Claire Danes talks 'Shop' By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAYNEW YORK - Claire Danes is the sort of celebrity who, en route to a breakfast interview, calls to apologize profusely for being a few minutes late and promises she is just blocks away.
She didn't oversleep. Danes had to walk her 7-month-old schnauzer/poodle mix, Ouija, who had a mind of his own about when he needed to be walked. (: ...
Security a team necessityBy Jarrett Bell, USA TODAYWhen Jimmy Johnson coached the Dallas Cowboys and later the Miami Dolphins, he was like the fireman waiting on the alarm. A flame involving off-the-field exploits of players always seemed to be as close as next door.
With a sometimes combustible mix of immaturity, ego, money, women, alcohol and even drugs posing a threat to his business o...
A local church custodian was arrested and charged with sexual exploitation after SBI investigators found pornographic images of children stored on his computer.
The 40-foot, electric-diesel hybrid bus East Carolina University tried out Wednesday is quieter, smoother and peppier than its diesel counterparts, drivers and riders said.
The Pitt County health board recently voted to pro...
A recent USA Today article on teens and sex no doubt has parents all a-titter. And for good reason: "Teens define sex in new ways " cites a number of recent studies that say many American kids consider oral sex to be no big deal. In fact, some teenagers who have experienced oral sex still consider themselves virgins. (Thanks loads, Bill and Monica.)
percentage of teens who have had oral s...
In a converted warehouse in Etobicoke, Ken Finkleman poses a question that ranks with the one about trees falling in the forest:
If a guilt-ridden priest explodes into flames in an armchair, does he leave scorch marks behind?
"Your call on spontaneous human combustion is as good as mine," Finkleman finally concedes to a special effects technician, who dutifully hauls the chair away ...
There's phone fun tonight on Hot Properties (9:30 on ABC and A-Channel).
The second episode of this brand new sitcom finds the former party animal owner of the Hot Properties real estate agency, Ava Summerlin (NYPD Blue's Gail O'Grady) hosting a little gal pal party at her killer Manhattan apartment. Her posse (MADtv's Nicole Sullivan, Sofia Vergara and Christina Moore) all wind up ge...
New Jersey drivers wanting special license plates are getting a little more action than they expected. Instead of reaching the state Motor Vehicle Commission, callers are getting one of those phone sex hotlines.
It seems there's a typo on a Web site and in printed material distributed by the state. The toll-free number with information about handicapped or animal-friendly plates ...
The names of 17 Minnesota Vikings who were identified as being aboard two charter boats last week where sex parties allegedly took place have been given to Vikings officials in a controversy that has put the team's bid for a new stadium and its standing among fans and community leaders in jeopardy.
At least six crew members who allege they were confronted with out-of-control Vikings play...
7-YEAR-OLD: Mother was inebriated, asleep in same bed, according to charges.
An Anchorage man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sexually assaulted a 7-year-old girl after he had sex with her inebriated mother in a downtown boarding house, according to charges filed in Anchorage District Court.
Russell Henriks, 43, was charged with three counts of first-degree sexual abuse of...
A total of 867 children were reported missing last year, more than two-thirds in Gauteng and the Western Cape, police say. But child-rights groups estimate the overall number could be as high as 1 700 a year.
Not all disappearances are reported to the authorities, for a variety of reasons. These include threats by gangs and the return of young girls abducted for sexual exploitation.
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