Drugs News

A man was shot Monday night after he told police he was trying to help his friend who was surrounded by four young black males.

Retailer Urban Outfitters Inc. has responded to a multi-state campaign and stopped selling flasks, shot glasses and pint glasses that look like prescription pill bottles, political leaders in drug-plagued Kentucky said Wednesday.

The roadblocks went up on a Friday at several points in two Alabama towns, about 40 miles on either side of Birmingham.

Inside the gas tank of his pickup truck, agents found 99 pounds of marijuana. When the Border Patrol called the Drug Enforcement Administration, the agency said it was not interested because the bust wasn't big enough.

Members of the Mid-Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force along with the Monroe Police Department executed a search warrant Monday night at 303 South Jasper Street in Monroe, where they found illegal drugs and paraphernalia.

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.