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Family s birth certificates caught in Vital Statistics delays
Family’s birth certificates caught in delays
FOX 26 Consumer Reporter Heather Sullivan has some smart sense after one family had been dealing with trying to get birth certificates for their adopted daughters.
HOUSTON - A Houston family says they ve been struggling to get birth certificates for their adopted daughters for the last few years from Texas Vital Statistics.
We helped to finally get the birth certificates, but found this family has not been alone.
Not being able to get a death certificate when someone dies can tie up death benefits to pay for a funeral. And not being able to get a birth certificate can prevent you from getting a passport, ID, or a driver s license.
Take fake fentanyl pills off the street now
With opioid deaths on the rise, the DEA and citizens with opioid prescriptions must do their part.
Fentanyl, seen here after being seized by Customs and Border Protection officers in Nogales, Ariz., is a synthetic opioid 80 to 100 times more potent than morphine.(Mamta Popat / The Associated Press)
Following the spring break deaths of two teenagers in Venus last month, the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports “a sense of urgency” among federal agents “as counterfeit pills containing fatal amounts of the drug are becoming more prevalent in North Texas.”
That surge is having deadly effects. According to reporting by KTTV (CBS Channel 11), the number of deaths related at least in part to fentanyl in Tarrant County grew from nine in 2019 to 95 in 2020. MedStar, an ambulance service provider in Tarrant County, responded to 236 cases in the past 12 months in which first responders administered Narcan, a treatment for opioid overdose. T
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