The alleged ringleader of a large-scale drug-smuggling operation that straddled the Canada-U.S. border remained at large Tuesday following an RCMP-assisted bust in upstate New York, authorities said.

Nov 18 - A symposium on Dutch Cannabis tolerance is being held this week which could spell the end of The Netherlands' liberal attitude towards cannabis.

Looks like the " concerned citizen " who ratted out Heather Locklear for driving erratically last September may have been justified.

Bolivian President Evo Morales expressed hope Monday for improved relations with the United States under Barack Obama's presidency, but said he will never allow the U.S. anti-drug agency to resume operating in his country.

The socialist leader, a close ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, accused the Drug Enforcement Administration of 'political aggression' in Bolivia, which is a major source of coca plants, the raw ingredient for cocaine.

Morales said his government would set up a new intelligence operation involving the military and police to fight drug trafficking in place of the DEA, whose Bolivian operations he suspended Nov. 1.

There are fewer young people in Florida who are smoking and binge drinking, but there are more of them abusing prescription drugs.

The Rhode Island State Police on Monday arrested 18 people allegedly connected to Mafia rings and used a backhoe to dig through an East Providence lot searching for the victim of a three-decade-old mob hit.

The dig for the body was called off around dark and was expected to resume Tuesday.

Some of those arrested allegedly had ties to the Patriarca crime family, which for years controlled organized crime in Providence and Boston. One alleged long-time Patriarca figure arrested Monday was Nicholas Pari, 71, of North Providence.