Prosecutors have escalated the child endangerment case against David Castro and added a reputed drug dealer who also faces a murder charge in the fentanyl death of another toddler, Winter Rayo.

A batch of illicit drugs that was mixed with fentanyl and other substances may have been the cause of a mass overdose in.

There have been 45 child deaths or near deaths in Washington over the last three months, according to the Washington Office of the Family and Children’s Ombuds.

A Texas woman was indicted last week after authorities accused her of plotting to murder her ex-husband by attempting to lace a box of chocolates with fentanyl.

A housing complex in Price was evacuated Thursday night after police were alerted to a possible fentanyl exposure. Authorities later found a stockpile of drugs

Federal court sentences a Raleigh man to over eight years for fentanyl trafficking in North Carolina. RALEIGH, N.C. — A Raleigh man was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for trafficking large amounts of fentanyl through eastern North Carolina, including Elizabeth City, according to the Department of Justice.

Fentanyl combined with a sedative are believed to have caused last week’s mass overdose in Baltimore’s Penn North neighborhood, federal scientists said.

The fentanyl crisis continues to devastate communities across Washington state, but one nonprofit is fighting to turn the tide, one life at a time.