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Law to police doping in horse races not in play 'til 2022

For five years, a bill that would place the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in charge of fighting illicit drug use in horse racing ...

8 years for dad of Saints 'super fan' in charity, drug case

A Louisiana man whose seriously ill son gained fame in New Orleans for his devotion to the Saints football team was sentenced ...

France vows tougher punishment for those who attack police

“Dead or Alive.” The chilling words were scrawled on photos of three police officers in their uniforms posted last month on ...

Customs: Woman hid cocaine in shoes at Atlanta airport

A Georgia woman was caught trying to smuggle $40,000 worth of cocaine in multiple pairs of shoes through the Atlanta airport, ...

Supreme Court skeptical of low-level crack offender's case

Crack cocaine trafficking kingpins convicted more than a decade ago can ask courts to reduce their prison terms under a 2018 ...

'DWI Dude' attorney sentenced for scamming drug traffickers

A Texas lawyer known as the “DWI Dude” has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for falsely promising ...

US men await their fate as murder trial nears end in Rome

The pandemic was just bearing down on Italy when the trial began of two young American men, charged with the murder of an ...

Mexico worries about scorn if another drug lord is released

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador worried Monday that yet another shadowy release of a drug lord is about to make ...

Rap rhythm from Rio de Janeiro's favelas causing a stir

First, Vitor Oliveira sold the ground floor of the bare-bones brick building he constructed near the top of his sprawling ...

Australian who filmed 4 dead and dying police sent to prison

A speeding driver in Australia was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for offenses including what a judge ...

Justice Dept. opens police probe after Breonna Taylor death

The Justice Department is opening a sweeping probe into policing in Louisville, Kentucky, over the March 2020 death of ...

Cartel gun battle with armored trucks kills 8 in Mexico

A raging gun battle between rival Mexican drug gangs near the U.S. border left eight people dead and a string of burned-out ...

3 men indicted in drug case in Puerto Rico

Three men were indicted Monday in a case that federal authorities say involves some $75 million worth of cocaine found aboard ...

Kansas agency's lost $72K: 4 years of probing, few answers

Sometime after a January 2017 drug bust near Interstate 70's main exit for President Dwight Eisenhower's boyhood Kansas home, ...

Sheriff to seek release of body cam video of fatal shooting

A North Carolina sheriff whose deputies shot and killed a Black man while serving warrants said Saturday that he will ask a ...

1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours

Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of ...

HIV drugs run short in Kenya as people say lives at risk

Kenyans living with HIV say their lives are in danger due to a shortage of anti-retroviral drugs donated by the United States ...

7 deputies on leave after fatal shooting of Black man

Seven North Carolina deputies have been placed on leave in the aftermath of a Black man being shot and killed by members of ...

Saudi bans Lebanese produce because of drug smuggling

Saudi Arabia will ban Lebanese fruits and vegetables entering the kingdom or passing through it because those shipments have ...

Man killed by deputy recalled as storyteller, jokester

Andrew Brown Jr.’s easy smile, which belied hardship, loss and troubles with the law, was memorable for his dimples, his ...