News Brief

A creaky, half-blind, 69-year-old Virginia man is dead after shooting at police raiding his home for pain pills.

Will New Jersey medical marijuana patients ever gain legal access to their medicine? Eighteen months after the law was passed, Gov. Christie appears bent on delaying it as long as possible.

Florida's drug testing-crazed governor has backed down from a plan to subject state employees to suspicionless drug tests.

It never ends, does it? Another week, another set of crooked cops. At least this week, the jail and prison guards managed to stay out of the news.

An Indian regional appeals court has struck down a mandatory death penalty for drug offenses. That's the first time any court anywhere has done so.

If Maine voters want to legalize pot, it looks like they're going to have to do it themselves. The legislature just punted on a chance to do it for them.

Here's a shocker (not): No charges will be filed against the Tucson SWAT team that gunned down an ex-Marine in a drug raid in his home.

Mexico's prohibition-related violence, with all its spectacular and horrifying brutality, continues unabated.

The CNN Republican presidential debate tonight will include the self-destructing Newt Gingrich and the unannounced candidate Michelle Bachmann, but not announced candidate Gary Johnson.

We've got it all this week: jail guards, police dispatchers, parole officers, big city narcs, small town deputies...