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Oregon Man's Dog Flings Drug-Filled Sock Toward Deputy

A Sherman County (Ore.) Sheriff's deputy had help from a suspect's pit bull during a vehicle stop, when the dog wrestled away a marijuana-filled sock and tossed it toward the officer.

Virginia Trooper Killed in Gunfight During Drug Investigation

Trooper Lucas Dowell was killed while helping the Piedmont Regional Drug and Gang Task Force search a home on Monday night.

DEA's Prescription Drug 'Take Back' Nets 240,000+ Pounds

In Troy, Mo., a man brought his kitchen drawer full of medication to the collection site to empty. At another site in Jacksonville, Ill., a woman brought in nearly 50 years' worth of medicines for disposal.

Chicago Drug Task Force Targets Cartel 'Choke Points'

Seventy federal agents, police officers, and prosecutors recently started working there in what authorities say is a first-of-its-kind drug-fighting headquarters.

Baltimore Homicide Detectives to Begin Investigating Drug Overdoses

For the first time, Baltimore police have begun investigating overdoses in an effort to trace drugs back to dealers, joining a wave of Maryland law enforcement agencies showing up at 911 calls previously left to medics.

Indian Reservations on Both U.S. Borders Become Drug Pipelines

The drug gangs take advantage of weak and underfunded tribal police forces and the remoteness of tribal lands, and they find that high unemployment rates and resentment of federal law enforcement agencies make some young Native Americans ready allies.

Mexican Drug Gangs Take Over National Parks and Forests

Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.

Drug Means "New Era" of Treatment for Hepatitis C

Duke University has announced a breakthrough in the treatment of hepatitis C that could help the many officers who have contracted the disease on the job, A new drug appears to cure far more people and does it in half the time of current therapies, researchers say. The drug is now in the final testing stages. If all goes well, it could be on the market in 2011.