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[Note: This article was originally posted on the Hartford Advocate's website on June 17, 2010.  We're featuring it once again, due to the recent upturn in bath salts-related crime.]   The story about the British teenager who tore off his scrotum while...

The following cases were heard recently in Charlevoix County's 90th District Court: — Elijah James Kibbe, 31, of East Jordan; driving while license suspended; pay $350 in fines and costs — Noah Rufus Dodge, 23, of East Jordan; driving...

Today's 2 p.m. screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentary "Broads,"that features salty, outspoken interviews with actresses of a certain age remind me of some of my own favorite interviews of like-minded dames. I'll post a series of these...

NEW YORK — Judy Garland, often drunk and occasionally disheveled, in Peter Quilter's biographical drama "End of the Rainbow," is rummaging for booze in her suite at the Ritz hotel. She's wired, and not simply because of the pills she can't seem to...

When William Gunn sought medical care for his pit bull-Labrador retriever mix Smokey on a Sunday morning, one of her front paws was bleeding uncontrollably. The family's regular veterinarian was closed that day, and he didn't know where else to go, so...

“Girls” is a half hour comedy about the messy friendships, ambitions and sexual misadventures of four twentysomething women in New York, written and directed by 25-year old Lena Dunham, who also stars as aspiring writer Hannah Horvath. There&#...

The title character of "Pecker," John Waters' 13th film, is a teen-age sandwich-maker in Hampden who is nicknamed Pecker because as a child he pecked at his food. But just as the film's title flashes on screen, Waters assures us that his dirty mind is...