A leading pain advocacy organization shuts down ahead of an investigation launched by the Senate Finance Committee into makers of narcotic painkillers and groups that champion them.... Read more»
Arizona will receive nearly $2 million of a $100 million, multi-state settlement with Abbott Laboratories over allegations of illegal off-label marketing for the drug Depakote.... Read more»
The bodies of 9 people were found Friday morning hanged from a Nuevo Laredo bridge. The mutilated bodies of 14 others were found later in the day, reports said.... Read more»
A high-ranking member of a Mexican drug trafficking organization was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for moving tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana and hundreds of pounds of heroin and cocaine into the U.S.... Read more»
A woman with ties to a Marine veteran, Jose Guerena, who was fatally shot in May by Pima Regional SWAT officers was arrested with two others Thursday.... Read more»
Dirty bombs, narco-terrorists and heavily armed ranchers were among issues touched on by Arizona CD8 Republican candidate Dave Sitton at the unveiling of his 10-point border security plan.... Read more»4
Citing the high number of cross–border tunnels, a House committee Tuesday passed a bill toughening laws for smuggling underneath the U.S.-Mexico border.... Read more»
Guatemalan President Otto Perez has invigorated the drug legalization debate in Central America, where leaders are under pressure to contain staggering crime rates and battle violent drug cartels.... Read more»2
There are signals that cartels south of the border aren’t looking at methamphetamine as merely a backup source for revenue anymore, analysts say.... Read more»
Don’t flush your old medications, or throw them in the trash. You can dispose of prescription and over-the-counter drugs properly at a Dispose-a-Med event Saturday morning.... Read more»
A Mexican national pleaded guilty to using a firearm to rob drug traffickers of marijuana loads around the Vekol Valley, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.... Read more»
Even as the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, the U.S. military remains embroiled in what seems to be a losing battle: the fight against the growing number of suicides by active duty troops, and Iraq or Afghanistan veterans.... Read more»1
Calling the nation’s immigration laws “sorely outdated and in need of revision,” Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano pressed Monday for passage of the DREAM Act, saying it is the most-urgently needed change to immigration policy.... Read more»2
Gabrielle Giffords will resign from Congress on Wednesday, but not before the House takes up her bill to apply anti-smuggling laws to ultralight aircraft, said U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake. “While it will officially be the Giffords-Flake bill, it is really Gabby’s legislation,” he wrote on Facebook.... Read more»
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested six men with criminal pasts and rescued a man suffering from severe dehydration in separate incidents since Saturday.... Read more»1
A Yuma-based Border Patrol agent and a state corrections officer confessed to drug trafficking after they were arrested Thursday in a case that includes an alleged plot to kill a confidential informant.... Read more»1
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