What began as an apparent simple disagreement between the camps of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. over how to handle drug testing for their megafight — tentatively scheduled for March 13 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas — has spiraled so out of control that the potential biggest money fight in boxing history
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A disturbing trend is on the rise in the the nation’s capital. Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier says she’s concerned about this frightening trend. It’s street names are angel dust or rocket fuel because of the way it makes users feel invincible. Lanier, “What’s disturbing is the exceptionally high levels of people testing positive for
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Two decades after customers clamored to buy cocaine from a teenager named John Cappas, they’re lined up again to buy what he has to sell: Hot dogs. The one-time “drug kingpin,” as the newspapers called him in the late 1980s, this summer became an owner of a hot dog stand called Johnny’s WeeNee Wagon. It’s
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Search warrants filed Thursday in court in Clark County, Nevada, and carried out at properties of Michael Jackson’s doctor imply that investigators looking into his death believe the singer was a drug addict. The warrants, signed by District Judge Timothy Williams and given to CNN by Las Vegas affiliate KTNV,
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A pregnant British woman accused of trying to smuggle heroin onto a flight to Thailand from Laos was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison. Samantha Orobator, 20, was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced after a three-hour trial, an official in the southeast Asian country said. He declined to give his name because he is
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A pregnant British woman jailed in Laos has met withAdd New a British lawyer for the first time ahead of her impending trial, a U.K. legal aid charity said Wednes Samantha Orobator, 20, has been in a Lao prison since August. She had no legal representation until last week, when the Lao government appointed her
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