A Merrimack, New Hampshire family called police to their home to report a fight and ended up being arrested on drug charges.

Police say they went to the Roehl family home on Monday after getting a call about a fight, possibly involving baseball bats. They say when 17-year-old Karl Roehl was showing them a large clock that had been damaged, they noticed two potted marijuana plants. Officers say Roehl was arrested when he tried to hide the plants and that his mother, Lee Ann Roehl was arrested after ripping a plant from its pot and throwing it into the yard. Read more

Gary Dourdan, a cast member on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," was booked on drug charges after being found asleep in his car in Palm Springs, police reported on Tuesday.

An officer spotted a car parked on the wrong side of Sunny Dunes Road near Gene Autry Trail around 5:20 a.m. Sunday and spotted a man inside when he approached the vehicle, said Palm Springs police Sgt. Mitch Spike.

The actor, who has played crime scene investigator Warrick Brown on the

CBS series since 2000, was carrying a California driver's license, which lists his birth name of Gary Robert Durdin, according to police. Read more

"If the goal of the insurgents was to target ISAF troops operating in the area, they failed"

A suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan which killed 18 people and wounded 41 others on Tuesday targeted a government poppy eradication team, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said. via CNN

Local group publishes pamphlet to warn fourth and fifth graders expose to drugs. via ClipSyndicate

"Learn the language, before your kids do."

- The Conservative government is spending $3.25 million on new anti-drug ads that urge parents to talk to their kids about narcotics.

Health Minister Tony Clement says all the recent talk about marijuana decriminalization has left kids confused about the dangers of drugs. "I can tell you that it is my fervent hope that fewer and fewer young people will get caught up in the maelstrom of drugs and addiction in the years ahead," Clement said.

"As minister of health but, perhaps more importantly as a father myself, I'm deeply troubled by the prevalence of drug use among our country's young people." Read more

Authorities seized $1 million worth of heroin from an arriving traveler at Newark Liberty International Airport. via WINS-AM New York