Claire Galofaro, Author at Valley News

Cheryl Juaire, who lost her 23-year-old son, Corey Merrill, to an opioid overdose in 2011, looks out the back door of her home, in Marlborough, Mass., on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Juaire worries that the opioid crisis is unfolding much like the HIV epidemic did years ago, with a society indifferent toward a group of people largely believed to have brought their deaths upon themselves. A photo of Corey is seen on the wall at right. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Overdose Victims’ Moms Form Support Group

by Claire Galofaro AP National WriterJanuary 28, 2019

Marlborough, Mass. — The moms meet in a parking lot overlooking the little funeral home and watch mourners drifting toward the chapel doors — a familiar scene, beginning again.Cheryl Juaire taps nervously on her steering wheel.“Are we ready?” she asks…

Tom Freeman, a moderate Republican and attorney in Lincoln, Neb., poses Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, for a photo in Omaha, Neb. As authorities intercepted bombs addressed to Trump's critics, political scientists and ordinary Americans wondered if this latest violence might be the moment that the country would collectively consider how poisonous its political culture had become, and decide to turn the other way. Freeman said, "It's just kind of round and round we go, and the sides just get more and more extreme, and you don't have that rational leader in the crowd saying, 'Hey; let's dial it back.' The sad thing is, if you did have that person, I don't know that anyone would listen to them." (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Political Violence Roils Nation

by Claire Galofaro As sociated Press, and Margery A. Beck As sociated PressOctober 29, 2018