafficking charges after being brought to New York. News 4’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was president of Honduras for eight years, arrived at an airport north of New York City in handcuffs Thursday as he was extradited to face charges in a sweeping narcotics and federal drug trafficking investigation. Hernandez, who has strongly denied any wrongdoing, was escorted under heavy guard by Drug Enforcement Administration agents to an SUV waiting…

Juan Orlando Hernandez will face drug trafficking charges after being brought to New York.