A senior whose infamous career-criminal son is serving a life sentence for dozens of robbery convictions could soon be a convict herself after police say she tried to smuggle drugs to her locked-up offspring.

Schapelle Corby's former lawyer Robin Tampoe says former foreign minister Alexander Downer told him he suspected Corby's brothers were behind the convicted drug smuggler's crime, according to a new documentary.

'Gravely ill'... Winehouse has been plagued by drug problems. Soul singer Amy Winehouse has developed the lung condition emphysema and has been warned by doctors that she will die if she continues smoking ...

A search for a man wanted on drug charges resulted in an arrest and the discovery of more than 100 marijuana plants growing in the back yard of a Clovis home.

Listening to political talk requires a third ear that hears what is not said. Today's near silence about crime probably is evidence of social improvement.