Crack cocaine

At 16, he was destitute and illiterate, his father dead and his mother addicted to crack cocaine. Now he is one of American Football's biggest stars - and his life the subject of a Hollywood film. Rupert Cornwell tells the extraordinary...

In this article: Michael Oher, The Blind Side, Michael Lewis, University of Mississippi, Hollywood, National Football League, and Memphis

...eye in his mug shot. McCray, of 38520 Wilson St. in Dade City, is charged with retail theft, resisting a merchant, possession of crack cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. He remained Friday at the Land O'Lakes jail in lieu of...

In this article: Barter, Dade City, Tampa Bay, and U.S.

...blogger's identity was a mystery for six years. Since the revelation, Magnanti's father Paul, who is struggling with an addiction to crack cocaine, admitted that after splitting from his wife he used call girls regularly and introduced...

In this article: Belle de Jour, Billie Piper, Sheffield University, ITV, and London

...contemporaries are of a specific age. They were the first to become men during the truly terrible years in South L.A. 20 years ago, when crack cocaine came through like a tempest and gangs were averaging a killing a day. Everyone, he said,...

In this article: South Park, Urban decay, LAPD, Heroin, Club Med, and Los Angeles Times

...this and he continues to deal drugs. Two years ago police raided his house, found 6 handguns under his bed, 10 lbs of marijuana, crack cocaine and over $10,000 in cash. Not to bad for a poor paralyzed man. Oh, and the reason police raided...

In this article: Paralyzed and St. Joseph County

A 32-year-old city man pleaded guilty to drug-dealing charges in federal court Tuesday after authorities accused him of selling crack cocaine to undercover officers three times in 2008. Dwayne "Strech" Jacobs, 32, formerly of Wardwell...

In this article: Narcotics, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Connecticut

...running her over with his car. A probation report reviewed by the judge Tuesday listed Martinez, of Long Beach, as a self-admitted crack cocaine user since the age of 11. The defense, looking to avoid a death sentence, argued that...

In this article: Parole and Defendant

...also said he had no idea who the other woman was. According to the information read out in court, Bowman is accused of possessing crack cocaine and stealing merchandise from Metro and Longos grocery stores as well as from a Shoppers Drug...

In this article: Mazda, Burlington, Recognizance, Shoppers Drug Mart, Longos, and Petro Canada

...the dying woman and planted three baggies of marijuana in her basement. He then called an informant and told him to pretend he bought crack cocaine there, they said. Three ex-cops were sentenced to prison for their roles in the shooting...

In this article: Atlanta, Narcotic, Atlanta Police Department, and Marijuana

...people whose identities were unavailable by press time. All are from Ada and were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. Arrests were also made throughout the morning in Sulphur, Davis, Pauls Valley and Wagoner.

In this article: Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, Sulphur, and Drug Enforcement Administration