The Rev. Jo H. Campe III, who overcame addiction and revived the Central Park United Methodist Church in St. Paul, died June 24 from a respiratory illness. He was 79. In 2000, the United Methodist minister decided to center St. Paul’s oldest Methodist congregation around the 12-step recovery process, which Campe knew would help people […]
SAN FRANCISCO – The toll of homelessness and decades of substance abuse is evident in Bruce and Lisa, two clients of San Francisco’s controversial Managed Alcohol Program, from her missing teeth and gravelly voice to his bloodshot eyes. He once dropped a bottle of gin and then sucked the spilled liquid off the floor with […]
A 72-year-old South Miami doctor has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for prescribing pain and anxiety drugs to pain clinic customers without examination, sometimes without getting out of his car or being in the United States, prosecutors said. Dr. Osmin Morales owned the Miami Pain Relief Institute. He also saw patients — […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Keith Martin, Sandeep Divekar and Larry Cusack say they love the Oregon bottle bill. But they said the world has changed since it’s inception in 1971 and they want the bill adapted to the world as it is today. They are very pleased Gov. Tina Kotek decided to continue the temporary […]