Bill Jakob arrived in this small town with an offer to help police curb the community's methamphetamine problem.

A federal grand jury indicted 26 suspected members of an international gang accused in a cross-border drug ring, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.

Attorney General Bill McCollum says the state is broadening its law enforcement efforts to slow down the growth of gangs roaming Florida's streets and neighborhoods.

Iranian forces have battled for years in the lonely canyons and deserts on the Afghan border against opium and heroin traffickers _ winning rare praise from the United States and aid from Europe for the fight along one of the world's busiest drug routes.

But now, international support for Iran's drug agents could be threatened by the standoff over Tehran's nuclear policies.

Western nations have told Iran that they could cut off any new help to Iran's anti-drug units unless the Islamic regime halts uranium enrichment, which Washington and its allies worry could be used to develop nuclear arms.

TUPELO, Miss. - A Mississippi hospice director said Monday that scotch and sleeping pills made him send threatening e-mails to people he blamed for a criminal investigation of deaths at his facility.