NEW YORK (AP) – Police say a football player at a Manhattan high school spiked two teammates’ drinks with a dangerous chemical.

The victims got violently ill during their varsity team practice at Stuyvesant High School earlier this month after ingesting the energy drinks laced with the fungicide copper sulfate.

One teenager vomited blood, according to the elite public high school’s newspaper, The Spectator.

Both are back in school.

Their 15-year-old teammate is charged with reckless endangerment, and was kicked off the team and suspended for two weeks. A half dozen other students who were aware of the prank but didn’t alert anyone were suspended from the team.

Maine to get $2.2M for flood damage

PORTLAND (AP) – Maine is one of 15 states that will share in $200 million allocated by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development agency.

HUD Secretary Steve Preston on Tuesday announced the allocations for states affected by natural disasters.

Maine will receive about $2.2 million for flooding damage that occurred in several counties during severe storms last spring.

Foresters urge use of local firewood

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) -The U.S. Forest Service and state agencies across the Northeast say residents can help protect forests by buying and burning only local firewood this winter.

They say moving firewood long distances can speed up the spread of invasive pests that can devastate forests.

Foresters recently found an Asian longhorned beetle infestation in firewood that had been hauled from Worcester, Mass., to Rhode Island.

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