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Before his death, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia tried to get clean after years of freebasing cocaine and other drugs, so he gifted a marijuana pipe to a fellow musician who socked it away in his San Francisco home.About 31 years later, the handmade pipe has resurfaced in a Marin County antique shop, whose owner considers it a unique rock 'n' roll artifact.

Letters between Diana, Princess of Wales and former television entertainer Michael Barrymore about their highly sensitive meetings show that her phone was hacked by the Daily Mirror, the High Court was told.The trial over the Duke of Sussex's allegations of unlawful information gathering against the newspaper's publisher was told on Monday that his mother was a huge target for Mirror Group Newspaper's (MGN) titles.

AUSTIN, Texas  On Monday, Austin-Travis County received 9,900 doses of naloxone, or Narcan, the life-saving drug that reverses opioid overdoses.The drug is currently in high demand and short supply.The shipment came from Direct Relief, a humanitarian organization.The injectable doses will go to Texas Harm Reduction Alliance.

When Alyx Carson's father was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020, she left her nursing job in Austin, Texas, and flew to California to be with him.Soon after her arrival, they talked about what was ahead: She told him she would like to have his ashes made into a diamond.He began to cry, she recalled recently from her home in Austin.

This frequently startling documentary begins with some fairly banal observations about the nature of a contemporary sickness.In jaded tones, a female voice-over says, After years of worshiping monarchs and majesty, we now worship the celebrity.What follows for the next 20 minutes or so of Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl constitutes a fast-paced account of the ascendancy of famous-for-being-famous rich kids the Hilton sisters, the Miller sisters, Amanda Hearst, Olivia Palermo, Casey Johnson.

A bald shoplifter gave himself away after he snuck into a barber shop to avoid the police.Officers arrested the 46-year-old after they caught him with a bag full of 16 hair products that he stole from Boots in Beeston, Nottingham.Police said he is one of city's most prolific shoplifters but chose the wrong place to hide from police.

Three Swedish cities top EU ranking for amphetamine use For the third year in a row, the Swedish cities of Gavle, Sandviken and Soderhamn have topped an EU ranking that estimates the use of various drugs by testing concentrations in the wastewater.The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) every year asks 104 cities in 21 EU countries to collect samples of sewage water to help estimate the use of various drugs, with tests taken for this year's study in the spring of 2022.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Police have made more than 200 arrests and seized over 1 million worth of drugs during a crackdown on county lines gangs.The operation, which ran from 27 February to 5 March saw 105 people charged with a total of 223 offences.

Alex Murdaugh was hit with a punishment of two life sentences on Friday, over the double murder of his wife and son in 2021.He's seen here being led into the Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff's deputies for sentencing in Walterboro, S.C. Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool Judge Clifton Newman sentenced disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife and son Friday, less than 24 hours after a jury found Murdaugh guilty in the 2021 slayings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.

WASHINGTON President Joe Biden on Monday nominated cancer specialist Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to become director of the National Institutes of Health.Bertagnolli is a cancer surgeon and researcher who last fall became the first female head of the NIH's National Cancer Institute.If confirmed by the Senate, she would become the second woman named permanent director of the NIH, one of the world's leading biomedical research agencies.

Much will be written about Abraham Verghese's multigenerational South Indian novel in the coming months and years.As we've seen with Verghese's earlier fiction, there will be frequent references to that other celebrated doctor-writer, Anton Chekhov.There will also be continued invocations of the likes of Charles Dickens and T.S. Eliot to describe Verghese's ambitious literary scope and realism.

The South Carolina judge who found himself in the headlines during the high-profile murder trial of Alex Murdaugh said he didn't anticipate the proceedings would be so captivating when he made the decision to make them available for everyone to view.It was an important case, all cases are, any case where you have a murder, Judge Clifton Newman said during an event at Cleveland State University College of Law on Tuesday.

Celebs He'll be at the board meetings, so keep an eye out for him in the Seaport.Despite mounting evidence that there's no such thing as death in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it's looking pretty unlikely that Robert Downey Jr. will be returning to the big screen as the late Tony Stark, a.k.a.Iron Man, anytime soon.

Actor Robert Blake is shown leaving court on Oct. 3, 2005, after his second day of testimony in a wrongful death lawsuit, brought by the family of Bonny Lee Bakley, in Burbank, Calif.Nick Ut/AP LOS ANGELES Robert Blake, the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died Thursday at age 89.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Tom Sizemore made a name for himself as a quintessential Hollywood hardman, after starring in multiple high-octane thrillers.The US actor carved out his niche in the 90s, though he later fell from grace following a string of convictions and substance abuse issues.

Trugoy the Dove, co-founding member of the iconic hip-hop group De La Soul, has died at the age of 54.A cause of death has not yet been revealed.However, Trugoy was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in recent years.Notably, he did not join fellow De La Soul members Posdnuos and Maseo at last weekend's Grammys tribute to hip-hop.

When it comes to fathers and family courts, much has changed.In recent years, courts have increasingly encouraged - and even pushed - for mutual agreements of shared parental custody.In fact, many courts today start with a presumption of joint legal custody, and are open to and encouraging of shared residential custody.

Former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh will appeal his convictions and sentences for the 2021 murders of his wife and son, his defense team said Thursday in a three-page court filing.The filing was expected, as Murdaugh had 10 days to send a notice of appeal following his conviction last week, and his attorneys had indicated they planned to do so.

The family of a vulnerable Black man who died after being arrested and restrained during a mental health crisis have spoken out about his death.Godrick Osei died on 3 July after police were called to a care home in Truro, Cornwall, where the 35-year-old was hiding in a cupboard in the early hours.The father of two had fled the flat he was sharing with his partner, experiencing a psychotic episode and expressing paranoid thoughts, his family said.

Law enforcement authorities in six different countries have joined forces to take down a super cartel" of drugs traffickers controlling about one third of the cocaine trade in Europe, the European Union crime agency said on Monday.Europol said 49 suspects have been arrested during the investigation, with the latest series of raids across Europe and the United Arab Emirates taking place between Nov. 8-19.

Irish actor Barry Keoghan has promised to drop in to his old school in Dublin after winning a Bafta film award.The Banshees Of Inisherin star, 30, dedicated his best supporting actor prize to Ireland and the kids that are dreaming to be something from the area I come from, as he was given the award at the ceremony in London on Sunday night.

Raise your hand if you remember your mother or father letting teenaged you go see any movie... if it was rated PG?We see you.And you.And, yeah, you, too.Of course, what Mom and Dad didn't realize was that, back in the day, in the 1970s and early 1980s, Hollywood cranked out movies that pushed the envelope all the way to the edge.