Just months after authorities shut down the troubled Metro Gang Strike Force, officials are working on plans for a new federally-run task force with a focus on violent gang-related crime.

RED BLUFF - The City Council here will decide Tuesday night whether to immediately ban medical marijuana dispensaries, collectives and cooperatives within city limits. As an urgency ordinance, the ban would go into effect immediately after the council vote. The

As medical marijuana use and collectives continue to grow in the north state, so does the amount of pot grown both indoors and outdoors by people with doctors' recommendations for the drug. "It's everywhere," said Lt. Jeff Foster of the

NOGALES, Ariz. -- In a break with a longstanding drug enforcement practice, the authorities in the United States and Mexico have agreed to have some Mexicans caught smuggling drugs into the United States returned to Mexico for prosecution. Last weekend,

Organized Rings Run Basically "Punishment-Free' Crime Operations Cuban refugees are dominating arrests in Florida's indoor marijuanatrade in what investigators call a nearly punishment-free crime. South Florida is considered the center of a trade in which groups ofyoung Cubans throughout the

BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. -- Voters in this Rocky Mountain resort town willdecide next week whether to legalize pot for all adults at a time whenthe movement to allow medical marijuana is gaining steam around thecountry. A measure before Breckenridge voters in

The state Senate voted Wednesday against overriding Governor Lynch'sveto of a bill that would have legalized the use of medical marijuanaby severely ill patients whose doctors recommend the drug. After being passed in the House by a margin of 240-115,