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By Christian JarrettFeatures correspondent The first piece of information strangers learn about most people is a moniker picked for them by their parents. But what you are called can have a surprising impact on how others perceive us.

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A San Francisco vagrant caught on video cracking the skull of a former city fire commissioner with a crowbar was set free Thursday after the victim again failed to show up in court. Garrett Doty, 24, could now have the assault charges against him dropped next month if ex-commissioner Don Carmignani continues to dodge a

By A.C. Thompson, Mosi Secret, Lowell Bergman and Sandra Bartlett In detective novels and television crime dramas like CSI, the nation's morgues are staffed by highly trained medical professionals equipped with the most sophisticated tools of 21st-century science. Operating at the nexus of medicine and criminal justice, these death detectives thoroughly investigate each and every

Controversial comic Dave Chappelle is going the arena route this fall. From Aug. 22 through Oct. 4, the 49-year-old provocateur will bring his Dave Chappelle Live Tour to venues all over North America.