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Whether gambling can be addictive and whether there is increased addiction when people gamble on slots and engage in casino-style gambling is a perennial question among policy-makers.
U.S. beverage giant Coca-Cola says it will stop showing a short film showing mafia toughs intimidating movie viewers after a barrage of complaints from Italian-American groups.
One woman's tree entered at a Christmas festival apparently had a little too much holiday cheer for organizers' tastes. That's why the original "Jingle Buds" — a tree made entirely of emptied beer cans — lasted about as long as a pint on nickel night.
A Utah man has been charged with felony voyeurism after police say he secretly videotaped his ex-girlfriend and published the nude photos on the Internet.
Thousands of youngsters had paid between $10 and $20 apiece to attend a show called "Christmas From Around the World." But when their school buses arrived, the kids found a shuttered playhouse and a missing promoter — along with their money.
More than a year ago, Michael Jackson let a television crew into his bizarre world for a TV documentary he no doubt hoped would boost his fading career. Instead, "Living With Michael Jackson" may have triggered the child molestation case that threatens to destroy Jackson and his multimillion-dollar music empire.
In September, the journal Science issued a startling retraction. A primate study it published in 2002, with heavy publicity, warned that the amount of the drug Ecstasy that a typical user consumes in a single night might cause permanent brain damage. It turned out that the $1.3 million study, led by Dr. George A. Ricaurte of Johns Hopkins University, had not used Ecstasy at all.
The Wayne County sheriff has apologized for misinterpreting a judge's order that he originally said forced him to send deputies to Wal-Mart to find potential jurors.
Conservative Republicans angry over an unflattering television movie about Ronald Reagan want to put his image on the dime in place of Democratic icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
