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WASHINGTON (AP) — Heroin and prescription pain pills are among the top drug threats in the U.S., according to the Drug Enforcement Administration's latest drug threat assessment Wednesday. The DEA's 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment found that heroin is most popular among drug users in the Northeast and Midwest, though availability of the potent street drug has increased across the country and use rose by about 50 percent between 2013 and 2014.

The government has asked all state administrative departments to route their claims for land acquisition for infrastructure projects through the finance department so that it can make necessary budgetary provisions.

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Leah Remini has been busy speaking out about Scientology in addition to releasing her new tell-all memoir, but she was noticeably absent from Alex Gibney's expository HBO documentary, Going...

Ted Cruz and Ben Carson have been attacking the debate process primarily because they believe they are scoring political points over it, but they are losing in the overall narrative they suggest. Megyn Kelly grilled Ted Cruz' preposterous idea that all debate moderators for GOP debates should be Republican voters.

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A heart condition may have caused an 86-year-old motorbike enthusiast to pass out moments before a fatal crash, an inquest heard.

A Tomah couple were arrested following a fight over moving a mattress.

Locals have tended to regard City Hall as the arena where Democrats and progressive Democrats mix it up. Lee, then city administrator, had never run for office when Newsom asked him to serve as interim mayor. Newsom himself, now California lieutenant governor and governor-in-waiting, was handpicked by his predecessor as mayor, Willie Brown (now a Chronicle columnist), to fill a vacant seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1997. San Franciscans first elected Brown, the self-described Ayatollah of the state Assembly, mayor in 1995.

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Officials say it's time to push forward on the Red River Valley Water Supply Project, an project that would provide a secure source of water to eastern N.D.

A man claims he gave crucial evidence that could have led to the arrest of the killers of Mark Andrews and Ian Jordaan.

Here is some bad news from Chennai's slums.One in every six children (60%) below six years of age living in these impossibly crowded areas is malnourished and underweight.

An elderly woman pushing a young boy in a stroller was struck by a car Wednesday in Brooklyn.

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Car carrying couple goes airborne, flips multiple times after being run off New Hampshire road

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The cause of a Russian plane crash in Egypt is looking more like an explosion but it is not clear whether it was linked to a fuel or engine trouble or a bomb.

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Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali, who was scheduled to perform on December 3 during the annual Lucknow Mahotsav, has cancelled his concert. The singer, who said he was perturbed by the “politics” over his concert in Mumbai after protests by Shiv Sena, said he will not return to India until “things settle down” and cancelled all his engagements in India with immediate effect.

NEEDE - Terwijl aan de westkant van het dorp aan een rotonde tussen Neede en Noordijk wordt gewerkt, wacht Neede-Oost op aanpassing van een andere N315-kruising: die van de Rondweg-Haaksbergseweg.

BEST, which has incurred losses in the transport division to the tune of more than Rs 750 crore, received fake currency notes with a face value of Rs 2.9 lakh in 2014.

Don't look now, but sources are telling us that that the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Kevin Durant is considering YOUR CRAPPY TEAM HERE as a possible 2016 free agent destination.

It isn’t crackers, Kali Puja organizers seem to be more worried about tackling bikers, who zip around the city in drunken rides through the festive nights and harass women pandal-hoppers.