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Australia: No deal was made in Indonesia drug case
Australia denied Wednesday that it had agreed to treat young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for the reduction of the prison ...
US goes after ex-Mexican governor's Texas property
The former governor of a Mexican state bordering Texas accepted millions of dollars in bribes from drug cartels and invested the money in Texas real ...
Hunt for trafficker terrorizes Honduran villagers
A fearsome rattle of gunfire from the sky. The roar of helicopters descending on a tiny, Honduran town. And the sound of commandos speaking in English ...
Tons of pot found floating off Southern Calif.
Authorities say three and a half tons of marijuana have been found floating in the ocean off Southern California. A boater spotted 160 bales of pot ...
Survivor: Honduran police fired on passenger boat
Lucio Adan Nelson dozed on a riverboat ferrying him home from a visit with his mother when helicopters appeared overhead and started shooting. He and ...
Reverberations from drug raid felt in US, Honduras
Bullets flew as U.S. helicopters swooped toward a river boat. Honduran national police rappelled to the ground and locals scattered after loading ...
Pot groups hope Ore. race sends feds a message
Medical marijuana advocates have a message for Democratic leaders and federal prosecutors with an eye on political office: Don't mess with pot.
TB patient charged in Calif for not taking meds
Armando Rodriguez was warned several times to continue taking his tuberculosis medicine. At one point, authorities said, he told his case officer he ...
Malaysia sentences 3 Mexicans to death over drugs
A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced to death three Mexican brothers and two other people for drug trafficking, rejecting the defense argument that ...
San Diego jury convicts 2 in cartel-linked murders
A jury convicted two men Wednesday of first-degree murder in the killings of two men whose bodies were dissolved in acid for a Mexican drug gang.
Medical marijuana supporter wins Oregon AG primary
A retired state judge supported by marijuana advocates has defeated a former federal prosecutor in a Democratic primary race for attorney general that ...
2 dead in Bogota bombing targeting former minister
A midday bombing that killed two bodyguards of an archconservative former interior minister and injured at least 39 people in a busy commercial ...
Ex-Mexican official pleads guilty to aiding cartel
A former Mexican law enforcement official who worked closely with U.S. authorities in the drug war pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in San ...
Cocaine in wheelchair's seat cushion at AZ border
Federal authorities say a Mexican man tried to smuggle more than 7 pounds of cocaine into Arizona by hiding it in his wheelchair's seat cushion. U.S.
Judge refuses to strike Pettitte testimony
Roger Clemens lost two legal moves in his perjury trial Monday: his efforts to strike the testimony of his former teammate Andy Pettitte and to bring ...
Bobby Brown says his new album represents healing
Bobby Brown says it took him a long time to come out with a new album because he's spent so much time trying to get his life on track. Now on tour ...
Mexico drug war's latest toll: 49 headless bodies
Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the U.S., a region where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are ...
49 headless bodies dumped on north Mexico highway
Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in ...
US taxpayers getting cut of 'Passion' prequel
The American taxpayer may be getting into the movie business. In a real-life case of drugs and extortion that could itself make a pretty good ...
Feds: Indicted Kan. gang thrived by fomenting fear
Nearly two dozen members of a Hispanic gang were arrested in Kansas this week under a federal grand jury indictment accusing them of victimizing ...
Leaf pleads guilty to stealing painkillers
Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he broke into a Montana home and illegally possessed painkillers, part of a ...
Dealer describes HGH shipment to Clemens house
Scolded by the judge for putting on a slow and "boring" trial, prosecutors in the Roger Clemens case livened things up by introducing a convicted drug ...
Rapper G. Dep gets 15 to life in '93 NYC shooting
When rapper G. Dep turned himself in for a nearly 2-decade-old shooting, he told police he wanted to clear his conscience. He found out Tuesday what ...
Abbott Labs agrees to pay $1.5B over Depakote
Abbott Laboratories has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $1.5 billion over allegations that it promoted the anti-seizure drug Depakote for uses that ...
Govt can't use '60 Minutes' clip against Clemens
A short clip from Mike Wallace's "60 Minutes" interview with Roger Clemens in 2008 provided just enough ambiguity for the judge to rule it out, ...