Methampetamine Scourge Sweeps Rural America
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Imagine that, with $100 worth of  supplies bought from neighborhood stores, dealers could easily  cook up $1,000 worth of a drug so addictive that users quickly  descend into a hell of violence, crime and neglect.
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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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It has all the makings of a potential rangeland disaster: thousands of acres of grass and the herds of cattle, antelope and other animals that need to eat it versus an emerging army of spiky caterpillars with voracious appetites. But ranchers hope quick action will take care of the caterpillars &#151; also known as range worms &#151; before they can destroy pastures in northeastern New Mexico.
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By Jessica L. De Vault, Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C.  Feb. 19--A group of Hunting Country residents are exploring a number of  options to assure that their spacious, rural region is left unscathed from  high-density development.
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By Dan Buglass rural affairs editor  THE days when farmers paid scant regard to the environment and their custody of the countryside are long gone.
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CONESTOGA, Pa. - To longtime rural residents, it's something they hardly even notice...
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Appalachian State's monumental upset of No. 5 Michigan on Saturday sent a remote small town in the mountains of northwestern North Carolina into a frenzy of the kind that Boone, population 13,000, had never seen before.
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By Scott Richardson  CLINTON - DeWitt County is a long way from the Amazon River in South America. But that didn't stop a toothy pacu from taking bait that Virgil Hunter of Weldon dangled in the hot-water discharge of Clinton Lake about 5 p.m. Saturday.
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Peace came to Michael Shackelford last year inside a psychiatric ward. He was 16 and his mother had just discovered his relationship with another young man. Feeling alone and frightened, and unable to imagine his future as a gay teenager in rural Oklahoma, Michael bought 10 packets of ephedrine-laced powder from the mini-mart and swallowed them all, which is how he landed at Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital, his belt and shoelaces confiscated.
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By T.J. Pignataro  Buffalo's first suspected mobile methamphetamine laboratory was seized from a South Buffalo house late Monday night, along with a handgun, large sum of cash and a hydroponic marijuana-growing operation, Buffalo narcotics officials said.
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MAPHUNGWANE, Swaziland -- Men in blue coveralls and white surgical masks began their annual trek into the countryside here last week. Methodically, they sprayed one home after another with a chemical most Americans probably thought long ago disappeared from use: DDT.
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NEW YORK  - Ten healthy female students at  a rural, co-ed North Carolina high school had repeated bouts of  seizures, swooning and hyperventilation over a four-month  period in 2002 -- an outbreak that experts are calling an  example of mass hysteria.
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By Sarah Reynolds, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Sep. 6--A crew of Rural/Metro Fire Department firefighters were pelted with shots from a group of dove hunters Friday morning, according to Rural/Metro personnel.
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By Laura Griffith, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.  Sep. 7--Illinois is taking the fight against methamphetamines to the manufacturing level with a grant program meant to heighten security and safety measures at anhydrous ammonia facilities.
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After deadly twisters tore through the South, help came quickly for rural Macon County, Tenn. residents.
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Americans wanting to buy many common cold medicines would have to go to a drug store and ask the pharmacist under legislation introduced on Wednesday aimed at fighting the spread of the illegal stimulant methamphetamine.
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By Jayne Matthews, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  May 30--GRANITE CITY -- A man who scampered out a back door during a police raid was still running Tuesday from Granite City police and a charge of making methamphetamine, a police spokesman said.