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...Bangor Daily News reported on Tuesday that Yeats would be the likely starter tomorrow, but that Whitehead wasn’t ruling Morrison...
...woman dying of cancer, Terry Sanborn didn't seem to suffer. She and her unemployed husband Stephen lived on Medicaid and $512 a month in Social Security in a quiet blue-collar cul-de-sac in tiny Bangor, Maine. But they managed to pay $78,000 in cash for that roomy house at the bottom of Hershey Avenue, with a swing set in the backyard. They forked over an additional $17,000 for a Ford Econoline van. Not until drug agents raided the place did neighbors know how they were able to afford...
...that are chewed or smashed to remove the time-release coating, then snorted or injected, generating a high as intoxicating as that of heroin. So popular and addictive is OxyContin these days that it has stirred up a blizzard of a crime wave through the towns of Calais and Bangor, say drug counselors and police investigators. People are using bogus prescriptions to obtain the drug, or they are smuggling the pills across the nearby Canadian border. "Three months ago, we had needles show up outside the middle school," says local drug counselor Carrie McDonald...
...often tracked down by relatives who know what is inside their medicine chests or by their small-town neighbors who hear small-town talk about their prescriptions. Thieves are even accosting customers in drugstore parking lots, on a hunch that they might be carrying the sought-after drug, say Bangor authorities. OxyContin rings get prescriptions from sloppy or questionable doctors and use the usual means of forging them, either by photocopying the form or by using a pen to change a prescription for 10 tablets, for example, to 100. The truly inventive ones ask their doctors for another drug, then...
...bitter and bungling miscalculations of President Clinton's political foes made him look good. So good, in fact, one might ask, "With enemies like these, who needs friends?" JAMES KANTOR Bangor...