A few years ago, a new synthetic drug called Flakka appeared in Florida. It wasn’t long before viral videos and sensationalized news reports of alleged Flakka overdoses started to spread across the ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – One man ran naked through a Florida neighborhood, tried to have sex with a tree and told police he was the mythical god Thor. Another ran nude down a busy city street in ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It's a new drug. And it's a killer. Known on the street as "flakka," the synthetic concoction is hitting hard in Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and other parts of the country.

Two Birmingham-area women are under arrest by state prison officials on drug charges. A search warrant at a Hoover home on Wednesday turned up 4 pounds of flakka and a flakka manufacturing lab. Later ...