Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DELRAY BEACH — If only the train would come now, Desmond Meade said he remembered thinking as he stood on railroad tracks in Miami ...

Former drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose dealing fueled the 1980s crack epidemic in Washington, D.C. died Tuesday, months after being released from prison. He was 60. Edmond, when he was 25, was ...

In the late 1980s and early ‘90s, reporter Ruben Castaneda wasn’t just covering the crack epidemic for the Washington Post — he was also taking part in it. While reporting on D.C. mayor Marion Barry’s ...

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Rayful Edmond III, the long-ago drug kingpin whose army of dealers and mountain of profits made him a symbol of the District’s murderous crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s, has been moved from a ...

A raw and necessary journey inside the reality of crack cocaine use in Switzerland, a growing phenomenon that - which started on the streets of America's great metropolises - is now taking root in ...

LOS ANGELES - APRIL 14: Six ounces of crack cocaine worth $4800 was found inside a woman's purse April 14, 2010 during a raid by LAPD gang detectives on a drug dealer's house in South East division of ...

(AP) Bobo has a method: Cocaine gets him through the day, when he cruises with a wheelbarrow around a slum on Rio’s west side, sorting through trash for recyclables to sell. At night, he turns the day ...

The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s was met with demonization, mass incarceration and dehumanization of Black crack addicts. The opioid epidemic of today is being met with empathy, understanding ...