LOS ANGELES — Gemmel Moore had moved back home with his mother in Texas two years ago and was missing Los Angeles when he texted a photo of syringe in an arm to a wealthy gay man he knew in California. Ed Buck, an influential political activist more than twice...
'This Ain't Your Mother's Marijuana," Surgeon General Says
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials issued a national warning Thursday against marijuana use by adolescents and pregnant women, as more states legalize the increasingly potent drug for medicinal and recreational use. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Surgeon General Jerome Adams made the announcement, with Azar calling marijuana "a dangerous drug." Officials said President Donald Trump...
Parents: If You Don't Know How to Spot Drug Use, This Town Hall in Clovis Is for You
Too many parents can't spot the signs that their child is using drugs and miss the opportunity to intervene before drug use becomes drug addiction, says Flindt Andersen, founder and president of Parents & Addicts in Need. The nonprofit PAIN is hosting a town hall meeting Wednesday in Clovis to...
US Aims to Help More Cancer Patients Try Experimental Drugs
CHICAGO — Sally Atwater's doctor spent two months on calls, messages and paperwork to get her an experimental drug he thinks can fight the lung cancer that has spread to her brain and spine. Nancy Goodman begged eight companies to let her young son try experimental medicines for a brain...
Human Trafficking Bulldog Gang Member Faces Life in Prison
A member of the Bulldogs street gang is headed to federal prison after being found guilty on drug and human trafficking charges Thursday. Filiberto “Beto” Chavez, 37, was found guilty of distributing and possessing methamphetamine, and conspiracy to engage in interstate travel for prostitution. A federal grand jury also convicted...
European, US Investigators Make Major Darknet Bust
BERLIN — European and American investigators have broken up one of the world's largest online criminal marketplaces for drugs, hacking tools and financial-theft wares a series of raids in the United States and Germany, authorities said Friday. Three German men, ages 31, 22 and 29, were arrested after the raids...
Driver in Fresno Greyhound Crash Had Suspended License
The Greyhound driver who crashed his bus into a Highway 99 guardrail Sunday in Fresno faces six years in prison if convicted of the charges filed Tuesday. The Fresno County District Attorney's Office charged Ashton Rennick Castillo, 28, of Los Angeles, with driving under the influence of a drug and...
Greyhound Driver Suspected of DUI after Fresno Crash
Authorities say a Greyhound driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI after crashing a bus into a guardrail with 35 passengers on board Sunday morning in Fresno. The California Highway Patrol says the crash happened shortly before 9:30 a.m. when the driver lost control on southbound Highway 99 as it...
At the Border, Trump Moves Closer to Emergency Declaration
MCALLEN, Texas — Taking the shutdown fight to the Mexican border, President Donald Trump edged closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an extraordinary end run around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall. Pressure was mounting to find an escape hatch from the three-week impasse that has closed...
Fact Check: Trump and the Disputed Border Crisis
WASHINGTON — In his prime-time speech to the nation, President Donald Trump declared a border crisis that's in sharp dispute, wrongly accused Democrats of refusing to pay for border security and ignored the reality of how drugs come into the country as he pitched his wall as a solution to...