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Cops: No Charges in Whitney's Death

It's not a 'criminal matter,' says Beverly Hills department

(Newser) - Authorities have officially closed the investigation of Whitney Houston's death and will not be filing any charges, reports E! Online . "We have determined that this is not a criminal matter," the Beverly Hills Police Department said in a statement. That had been a possibility given the traces...

Cocaine Found in Whitney's Hotel Room

'White, powdery remnants' discovered in Houston's Beverly Hills room

(Newser) - Police did indeed find cocaine in the hotel room where Whitney Houston died, reports TMZ . Official documents list "white, powdery remnants" found in the Beverly Hills room, and sources tell the website that the powder tested positive for cocaine. Earlier this month, the LA county coroner declared the singer'...

Whitney Houston Cause of Death: Drowning

But cocaine, heart disease were contributing factors

(Newser) - The LA county coroner has ruled that the official cause of death for Whitney Houston is accidental drowning, reports AP . But the report also cited cocaine and heart disease as contributing factors, and noted that she had the drug in her system at the time of her death, along with...

Uganda Cops: Cocaine Killed Amazing Race Producer

Jeff Rice, critically ill assistant tested positive for drug

(Newser) - Police in Uganda have dismissed reports that thugs poisoned Amazing Race producer Jeff Rice, saying the American appears to have died from a cocaine overdose. Rice was found slumped in a chair on his hotel balcony, and an autopsy found the drug in his system, officials say. Rice's assistant...

Lawyers: Cocaine Found on Cruise Ship Captain's Hair

But it's not clear whether Francesco Schettino took the drug

(Newser) - Some potentially bad news for the captain of that cruise ship that sank off the coast of Italy: Lawyers representing survivors say traces of cocaine were found on a sample of Francesco Schettino's hair, reports AP . But then it gets a little confusing: No cocaine was found in his...

28 Pounds of Cocaine Seized on Cruise Ship in SF

Customs officers bust three on Australia-bound liner

(Newser) - It was supposed to be the cruise of a lifetime—around the Caribbean to Hawaii and onward to Australia. But three passengers who didn't make it past San Francisco look set to spend a big chunk of their lifetimes in jail. Customs officials seized close to 28 pounds of...

Brain Scans of Addicts' Siblings Offer a Clue

They share abnormalities that make them more vulnerable

(Newser) - New hope in the treatment of addiction? A study shows that people hooked on drugs or alcohol have abnormalities in the brain that make them more susceptible. Researchers were able to determine that the abnormalities existed before the addiction set in because they found the same abnormalities in the brains...

36 Pounds of Cocaine Seized at UN

Spokesman believes it was accident by traffickers

(Newser) - A bag containing 36 pounds of cocaine has been seized in the mailroom of the UN's Manhattan headquarters. There was no name or address on the bag sent from Mexico City through Cincinnati, but it was stamped with a poor copy of a UN logo, which set off a...

Feds Helped Mexican Drug Honcho Move Millions

Transferred cash, drugs across international borders

(Newser) - The New York Times last month revealed that undercover US agents have laundered and smuggled millions of dollars for Mexico's drug cartels—and today the paper shines a light on one such operation, in which federal agents helped one drug trafficker and his Colombian supplier move cash and cocaine...

Cops: Man Dies Eating Bro's Cocaine to Spare Him Jail

Older brother begged sibling to eat drugs to spare him prison, say officials

(Newser) - A 20-year-old South Carolina man died after eating an ounce of cocaine his brother was hiding in his buttocks as the two were sitting in the back of a police cruiser, authorities say. Wayne Joshua Mitchell began having difficulty breathing and collapsed an hour after his older brother begged him...

High IQ Children Grow Up to Be... High

Kids who score well on IQ tests more likely to score drugs as adults

(Newser) - Smartypants kids are much more likely to use all sorts of illegal drugs as teenagers and adults, according to a new study of 8,000 Brits born in 1970. Five-year-olds who scored high IQ scores were more likely to have tried marijuana by age 16, reports the LA Times , and...

SNL Star Darrell Hammond: I Did Crack, Cut Myself

Comic recounts his struggles in new book

(Newser) - Saturday Night Live star Darrell Hammond, perhaps best known for his dead-on Bill Clinton impression, confesses in a new book that he once had to be taken from work “in a straitjacket” after an alcohol binge in 1998. “I kept a pint of Remy in my desk at...

Joe McGinniss Book Reveals Sarah Palin's One-Night Stand With NBA Player, Cocaine Use, and More, Says National Enquirer
McGinniss Book: Palin Had One-Night Stand, Used Coke
says 'national enquirer'
Sep 14, 2011 10:15 AM CDT

McGinniss Book: Palin Had One-Night Stand, Used Coke

At least, according to the Enquirer 's sources

(Newser) - Never shy about trumpeting scoops from the mountaintops, the National Enquirer 's latest is, as usual, less than subtle: "WORLD EXCLUSIVE! SARAH PALIN BOMBSHELL BOOK SHOCKING CLAIMS!" Turns out the Enquirer says it has sources with information about Joe McGinniss' upcoming book on Palin , and they say...

Cops: Airport Smuggler Hid Cocaine in ... Clam Shells

Customs officials call case one of the oddest they've seen

(Newser) - Finding a pearl inside a clam is rare, but finding a bag of cocaine is rarer. Just ask Dulles International Airport customs officials who arrested a Central American man trying to enter the US with 15 bags of cocaine stashed in shells that had been opened, stuffed, and glued back...

Feds Make Historic Cocaine Bust in Caribbean

Interception, seizure off Honduras coast a first for Coast Guard

(Newser) - The Coast Guard, working with FBI dive teams and the Honduran navy, has recovered 7.5 tons of cocaine worth $180 million from a drug submarine scuttled by smugglers off the coast of Honduras. The interception and seizure is the first of its kind in the Caribbean, the Miami Herald...

Tainted Cocaine Rotting Flesh
 Tainted Cocaine Rotting Flesh 
Jun 22, 2011 1:59 AM CDT

Tainted Cocaine Rotting Flesh

Dealers cutting coke with dangerous livestock deworming drug

(Newser) - A horrifying side effect is emerging among people who use cocaine cut with a drug that deworms livestock. Users who suffer a bad reaction to the drug levamisole are developing large patches of dead, blackened skin on their faces and bodies as the additive damages blood vessels and causes skin...

Holder Backs Release of 5,500 Crack Offenders

Proposal would correct vast crack/cocaine sentencing gap

(Newser) - Eric Holder today told the US Sentencing Commission that he supports a proposal to release thousands of federal prisoners convicted on crack-related offenses. Until Congress changed them last year, federal sentencing guidelines gave crack users—who are predominantly poor and black—much harsher sentences than powder cocaine users. Now, Holder...

Paraguay Discovers Bags of White Rice Actually Cocaine

A whopping 1,900 pounds seized

(Newser) - Paraguay made its largest cocaine seizure in history yesterday: more than 1,900 pounds of white powder disguised as bags of rice. Port workers grew suspicious about the rice, which was headed to Mozambique, probably en route to Europe where it would be worth $131 million on the streets. One...

How to Test Positive for Cocaine&mdash; Er, Cheese

 That Cheesy 
 Meal Could Test 
 Positive for... 
 Cocaine 
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May 21, 2011 7:00 PM CDT

That Cheesy Meal Could Test Positive for... Cocaine

Man said cartons of coke-positive food in truck were for sister

(Newser) - It turns out that you might not want to drive under the influence of, say, a taco: Police in Asheville, NC, thought they had busted a California man who was fleeing arrest under the influence of alcohol. He was also carrying cases of food that tested positive for cocaine. A...

Dennis Quaid: Cocaine Was Part of Movie Budgets

Actor recalls what it was like to be addicted

(Newser) - In Newsweek , Dennis Quaid recalls his "greatest mistake": the cocaine-fueled days of his youth. "It was very casual at first. That’s what people were doing when they were at parties," he writes of the '70s and '80s. "Cocaine was even in the budgets of movies,...

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