Police in Athens, Alabama, have a 38-year-old man in custody for allegedly accepting gift cards as payment for crack cocaine and prescription drugs.

British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse has been summoned to appear in a Norwegian court on Jan.

DMX pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a misdemeanor count of animal cruelty, a felony count of theft and one count each of felony possession of marijuana and a narcotic drug.

State police say an ongoing investigation led Trooper Nick Rice to a vehicle parked at the Hopkins County Detention Center.

A man and woman are facing drug charges after two children stumbled across a working methamphetamine lab in a wooded area near a Missouri apartment complex.

The parents of a woman killed during a drug sting gone wrong are suing the city of Tallahassee.

Rapper DMX has reached a plea deal on multiple drug possession, theft and animal cruelty charges.

The production, trade and sale of the in-drug "Spice" will likely be illegalized from January under German narcotics laws, the country's federal drugs commissioner said in Berlin on Tuesday.

Coalition warships operating in the North Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden, as part of Combined Task Force 150 have seized more than 20 tons of narcotics since October, with an estimated value of over $100 million.

The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan says the number of roadside bombs and kidnappings in Afghanistan roughly doubled in 2008.