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A former Hagerstown man wanted in a 2011 armed robbery was arrested this week on drug charges by the Washington County Narcotics Task Force, according to District Court records. Dwight Orin Lewis Jr., 35, whose address was listed as 5708 Montgomery...

A routine traffic stop in Annapolis on Monday led to the discovery of a large stash of heroin and three arrests, police said in a Friday news release. The 80.3 grams of heroin seized, which would have been worth $16,000 on the street, were not found in...

GLOUCESTER — A crackdown on the illicit drug trade, particularly the sales and abuse of prescription narcotics, netted grand jury indictments Monday of 11 people from Gloucester, Saluda and Yorktown. The grand jury returned true bills accusing...

Dozens of FBI agents — some in hazardous material suits, others with ground-penetrating radar and bomb-sniffing dogs — carried out another search Thursday at the home of reputed mobster Robert Gentile, who authorities suspect has information...

Police seized a loaded handgun and arrested a woman suspected of dealing drugs in Bridgeport and Fairfield. Officers stopped Elizabeth Gonzalez, 36, of 32 Kenwood Ave., on Wednesday and seized three bags of cocaine, police said. She was arrested and...

In East Harlem Thursday an NYPD lieutenant fatally shot an suspect fleeing a prescription drug theft, according to police. The 23-year-old armed suspect wore a stocking mask over his face and had a wad of cash in his pocket. The retired lieutenant shot...

A retired NYPD lieutenant fatally shot a suspect fleeing a prescription drug theft in East Harlem Thursday, according to police. Another unidentified suspect is still on the loose. The retired lieutenant shot the armed suspect after a robbery at the Rx...

Eight American soldiers died of overdoses involving heroin, morphine or other opiates during deployments in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011, according to U.S. Army investigative reports. The overdoses were revealed in documents detailing how the Army...

      The evening was billed as “Artist Encounter”: Actors Brian Dennehy and Nathan Lane took to the Goodman Theatre stage Tuesday night for a conversation with the Chicago Tribune’s Chris Jones and Rick Kogan.    For the audience,...

Activists: Syrian troops launch major offensive in suburb of capital Damascus BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say Syrian troops are attacking a suburb of the capital Damascus in what they described as one of the most violent campaigns since the year-old...

“There aren’t enough treatment centers and yet there’s a pharmacy on every corner.” That’s how one mother of a teenage addict described what an Associated Press analysis has unveiled: a prescription drug problem so huge...

As a kid in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, I’d go ice skating at the House of Ice in Mira Mesa. One day I saw a poster for an upcoming hockey game there. My brother and I went, and had a blast. Mostly because a guy with a name like “...