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A man federal prosecutors believe was one of the largest suppliers of deadly blue fentanyl pills that led to a rash of overdoses and killed Carrollton-Farmers Branch high school students was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison. Like the other dealers already sentenced, Jason Xavier Villanueva, 23, was not long out of high school when he used his …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — The leader in charge of the Harris County Jail announced his resignation this week as the jail struggles with a high inmate population and “staffing deficiencies.” The jail also experienced a decade-high in inmate deaths in 2022 and received two notices of noncompliance from the state commission on jail standards – one for not booking inmates …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — The leader in charge of the Harris County Jail announced his resignation this week as the jail struggles with a high inmate population and “staffing deficiencies.” The jail also experienced a decade-high in inmate deaths in 2021 and received two notices of noncompliance from the state commission on jail standards – one for not booking inmates …

India reported a record 412,262 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday and a record 3,980 daily death toll, as a second wave of infections swamps the health system and spreads from cities into the vast countryside. Covid-19 infections in the world’s second most populous nation have surged past 21 million, with a death toll of 230,168, health ministry data show. Government …

NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of Indian farmers, protesting over agricultural laws that they say threaten their livelihoods, have vowed to carry on their around-the-clock sit-ins despite cold weather that has already led to some deaths among them. Farmers from the northern states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and the desert state of Rajasthan have camped on key national …

The family members of a young boy and girl took out a protest rally in Hyderabad on Thursday evening after the two siblings — who had gone missing from the city’s GOR Colony area on Monday — were murdered allegedly by a man the family says lived in their neighbourhood. According to the First Information Report (FIR) registered on their …