Florence High School officials are looking into how a package containing a highly addictive prescription pain drug made its way onto a school bus Wednesday.

About 4.3 percent of Maricopa County jail inmates randomly tested for drug use last year tested positive, according to the sheriff’s office. But the numbers have steadily decreased since random testing began in the mid-1990s.

Parents have it rough these days.

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In an effort to help keep homes safer and prevent pill abuse, the Gilbert Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration are hosting a disposal event for people needing to rid their medicine cabinets and homes of old and unwanted prescription medication on Saturday.

Two Scottsdale residents named in a federal indictment Thursday involving a fraudulent drug distribution scheme could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine each if convicted of the offenses.

NOGALES - U.S. and Mexican law enforcement agents executing simultaneous raids discovered a recently completed smuggling tunnel linking the two countries, officials said Friday.

Drugstore logbooks did little more than collect dust during the first year of East Valley rules that require pharmacists to collect personal information when selling Sudafed and other cold medicines used to brew methamphetamine. In Scottsdale and Chandler, police have never inspected the locally mandated store records in search of meth cooks.

PITTSBURGH - Tommy Chong, who played one half of the dope-smoking duo in the Cheech and Chong movies, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison and fined $20,000 Thursday for selling bongs and other drug paraphernalia over the Internet.

Bill Richardson: The Legislature is once again asleep at the switch that controls the flow of organized crime in and out of Arizona.

Planning a trip to Mexico? Forget it.

A seven-month sting operation in Scottsdale nightclubs confirmed what undercover detectives and federal agents already knew — some people do drugs in those places.

An attorney for Gov. Jan Brewer told federal appellate judges Tuesday they should let Arizona enforce its laws against harboring illegal immigrants because there's no evidence anyone is in danger of actually being prosecuted.

The Drug Enforcement Administration and its state, local and tribal law enforcement partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.

Authorities say more than 20,000 units and 50 pounds of the synthetic drug known as Spice or K2 has been seized in Phoenix and Scottsdale.

WASHINGTON — Nearly a third of criminal immigrants removed from the U.S. last year had committed crimes involving "dangerous drugs," statistics released by the Homeland Security Department show.

NOGALES - Agents with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday they had discovered another tunnel linking Nogales with its sister city in Mexico that was being used to smuggle drugs.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's army has uncovered a 755-foot (230-meter) tunnel running under the Sonora-Arizona border that was used to smuggle drugs into the United States.

The Gilbert Police Department's Crime Prevention Unit will be hosting a drug disposal event for people who need to throw away old prescription drugs or pills as part of the "National Take Back Initiative" so drugs won't get in the wrong hands.

Before retiring, Jack Cole was an undercover officer in the war against drugs.

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of federal agents, along with high-tech surveillance gear and drug-sniffing dogs, are headed to the Southwest to help Mexico fight drug cartels and keep violence from spilling across the U.S.-Mexico border, Obama administration officials said Tuesday.