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COLLIER COUNTY : A Miami-Dade County prison guard has been charged with planning to smuggle cocaine and marijuana into Everglades Correctional Institution in exchange for cash.

Two more defendants have been named in a federal cocaine trafficking case stemming from the kidnapping of a 6-year-old boy from his Las Vegas home last October.

Michael Jackson had a long-standing secret girlfriend and developed an addiction to drugs supplied by unscrupulous doctors, his bodyguard has told Sky News.

A jury is considering the case of Jesse James Hollywood, who is accused of kidnapping a teenager over a drug debt and then ordering his death in a case that inspired the 2007 movie "Alpha Dog." The jurors began deliberating Wednesday after hearing more than a month of testimony about the August 2000 killing.

Authorities say they've broken up a drug ring linked to Russian organized crime that smuggled as much as $27 million worth of marijuana through New York's St.

Michael Jackson feared someone was trying to kill him shortly before he died. The pop superstar was reportedly terrified of being murdered for his money or the music publishing rights he owned, which included his own work and over 200 songs from the Beatles back catalogue.

A judge asked federal prosecutors in a major drug-dealing case Tuesday whether they generally mishandle evidence after a second high-profile prosecution fell apart in his courtroom because of witness problems.

Mexican police on Tuesday found the remains of six people tortured and shot to death in a western state that is a focus of the government's war against drug cartels.

Honduras' ousted president won overwhelming international support Tuesday as he planned a high-profile return to his chaotic country.

An appeals court has upheld the prison term for an admitted drug smuggler wounded in a controversial shooting by U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Government experts say prescription drugs like Vicodin and Percocet that combine a popular painkiller with stronger narcotics should be eliminated because of their role in deadly overdoses.

Singer Charlotte Church's former boyfriend Kyle Johnson has been arrested on suspicion of supplying class A drugs.

Connecticut police have arrested a Torrington teen, accusing him of selling marijuana and packing it in a Chicken McNugget box.

Attorneys for suspended Falls Police Officer Ryan Warme will renew their calls for two trials for their client when they appear later today in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh Scott at U.S. District Court in Buffalo.

The Afghan government Monday blamed U.S.-led coalition forces for the killing of Kandahar's police chief and criminal investigations director, saying the Afghan guards who shot them to death were working for and trained by the coalition.

The professionals closest to Heath Ledger have revealed how the Hollywood star battled with fame, a failed relationship and incurable insomnia in the lead-up to his untimely death.

It was a bank deposit with interest -- from the police. Authorities in Tallahassee, Fla., report a customer at a bank drive-through lane had more than cash in his deposit bag.

A former University of Vermont fraternity president who helped run a cocaine ring from the organization's house was spared a prison term Monday by a judge who called him naive and a bit player.

A Brampton man who's considered a modern-day Robin Hood has been convicted in the U.S. of leading a drug smuggling ring that trucked at least 36,000 kilos of cocaine from California to Toronto.