A 17-month-old toddler climbed out of her playpen, took a bottle of methadone out of her grandmother's purse, drank the cherry-flavored syrup and died of a drug overdose.

A worker at a Lansing drug testing center admits taking bribes of marijuana and money from convicts and federal defendants to conceal their suspected drug use.

A project targeting British criminals on the run in Spain has been extended in a bid to track down 10 more fugitives.

Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil has reportedly been released from jail - and headed straight to rehab.

The nearly $5 billion U.S. aid package known as Plan Colombia failed to meet its goal of halving illegal narcotics production in this Andean nation, says a U.S. congressional report released Wednesday.

The General Accounting Office report does, however, note that the mostly military assistance helped Colombia markedly improve security, with kidnapping and murder rates falling and the armed forces greatly diminishing the leftist rebel threat.

Its release comes as U.S. officials make it clear that aid for Colombia, an estimated $657 million in fiscal 2008, will now be trimmed because of the U.S. financial crisis.