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At approximately 8:20 p.m. on Monday, October 22nd, University of Utah college student Lauren McCluskey, 21, was found shot to death inside a car parked on campus. Only a short time before, the star track-and-field athlete had been on the phone with her mother, Jill McCluskey, who reported hearing her …

Cody Wilson, the man who designed downloadable plans for3D-printed guns, has been charged with sexual assault in Austin, Texas, for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old girl. The girl told police that she met Wilson, 30, on a sugar-baby website. On August 15th, she said, she met him in a …

On Thursday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his plan to legalize and regulate adult marijuana use by establishing a working group of 20 experts in the fields of public health, safety and economics to draft a bill over the next five months, to be presented to the state legislature …

Cardi B bumps Jerry Seinfeld during the latest installment of Zach Galifianakis‘ interview seriesBetween Two Ferns. Seinfeld starts as the episode’s only guest, though Galifianakis makes things contentious from the get-go, asking his off-camera producer why they couldn’t book a more relevant guest. “It’s like I Love the Nineties,” he …

For close to 20 years, Anthony Bourdain and Marky Ramone would meet at restaurants to discuss food and music. Bourdain was a dyed-in-the-wool punk rocker and had seen the drummer play in the late Seventies with various bands at CBGB. After they became friends, Bourdain invited Ramone on his television …

On a sunny day in May, a very strange reunion is happening in the dusty desert town of Hildale, Utah. In an empty lot, tables and chairs stand in long rows, covered with plastic tablecloths that flap in the wind. At noon, the guests arrive. They come in Hondas and …

The morning after Kenny Morrison brought his wife and their new baby son home from the hospital, he found out he’d been burglarized. It was the middle of January, and a team of six had broken into his Bay Area facility, smashing delivery truck windshields, computers and a safe, and …

This story originally appeared on the cover of the May 9th, 1974 issue of Rolling Stone. It is a story told most starkly by a boy’s ear. A boy’s severed right ear – but no, “severed” is too sterile a word; “sliced off” is the truth. A prominent and delicately …

The United States sees more than 12.7 million new cancer cases a year – and among those who must undergo surgery, one in 10 will become dependent on opioid pain relievers. With America’s opioid epidemic killing 116 people everyday from lethal overdoses, dependence on pain medications is a close rival …

Brian Chaplin was dining in town when he received a text from one of his pot trimmers: “We just got fucking robbed 911.” Chaplin shoveled down one final bite of his apple crisp and rushed back to the small cottage homestead – a few chicken coops, a vegetable garden, a …