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Society & Culture News tagged with drugs

Woman Killed in Crash By Drug Suspects Fleeing Cops
Society & Culture  (tags: women, death, crime, drugs, crash, sadness )

Lone
- 16 days ago - chicagobreakingnews.com
A 42-year-old woman was killed this morning when two drug suspects fleeing police crashed their vehicle into hers, police said. The two suspects are in custody
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Change in the Air in Birthplace of Hippie Movement
Society & Culture  (tags: culture, HUMANS RIGHTS, sex.rock and roll, drugs )

Lone
- 66 days ago - sacbee.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- First, came a moratorium on head shops. Then, neighbors turned out in force to support a new development that includes an upscale grocery store. And the local street fair banned open containers of alcohol
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Pot Farms Run By 'Bad Guys' Getting Closer to Tourist Spots
Society & Culture  (tags: society, drugs, national parks, travel, usa, rights, news, americans )

Cal
- 77 days ago - cnn.com
Drug traffickers are planting millions of marijuana plants on U.S. public lands ever closer to tourist sites, guarding their plots with heavy weaponry, federal authorities say.
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Gang Smuggled Drugs in Baby Prams: Spanish Police
Society & Culture  (tags: drugs, smuggling, drug ring busted, europe, society, news )

Michelle
- 85 days ago - france24.com
Spanish police said Wednesday they had smashed an international drug-trafficking ring which smuggled cannabis by hiding it in prams under newborn babies.
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Michael Jackson's Death Ruled a Homicide By LA Coroner
Society & Culture  (tags: homicide, drugs, doctor, coroner, crime, sadness )

Lone
- 87 days ago - nydailynews.com
Michael Jackson's death has been ruled a homicide - and the evidence points to his doctor
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Parents Driving Drunk Endanger Most Vulnerable: Their Own Children
Society & Culture  (tags: society, Drinking and Driving, drugs, MADD, DUI, DWI, children, family, crime, death, sadness )

Dee
- 88 days ago - abcnews.go.com
It is a behavior that's hard to fathom -- parents driving drunk with their children in the car. Yet studies show that two thirds of children who die in drunken driving accidents are killed by the very people in charge of caring for them.
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Gangs An Increasing Problem for Northwest Tribes
Society & Culture  (tags: violence, gangs, drugs, alcohol, crime, corruption, children )

Lone
- 89 days ago - oregonlive.com
They did, but tempers soon flared. The 25 gang members -- Latinos on one side and Native Americans on the other -- began flashing gang signs. The cops moved in
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Female Inmates Sue Over Coffee Creek Sex Assaults
Society & Culture  (tags: prisoners, sexual abuse, women, guards, drugs )

Lone
- 90 days ago - oregonlive.com
The agency that runs the state's prisons is being sued by female inmates who say they were preyed upon sexually by state employees. Two former corrections workers have pleaded guilty to having sex with prisoners
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Residents on Edge as 9 Women Vanish From NC City
Society & Culture  (tags: murder, drugs, prostitution, kidnapping, missing )

Lone
- 97 days ago - ajc.com
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. -- They spent their nights jumping in and out of strange cars, trolling otherwise empty streets lined with decaying storefronts and boarded-up homes. Many sold sex to support drug habits or children left in the care of worried,
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One-Woman Argument For Drug Treatment
Society & Culture  (tags: women, prison, drugs, treatment programs, drug rehabilitation )

Lone
- 99 days ago - washingtonpost.com
After being hooked on drugs for nearly half her life, Rozetta Boggan, 56, has been drug-free for seven years. No more crack cocaine. No alcohol. No heroin
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US Army Soldier Michael Jackson Apodaca Arrested for Contract Kill in Mexican Drug Cartel Murder
Society & Culture  (tags: murder, crime, corruption, drugs, money, society )

Lone
- 100 days ago - nydailynews.com
EL PASO, Texas - An 18-year-old U.S. Army soldier and two other men have been charged with capital murder in the contract killing of a midlevel Mexican drug cartel official who was also a U.S. informant
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Mentally Ill Offenders Strain Juvenile System
Society & Culture  (tags: US, Ohio, Mentally ill, prisoners, juvenile system, psychiatric disorders, drugs, mood stabilizers )

ON VACATI
- 101 days ago - nytimes.com
As cash-starved states slash mental health programs in communities and schools, they are increasingly relying on the juvenile corrections system to handle a generation of young offenders with psychiatric disorders. 2/3 inmates have 1 mental illness.
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Cocaine Bust of Tiger Attack Victim
Society & Culture  (tags: crime, death, drugs, California, San Francisco Zoo, Tatianadishonesty )

Raffi
- 117 days ago - sfgate.com
One of two San Jose brothers who survived a Christmas Day 2007 tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo has been arrested on suspicion of felony cocaine possession after a car he was a passenger in was pulled over while heading the wrong way on a street
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Mexico Police Agents Are Killed in Alleged Retribution By Cartel
Society & Culture  (tags: government, Mexico City, crime, death, Drug Cartels, police, murder, torture, retaliation, corruption, drugs, gangs )

Dee
- 128 days ago - online.wsj.com
MEXICO CITY-Twelve undercover federal police agents were captured, tortured, and executed by a relatively new and dangerous Mexican cartel calling itself La Familia, or The Family, officials said Tuesday.
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In Mexican City, Drug War Ills Slip Into Shadows
Society & Culture  (tags: society, Mexico City, crime, corruption, drugs, violence, police, law, safety )

Dee
- 159 days ago - nytimes.com
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico-The reminders of Nuevo Laredo's violent days still mar its streets, bullet holes and the impacts of grenades where drug traffickers once flaunted their power, boarded-up buildings of merchants who fled the lawlessness, and- - -
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