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Since the initial reports nearly two weeks ago that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was seen in a video allegedly using crack cocaine, questions have been swirling at city hall and beyond. But what do we know with any certainty about this controversy, and what questions remain? More...

Two men are behind bars after Winnipeg police found a stash of drugs and guns in a car. Officers pulled over a car on Westwood Drive at about 11:15 a.m. Saturday. Police say they initially found a small amount of crack cocaine and open liquor. In a news release, police say a further search...

GUATEMALA CITY – Police say 400 people marched in support of Guatemala's reputed top drug trafficker captured by the government and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez says the demonstration Thursday was peaceful and lasted about three hours in an area...

In recent years, the boat of choice for Colombian cocaine smugglers has been the semisubmersible, a vessel that cruises just below the ocean's surface with only its air and exhaust pipes sticking out of the water. Since the semisubs have proved so successful at dodging interdiction, it seemed...

Fresh off his weekend Grammy win, singer Bruno Mars pleaded guilty to cocaine possession on Wednesday but avoided jail in exchange for probation, community service and drug counseling. Mars, 25, who had a breakthrough year in 2010 with hits "Just the Way You Are" and "Grenade", made a brief...

A drug trial in St. John's came to a screeching halt Tuesday when the Crown moved to stay the proceedings. Michael Kavanagh, 31, was charged with drug trafficking after police found a stash of two kilograms of cocaine in a trash can in a Torbay service station. "Frankly, we are surprised by...

-- The United States is urging the Iranian government to halt executions after Tehran hanged a Dutch-Iranian woman, saying she was a drug smuggler. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has said the drug charges were only a pretext to execute Zahra Bahrami, and the Netherlands...

-- The Netherlands froze all ties with Iran Sunday after Tehran hanged a Dutch-Iranian woman a day earlier, calling the execution a "shocking act by a barbaric regime." And Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal will "discuss possible measures" against Iran by the European Union on Monday, the...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/01/19/ac.ridiculist.snorting.ashes.cnn -- Police said they will search Thursday for what is left of the cremated remains of a man and two dogs that robbers stole from a Florida house and then snorted after mistakenly thinking it was cocaine. Members...

Police have charged a 29-year-old Ottawa man with drug trafficking and possession of property obtained by crime after they searched his Overbrook apartment Thursday. Crack cocaine, powdered cocaine and marijuana were found in the apartment, police said. Magabi Suleiman was scheduled to appear...

Drug charges have been laid against a couple from Washington state after a major cocaine seizure at the Canada-U.S. border near Grand Forks, B.C. Scott Fleming Powers, 49 and his wife Diane Powers, 55, are accused of importing a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of...

Much of the cocaine seized Thursday was hidden inside pastel-colored Easter egg candies. Two days before Christmas, the alleged smuggler apparently thought Easter eggs would be the perfect ploy to conceal 14 pounds of cocaine. It didn't work. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers...

Federal authorities dismantled a large-scale cocaine trafficking organization in Denver, Colorado, with the indictment of 35 people, officials said Monday. Six remained fugitives Monday, but the others were in custody, authorities said. The 35 people, some of them gang members, had ties to a...

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne once poured cocaine on his toes in a bizarre attempt to cure his athlete's foot. The former Black Sabbath frontman occasionally suffers from the fungal infection and struggled to find a remedy while he was touring in the 1980s. And when the rock wildman was told his stash...

Cocaine found in woman's bank deposit WETHERSFIELD, Conn., Connecticut authorities said a woman was arrested after she accidentally included a small bag of cocaine with her bank deposit. Wethersfield police said the envelope Kendl Murphy, 43, used to make her deposit at the drive-up window of...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LA PAZ (Reuters) – The Aymara priest who blessed Bolivian President Evo Morales at an inauguration ceremony four years ago has been arrested in possession of 530 pounds (240 kg) of cocaine, police said Thursday...

Congress OKs Fair Sentencing Act WASHINGTON, The U.S. House Wednesday passed and sent to the president a bill bringing sentences in crack cocaine cases closer to those in powder cocaine prosecutions. By a voice vote, the House gave final congressional approval to the Fair Sentencing Act of...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A production manager for the hit cable TV show "Deadliest Catch," who police said bragged about his ability to deliver cocaine to the Alaska fishing town of Unalaska, is facing felony drug charges, court documents state. Matthew Schneider, 22, was charged April 27 with using...

German states ban Red Bull after discovery of cocaine in the drink -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Provided by: The Canadian Press BERLIN - Six German states have told retailers to stop selling Red Bull Cola energy drinks after a test found a...

Flight Crew Arrested Over Cocaine In Baggage Fifteen airline flight crew members have been arrested after cocaine was found in baggage - the second such incident in a month. South African Airways The cocaine was found in baggage onboard a South African Airways plane The South African...