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Four current and former Transportation Security Administration screeners have been arrested and face charges of taking bribes and looking the other way while suitcases filled with cocaine, methamphetamine or marijuana passed through X-ray machines at Los Angeles International Airport, federal authorities announced Wednesday.

President Barack Obama says legalizing drug use is not the answer to trafficking in illegal narcotics in the Americas, countering a growing chorus in Latin America to discuss decriminalization as a way to ease deadly cartel violence.

A big fat tip or tainted drug money? Struggling Minnesota waitress Stacy Knutson said it was the former; Moorhead, Minn., police apparently believed it was the latter.

A Minnesota waitress has sued after police confiscated $12,000 she says was a tip but that authorities suspect came from a drug deal.

Police say they detained the co-founder of the group behind the “KONY 2012” video, after witnesses reported a man masturbating and possibly under the influence, NBCSanDiego.com reported.

Police say they detained the co-founder of the group behind the “KONY 2012” video, after witnesses reported a man masturbating and possibly under the influence, NBCSanDiego.com reported.

A San Jose home was the scene of one of the largest methamphetamine busts in United States history, according to the DEA.

Police arrested 17 Texas Christian University students, including four football players, today on drug charges on and around the campus after a six-month investigation, The Daily Skiff reports.

U.S. troops are increasingly using an easy-to-get herbal mix called "Spice," which mimics a marijuana high and can bring on hallucinations that last for days. The abuse of the drug has so alarmed military officials that they've launched an aggressive testing program that this year has led to the investigation of more than 1,100 suspected users, according to military figures.

Candy shaped like marijuana that's showing up on store shelves around the country won't get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low....