When she heard her younger son’s quavery cry of “M-o-o-o-m-m-m” drifting down the hall in the middle of the night, Jocelyn Mathiasen stiffened, braced for what lay ahead. Sometimes the little boy would awaken just before dawn shaky and weak, complaining of hunger or thirst; after consuming something he would quickly recover. But on the bad nights Peter Dawson would spend hours lying on the floor of the bathroom clutching his stomach, vomiting intermittently and refusing to drink anything. It took him hours to rebound — and it was never clear what had made him so sick. Read full article > >

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A boy’s serious ailment required only a simple fix once it was diagnosed

Whitney Houston was found face-down in a bathtub with cocaine in her system and drug paraphernalia on the bathroom counter nearby, investigators revealed in the singer’s final autopsy report released Wednesday.

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Autopsy Finds White Residue on Spoon in Houston’s Room

Zeus, an American Staffordshire terrier mix, was found in the bathroom of a house in the Bronx where his owner, Gene Lewis, was killed last month.

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Crime Scene: A Dog’s Difficult Journey After His Owner Is Murdered

Just hours after she was found bound and bloody in the bathroom of Lululemon Athletica, Brittany Norwood spoke to a detective from a hospital bed. Norwood, accused of murdering her co-worker Jayna Murray then staging an elaborate cover-up , spoke softly as she asked the detective: “Can you tell me how my friend is doing?” Read full article > >

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Jurors in Lululemon trial hear Norwood interview

Preparations are on the way for Thanksgiving and I, like millions of my fellow Americans, already worry about what the bathroom scale will show the day after. Like so many others, I have been dieting for years. I used to feel guilty when I gained a few pounds, during the holiday season or otherwise, and on top of the world when I lost some.

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Opinion: Adult dieting gets you nowhere

Things are only getting worse for Charlie Sheen. Following the actor’s drug-fueled meltdown at The Plaza that resulted in a trashed hotel room, a naked Sheen in the hospital, and a porn star locked in the bathroom – also in the buff – the porn star in…

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Sheen’s Porn Star Plans to Sue

Two men have been charged with a hate crime after an attack on a gay man in the bathroom of a historic gay bar in downtown Manhattan early Sunday morning, according to Erin Duggan of the New York district attorney’s office.

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Hate crime alleged at historic gay bar