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WASHINGTON – Tobacco companies deliberately changed the menthol levels in cigarettes depending upon who they were marketing them to — lower levels for young smokers who preferred the milder brands and higher levels to “lock in lifelong adult smokers,” U.S. researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health found. The …

YORK, Neb. – A York College wrestler was killed Friday and some of his teammates were injured in a van crash en route to a meet in Iowa. School officials said the van carrying 10 wrestlers and two coaches flipped on Interstate 29 near Onawa, Iowa, about 4:30 p.m. No …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Canadian police on Sunday disputed claims by the U.S. drug czar that organized crime rings in Canada are dumping dangerous, methamphetamine-laced ecstasy into the United States. John Walters, who heads the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, recently released a statement warning public health …