Staff Photo by D. Patrick Harding -- Former Hamilton County Sheriff Billy Long is led into the Joel W. Solomon Federal Building and Courthouse this morning before a 9 a.m. sentencing hearing.

Their research suggests that the development of a legal drug that contains certain properties similar to those in marijuana might help prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

State and federal drug enforcement officials say they have pulled more than 5 million marijuana plants from public and private land this year, a record amount.The state Department of Justice, U.S. Drug ...

A former police officer who had been an FBI agent for less than two years was fatally shot Wednesday as he served a warrant at the home of an alleged cocaine dealer near Pittsburgh.

Government officials say a decorated federal immigrations officer has been arrested on drug distribution charges.

A local postal carrier has been arrested for smoking crack cocaine in her work truck.

Crime-fighting canines are common. But drug-deterrent deer?

State troopers say a deer that dashed in front of a car on a Westchester County parkway has led them to accuse the driver of drug possession.

Troopers say that if his car hadn't hit the deer, 25-year-old Emil Ferzola would likely have driven home to Mahopac on Sunday. Responding troopers say Ferzola appeared impaired and initially gave a false name.

Troopers say Ferzola had an arrest warrant for unlicensed driving. They searched the car and found 56 packets of heroin and various prescription narcotics.

PHILADELPHIA : A career criminal who police said had just made a drug run on a suspended driver's license was trying to elude authorities when his vehicle struck a squad car, killing a veteran police sergeant, ...

The alleged ringleader of a large-scale drug-smuggling operation that straddled the Canada-U.S. border remained at large Tuesday following an RCMP-assisted bust in upstate New York, authorities said.

Nov 18 - A symposium on Dutch Cannabis tolerance is being held this week which could spell the end of The Netherlands' liberal attitude towards cannabis.