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Spain police involved in 2 large cocaine raids
Spanish, Portuguese and British police boarded a ship loaded with nearly two tons of cocaine destined for sale in Europe and arrested nine people, the ...
Feds raid 17 Calif. businesses for nitrous oxide
Hundreds of law enforcement officers on Friday raided Southern California auto parts shops and other businesses suspected of illegally selling nitrous ...
MLB sues Fla. clinic over banned player drugs
Major League Baseball on Friday sued a now-shuttered South Florida clinic and its operators, accusing them of scheming to provide banned ...
Colombia's ex-pres faces blowback over peace talks
Alvaro Uribe did more as president than any Colombian leader to weaken the South American nation's main leftist rebel group and he has been among the ...
NYC prosecutors: Vacate conviction in rabbi murder
A man put behind bars for the 1990 killing of a Brooklyn rabbi was on the verge of freedom Wednesday after prosecutors told a judge they support ...
Feds say Native Mob gang dented but work remains
Federal prosecutors say they've weakened a violent American Indian gang known for terrorizing people in the Upper Midwest now that an alleged leader ...
General: Budget cuts will hamper drug seizures
Pentagon budget cuts will dramatically slash U.S. efforts to seize illegal drug shipments at sea, the top U.S. commander in South America told ...
3 convicted in Minnesota Indian gang trial
Three alleged members of a violent American Indian gang known for terrorizing people in the Upper Midwest were convicted Tuesday in what authorities ...
Texas prisons install cellphone-blocking equipment
The nation's largest state prison system is turning to electronic weaponry to combat the persistent headache of illegal cellphones smuggled to inmates
Missing LA-area movie exec now believed murdered
The 10-month search for a movie executive has gone from a missing persons investigation to a murder investigation, and a convicted drug dealer has ...
'Breaking Bad' brings tourists to Albuquerque
A fast-food burrito chain in Albuquerque has become an international tourist attraction as people come from all over the world to see the spot where ...
Mich. grandma who killed grandson: I feared him
A 75-year-old woman charged with first-degree murder sobbed on the witness stand Wednesday as she told jurors how she repeatedly shot her teenage ...
Drugmakers, Interpol ramp up fight against fakes
More than two dozen of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies have agreed to provide funding and other support to Interpol's battle against ...
Akron guard pleads not guilty to drug charges
Akron's special season has hit a stunning snag. Zips starting point guard Alex Abreu pleaded not guilty to trafficking and possession of marijuana on ...
Latin American anti-drug push hurt by budget cuts
Deep federal budget cuts are forcing the U.S. to send fewer surveillance planes and Navy ships to halt Latin American drug shipments, meaning the ...
Warren starts taking on banks and regulators
Elizabeth Warren rose to national prominence as an outspoken consumer advocate decrying Wall Street abuses and became the progressive movement's ...
Akron suspends Abreu following arrest
Akron point guard Alex Abreu was suspended Thursday after he was arrested and charged with possession and trafficking of marijuana. A team spokesman ...
Triple slaying leaves mark on Wyoming town
The wide-open sagebrush flats along the Montana-Wyoming border make it easy to spot strangers passing along the bumpy dirt roads that crisscross the ...
Beanie Sigel gets 6 to 23 months in Pa. drug case
Rapper Beanie Sigel was sentenced Wednesday to six to 23 months in prison after pleading guilty to a narcotics possession charge in a Philadelphia ...
OJ's ex-girlfriend sentenced in ND robbery case
A woman who dated O.J. Simpson for more than a decade after he was acquitted of murder has received a four-year suspended sentence in North Dakota for ...
Underworld saint becoming more popular in US
A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show ...
Mistrial declared in 3rd trial of drug conspiracy
A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a D.C. nightclub owner charged with drug conspiracy — 2 ½ years after his previous conviction was ...
Obama issues pardons to 17 for minor offenses
President Barack Obama on Friday issued pardons for 17 people, largely for minor offenses. Those receiving pardons came from 13 states and had been ...
Pocket dialing calls police to Oregon drug deal
Police in the Oregon town of Molalla say a dispatcher received a cellphone call and overheard a drug deal taking place. A phone in the woman's pocket ...
China executes 4 foreigners over Mekong murders
China executed four foreigners on Friday for killing 13 Chinese sailors in an attack on the Mekong River, following a live nationwide broadcast ...