By Andrea Holbrook Gloucester Daily Times GLOUCESTER, Mass. — It was a bad weekend on the heroin front in Gloucester, but not a fatal one. Four people overdosed within 24 hours, Chief Leonard Campanello reported midday Sunday. The report came in a fervent post on the Police Department’s Facebook page directly addressing addicts, and reiterating […]

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Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former small-town Ohio police chief who developed an outsize Facebook following for blunt, humorous commentary about the criminals he calls "mopes" found himself grouped with them Monday as he was convicted of four misdemeanors, including assault of a female officer who accused him of sexual harassment. "You've become the […]