A resolution voicing support for the “Sullivan Baby Doe” lawsuit — and for the district attorney general leading it — won widespread support on its first reading from the Sullivan County Commission during a Thursday work session.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Families Thrive opened at Niswonger Children’s Hospital about four weeks ago and the CEOs of both organizations hope the collaboration will be the beginning of the end of neonatal abstinence syndrome in the region.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Johnson City resident Mike Christian hopes that the $100,000 he and his wife, Nancy, gifted to Niswonger Children’s Hospital on Tuesday will be the best investment they ever made.
Bristol Herald Courier readers said they were sad, angry and proud as they read this week’s “Addicted at Birth” series, which brought attention to neonatal abstinence syndrome, a growing problem in the Mountain Empire.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Babies of opioid-addicted women are no longer sentenced to endure the anguish of overcoming their mother’s mistakes, thanks in large part to the pioneering work of an East Tennessee physician.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Amanda Sims feared she would be arrested for using Suboxone during her pregnancy. So she skipped prenatal care.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Babies of opioid-addicted women are no longer sentenced to endure the anguish of overcoming their mother’s mistakes, thanks in large part to the pioneering work of an East Tennessee physician.
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. — The addition of Sullivan County to the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area could result in funding and resources to assist with the region’s high percentage of drug-addicted babies.
We are on the cusp of an unprecedented population of drug addicts: babies. Our seven-month investigation into newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome concludes today with one salient fact: This isn’t going away.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Amanda Sims feared she would be arrested for using Suboxone during her pregnancy. So she skipped prenatal care.
A baby born in Sullivan County with neonatal abstinence syndrome is the face of the lawsuit filed by three Northeast Tennessee district attorneys general in June, which seeks to hold three drugmakers responsible for the opioid addiction crisis gripping the region.
Read through the obituaries published today in Bristol Herald Courier - Tricities.
Things appear to be settling down a bit at New Peoples Bank, over a week after a technological issue resulted in the temporary outage of all its banking services.
Our weekly round-up of letters published in the Bristol Herald Courier - Tricities.
US Supreme Court , Overturns 'Roe v. Wade'.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn a constitutional right to abortion won't have any immediate impact in Virginia, where abortion remains legal up to the third trimester of pregnancy if doctors believe there is a health risk to the patient.
With the United States Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban on Friday, the court has effectively overturned Roe v. Wade and passed along the decision on abortion regulations to the states.
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A Sullivan County woman has been charged in connection with allegedly reporting false information so she could enroll in the state’s managed care health insurance program.
A man was killed early Sunday morning in Dickenson County, Virginia, following an officer-involved shooting.
The murder trial for Megan Boswell has been postponed until early next year.
Local police are investigating two mysterious deaths this week in Abingdon, Virginia, and Bristol, Tennessee.
Friday's decision now sends the issue of abortion back to state legislatures. Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Friday that he will seek to ban most abortions after 15 weeks.
With the United States Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban on Friday, the court has effectively overturned Roe v. Wade and passed along the decision on abortion regulations to the states.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Friday hailed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which returns abortion regulations to the states, and said he plans "to take every action I can to protect life."
Abingdon’s Town Council passed a resolution Thursday supporting the United Way of Southwest Virginia’s plans to seek funding for a new child care headquarters.