If you witness a murder or a drug deal in the crime-stricken border city of Tijuana, don't bother calling the police - call the Mexican army.

A Burrillville, R.I., town councilor got more than he bargained for when he bought a used police cruiser at auction.

A mother has been arrested in the death of her 2-month-old child after the Sacramento County Coroner's Office found that the child had a lethal dose of methamphetamine in her system.

Two dozen people have been accused of participating in a heroin ring that authorities believe stretches from West Virginia and Ohio to Mexico.

FEDERAL police have cracked an international drug syndicate following the world's single largest seizure of 4.4 tonnes of ecstasy.