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BOSTON - Adam Jasinski, winner of the CBS reality TV show "Big Brother 9," has been formally indicted in federal court for illegal possession of oxycodone pills with intent to distribute.

The 31-year-old from Delray Beach, Fla. was charged Wednesday with attempting to sell 2,000 oxycodone pills, a prescription painkiller that can produce a heroin-like high if crushed and then swallowed, snorted or injected.

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NEW YORK - A disturbing video of Anna Nicole Smith in clown makeup shows the pregnant Playboy model seeming to mistake a doll for a real baby, and her boyfriend Howard K. Stern talking about how much money can be made from the tape.

The tape was admitted as evidence in the Los Angeles drug conspiracy case against her boyfriend Stern, and two doctors who are accused of supplying drugs to the nude model until her untimely death. However, the judge won't allow the tape to be played in court.

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BOSTON - "Big Brother" winner Adam Jasinksi mastered the art of being trapped in a fully stocked television party house, but he may have to learn some new social skills if he gets locked in the big house for an alleged drug selling scheme.

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PAWTUCKET, R.I. - If the state weren't so pressed for cash, Joshua Gomes might still be behind bars.

Instead, he's working temp jobs — at a construction site one week, a recycling plant another — and talks about going to college, teaching or joining the military.

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LOS ANGELES - They want to hear from the father.

The California preliminary hearing into Anna Nicole Smith's drug-overdose death is now in full swing, and next up on the stand is the father of the celebrity model's daughter.

Defense attorneys said they had been notified by the prosecution that Larry Birkhead, the musician who proved he was the father of Smith's daughter by DNA testing, would be among those called to testify Wednesday, the second day of a preliminary hearing for two doctors and Smith's former attorney-boyfriend, Howard K. Stern.

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LOS ANGELES - Anna Nicole Smith's two doctors and lawyer-boyfriend are all due in court this week to hear testimony about their alleged roles in supplying drugs that killed the celebrity model.

A preliminary hearing for the trio is scheduled to start Tuesday, and court officials have said it could last two to four weeks. The hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence to order a trial for Howard Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich.

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MIAMI - New details have emerged in the strange and sad saga of Anna Nicole Smith and this time it involves a potential murder-for-hire plot to kill her millionare husband's son as she battled him over the Houston oil tycoon's money.

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CHICAGO - Vaccine-like shots to keep cocaine abusers from getting high also helped them fight their addiction in the first successful rigorous study of this approach to treating illicit drug use.

The shots didn't work perfectly, but the researchers say their limited success is promising enough to suggest the intriguing vaccine approach could be widely used to treat addiction within several years.

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LAKEWOOD, N.J. - Four police officers were wounded, one critically, early Thursday, Sept. 24, after gunmen opened fire on the SWAT team that was conducting a drug raid in Lakewood, N.J., authorities said.

The shooters fired from the top of a staircase within the home. One officer was critically wounded.

Lakewood Patrolman Jonathan Wilson was shot in the face during the raid, and was in critical but stable condition at a local hospital. Authorities said they were cautiously optimistic he would survive despite being grievously wounded.

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NEW YORK - Pinheads! That's what some people are thinking after a security camera caught undercover drug investigators from central Florida playing Wii bowling during a nine-hour drug raid.

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