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Monday, April 01, 2013  AP IMPACT: Mexican cartels dispatch trusted agents to live and work deep inside United States

Friday, March 22, 2013  An inmate who walked out of a South Carolina jail more than a year ago has been captured in California.

Friday, December 14, 2012  The man widely believed to be behind the aviation company is an ex-convict named Christian Esquino, 50, who has a long and checkered legal past.

Monday, December 03, 2012  Police say a drug investigation in coastal Georgia and South Carolina resulted in a whopping bust with 39 suspects charged and an estimated $2.7 million worth of cocaine seized.

Thursday, November 08, 2012  Those who have argued for decades that legalizing and taxing weed would be better than a costly, failed U.S. drug war have their chance to prove it.

Monday, October 29, 2012  The Columbia Police have charged a 36 year old Columbia Man for making drugs in his parents home.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012  The public is getting another opportunity Saturday to rid home medicine cabinets of unused, potentially dangerous medications.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012  Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott was recognized by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and D.A.R.E in Atlanta Wednesday.

Thursday, December 01, 2011  Top legal and law enforcement officials from South Carolina are meeting in Columbia to discuss drug abuse.

Thursday, September 08, 2011  The Drug Enforcement Administration says it will temporarily outlaw possession and sale three synthetic stimulants as dangerous chemicals that pose an imminent hazard to public health.

Thursday, August 04, 2011  233 pounds of pure cocaine, individually packaged and hidden in furniture inside a tractor-trailer... That's what Florence County sheriff's deputies found when they stopped the semi on Interstate 95 Thursday morning.

Wednesday, April 06, 2011  AP IMPACT: Synthetic drugs that mimic pot, cocaine, other drugs send thousands to hospitals