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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Flesh-Eating Maggots Removed From Man's Head (Newser Happy Hour 6-pack)

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Flesh-Eating Maggots Removed From Man's Head

(Newser) - What could possibly be worse than a tapeworm in the brain ? Maggots in the nose, possibly. The Independent recounts a horrific-sounding case out of Mumbai, India, where a man underwent a two-hour procedure to have 50 maggots taken out of his nose and sinuses. The medical term for the... More »

Why Darren Wilson Says He Shot Michael Brown

(Newser) - "You want me to just go with the whole thing?" So asked Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson near the start of his Sept. 16 grand jury testimony , per a transcript released last night. What follows is Wilson's explanation of what happened in the last minutes of Michael Brown's... More »

What Ferguson Grand Jury Saw, Heard

(Newser) - Why did the grand jury decide against indicting Darren Wilson ? Soon after the decision was announced, the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney's office released thousands of pages of evidence that had been presented to the jurors over 25 days of meetings that included testimony from around 60 witnesses.... More »

Bill Cosby's Biographer Admits Mistake

(Newser) - The most glaring omission in Cosby: His Life and Times, Mark Whitaker's biography of Bill Cosby released Sept. 16: the myriad sexual assault claims against the comedian dating back decades. Whitaker was yesterday called out by David Carr, who wrote in the New York Times that "those in... More »

3-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots, Kills Mom: Police

(Newser) - A young Oklahoma mom is dead after her 3-year-old accidentally shot her, KJRH reports. Christa Engles, a 26-year-old from Tulsa, was believed to be changing her 1-year-old daughter's diaper in her living room when police say her preschool son wandered in with a semi-automatic handgun and shot her in... More »

Source: Cosby Sold Out Daughter to Kill Story on Him

(Newser) - The "creepy" Bill Cosby stories keep coming, and the latest, from Page Six 's Richard Johnson, is particularly harsh. Johnson's tale comes by way of a journalist he's known for some time. That journalist was employed by the National Enquirer in 1989 and recalls a story... More »