INSIDE JOB 2 hours ago

In July, New York City prosecutors accused a former pharmacist at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital of stealing nearly 200,000 oxycodone-strength pain pills over five years, despite his increasingly far-fetched explanations. Anthony D'Alessandro even …

BUT, OSSIFFER … Wednesday, April 30

Efren Carrillo, a member of California's Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, was charged with misdemeanor "peeking" last year in Santa Rosa after he, returning home from a club late at night, saw his female neighbor's light on and decided to drop in …

SCIENTISTS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Wednesday, July 2

Bioengineers who work with Dictyostelium slime molds held the Dicty World Race in Boston in May for a $5,000 prize and intellectual adulation at the annual International Dictyostelium Conference in Potsdam, Germany, in August. The molds oozed down …

SEND IN THE LAWYER 2 hours ago

British lawyer Gary Stocker, 30, was headed to

TOO SEXY FOR HIS CELL Wednesday, April 30

Among the arguments offered in March by Darrious Mathis' lawyers for his jury trial in Cobb County, Georgia, (for assault, kidnapping and carjacking) was the assertion that Mathis needed no force in order to have sex with the female victim on the …

FIRST-WORLD PRODUCTS Wednesday, July 2

Daneson (an Ontario "purveyor of fine toothpicks") recently introduced $35.99 "Artisanal Toothpicks" (that's per dozen, in "Single Malt" and other exotic flavors) for the discriminating dental raker. The lemon-flavored picks are a bargain at only …

WAIT … WHAT? 2 hours ago

Kimberly Williams, 46, was convicted in April in Will County, Illinois, of beating dominatrix Theresa Washington with a baseball bat. Williams admitted to the judge she'd hired Washington, but only because she wanted a "slave" to take pictures of …

PULL THE RING Wednesday, April 30

England's Stockport magistrates' court levied a $13,000 fine in March against Lorraine White, 41, who runs a part-time service as a dominatrix (chaining and whipping "bad" men) in a "sex dungeon." Her business is apparently legal; the citation was …

BEST BUTT FORWARD Wednesday, July 2

The Skin By Molly salon in Brooklyn (and by now, perhaps, competitors) offers "facials" for the derriere (occasioned by a recent social-media fascination with "bum selfies.") Molly's is the "Shiney Hiney Facial" ($65 for a 30-minute treatment), …

FIRST-WORLD PROBLEMS 2 hours ago

U.S. obesity continues to grow — for pets as well as people — and exercise innovations for humans seem to trickle down to dogs. A July Associated Press report noted fat Labradors and poodles now have Pilates ("pawlates") and yoga ("doga") and …