Prosecutors have charged a woman with third-degree murder for allegedly providing a fatal dose of heroin to another inmate while they were in the Hennepin County Jail.
A Twin Cities heroin dealer has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for the overdose deaths of two men and still faces murder charges in the drugs deaths of three others.
Federal prosecutors say the leader of a group distributing heroin in southern Minnesota that resulted in two fatal overdoses has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Sherburne County Deputies were able to save a man from a Heroin overdose by using an emergency opiate antidote.
The Sheriff's Office says they responded on Thursday to a call of an unresponsive man who recently injected heroin.
State public safety officials say a batch of heroin possibly laced with other narcotics has apparently caused at least seven overdose deaths in Minnesota in recent weeks.