One of Nevada’s “Top Cops” is paying the consequences from his addiction to painkillers after he was badly injured from a high speed chase 2001, breaking his collar bone and right wrist. The injuries required surgery and 40-plus nerve injections, he said. James L. Breed drove to Arizona and passed about 40 false prescriptions for $24,400 in pain pills to several pharmacies. He was arrested in June on multiple charges of illegally buying narcotics. Shortly after, he resigned from the police department after working there for 15 years, where he earned the Metropolitan Police Department's Medal of Honor and the Top Cop award in 2005. On March 31^st, he was sentenced to 4 years probation and has to serve 500 hours of community service. Currently living in Las Vegas area, he must also serve 6 months of house arrest and do an additional 350 hours of service. "There is no possible way ... that I can express my regret and shame," the former patrol officer wrote. "I apologize to the court, its officers and the people of Arizona."

I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?

A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?

Which is the word in English that has nine letters, and remains a word at each step even when you remove one letter from it, right up to a single letter remaining. List each letter as you remove them, along with the resulting word at each step.

Christopher Pittman was 12 years old when he committed a double murder, killing his grandma and grandpa. He was given a 30 year sentence and was denied a hearing by the Supreme Court on Monday. His defense attorney argued the sentence was too extreme because of his client’s age and that it was because he was on heavy doses of antidepressants. He shot both grandparents with a shotgun while they were sleeping then put the house on fire. The defendant is now 18 years old.

“A woman who says she had to forgo cancer treatment because of botched surgery by a California doctor says she was never made aware the doctor was being treated for alcoholism and had been convicted for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Becky Anderson received a breast reconstruction from Dr. Brian West, a California plastic surgeon, in September 2000. Becky, who was suffering from breast cancer, says she had to forgo cancer treatment while battling complications from West's surgery. Now she is dying of cancer. She had no idea when she let West treat her that he had been convicted for driving under the influence in 1987 and had been arrested for a second DUI, for which he was later convicted, while on the way to treat her. She claims he lied about the DUI, blaming a missed appointment with her on a car accident. She sued the doctor for negligence and malpractice. He never admitted fault, but settled with her for $250,000.

West is an alcoholic, according to a Medical Board of California decision, and a member of the state's Physician Diversion Program. The program keeps the doctors' identities private, so it allowed him to continue to treat patients, even operate on them, while he was secretly getting treatment for his addiction. West declined CNN's repeated requests for an interview. But his lawyer told CNN that West never treated a patient while under the influence of alcohol. A study by the Federation of State Physician Health Programs found about one percent of all physicians practicing in the United States are in confidential treatment. That's about 8,000 doctors whose patients may have no idea they are addicts.

Still, Ken Mikulecky wants to see the California program shut down. His wife, Sharon, had a mastectomy after learning she had breast cancer. Ken Mikulecky says West performed breast reconstruction on his wife by using stomach muscle. He says her incision became infected and left a gaping hole in her abdomen. Just like Becky Anderson, Sharon Mikulecky had to put off cancer treatment for about a year. She died in 2003. The Mikuleckys say they were not aware of West's DUI convictions or that he was enrolled in the state's rehabilitation program, which required outside treatment but let him continue operating on patients.

Ken Mikulecky told CNN, "When that person's right to privacy hurts other people, harms other people, that should not be allowed to happen. ... She told me several times that she could smell alcohol on his breath. ... Til the day I die, I gotta live with that, and that hurts pretty good, because I didn't believe my wife."

California's Medical Board says West flunked out of the diversion program and was placed on probation. He was not allowed to practice medicine for one year, but that time has come and gone. Today, his lawyer says West is back in the program and has been "in recovery for years." CNN confirmed he is back in business, operating on patients in Beverly Hills, California.

Ken Mikulecky, who is working with West's former patients and the state attorney general on a petition to have his license revoked, is convinced his wife would have had a better chance of surviving had her doctor not been an addict. Still, he says, he's forgiven the doctor. "That's between him and God. I got my own soul to look after. I just want him to stop."

-CNN Randi Kaye

A total of 9 middle-school girls in Missouri, were taken to the hospital after eating methadone pills given to them by a 16 year old boy. "It appears that the students are doing OK," St. Joseph police Capt. Kevin Castle said. The suspected teenage boy was charged with distributing a controlled substance. Officials are still unaware where the boy got the drugs. The girls complained of feelings sleepy and nauseous and one was salivating excessively. Around lunchtime the girls started crying as they walked out to the ambulances and one was hysterical and taken out on a stretcher.