A former Houston policeman who prosecutors say made false statements in a warrant, leading to a drug raid in which a married couple were shot to death by police was charged with two counts of murder Friday.
Read moreA Mississippi man sued the Huffington Post on Wednesday, claiming it defamed him in an article last fall that named him as a purchaser of the cocaine that led to the 1984 death of David Kennedy, a son of former Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s top federal prosecutor in Philadelphia opened a press conference Thursday on the shooting that wounded six police officers by laying blame for the carnage at the feet of city’s Democratic district attorney.
Read moreFormer fugitive Damon Vincent Jobin, 34, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was arraigned Wednesday in South Dakota, on federal charges of conspiring to ship 100,000 synthetic analogue fentanyl pills to South Dakota, and as many as 2.6 million fentanyl pills nationwide.
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Vowing to tackle the city’s most vexing problems, including widespread drug addiction and property crimes, four candidates for San Francisco district attorney offered competing visions at a debate Wednesday night.
Read moreThe Alabama Court of Civil Appeals reversed a $52,000 forfeiture order, citing a lack of evidence that the money seized by the state in a traffic stop came from a drug deal.
Read moreSix men and six women deliberated for less than two hours Wednesday before unanimously finding an El Cajon police officer was not negligent when he fired four shots and killed a Ugandan immigrant in September 2016 while responding to a call for mental distress.
Read moreCiting video evidence, a federal judge refused to dismiss claims that an Aurora, Colo., police officer planted drugs on a driver.
Read moreRapper Meek Mill will get a second chance to prove his innocence in a lengthy legal battle that has made him a spokesman for criminal-justice reform, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Read moreRapper and criminal-justice reform crusader Meek Mill took one step closer to vindication Tuesday, with his attorney questioning the credibility of the sole witness in his decade-old criminal case and prosecutors conceding the former police officer couldn’t be put back on the stand.
Read moreApril Spring Kelly, 38, of San Diego, faces up to life in federal prison for smuggling 450,000 fentanyl pills, 38 lbs. of cocaine and 36 lbs. of meth into the United States at San Diego, federal prosecutors said, calling San Diego the “gateway” for fentanyl smuggling into the United States.
Read moreOver a year after his incarceration sparked a national outcry for criminal-justice reform complete with its own hashtag, rapper Meek Mill returns to court Tuesday to push for a retrial.
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Physicians and even a state prosecutor joined the effort to legalize marijuana Wednesday, telling Congress that federal approval will rectify years of harm to minority communities.
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Lying inside a scanner, the patient watched as pictures appeared one by one: A bicycle. A cupcake. Heroin. Outside, researchers tracked her brain’s reactions to the surprise sight of the drug she’d fought to kick.
Read moreA divided Eighth Circuit panel reinstated an involuntary manslaughter charge Friday against a South Dakota woman whose son died hours after birth and was found to have illegal drugs in his system.
Read moreTaking up 11 new cases Friday on its way into summer hiatus, the Supreme Court stoked political passions this morning with the addition of cases about school choice and immigrant rights.
Read moreU.S. women will soon have another drug option designed to boost low sex drive: a shot they can give themselves in the thigh or abdomen that raises sexual interest for several hours.
Read moreA former Rice University football player stood before a magistrate in Houston federal court Friday to face charges he sold opioids to a teammate who died in his sleep after taking the pills.
Read moreFederal officials seized 33,000 pounds of cocaine from a ship at Philadelphia’s port in one of the largest drug busts in American history. They said the haul could have been worth more than $1 billion on the street.
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