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An Ohio Board of Pharmacy statement Tuesday says a Clark County grand jury has indicted nurse practitioner Douglas Shrewsbury on multiple counts of aggravated trafficking in drugs and aggravated possession of drugs.
The board says it began an investigation with Springfield police and the Ohio Board of Nursing in July 2017 in response to allegations that Shrewsbury was operating a pain management clinic without an appropriate license and illegally issuing prescriptions for controlled substances.
Investigators say searches of the 32-year-old man's Springfield office and home found prescription drugs and patient records.
Shrewsbury's attorney, Richard Blake, says he hasn't been able to review the indictment and has no immediate comment.
Chelsea have told Everton they will not pay the £65million fee placed on the head of Romelu Lukaku.
The Belgium striker signed for Everton from Chelsea for £28m in 2014 and his impressive form at Goodison Park has seen his value rise significantly.
Express Sport understands the Blues, who have reignited their interest in Lukaku, will not pay the fee Everton are demanding and will turn elsewhere if the Toffees will not negotiate.
It is also believed other suitors Manchester United and Juventus feel the same way.
Meanwhile, Chelsea have been dealt a blow in their pursuit of Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke.
The 24-year-old is said to be on the wish-list of summer transfer targets for incoming Blues manager Antonio Conte, and it is understood they will make an offer for him come July.
However, Koke insists he has no plans to quit Atletico anytime soon.
“For a hundred and something years Atletico Madrid has been among the best," Koke said.
"How can I leave? Why would I want to lose all of this? "
Finally, Chelsea are preparing a fresh bid to sign Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly.
That is according to Italian newspaper Gazetta dello Sport, who claim a £23.3million bid will be put on the table after their initial offer was turned down.
However, Napoli are said to be determined to keep hold of the Senegal the 24-year-old, but are realistic about the chances of him leaving if the price is right.
Koulibaly enjoyed a breakthrough campaign in Serie A this season, making 42 appearances for the club in all competitions.
USA Hockey on Monday announced that CCM would be the title sponsor of the inaugural CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game, scheduled for Sept. 29 at First Niagara Center in Buffalo.
The event will include 40 of the top American-born prospects eligible for the 2013 NHL Draft.
Prospects will come from the United States Hockey League, which includes the U.S. National Team Development Program, as well as the Canadian Hockey League, U.S. high/prep schools, and U.S. college programs. USA Hockey expects to announce the 40 participating players for the game next month. Under the current structure, players born between Jan. 1, 1993 and Sept. 15, 1995, are eligible for the 2013 NHL Draft.
"It's terrific to have an iconic brand like CCM as the title sponsor of this event," Dave Ogrean, executive director of USA Hockey, said in a statement. "It will be a real treat for hockey fans to have a chance to see the best players in their age group showcase their skills in a competitive environment."
Andony Melathopoulos/Oregon State University. CC BY-SA 2.0. Image cropped.
When you think of bees, your mind probably heads straight to the big, buzzing bumblebee, or the social honeybee flitting from flower to flower.
But there are thousands of other bees out there, too — some no larger than a grain of rice. And according to Shalene Jha, an associate professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin, these bees aren’t just important pollinators — they also have some curious quirks that you may not have heard about.
1. Most bees are solitary animals.
3. The “sweat bee” gets needed nutrients from us and other animals.
4. Carpenter bees remember their roots — er, trees.
5. Even tiny bees are big pollinators.
Jha and her colleagues recently conducted a “paternity analysis” of the trees in a roughly 2.5-square-mile plot of Panamanian forest.
Among their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is that even the tiniest bees play a big role in pollination — and promoting genetic diversity in forests. The researchers discovered that small bees frequently managed to spread pollen between trees more than a mile apart.
'I love you, John McCain,' the 'Jersey Shore' star says after a shout-out from the senator.
It was love at first tweet for Snooki and Senator John McCain. The two bonded back in 2010 after McCain agreed with the "Jersey Shore" star that there should be no taxes placed on tanning beds.
In 2010, following an episode of "Jersey Shore" in which Snooki uses self-tanner in response to President Obama's tanning-bed tax hike, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate tweeted, "@Sn00ki u r right. I would never tax your tanning bed! Pres Obama's tax/spend policy is quite The Situation. but I do rec wearing sunscreen!"
It seems the two have not kept in contact since they forged their unlikely friendship, but in their defense, they have both been busy. Snooki has been on diaper duty with her new son, Lorenzo, while McCain, who still agrees that "we should never tax tanning beds," has his hands full being an Arizona senator.
Yet, it seems over the past two years that absence has made his heart grow fonder for the new mom.
"I want to say to Snooki, I miss you. I hope you're happy. I hope everything's fine with your baby and I wish you'd get rid of some of those jerks you're hanging around with," McCain told MTV News on Monday night in Boca Raton, Florida, ahead of the final debate between President Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. "But that just comes from an old geezer that doesn't understand a lot of that lifestyle."
Well, it seems that the feeling is mutual. MTV News caught up with Snooki on Thursday (October 25) and when we read McCain's heartfelt message to her, Snooki was eager to respond.
"I love you, John McCain," Snooki said. "And thank you for the shout-out and Lorenzo's doing awesome, and you should come over and bring him a present."
Just a small hint for Senator McCain: Snooki loves leopard!
But with less than two weeks to go until the presidential election, McCain may be too busy to pick up a baby gift for Lorenzo.
On Friday, MTV News correspondent Sway Calloway will sit down for a 30-minute one-on-one interview with President Barack Obama at 5 p.m. ET (tape delayed PT) for "Ask Obama Live: An MTV Interview With the President," where the president will focus solely on the issues affecting young voters. You can submit your questions for the commander in chief by hitting up the MTV Facebook page.
MTV has also invited Obama's opponent, Mitt Romney, to participate in a similar live special, and hopes to conduct a sit-down interview with him in advance of Election Day on November 6.
Wreck-It Ralph returns to the big screen on November 21st!
She also talks about Vanellope's relationship with Gal Gadot's character, Shank.
Rich Moore and Phil Johnston also break down the process of bringing Gal Gadot aboard and creating Shank.
There are plenty of Internet jokes in the ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ sequel, but its heart is about what it means to be a good friend.
The movie sets out to wreck the box office this November 21st.
Rich Moore, Phil Johnston, and Clark Spencer talk about digging into modern gaming culture.
Wreck-It Ralph, meet Rick "Roll" Astley.
This is probably as close as we’ll get to Gisele coming back.
Paul Manafort's lawyers, through a PDF malfunction, revealed this week that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has evidence that Manafort, when he served as Trump's campaign chairman, shared internal campaign polling data with an associate believed to be a Russian intelligence asset. This is a big deal, Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano told anchor Shepard Smith on Wednesday.
"This shows that Bob Mueller can demonstrate to a court, without the testimony of Paul Manafort, that the campaign had a connection to Russian intelligence and the connection involved information going from the campaign to the Russians," Napolitano said. "The question is, was this in return for a promise of something from the Russians, and did the candidate, now the president, know about it?” That would be "a conspiracy," he added, regardless of whether the Trump campaign actually got anything of value from the Russians.
"If this is collusion — though collusion isn't a crime — this would be collusion,” Smith said. "The crime is the conspiracy, the agreement," Napolitano said. "Collusion is a nonlegal term." "I know, but if there's collusion," Smith pressed, "giving stuff to the Russians about polling data ..." "Would probably fit into that kind of a category," Napolitano agreed. The Manafort talk begins at the 4:30 mark.
Chrissie McLaughlin, a para educator at the Rosedale Center, joins hundreds of Baltimore County Public Schools teachers and union officials to rally outside county school board headquarters to ask the board to request a fully funded education budget from the county executive.
For as long as most people can remember, finalizing a school system budget in Baltimore County has followed a predictable path. The school system defined its needs, the county executive determined how much the county could afford without raising the property tax or piggyback income tax rates, and the superintendent and school board quietly dialed down their request to comply. The County Council may make a trim here or there to demonstrate it was paying attention, but then that would be that. It was a formula for making sure the county executive and council never faced the awkward task of having to do the cutting (or, perish the thought, raise taxes) and thus political harmony was maintained.
All that has changed, particularly with a reconstituted Baltimore County Board of Education on which a majority of members are now elected by voters. Like the county executive, they must answer to those who put them in office. And lo and behold, people who care about the future of the school system don’t want to see draconian cuts in education spending, like those in the most recent version of the budget which would deny pay raises for teachers and force larger class sizes. At last week’s school board meeting, there wasn’t really any doubt about the will of the people — Baltimore County residents want the school system to be adequately funded, cost-of-living pay raises and step increases, teaching positions and all.
That means a showdown is likely coming. If the school board endorses Interim Superintendent Verletta White’s original $1.65 billion operating budget — as parents, teachers and other stakeholders clearly want — then it will be left to County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. and the County Council to either make the $86 million in budget cuts required to meet the system’s Plan B budget or propose raising taxes. And given the county’s history (and decades of flat tax rates), it’s going to get messy in Towson. It will take every angry parent who protested last week, along with any who show up at this Tuesday’s board work session and public hearing and for the final vote on Feb. 19, to push for adequate funding.
The Baltimore County school board received a draft audit of the school system’s finances, but board leadership declined this week to release it publicly.
Verletta White, superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), recently cut $85 million from her own budget proposal — the vast majority of which is being saved at the direct expense of teachers and students.
In other words, if there’s no rampant waste, fraud and abuse, if cutting the fiscal 2020 budget means hurting classroom instruction, and if the future of STAT is relatively meaningless to school finances, what option does the county have but to choose between setting a tax rate that supports high-achieving schools and the crummy alternative of saving taxpayers a few extra dollars each month and letting the quality of public education slide after years of inadequate funding? That’s the real choice facing all involved, and while it may seem like an easy call, Baltimore County politicians are famous for avoiding that particular hard choice.
And make no mistake there will be plenty of individuals trying to muddy the waters. There will be those who care more about killing STAT than about preserving classroom instruction. And others who will refuse to believe that the school board can’t simply cut elsewhere, like paring senior staff — never mind that the superintendent has all of 40 top-level “executives” supervising a system with 18,000 employees. Parents and teachers are going to have to be vocal in their call for a new source of funding — make that loud and shrill and angry. And that campaign might start with the school board whose members talk a big game about transparency but have not released the draft audit (the most damning finding, sources say, is a pattern of overdue financial disclosure forms, with school board members among the worst offenders). Times have changed in Baltimore County, and now it’s up to those who long for higher quality schools to fight for them.
Is medical marijuana the solution to America's spiraling opioid crisis?
The nation is currently at a crossroads when it comes to addressing the epidemic known as opioid addiction.
According to recent data, a combined 33,091 overdose deaths relating to prescription pain relievers and heroin occurred in 2015. While communities in states across the nation continue to grapple with what public health officials have deemed “the worst drug crisis in American history,” some states are experimenting with a provocative solution: pain relief through marijuana.
West Virginia, for example, took an interesting and perhaps surprising step yesterday, when the governor signed into law the Medical Cannabis Act, which will provide legal access to medical marijuana as a possible new method of pain treatment.
West Virginia is no stranger to the tragic consequences of drug addiction, with overdose rates eight to 10 times higher than anywhere else in the United States and the highest opioid overdose death rate in the country. Between 2007 and 2012, more than 1,728 West Virginians died due to overdoses of hydrocodone and oxycodone.
Opioids like Percocet, Vicodin, and OxyContin were once seen by medical experts as a safe method to treat chronic pain without the risk of addiction, and communities across the country were flooded with a wave of the potent pills.
Although West Virginia’s population is a modest 1.8 million, during a six-year period, drug wholesalers shipped 780 million painkillers into the state — enough to supply 433 pain pills per resident. In the rural town of Kermit, West Virginia — where the population is 394 — more than 9 million hydrocodone pills were shipped to a single pharmacy during a two-year period.
While these pills can be used to effectively treat short-term pain, patients may quickly develop a tolerance to the medication and require increasingly stronger doses to achieve the same effect. As a result, many people turn to illegal drugs like heroin to deliver faster relief, but the effects of heroin “treatment” are far worse than the disease. Heroin is often laced with fentanyl, which is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, and even the smallest dose can be lethal.
On Aug. 15, 2016, for example, emergency personnel in Huntington, West Virginia, responded to 27 heroin overdoses in a four-hour timespan. According to local health officials in Huntington, the city deals with 18 to 20 overdoses every single week.
Some experts, such as Dr. Donald Abrams, chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, have argued that less harmful drugs like marijuana could help ease addicts off their opioid treatment and reduce cravings for harder drugs like heroin and oxycodone. His argument is worth considering.
A recent study by Professor Daniel Clauw, director of the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center at the University of Michigan, found that patients with chronic pain who used medical marijuana reduced their opioid use by 64 percent.
Of course, not all medical experts support using marijuana as a substitute pain reliever. They caution that contrary to the growing perception of marijuana are harmless, regular use does sometimes have counterproductive consequences — especially for younger users.
Furthermore, our knowledge of how to prescribe marijuana — in what dosage, how frequently it should be used — is limited. Whenever possible, pain should be treated using non-pharmaceutical treatment, and Congress should investigate ways to remove the incentives to over-prescribe drugs for pain relief in our healthcare system.
People in the West Virginia are dealing with significant pain issues, however, and responsible policymakers must consider the possibility that allowing the use of marijuana for pain relief will cause fewer long-term policy challenges than dealing with the repercussions of opioid misuse.
The state’s decision to explore other options to curb overdoses is an important signal to other states that experience the same problem. And as the “laboratories of democracy” experiment with treatment methods to help those most in pain, we will soon see what methods are truly effective.
The motto of West Virginia is “mountaineers are always free.” The state may have taken an important step toward helping free its citizens from debilitating drug addiction, and it should proceed, but proceed with caution.
Jordan Richardson is a senior policy analyst at the Charles Koch Institute.
Thirteenth seed Maria Sharapova of Russia holds her trophy after defeating top seed Serena Williams of the US in their final-round match at the Wimbledon Championships in London, Saturday.
Waiting to walk out on Centre Court with Serena Williams for the Wimbledon final, Maria Sharapova was fidgety. She bit her nails, tapped her foot, pressed a finger against her neck to feel her pulse.
Taking the next big step in a remarkably quick journey from Siberia to Florida to tennis' grandest lawn, Sharapova was as confident and cagy as a veteran in her first Grand Slam final. She completely outclassed two-time defending champion Williams 6-1, 6-4 Saturday, becoming the third-youngest winner in Wimbledon's 127 years.
"I'm absolutely speechless. I never, never in my life expected this to happen so fast," Sharapova said. "It's always been my dream to come here and to win. But it was never in my mind that I would do it this year."
It was the most lopsided Wimbledon women's final in a dozen years, and there were so many other reasons the result was stunning: Sharapova's inexperience (just six previous majors), her out-of-nowhere status (at No. 13, she's the tournament's lowest-seeded female champion), and her opponent.
Williams was 6-1 in Slam finals and last lost this soundly in March 2000.
And after all those all-Williams and all-Belgian major finals, the last two Grand Slam tournaments were won by Russians. Anastasia Myskina gave the country its first such title at the French Open last month.
Now Williams, whose ranking slides to No. 14, and older sister Venus have yet another young superstar to deal with.
"I'm definitely going to triple my efforts -- do everything I can to play better next time," said Williams, 22, who had been playing her best tennis since missing eight months after left knee surgery last August. "Like I always say, everyone's a big threat. You just can't underestimate anyone."
No one will dare underestimate Sharapova from now on, thanks to her wonderful backhand and serving, her court coverage and, most importantly, her toughness.
"At 17, to have that ability already, it's pretty amazing," said Andy Roddick, who won his rain-suspended semifinal and will play defending champion Roger Federer in the men's final. "But it's almost like she expects it. There's something inside her that's pretty impressive."
Still, Sharapova's unfamiliarity with Saturday's stage seemed obvious at the start: She cut her warmup short to get permission to leave to go to the bathroom. Once play began, though, it was as clear as the blue sky above that she belonged.
Sharapova opened the match's fourth game by using all of her 183cm frame to reach for a backhand to keep the point going, then whipped a forehand winner. She ended that game by striking a backhand return right at the baseline, throwing Williams back on her heels to break for a 3-1 edge.
Sharapova, fighting a cold, broke again to make it 5-1 with a backhand return angled so well Williams didn't even give chase. Now that's a rare sight.
In the second set, it was more of the same: Sharapova digging in on key points, and Williams on the defensive. On one 19-stroke exchange, Williams fell while scrambling along the worn baseline. She stayed flat on her back while Sharapova deposited the ball in the open court. In the next game, with Williams at the net, Sharapova whacked a two-fisted backhand right at her. The ball glanced off Williams' frame, caught her on the nose and trickled into the net.
After, Williams paid perhaps the ultimate compliment, saying: "She's kind of like me. She doesn't back off. She keeps giving it her all."
Former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach has lost his home in New Jersey as a result of flooding from Hurricane Irene this weekend. The rocker’s Lincroft, NJ house was knocked off its foundation after surging waters from Irene snapped a nearby bridge, which tumbled into the singer’s garage.
The singer’s basement was completely flooded, resulting in the destruction of irreplaceable Skid Row master tapes and live recordings, as well as his extensive collection of Kiss and Skid Row memorabilia. Luckily for Bach, his comic book collection and his father’s artwork were safe on a higher level of his house. Bach plans to salvage what he can from the house before having it destroyed.
OASIS‘ forthcoming album is rumoured to be called ‘HEATHEN CHEMISTRY’.
The group have been working on their new record for much of the last 12 months. Vocalist Liam Gallagher reportedly told the music website www.rocksbackpages.com that the longplayer is likely to carry that title, and be released in March 2002.
A UK spokesperson for the group is currently unavailable to confirm the album’s title, but said new material was unlikely to be released until late spring.
Noel Gallagher recently pulled the release of a new single scheduled for last month, because he thought it simply “wasn’t good enough”.

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