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Researchers studying the genetics of musician and reality television star Ozzy Osbourne presented some interesting findings at last Friday’s TEDMED conference. The Prince of Darkness is home to quite a variety of never-seen-before genetic mutations. Unsurprisingly, most of Ozzy’s mutations involve genes linked to addiction and the absorption of...

Unfortunately for 23-year-old Michael Lee Bedford, washing down 32 times the recommended dose of powdered caffeine with an energy drink at a party was the last decision he would ever make. The Nottingham Coroner’s Court heard that 15 minutes after he took the two teaspoons of caffeine, Bedford was...

I’m sure that more than a few people were left scratching their heads when a Marisol Valles, 20-year-old criminology student became the top cop in the town of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero. People normally devote years of fighting their way up the chain of command to become Chief of Police...

Prison authorities at the federal prison in Florence, Colorado have uncovered what just may be the grossest and stupidest heroin smuggling plot of all time. Over the summer, 56-year-old Donald Denney and his son of the same name planned an elaborate system that would allow them to bring heroin...

Manatee County Deputies that stopped 25-year-old Raymond Stanley Roberts said that they became suspicious when they noticed that he smelled strongly of cannabis – and that their suspicions were confirmed when their search led them to between his buttocks. A quick-thinking Roberts then allegedly told police: The white stuff...

When James Gordon Watson’s prized pot plant was stolen, he did the one thing that no self-respecting cultivator of illicit substances should never do – he told the police… the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to be exact. So how did that turn out for him? Well, to start things...

A 47-year-old Idaho man proved that no good deed goes unpunished when he was arrested for using a hatchet to break into a vending machine to free a person that had apparently been trapped inside. The problem for Chris P. Collins was that person inside the vending machine was...

Police investigating a possible break-in at a business got more than they bargained for when they found an apparently intoxicated worker catching up on tasks over the weekend – while stark naked. Fort Worth police were checking on an open door at the Regal Plastics warehouse and discovered Kenneth Clyde Jackson,...

FANS worldwide have fashioned replicas of the World Cup trophy out of everything from papier-mache to plastic. But a lawbreaker in Colombia gets top prize for most original material – cocaine. Airports anti-drug chief Colonel Jose Piedrahita says Colombian authorities found the unusual statue during a routine security check...