Between 35,000 and 40,000 marijuana plants have been uncovered over the past month in sparsely populated Alpine County in the Sierra Nevada, authorities said.

Undersheriff Robert Levy said the plants, with a total estimated street value of $30 million, were part of a large-scale operation and appeared to be the work of a Mexican cartel. There was evidence laborers were camping out while tending to the plants, he said.

"The cartels have been all over California, Nevada and Utah. It's just new to Alpine County," Levy told the Record-Courier in Gardnerville, Nev. "This was a huge, huge organized grow with thousands of plants at a time."

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Der Russe Juri Fedotow hat am Montag, den 13. September 2010, die Leitung des in Wien ansässigen UNO-Büros zur Drogen- und Verbrechensbekämpfung (UNODC) übernommen. Der frühere stellvertrendede Außenminister der Russischen Föderation und bisheriger Botschafter in Großbritannien sei wegen seiner langjährigen Erfahrung in Diplomatie und Politik hervorragend für das Amt geeignet, hatte UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki-moon im Juli bei der Nominierung Fedotows erklärt. Der Russe löst den Italiener Antonio Maria Costa ab, der die Behörde seit 2002 leitete. Fedotow ist gleichzeitig Leiter des Büros der Vereinten Nationen in Wien. Die Wiener UNO-City ist mit dem United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) neben New York (UNHQ), Genf (UNOG) und Nairobi (UNON) einer von vier offiziellen Amtssitzen der Vereinten Nationen. Das UNOV wurde am 1. Januar 1980 als dritter Standort des UN-Sekretariats in Betrieb genommen

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Actress Lindsay Lohan was reported on Friday to have failed a drug test imposed as a condition of her early release from a Los Angeles rehabilitation program.

Celebrity news site TMZ.com said the “Mean Girls” actress had tested positive for cocaine in a court-ordered test last week. Under the terms of probation set in August, Lohan would be sent back to jail for 30 days if the reports prove correct.

Lohan’s laywer Ed McPherson told Reuters he had “thus far been unable to confirm any of it, but I am trying to find out.”

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