Drugs News

Southern California authorities say it's a dirty business and a bizarre trend - drug users trading Tide detergent for crack.

New Hampshire is set to become the final state in New England to allow medical marijuana after negotiators from the Republican-controlled Senate and Democratic-controlled House agreed Tuesday on a bill backed by Governor Maggie Hassan.

The Los Angeles City Attorney wants to crack down on a turf war in Echo Park neighborhoods where six rival gangs have terrorized locals with their bloody feuds, drug trafficking and vandalism.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has agreed to pay a $550,000 settlement to a couple who alleged that sheriff's deputies falsely arrested and framed them on drug charges.

TV reports there has been a possible explosion in Washington Parish early Tuesday morning.

Mississippi's attorney general said on Tuesday he would subpoena documents from Google Inc as part of a probe into allegations the Web search company facilitated the sale of drugs without a prescription and other illegal products.

CENTRALIA — A Centralia man imprisoned at the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell is accused of leading a drug trafficking operation from behind bars.

A woman from the ritzy New York City suburb of Scarsdale who is accused of raising thousands of marijuana plants was compared Tuesday to Colombian cocaine lords.

A missing brain enzyme increases concentrations of a protein related to pain-killer addiction, according to an animal study.

Marion law enforcement officials arrested 10 people on Friday during an effort to be proactive about drugs in the county.

Acting Assistant Commissioner Michael Cornish said it was a rate "four times greater per 100,000 head of population than any other Australian jurisdiction".

During a raid today at an unidentified hotel, Norwich police said they seized an ounce of raw heroin, a car, $1,600 cash and arrested a 37-year-old man on drug charges.

RUTHERFORD - A Rutherford man has plead guilty to charges that he attempted to give an undercover FBI agent a $10,000 bribe to have his drugs and weapons charges dismissed by the Passaic County Prosecutor's office.

Norman Dudley pleaded guilty Monday to selling crack cocaine to an undercover Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement agent in the parking lot of a K-Mart store last August.

The Iowa Board of Chiropractic says Cameron Hart, of Clive, sent the patient numerous text messages that were of a sexual and graphic nature.

One of four people charged with dealing cocaine, heroin, marijuana and ecstasy in North Dakota and Minnesota has been sentenced in federal court.

Following are excerpts from the Burlington Police Department log.i»¿ Note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account.

The New Hampshire Senate and House support allowing seriously ill people to use marijuana in their medical treatment, but they don't agree on how broadly to soften drug laws.

Investigators say two Gloucester Township Police officers were conducting a traffic stop along the Blackhorse Pike in the Glendora section of Gloucester Township on Thursday.

Jamie N. Roberts, 37, and Christopher R. Ball, 33, were arrested following the execution of a search warrant at a residence on Curtis Hollow Road in Reedsville around noon Thursday.