With an emergency state fund running out, cities and counties across North Carolina face a big expense they hadn't planned on: cleaning up the scores of illegal methamphetamine labs discovered across ...

When Dane Marcusen saw a two-bed apartment near North Dakota State University available for $465 a month, he thought he was getting a good deal. He quickly began second guessing his decision. "I found ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The war on methamphetamine has gotten some support from Congress -- millions of dollars to clean up the toxic waste generated by clandestine meth labs. President Barack Obama signed ...

A new provision attached to a federal grant program threatens to hamstring methamphetamine lab investigations and put drug task forces out of business, says a director of the local program. Next year, ...

PARKERSBURG – Wood County officials learned the procedures and law relating to the cleanup, remediation of meth lab properties during a special meeting Wednesday of the Wood County ...

U.S. Congressman Phil Roe, M.D. (TN-01) wrote a letter to the Director of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to inquire about funding for the methamphetamine lab cleanup grants in the COPS ...

A meth lab’s risks don’t end when the cook is gone. Meth requires a number of ingredients, most of which are harmless and can be found at any grocery store or hardware store in town. Combining these ...

HELENA (AP) - Montana authorities expect to discover more than 100 makeshift labs for making methamphetamine this year, and that booming illegal industry poses a significant and expensive ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – A tall man and a slender woman wiggled into their white hazardous materials suits, putting on protective masks and gloves before venturing into the dark, two-story home where ...

Daffodils spring from a site once so toxic no one was allowed on it without permission and special gear. This plot on Spicer Drive once housed a meth lab. The lab was busted in October 1996 by the now ...

BOISE, Idaho - Under a proposed regulation, any home used for making methamphetamine in Idaho will be listed on a Web site to warn potential occupants that it may have been contaminated with dangerous ...

In small-town Oregon, one family discovered this summer that their newly purchased home was not only a bit shabby—it was also toxic. For a while there, Jonathan Hankins and his family must have ...