FORT WAYNE, INDIANA – A frustrated mom has given her wayward teenage son the ultimate punishment: public humiliation.

The 14-year-old was forced to stand on a busy street for two hours with a massive sign hanging around his neck, which read, “I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don’t follow the law.”

Dynesha Lax, of Fort Wayne, said the punishments handed out to her unruly son weren’t strong enough to get him to stop so she had no choice but to take this drastic action.

“I decided he broke the law and they only gave him a few hours community service so I decided that we were going to wear a sign that says you looking for attention, we’re going to get you attention,” Lax told KLTV.

LOS FRESNOS, Texas — Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two locked rooms.

The Indians, whose hiding space was furnished only with soiled mattresses, claimed to be on vacation. But authorities quickly concluded they were waiting to be smuggled into the United States via an 11,000-mile pipeline of human cargo — the same network that has transported thousands of illegal immigrants from India, through Central America and Mexico and over the sandy banks of the Rio Grande during the past two years.

WASHINGTON — Pfizer’s stop-smoking drug Chantix can lead to a small increase in cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks for patients who already have cardiovascular disease, U.S. drug regulators said on Thursday.

The Food and Drug Administration is changing the label for Chantix after reviewing the results of a clinical trial.

An independent randomized trial of 700 smokers with cardiovascular
disease who were treated with Chantix or a placebo showed that Chantix
was effective in helping patients quit smoking for as long as one year.

(CNN) — It’s called the “Walmart of Weed.”

This newest big-box store is devoted to selling marijuana-growing equipment.

Its biggest outlet yet is to open Wednesday in Phoenix, where Arizona voters approved medical cannabis last fall.

The weGrow Store will be the first outside California, where medical weed has long been legalized. None of the chain’s three stores sell the drug. Instead, they unabashedly promote medical marijuana by offering “everything — from supplies to services — that cultivators need to grow it,” the company says.

Update at 1:31 p.m. ET: The lawyer for Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, who is serving life in prison for sending a series of deadly mailbombs, says his client has been asked to provide a DNA sample as part of the FBI’s long-running investigation into the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people, USA TODAY’s Kevin Johnson reports.
Attorney John Balazs says Kaczynski refused the FBI request to voluntarily provide the sample when he approached by federal prison staffers three weeks ago in Colorado where he is being held in solitary confinement.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged Johnson & Johnson with bribing doctors in several countries to prescribe its drugs and medical devices.

The company has agreed to pay $70 million to settle the charges, without admitting or denying the allegations.

WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) — The U.S. government announced it is taking over three Tylenol plants following recalls and a criminal investigation into safety issues at the factories.

The Food and Drug Administration and the Justice Department took action against Tylenol maker McNeil PPC and two of its executives — its vice president of quality and its vice president of operations for over-the-counter products — for failing to comply with federally mandated manufacturing practices, CNN reported Friday.

CONCORD, N.H. – Labor pain is nothing to laugh at. Yet.

The use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, during childbirth fell out of favor in the United States decades ago, and just two hospitals — one in San Francisco and one in Seattle — still offer it. But interest in returning the dentist office staple to the delivery room is growing: respected hospitals including Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center plan to start offering it, the federal government is reviewing it, and after a long hiatus, the equipment needed to administer it is expected to hit the market soon.

Madrid, Spain (CNN) — Police in Madrid seized what they called the “largest and most sophisticated cocaine laboratory” in Europe known to date, and arrested 25 people, Spain’s national police said in a statement on Tuesday.

Anti-drug agents confiscated 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of cocaine ready for distribution, 2 million euros ($2.6 million) in cash, 470 mobile phones, weapons and luxury cars.

The suspected laboratory was located in a farm on the outskirts of Madrid and police took it over “just before it was to begin operations,” the statement said.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil division announced a recall of certain Tylenol brand products Friday after a review of cleaning procedures at a plant in Fort Washington, Pa.

Conducted in consultation with the Food and Drug Administration, the recall covers certain lots of Tylenol 8 Hour, Tylenol Arthritis Pain, and Tylenol upper respiratory products, as well as some Benadryl, Sudafed PE and Sinutab products.