Everyone in Mexico knew that drug cartels were murdering people, but they rarely made such a show of it. Then, in 2005, a kingpin named Edgar Valdez Villarreal (a.k.a. “La Barbie”) ramped up the ...

A Mexican music icon is using a typically male genre to sing of women imprisoned for killing their abusers while defending themselves and to highlight the more complicated aspects of gender-based viol ...

Mexican artists built enormous audiences singing about drug cartels and narco culture. Cities and states are now moving ...

MobLand and other modern crime shows are changing the criminal empires. Female characters are now in charge of their ...

Authorities say 26 men and women are charged in a massive conspiracy to take over a Newark neighborhood through violence and ...

After a series of failed entrepreneurial pursuits, a California woman created what a Drug Enforcement Administration special ...

(Photo courtesy of WV Legislative Photography) CHARLESTON — A bill named for a victim of fentanyl poisoning and aimed at major drug kingpins and dealers was passed by the West Virginia House of ...

Picture: Instagram The “California Kid”, as he has styled himself, recently hit back at allegations he won his freedom by snitching on accomplices in his illegal gambling and drug supply ...

For decades, thousands of women were given a controversial drug during their pregnancies with the hope of preventing miscarriage. The drug, called Diethylstilbestrol – commonly known as DES ...

and the drug hasn't been approved for use in Scotland and Northern Ireland yet. Some 3,000 women a year could benefit after a clinical trial showed it can slow the progression of the disease.