A central Florida elementary school principal has been arrested on drug charges after a sting operation, authorities said Saturday.
CNN's Don Lemon talks to recovering addict Freddy Sharp about his overdose on the drug called "bath salts."
A nursing home fire that killed one person and injured several others in Ohio was caused by "a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory" in one of the facility's rooms, a fire official said Monday.
Police have captured a man they allege is one of the main producers of methamphetamine for Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, authorities said.
Joshua Monson will be in a Washington state courtroom Monday, but he may not have a lawyer with him.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention officer was arrested this week on suspicion of marijuana possession after a pursuit in which he was seen throwing bundles of marijuana out the window of his truck, according to federal court documents.
A New York City grand jury indicted an alleged drug kingpin and three suspected associates Monday after authorities seized a stash of methamphetamine and heroin valued at more than $6.5 million, the Drug Enforcement Administration said.
U.S. law enforcement seized thousands of pounds of drugs and arrested hundreds of people in a synchronized bust targeting Mexican drug cartels and their associates, federal authorities said Friday.
A suspected methamphetamine lab operating out of Lilburn, Georgia, house caught fire Thursday, resulting in the deaths of three children who lived there, according to police and fire officials.
Investigators in Georgia were looking Friday for a man who left the scene of a suburban Atlanta house fire that killed three children, authorities said.
CNN's Deborah Feyerick takes a look at how easy it is to obtain a drug as dangerous as meth.
First-time home buyers Jenn Friberg and Rob Quigley grapple with a meth problem in the new home. CNN's Sarah Hoye reports.
Jenn Friberg makes her way down the upstairs hallway to the master bedroom. The clacking of her high-heeled boots against the hardwood floor echoes throughout the two-story house.
Police raided a major methamphetamine lab in an Atlanta, Georgia, suburb, discovering a large amount of crystal meth and liquid methamphetamine oil, they said Tuesday.
A Colorado Springs, Colorado, man who spent 14 years on the run will spend the next 14 years in federal prison, plus another three years on supervised release for drug crimes and failure to appear, the federal Department of Justice said Friday.
CVS Pharmacy Inc. has agreed to pay $77.6 million in fines and returned profits in a case alleging improper control in the sale of an ingredient used to make methamphetamine, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Illegal sales practices by CVS Pharmacy Inc. allowed criminals to make mass purchases of a component used in the manufacturer of methamphetamine, said federal prosecutors, who announced a settlement Thursday that will cost the company $77.6 million and bring new controls.
Authorities in southern California said the strong smell of marijuana helped them discover $45 million worth of drugs in the back of a tractor-trailer they had pulled over for a traffic violation.
"He's a great young man," says the Oscar winner. "And I wouldn't be supporting him if I didn't feel that way."
A razor blade sitting in a blood-splattered bathroom sink. A bacteria-infested toilet seat that wouldn't be welcome in a gas station. Open lesions and gray, jagged teeth peeking out from behind chapped lips. These are images that have become hard to ignore in some parts of the United States.
In a messy drug bust this week, investigators uncovered more than 700 pounds of marijuana stuffed in a septic tank truck full of human waste, Arizona police said Friday.
Cameron Douglas also pleads guilty to heroin possession
In his upcoming autobiography, Andre Agassi admits to using crystal meth. CNN's Alex Thomas reports.
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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks about the latest illegal drug arrest.
Former figure skating champion and Olympian Nicole Bobek was free on bond Tuesday after New Jersey police accused her of being part of a drug ring.
Friends and family of actress Farrah Fawcett -- including longtime partner Ryan O'Neal and their son Redmond, who was temporarily freed from jail for the service -- gathered Tuesday to say goodbye.
It's a snapshot meant to shock: a bloodied woman hunched over with this caption underneath, "My mother knew I'd never hurt her, then she got in the way."
Redmond O'Neal, son of actors Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett, will get another chance to kick his drug addiction before facing more jail time.
The troubled son of actor Ryan O'Neal is given another chance at rehab
For the first time since the war on drugs became a national law enforcement obsession in the mid-1980s, the number of African-Americans in state prisons for drug offenses has declined, a criminal justice reform organization said.
How do drugs from Mexico get to the United States? Tom Foreman traces the route.
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues high-level talks with Mexico's leaders this week, her comments about responsibility in the U.S.-Mexico drug trade have struck a chord with officials familiar with U.S. anti-drug efforts.
Twenty alleged members of a Hispanic gang believed to be one of the nation's largest and most violent have been indicted in Colorado on drug and firearm charges, authorities said Tuesday.
A man who says he had a sexual relationship with Ted Haggard says he's emotionally scarred by the experience.
Evangelical pastor Ted Haggard described Thursday as "fundamentally true" an assertion that he engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a 20-year-old male volunteer in 2006.
Watch this clip of HBO's documentary on Ted Haggard. In this scene, Haggard is on his way to an interview.
The Full House star and Cody Herpin mediate over their 9-month-old in court
President George W. Bush granted pardons Tuesday to 19 citizens charged with a variety of crimes, but none was prominent.
"Right now she needs to be strong and think about our daughter," the actress's estranged husband tells PEOPLE
The Oscar winner tells PEOPLE she's "worried," and hopes her dad and half-brother can "get the help they need"
There is not enough evidence to conclude that three people arrested with drugs and weapons posed a "true threat" to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the Denver U.S. Attorney said Tuesday.
A man suspected of bludgeoning eight people to death is a methamphetamine addict with a history of fighting with police, an investigator said as the suspected spree killer made his first court appearance.
Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett's son makes a deal in DUI case
America's wildlife refuges are so short of money that one-third have no staff, property is in disrepair, and drug dealers are using them for illicit purposes, a study says
In a new TV ad airing in Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stepped up his attacks on rival Mike Huckabee, this time accusing the former Arkansas governor of being soft on crime.
In a campaign ad airing in Iowa, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney claims rival Mike Huckabee was soft on crime.
Fergie - no stranger to tabloid attention - says she can relate to what Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are going through.
A tearful Tom Sizemore begged a judge Tuesday to spare him prison for violating his probation in a drug case.
Tom Sizemore surrendered to a Los Angeles court Tuesday on an arrest warrant for allegedly violating probation.
Rosie O'Donnell knows about fame - and she doesn't have very nice things to say about it.
Federal officials are examining security measures at a nuclear weapons laboratory after three computer memory sticks from the lab were found at a suspected methamphetamine lab, officials say.
More than 1,000 inmates were added to the nation's prisons and jails each week from June 2004 to June 2005, according to a report issued Sunday by the U.S. Department of Justice.
"It's very strange to be here," Ashley Smith said as she returned to the apartment that one year ago was the setting for the last act of a deadly 26-hour drama that terrorized the Atlanta area.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ali MacGraw will make her Broadway debut in "Festen," the London hit that will also star Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden and Julianna Margulies.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday it has wrapped up an operation aimed at shutting down an alleged Atlanta-based hub of a major Mexican drug cartel.
More than 400 suspected producers and distributors of methamphetamine are in custody after DEA-led task forces fanned out in about 200 U.S. towns and cities in an operation aimed at denting the growing scourge of meth abuse, officials announced Tuesday.
Federal drug agents in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, have made what authorities call the largest seizure of methamphetamine in the eastern United States.
Health officials in New York City are alarmed after a man infected with a highly drug-resistant strain of HIV progressed to full-blown AIDS within months of diagnosis.
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After her divorce, Jane Fowler did what any single person might do: She started dating. She was 48 at the time.
Sing, Muse, of your meteoric ascent from a seething pit of pure, all-American white trash.
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