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METAIRIE, La. – Two suburban New Orleans teenagers were arrested Friday and booked with terrorizing for allegedly posting threats on the Internet site MySpace against a shopping mall that instituted a weekend curfew for teens. Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputies said Joseph L. Madsen of Metairie and Cory Odenwald of River …

WASHINGTON – Epilepsy drugs used by millions of people may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday in an alert to doctors. The FDA analyzed almost 200 studies of 11 anti-seizure drugs, some that have been on the market for decades. The …

WASHINGTON – Record illegal drug production in Afghanistan supplies the Taliban insurgency with money and arms and the U.S.-backed government must take direct, prompt action against poppy growers, a State Department report said Friday. Afghan farmers grew more poppies for opium in 2007 than ever before, the second year in …