Over $100,000 worth of opium was discovered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers last week "inside rattan furniture that was shipped to a Los Angeles International Airport cargo facility," ...

Among the French, expats from the old country brought back opium habits they learned while in southeast Asia, then set up opium dens in France. Here: An opium addict lights his pipe with an ...

This is a Canaanite tomb with various grave goods and sacrificed animals which were offered to the deceased by his relatives during the burial ceremony. A new study by the Israel Antiquities Authority ...

Vincent Fortanasce, MD, neurologist and author of End Back & Neck Pain, said that medications — especially opiates — are overprescribed for chronic pain, said a news release. According to Dr.

When Joseph Jarrow’s melodrama, “The Queen of Chinatown,” played at Heuck’s Over-the-Rhine theater, reviewers praised its authenticity. The Cincinnati Post [27 January 1900] claimed the play offered a ...

In the popular mythology of Pleasanton, the sleepy city of 78,000 was once one of the most lawless, dangerous and sordid settlements in the state. Known as “the most desperate town in the West,” the ...

After the raid of an opium den at 425 Wyoming Ave. on June 5, the U.S. attorney’s office issued warrants for Cletus “Hickey” Moore and Betty Moore, also known as Betty Price. The pair were wanted by ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A more than 200-year-old building in downtown Albany crumbled to the ground Thursday morning. Demolition of 50 Hudson Avenue in Albany is almost near completion. Now all eyes ...

Around 2 a.m. on Monday, December 6, 1875, a "posse of police" led by Captain William Douglass descended on 609 Dupont Street in San Francisco. The cops arrested Fannie Whitmore, Cora Martinez, James ...