Troubled times for Texas hallucinogen harvesters
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RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas  - Mauro Morales has chickens in his yard, deer antlers hanging from the fence and a shed full of peyote behind his house.
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By Fred Hiers, Ocala Star-Banner, Fla.  May 30--OCALA -- Every few days, the Ocala National Forest is marred.  Piles of trash, abandoned boats and cars, leaking batteries and worn out tires  are illegally dumped, scarring the landscape like cancerous tumors.
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When Romelia Vargas was gunned down in the catering truck where she fried taquitos, police had few answers for her husband. Maybe the mother of twin baby boys got into trouble selling drugs &#151; that was the best they could offer.
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SILVERBELL, Ariz. -- Among the statuesque saguaro cactuses in the desert south of this old mining town lies the remnant of a crime scene that federal authorities say signals a troubling and escalated level of violence associated with the human smuggling trade.
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Thirty-four people have died so far this year in Travis County from a heroin overdose, up from 23 last year. Authorities believe a particularly potent strain of heroin being smuggled into the United States and circulating on the streets of the Texas Capital is partly to blame for the highest number of heroin deaths in Austin since 1992.
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By COLLEEN DISKIN, STAFF WRITER The state's environmental cops are often handcuffed as they try to protect the public from health risks that lurk beneath old industrial properties.
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HOGBACK, New Mexico  - A brutal triple slaying in this remote corner of the vast Navajo reservation brought home what experts have seen coming for years: an explosion in crime on tribal lands linked to the cheap, potent and highly addictive stimulant methamphetamine.
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Midwestern farmers welcome a new fertilizer additive that leaves a telltale fluorescent pink stain on the hands of anyone who touches it. Theft of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer, used to make methamphetamine, has become a major problem for farmers.
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States try to limit access to a key meth ingredient, but some drug companies and consumer groups oppose the move.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 7--Local leaders are becoming frustrated with the ongoing efforts to devise a plan to clean up ozone in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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By Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 23--Immigration policies are a bureaucratic mess and getting farm labor for small farmers is next to impossible.
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Near a rock formation twisting into the Arizona sky, the desert floor has been torn up by off-road vehicles. A tattered VCR and a bullet-riddled washing machine further scar the landscape. Tonto is one of many national forests that suffer environmental damage caused by thoughtless, even unscrupulous, visitors. And the U.S. Forest Service doesn't have the cash or manpower to tackle the problem.
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WICHITA, Kan. &#151; It may fall a shade shy of catching thieves red-handed, but for farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer, staining them pink will do just fine.
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By PAUL J. WEBER WEST ORANGE, Texas - Sam Henry swept dead pigs off Highway 87 two days after Hurricane Rita tossed them there. Then his job turned really unpleasant.
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By Jim McBride, Amarillo Globe-News, Texas  Feb.
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The number of cannabis farms being uncovered by police in England and Wales has trebled in the last two years, according to a report by drugs information charity DrugScope published Tuesday.