SCHOOL FEARS POSSIBLE TIE OF ILLNESS TO TAINTED POT

BARRINGTON -- Barrington High School officials sent an e-mail warning
this week to parents and staff members after two teenagers required
hospital treatment for symptoms that police believe were the result
of using tainted marijuana.

The alert warned that the teens, one of whom was a student, may have
used marijuana laced with "an unknown and very powerful substance,"
officials said Friday.

"We are hoping this doesn't happen to anyone else," said Tom Leonard,
school principal.

Barrington-Inverness Police Chief Jeff Lawler said a community alert
was issued after the two teens were hospitalized in three days with
what he said were similar symptoms. He did not release their names or
ages. He also said he did not know whether the teens had been
released from the hospital.