NOGALES, Ariz. - Gov. Janet Napolitano launched her own program Friday to make the border safer and more secure, building on a recent agreement with her counterpart from the Mexican state of Sonora.

NOGALES, Ariz. - Gov. Janet Napolitano launched her own program Friday to make the border safer and more secure, building on a recent agreement with her counterpart from the Mexican state of Sonora.

An illegal immigrant from Mexico who was living in Phoenix was sentenced on Monday to the maximum 10 years in prison for his involvement in a methamphetamine distribution ring after a joint investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency and Tempe police.

I’m writing about your front page story: “Police warn teen heroin use is on the rise” by Garin Groff (June 22).

Chandler police and other law enforcement agencies seized nearly $2 million worth of cocaine and heroin and netted dozens of arrests on Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into a family authorities say was distributing drugs into state prisons and the community.

Steven Greenhut: When it comes to foreign affairs, Americans are used to debating progress or setbacks in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, or on the Israeli invasion last month of the Gaza Strip.

Vice is as synonymous with Super Bowl week as football players and exclusive parties.

I’m writing about Bill Richardson’s Dec. 30 guest commentary: “Tempe must try to cut off drug cartel tentacles.”

COLUMBUS, N.M. - This dusty little border town with almost no visible means of support has been seeing something of a boom in the past year: Brand-new Lincoln Navigators and Cadillac Escalades with flashy hubcaps are parked just off the bleak main drag. Homes are selling quickly, sometimes for cash. The source of this sudden wealth? An influx of Mexican drug smugglers, investigators say.

COLUMBIANA, Ala. - Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year, the call over the sheriff's radio revealed little about what awaited law enforcement at a sprawling apartment complex.

COLUMBIANA, Ala. - Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year, the call over the sheriff's radio revealed little about what awaited law enforcement at a sprawling apartment complex.

COLUMBIANA, Ala. - Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year, the call over the sheriff's radio revealed little about what awaited law enforcement at a sprawling apartment complex.

Drug paraphernalia, weapons, a lack of clothing and an alligator.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - New mint packets being sold by The Hershey Co. look nearly identical to the tiny heat-sealed bags used to sell illegal powdered drugs like crack, heroin and cocaine and glorify the drug trade, a Philadelphia police official said.

Our View: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has received a minor flurry of criticism this week for acknowledging that the United States - or at least some people in the United States - bears some responsibility for the explosion of drug-law-related violence in Mexico that has left more than 7,000 Mexicans dead since January 2008.

The reputation of China’s booming export business took a real hit when contaminated products began killing people and pets around the world.

Mesa prosecutors plan to ramp up the city’s crime lab processing to handle the skyrocketing numbers of drug DUI arrests, which have doubled since 2009.

Authorities say they have busted up a drug trafficking cell in Tempe that, in adddition to being linked to the Sinaloa Cartel from Mexico, has received shipments of drugs from South and Central America, only to have domestic traffickers distribute the drugs to all corners of the nation.

What began as an ordinary traffic stop in Tempe instead turned into a 15-month drug trafficking investigation and the arrest of 203 suspects linked to the notorious Sinaloa cartel.

LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivian President Evo Morales suspended U.S. anti-drug operations on Saturday as Washington's relations with his leftist government spiraled downward. Morales accused the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of espionage and funding "criminal groups" trying to undermine his government.

SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, California — 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.

The new film Dredd 3D follows a day-in-the-life of the post-apocalyptic Mega City One’s most famous judge, jury and executioner - Judge Dredd. But the new movie is more of a gritty re-envisioning of the comic-book source material and a direct remake of Sylvester Stallone’s Judge Dredd from 1995.

CHICAGO - On the surface, it’s a complex patent fight spanning thousands of miles and more than a dozen time zones.

A new trial date has been set for three former Maricopa County sheriff's employees accused of aiding smugglers while they worked for the police agency.