By Emily Alvarenga & Caleb Lunetta Signal Staff Writers After an in-custody death Sunday and a growing number of overdoses being reported at the Pitchess Detention Center, Los Angeles County…
Three additional Pitchess Detention Center inmates were transported to the hospital following suspected drug-related overdoses Monday. This incident follows reports that Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel had transported more…
Emergency personnel were called to Pitchess Detention Center again Monday evening for another reported overdose. This incident follows reports that Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel had transported at least…
Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel responded to another medical emergency at Pitchess Detention Center Sunday. This incident follows reports that emergency personnel had transported at least a half-dozen inmates from the…
Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station officials are asking the public to help law enforcement battle the local opioid crisis after deputies revived a mother of five who overdosed on heroin…
Nicole Norwood grew up as a fairly average youth in the Santa Clarita Valley, she said. She occasionally drank beer and smoked a bit of pot. But her life began…
Investigators have identified the woman who died shortly after being found unconscious in a shopping center parking lot Sunday as 22-year-old Krista Gamboa, of Santa Clarita. Lt. David Smith of…
Deputies administering Narcan revived the unconscious victim of an opioid drug overdose Saturday, one year after a phalanx of civic leaders, first responders and physicians joined in the grand…
Emergency officials were unable to save a man who died in an Agua Dulce residence Monday. An investigation is underway by medical examiners with the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Officer,…
Update adds condition of student, suspected nature of overdose Santa Clarita deputies responded to a report of a woman who overdosed in a dorm room at CalArts on Thursday, Sheriff’s…
Opioid overdoses in America have gone up 30 percent since Jul 2016 to Sept 2017, according to new information released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 14-month…
Less than 10 days before Christmas, another Santa Clarita Valley family lost a son to the heroin epidemic. It wasn’t an overdose, but a growing concern that’s associated with the…
Less than two weeks after sheriff's personnel saved five people from overdosing at the Inmate Reception Center in L.A., detectives at Pitchess Detention Center arrested two men on drug smuggling…
A Santa Clarita Valley mother walks into her son’s bedroom, finds him blue, unconscious and — by all appearances — dead. But, she grabs the “miracle drug” Narcan, gives it…
Drugs claimed the lives of two Santa Clarita Valley residents this past weekend, according to the man who has been alerting the public these past few weeks about killer batches…
The proliferation of heroin in the Santa Clarita Valley which, by early indications, claimed the life of a Castaic man Sunday and sent eight heroin overdose victims to the hospital…
Professionals who work on the front lines combating drug abuse in the Santa Clarita Valley are holding a press conference today at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital to address the rash…
A rash of recent reported drug overdose cases across the Santa Clarita Valley including that of a young man found dead of an apparent overdose in the restroom at Bouquet…
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