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Oswaldo Barrientos

US authorities: Marijuana involvement imperils citizenship

Immigration authorities on Friday said that anyone with any involvement with marijuana, regardless of whether it's legal in ...

Benjamin Glassman

60 people charged in illegal prescription opioid crackdown

Federal authorities said Wednesday they have charged 60 people, including a doctor accused of trading drugs for sex and ...

Venezuela's ex-spy chief fights extradition from Spain to US

A spokesman for a Spanish court says Venezuela's former spy chief has refused to be extradited to the United States on a drug ...

Confession failed to free NC man, who has died as a prisoner

Lee Wayne Hunt died a prisoner, officially deemed guilty of a double murder — even though a co-defendant absolved him in a ...

Rapper Boosie Badazz faces drug, gun charges in Georgia

The rapper Boosie Badazz and a passenger were jailed on drug and gun charges after being pulled over south of Atlanta.

Police: Man wakes to stranger sleeping on his kitchen floor

Police say a Pennsylvania man awoke to find a stranger sleeping on his kitchen floor surrounded by torn-up sanitary napkins.

States try to block money from going to Trump's border wall

California and 19 other states that are suing President Donald Trump over his emergency declaration to build a border wall ...

Oswaldo Barrientos

Some legal immigrants in marijuana jobs denied citizenship

Colorado officials are warning legal immigrants that working in the state's marijuana industry could jeopardize their legal ...

Rodrigo Duterte

Philippine Supreme Court orders release of drug war evidence

The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the release of police documents on thousands of killings of suspects in the ...

LA to tap tech to wipe out up to 50,000 old pot convictions

Los Angeles-area prosecutors are joining other district attorneys to use technology to wipe out or reduce as many as 50,000 ...

China to regulate all fentanyl drugs as controlled substance

China said Monday it would begin regulating all fentanyl-related drugs as a class of controlled substances, in a change U.S.

3 dead after 15-hour standoff with police at hotel

A 15-hour standoff at a New Hampshire hotel ended Thursday with three people dead, including two who had barricaded ...

Ty Outlaw

Hokies say Outlaw to play vs. Duke after marijuana arrest

Virginia Tech coach Buzz Williams clarified the circumstances surrounding the arrest of swingman Ty Outlaw and said he ...

Bryan Schroder, White Supremacists-Alaska Prison Gang

Alaska white supremacist gang members face federal charges

Filthy Fuhrer and five other members of a white supremacist gang that was spawned in prisons in Alaska, Arizona and Colorado ...

Drug suspect caught fleeing Australia by Sea-Doo

A British man wanted on drug charges has been thwarted in a daring bid to flee Australia for Papua New Guinea on a motorized ...

El Chapo seeks new trial, citing jury misconduct

Defense attorneys asked a federal judge Tuesday to grant a new trial to the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, saying ...

New Jersey's push to legalize recreational marijuana stalls

New Jersey lawmakers dealt a blow to the prospects of legal recreational marijuana use in the state Monday, when the state ...

Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman

APNewsBreak: Police say Salvadoran suspect killed for meth

A detective says a Salvadoran immigrant charged with four Nevada murders told police he robbed and killed his elderly victims ...

Jury awards $250,000 to woman jailed without seeing a judge

A Mississippi jury awarded $250,000 in damages Tuesday to a woman jailed 96 days without seeing a judge, a case spotlighting ...

Man who sought drugs smuggled by sled gets 2 more days

A North Carolina man who court documents say imported drugs from Canada "utilizing the dark web" was sentenced Wednesday to ...