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Jeffrey Adam Crum kicked a deputy U.S. marshal in the head while being detained after a court hearing last November.

A man who was recently sentenced to federal prison for drug crimes is now accused of trying to forge documents to take back a ...

A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty Friday to US drug trafficking charges, becoming the first of the drug lord's sons to enter a plea deal.

These nagging crimes, which have prompted stores across the city to lock their goods behind plastic barricades, has shot up ...