Heroin

Two convicted felons are back in jail after allegedly swiping a handgun from a family member's Central Point home and selling it earlier this week, police said. Kenneth Duane Vinzant Jr., 30, and Crystal Carol Hoyt, 29, were held in the Jackson County...

After more than 30 years as rock music's biggest bad boys, after selling more than 30 million albums, Motley Crue can see the finish line, bassist Nikki Sixx says. "We believe that a band should bow out when they're, hopefully, at their top and when...

Benzie County's struggle with fatal heroin overdoses continues. Authorities confirmed Justin Smith, 23, of Benzonia, was found dead Wednesday night of a heroin overdose. Law enforcement officials arrested a suspect in Smith's death, the fourth heroin-...

One man and two women from Ohio are facing felony drug charges after Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers seized two ounces of heroin, 192 oxycodone pills and one ecstasy pill, worth about $17,000 following a traffic stop on the Ohio Turnpike in Summit...

A Knox County man was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison for being his brother's getaway driver in a Willard business robbery. Anthony A. Ward, 27, of Fredericktown, said he told his brother the June 27 crime at L&L D r i v e -- Thru in Wi l...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More than 40 years ago, New York native Rocco Turso met a skinny, blond-haired kid at the Greenbrier Military School in Lewisburg. That kid was a young Danny Jones who went on to become Kanawha County sheriff, a state legislator and...

The problem of prescription drug abuse is stark, Carol Falkowski said. "We have a prescription opiate problem in this country and in this state, the likes of which we have never seen," Falkowski told health professionals gathered for a Minnesota Medical...

High on drugs and with her young son along for the ride, Denise Thomas-Brown and an accomplice were foiled in their attempt to steal batteries from a Lowe's store. She fled on foot into the woods, leaving her son behind in the getaway car. Four hours...

A La Crosse woman was convicted Thursday of robbing a South Side dry cleaners at gunpoint for heroin money. Nicole DeClute, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of armed robbery during a hearing in La Crosse County Circuit Court. Ten criminal charges in...

* Moscow sees increasing instability in Afghanistan * Russian envoy says current NATO war unsuccessful * Wants to deploy border guards again By Amie Ferris-Rotman KABUL, May 17 (Reuters) - Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw...

King County sheriff's deputies arrested six people at a Shoreline house Thursday and seized black-tar heroin, methamphetamine, firearms, stolen property, a pipe bomb and $5,000 in cash, a sheriff's spokeswoman said. Deputies served a search warrant...

May 16 (TheWrap.com) - A young and beautiful woman has untold amounts of power over men, and most women don't realize it until we're long past it. French director Francois Ozon's "Jeune & Jolie" ("Young & Beautiful"), which is part of the main competition...