Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office reports appearing in Lincoln Times-News are obtained from the online records department of the LCSO by Lincoln Times-News. All reports are a matter of ...

Chinese police recently conducted a major rescue operation that saved 150 cats from ending up on restaurant tables. The ...

This is the dark history of Manchukuo based on fact. In Manchukuo, which was a puppet state of Japan, opium was rampant, and the sales of opium supported the national finances and were used as ...

1880s opium trail infected city-folk and pioneers alike, across states and the Dakota Territory From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium ...

New Orleans businessman William Dansee opened and operated a successful opium den in Alexandria's Restricted District. This image was published in the March 11, 1893, edition of The Times-Picayune.

San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved." ...

Opium dens, dodgy dentists & dog meat cafes – Inside ‘world’s most crowded city’ where 50,000 people lived for 40 years Despite the city's grim reality, some residents found it peaceful ...

Amitav Ghosh’s Reckoning With Opium His new book, Smoke and Ashes, traces the ravages of British opium on India from the eighteenth century to the present.

Can opium dens and secret tunnels get people to stop for lunch in this Bay Area city? Historians question tales of “the most desperate town in the West,” but Pleasanton hopes it sells ...

A LAW is malum prohibitum if it is wrong because the act is prohibited. Motive in crimes mala prohibita is immaterial. The defense of good faith is also unavailing. It is an offense that may not be ...

Mercifully, these dens have disappeared now, though the clandestine trade in opium and other drugs continues at railway stations, bus terminals, parks and even in the streets.