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On Oct. 12, 2018, 16-year-old Karlie Gusé attended a party near her home in Chalfant Valley, a dessert town near Bishop, Calif. According to her boyfriend and others at the party, Karlie smoked marijuana—which may or may not have been laced with another drug—and immediately fell ill. She began to experience intense fear and paranoia, eventually calling her stepmother to ask for a ride home. But, at 9 p.m., Melissa Gusé found Karlie running down a street, away from the party. No one knew it then, but that was only the first of two times Karlie would run scared down...

KERSHAW COUNTY, SC An Elgin woman was arrested Monday after deputies say she admitted to stealing more than $97,000 in church funds and using the money to buy drugs on the streets of Columbia. Debora Barfield, 53, was charged with breach of trust with fraudulent intent and forgery, according to a news release. Barfield served as church secretary for St. John’s United Methodist Church in Lugoff, and oversaw church funds. Investigators determined Barfield forged about 145 checks to steal the money. “Drug abuse makes no distinction on who it destroys – black, white, rich, poor, young or old,” Kershaw County...

There's a crime being committed in America. It's not murder -- although one murder is committed every 33.9 minutes, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. It's not rape -- although one forcible rape occurs every 5.8 minutes. It's not robbery -- although one robbery is perpetrated every 1.3 minutes. No, the real crime is that so many of those murderers, rapists, and robbers get away with their crimes. According to FBI figures for 2001, only 62.4% of murders were "cleared" -- that is, a suspect was arrested and charged with the crime. Only 44.3% of rapes were cleared. And...