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A Texas Department of Public Safety tooper was hospitalized after being exposed to fentanyl during a vehicle search in Bexar County, state officials reported Tuesday.

House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, said Friday he opposes a push by Lt. Gov.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

In the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the nation, at least seven students have overdosed on possible fentanyl-laced pills in just the past month.

While treatment experts say education and prevention is key to saving lives. Governor Greg Abbott declares criminal organizations in Mexico as terrorists in a fight against fentanyl deaths.

Abbott directed the Department of Public Safety to boost efforts to collect intelligence on cartels and investigate gangs in Texas that support drug and human smuggling.

The small town of Floresville is seeing a rise in fentanyl deaths as five overdoses this year have resulted in three deaths.

Pills that can kill -- two suspected distributors have been arrested in charged in San Marcos. Hays County authorities now warn communities in the area to be vigilant of counterfeit Percocet pills.

San Marcos police arrested a 20-year-old man accused of supplying fentanyl pills in the community after finding hundreds of them during a search of a residence.

Another Hays Consolidated Independent School District student death has been attributed to fentanyl.

Although the Selma Police Department is still awaiting the toxicology results from the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office, a mother is warning other parents as she suspects her 17-year-old daughter died of a fentanyl overdose.

At first glance, the pills look like candy. However, inside is a substance 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin.

Two females are dead and one male is hospitalized after police found them Sunday in an apartment in Del Rio where cocaine and traces of fentanyl were found.

At least three Hays Consolidated Independent School District students have died in just one month due to suspected fentanyl overdoses.

A small, rural county just west of Florida’s capital is stunned by an unheard-of spike in deadly drug overdoses believed to be caused by fentanyl mixed with other illegal drugs.

Tennessee authorities are warning the public after folded dollar bills found in public places contained fentanyl.

Overdose deaths in the U.S. have officially hit the highest record ever, according to new data released by the CDC. DEA agents report a main culprit is fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is dangerously addictive and deadly. That trend is unfortunately tracking in San Antonio too.

Los Angeles police say three men were found dead of suspected drug overdoses involving fentanyl.

Community activists in South Florida sprang into action after West Point cadets on spring break were sickened by fentanyl-laced cocaine at a house party.

Alyssa Pastrana was 21 years old when she died of an accidental fentanyl overdose at her home in Abilene.

Thirteen people were arrested this week on charges of distributing fentanyl in the Austin area.

Bexar County deputies and DEA agents uncovered a fentanyl operation at a Best Western hotel in the Northwest Side of San Antonio, according to Sheriff Javier Salazar.

A San Antonio was charged and criminally indicted for distributing a controlled substance containing fentanyl, which ended in a fatal overdose of another person last October.