News Brief

Two more drug war deaths this week, and these ones were bizarre.

A Missouri technical college is the first public college in the country to demand mandatory suspicionless drug testing of students, and it will likely be the first in the country to be sued for it too.

The Hawaii teachers' union has finally, definitively fended off state demands that it accept random suspicionless drug testing of teachers.

A dirty Chicago cop goes to prison, a crooked small-town New York officer faces the same fate, a Florida cop facing trial for peddling meth has gone on the lam, and four suburban Chicago cops are being sued.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) wants to drug test people seeking unemployment benefits so badly she's willing to lie about it.

After a state appeals court effectively shut down dispensaries in Michigan, medical marijuana patients rallied in large numbers in Lansing, the state capital.

The DEA has responded to the latest synthetic drug panic in the only way it knows how -- by enacting bans. This time it's the "bath salts" drugs under attack.

A New York saw an acquaintance being accosted on the street, went in to help, and was shot dead by an undercover NYPD officer trying to arrest the acquaintance.

Illini Bluff school teachers managed to fend off random drug testing for themselves, if not their successors, but still submitted to one drug test to get back to work.

The Mexican president gave his annual state of the union speech last week, but that had no impact on the killing.