Federal prosecutors have secured a fourth guilty plea in a drug smuggling ring that mailed a record amount of fentanyl pills from Arizona to the Twin Cities hidden in stuffed animals.

Kenneth Quinn, 23, of Des Moines was sentenced to 17 years in prison after selling fentanyl pills that led to the death of a 1-year-old child in 2023.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is tapping the brakes on claims of success by President Biden, President-elect Trump and partners in the Middle East that a ceasefire and hostage release deal has been achieved to pause 15 months of war. Netanyahu has so far delayed a vote in Israel’s security Cabinet to accept the ceasefire…

A St. Paul woman has admitted that she is responible for the fentanyl overdose death of her 1-year-old daughter. Tessa Jean Vorlicky, 21, agreed Thursday in Ramsey County District Court to plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter in connection with the death in December 2023 of Mi’Vida Vorlicky.

A St. Cloud man overdosed on fentanyl this past November. Now, a suspected drug dealer from Holdingford is charged with murder.

A St. Paul woman has pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in the fentanyl overdose death of her 1-year-old daughter.

A mom tested positive for fentanyl the same day her 2-year-old son died of a fentanyl and xylazine overdose, Florida authorities said. Melissa Rae Harper, 43, has now been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced Jan. 17.

President-elect Donald Trump said he spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping about TikTok, fentanyl, trade and more.

The trial for a Rogers man accused of supplying a man with fentanyl who later died of an overdose has been set, according to court documents.

Samantha Yi, 31, of Palm Beach County, has been sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for distributing fentanyl that led to the death of a 10-month-old infant in Boynton Beach in 2022.

Fentanyl is the most common drug found in overdose deaths in the state, according to a new report from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services.

Local and federal authorities conducting an investigation into drug trafficking in Orleans Parish arrested two men and seized guns, a cache of illegal narcotics including fentanyl and more than $33,000.