FILE - Boxes for the medications Wegovy and Zepbound are arranged for a photograph in California on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/JoNel Aleccia, File)
FILE - Pills spill in an arrangement photo of prescription Oxycodone in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
JANESVILLE — Twice a month on Thursdays, those who need what it carries can find the red Dodge Caravan parked in downtown Janesville.
JANESVILLE – The Rock County Public Health Department says it has noticed a local spike in drug overdoses this past week.
JANESVILLE — A 54-year-old former registered nurse at SSM Health St. Mary’s in Janesville pleaded guilty in federal court Monday for charges o…
JANESVILLE – Retail theft and drug crime rose in 2022, Janesville Police Chief David Moore said at a news conference Wednesday. And the city saw more crime in general than in 2021.
JANESVILLE -- A 46-year-old Beloit man, arrested Wednesday after police searched his apartment in Beloit and a storage unit in Janesville, has been charged in Rock County Court with multiple drug and weapons offenses.
A Beloit man who used the drug addictions of women and young girls to coerce them into prostitution was sentenced Friday in federal court in Madison to 20 years in prison and 10 years supervised release.
Drug cartels and dealers are increasingly mixing fentanyl — a dangerous, but cheaper and readily accessible, synthetic opioid linked to record spikes in deadly overdoses — with other drugs, including heroin, or using it as a replacement narcotic ingredient.
Police were looking for a person they think is linked to a gun officers found in the snow near the Rock County Courthouse after witnesses reported hearing a volley of gunshots early Friday in downtown Janesville.