One of two known survivors of a drug gang’s massacre in northern Mexico of 72 undocumented Central and South American migrants said in an interview broadcast Thursday that they were killed because they refused to work for the traffickers.
A Calhoun, Ga., man was arrested for using spray paint and makers to deface private and commercial buildings throughout the downtown area, according to Calhoun police.
Two of Tennessee’s Republican federal officeholders are stepping into the 4th Congressional District race to openly back Republican challenger Scott DesJarlais’s bid against incumbent U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis.
Editors of a top medical journal call Meridia “another flawed diet pill” and question whether it should stay on the market as a study shows it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with heart problems.
Police found such a small amount of crack cocaine in James V. Taylor’s car that investigators described it as unweighable. It was enough for a 15-year prison sentence in Missouri, where the courts make an enormous distinction between crack and powder cocaine.
The number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in 20 years as substantially fewer undocumented workers from Mexico, Latin America and elsewhere are crossing the border in search of jobs, an independent research group says.