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Friday, June 07, 2013  A traveling nurse is accused of illegally dispensing hydrocodone and oxycodone from the Samaritan Medical Center PYXIS system.

Thursday, February 28, 2013  New York has set tighter restrictions on the popular painkiller hydrocodone, now prohibiting automatic refills.

Wednesday, February 06, 2013  Police say an upstate New York woman passed drugs to her son while kissing him when she visited him in a county jail.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012  New York auditors say they uncovered 325,000 errors and inconsistencies in prescriptions for painkillers and other commonly abused drugs in a review of 28.5 million prescriptions dispensed over 15 months.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012  A nurse is charged with illegally selling prescription drugs to Bernie Fine’s daughter Sara Fine.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012  Two Blossvale brothers are accused of forging a prescription to get powerful painkillers.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012  A Geneva man is facing charges in a drug trafficking investigation.

Thursday, January 19, 2012  A Geneva woman is accused of selling powerful painkillers and having a semi-automatic pistol.

Thursday, December 22, 2011  State police say they've charged four people involved in a prescription drug ring operating in two upstate New York counties.

Thursday, April 21, 2011  A 20-year-old Syracuse University student was arrested Thursday after federal prosecutors say he was involved in the selling of the powerful painkiller Oxycodone.

Monday, April 04, 2011  A Fulton woman facing charges in a drug raid where investigators seized more than 650 prescription pills. It's the latest arrest in a story we first told you about last week.

Friday, September 18, 2009  Nine people, including three from Syracuse, have been indicted by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York in connection with a major crack cocaine and oxycodone distribution organization