Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Walgreens: No new Washington Medicaid patients

  March 18, 2010 in Region Walgreens has told Washington state officials that it will no longer fill prescriptions for new Medicaid patients as of April 16 because it isn’t being reimbursed enough by the state. 2

• Two men sought in Spokane pharmacy robbery

  October 19, 2009 in City Two Deer Park men have been identified as suspects in a pharmacy robbery police linked to a 20-year-old woman.

• Reward in OxyContin robberies up to $2,000

  September 10, 2009 in City The reward for information that helps capture a suspected two-time pharmacy robbery is now up to $2,000. 1

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  Walgreens hopes special safes suppress OxyContin robberies

  September 2, 2009 in City on Page A1 OxyContin robberies in Washington have prompted an unprecedented response from one of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains. New time-delayed safes have been installed in Walgreens pharmacies across the state to …

• Drug maker offers reward in pharmacy robbery

  August 27, 2009 in City The company that makes OxyContin is offering a $1,000 reward for information that solves a Spokane pharmacy robbery Sunday.

• Sentenced to 4 years, robber cites addiction

  August 20, 2009 in City A 24-year-old convicted robber told a judge Thursday how he went from living with his girlfriend and their 7-year-old daughter to putting a knife to a man’s throat to get … 1

• Woman robbed of prescriptions in her home

  July 20, 2009 in News, City Two men burst into a Spokane woman’s apartment this morning and stole OxyContin and hydrocodone. A 54-year-old woman answered her apartment door about 5:45 a.m. in the 3100 block of … 1

• Pharmacist says ex-worker ‘snookered’ him

    May 15, 2009 in City on Page A7 Prescription drug crimes plaguing Art Tyrrell’s independent pharmacy spurred him to merge his operations with Safeway last month, ending the pharmacy’s run of nearly 100 years on South Perry Street. … 1