Williamson County officials have charged about 20 people with distributing drug paraphernalia.

South Korean police say they have arrested members of a drug-trafficking ring with suspected links to Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents.

What happens to all the oil that flows hundreds of miles through the trans-Alaska pipeline? Is it true that it all gets sold to Japan?

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Former track star Tim Montgomery, once dubbed "the world's fastest man," pleaded guilty Thursday to distributing heroin, averting a trial set for next week.

A Naperville man is in custody in northwest Ohio after several trash bags full of marijuana were discovered in his car.