The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested Monday in the United States and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015.

Victories in the ongoing war against opioids are reducing the casualty count across the region – but they have also opened a valve for what United States Attorney Scott Brady calls the "fourth wave" in the epidemic:

A direct connection often exists between violence committed by drug cartels in Mexico and the act of an addict shooting up heroin in the bathroom of some Johnstown gas station.

Like President Donald Trump, U.S. Rep. Keith Rothfus, R-Sewickley, has put forth his own proposal for securing the border between the United States and Mexico, including outlining how the project should be funded.

Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live an…