CONWAY — Two men and a woman have been charged in connection to the fatal overdose of a Conway woman in January.
On Jan. 30, Ashlie Hersom, 34, of Conway was pronounced dead at a home on Pequawket Drive in Conway Village. Investigators said the cause of death was acute fentanyl poisoning.
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