NEW BEDFORD — New Bedford Police narcotics and gang detectives made 13 arrests Thursday and took two guns, marijuana and crack cocaine off the street as part of a citywide sweep targeting narcotics use and other illegal activity.
As part of the sweep, police executed a search warrant at 15 Warren St...
Sisters Gourmet Deli, right in Monument Square, said in a Facebook post that they had a very frightening encounter with a man "clearly under the influence and likely battling mental health issues" on Saturday. Now they are calling on the city of Portland to step up and do something.
Officers from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Maine State Police made several arrests today (April 28) in connection with an investigation into the interstate trafficking of heroin and cocaine in greater Rumford-Mexico.
Jackson Laboratory will receive nearly $12 million in federal money to pay for its new center that will study drug addiction.
The lab's new facility in Bar Harbor will be called the Center for System Neurogenetics of Addiction. It will study mice to see what traits predispose them to drug addiction and use those findings to inform research into human addiction...
In an appearance on the WVOM morning show on Tuesday, Maine Governor Paul LePage suggested we should use the guillotine to execute convicted drug traffickers.