MIDDLETOWN — An increase in heroin use has links to petty crime and often begins as prescription drug abuse, officials say. “The people that we’re getting from these petty thefts … their addiction is heroin now, when a year or two ago it was crack cocaine,” said Middletown Police Sgt. David Birk. “The people we [...]

Senior Liberal Democrat MPs have staged a rebellion against coalition government plans to slice £350m a year out of the legal aid budget, warning that it will restrict access to justice. A series of amendments to the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill have been tabled by Tom Brake and Mike Crockart, the [...]

HAMPTON Kenneth Newkirk spends his days in solitary confinement studying for his murder trial. He reads through several court cases while locked away. He finds points within the text that stick out and circles them with a pencil. He’s confident that a jury will find him not guilty in January. “These lawyers are doing nothing [...]

The deaths 14 months apart of Harsh Kumar, 30, and Emily Hauze, 23, are purely coincidental, city police said on Wednesday. That the two victims went down the same trash chute at the same apartment building, the Park Charles, is a bizarre coincidence, the police say. Beyond that, police have released next to no information [...]

LEBANON — The prosecution in the sex crime case against a former Mason High School physical education teacher is asking the judge to restrict TV cameras and photographers from inside the courtroom during the trial. Stacy Schuler, 33, is charged with 16 felony counts of sexual battery and three misdemeanor counts of offenses involving underage [...]