Backstory of the Ricin Letter

Last spring, after a ricin-tainted letter was sent to President Obama, the FBI arrested Paul Kevin Curtis, an Elvis impersonator and Prince super-fan from Mississippi, on suspicion of mailing the poison correspondence. 

But then a week later, charges against Curtis were dropped and soon another Mississippi musician was taken into custody, Tae Kwon Do instructor J.Everett Dutschke, who turned out to be Curtis's bitter rival. In the October issue of GQ, writer Wells Tower digs into the feud and the whole thing gets weirder—so so so much weirder.

The 8000-plus-word tale hinges upon the rivalry between Kevin Curtis (Exonerated Ricin Guy) and Everett Dutschke (Suspected Ricin Guy), two snappily dressed Southern conspiracy theorists who became acquainted because of a severed head. 

Yes, this is the sort of true-crime farce in which the antagonists were brought together by a severed head, one Exonerated Ricin Guy stumbled across working at a Tupelo hospital in 1999 that altered the course of his life: see more...

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Amanda Knox update

The second appeal trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito gets underway today in Florence, Italy. The American student and her former Italian boyfriend find they are once again defending themselves against the charge that they murdered Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy in November 2007.

Both Knox and Sollecito were acquitted of the same murder charges in October 2010 by an Italian appellate court in Perugia. But then this March, the Italian Supreme Court overturned the acquittals and directed that a new appeal trial to be held in Florence, because Perugia did not have sufficient appellate court space.

Italian law does not require either defendant attend the new trial. AmandaKnox, now 25 years-old and a student at the University of Washington, will not travel to Italy for any of the proceedings. Raffaele Sollecito also won't be in Florence when the trial starts, but has told the press that he will be in the courtroom as the trial nears a verdict.

According to the Italian Supreme Court's decision, there is one piece of evidence in the case that is yet to be tested - and could be the key to the final verdict. It is labeled number 36-I.

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Oracle pulls off stunning comeback in America's Cup

Now that Oracle Team USA has improbably retained the 34th America's Cup, what can Larry Ellison & Co. do for an encore?

Oracle'sbillionaire bankroller has many questions to answer in the weeks ahead after his team, under the never-say-die skipper Jimmy Spithill, staged the greatest comeback in 162 years of the competition.

Trailing 8-1 a week ago, Oracle sailed away from Emirates Team New Zealand by 44 seconds on Wednesday to retain the Auld Mug, the oldest trophy in international sports, in a winner-take-all finale on San FranciscoBay.

The American-backed team won eight consecutive races to win 9-8 in the first-to-nine series.

But in the oddity that is America's Cup, Oracle, the defender, gets to more or less call the shots for the next edition in three years.

What venue? What class of boat?

Will organizers stay with a multihull configuration or return to monohulls of the past? If they go with multihulls, will they stick with soaring 7-ton yachts fastened with 131-foot carbon fiber sails or something less imposing?

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Rap star Drake joins Raptors

The Toronto Raptors are hoping a rap star’s popularity can help boost the fading fortunes of a basketball franchise.

Aubrey Drake Graham, a 26-year-old Toronto-born musician known worldwide as Drake, has agreed to become the “global ambassador” for the Raptors and will play a leading role in the NBA club’s rebranding efforts.

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Breaking Bad finale

If you have to go, go out on top. In a stunning 75-minute extended finale, Vince Gilligan brought Breaking Bad to a supremely fitting close, tying up all the loose ends in his modern classic AMC series and killing off his now iconic anti-hero Walter White. And he did so in a way that confirmed Bad's status as one of TV's greatest series -- and star Bryan Cranston as one of America's best actors.

Tense, witty, violent, oddly tender and, in its own strange way, as close to a "happy" ending as a story this dark could hope, this last episode brought the story to a straightforward, definitive conclusion, without the spirituality of Lost or the ambiguity of Sopranos. If it's debated, it won't be for what it meant, but for what it did: Killing Walt, but leaving Jesse alive and Walt's family rich.

So sometimes crime does pay. It certainly did for viewers.

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Denver Broncos set single-game franchise record for points in blowout of the eagles

In 1963, the Denver Broncos' fourth season, they scored 50 points against San Diego. It took the Broncos 50 more years before they scored 50 in a game again.

The Broncos aren't just destroying teams so far this season, they're setting records as they do it.

Denver scored 52 points (team record) and Peyton Manning now has 16 touchdowns (NFL record through four games) after the Broncos routed the Eagles 52-20.

Manning completed 28-of-34 passes for 327 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions, and was pulled from the game with more than 10 minutes remaining. Manning is still on pace for 64 touchdowns this season, and hasn't thrown an interception yet.

The Broncos have scored 49, 41, 37 and 52 points in their four games this season. Manning has been remarkably sharp and is well on his way to another NFL MVP award. The Eagles' defense had no chance. Surprisingly, Phila delphia's uptempo offense was shut down too. Denver's defense, which still hasn't played a game with linebacker Von Miller or corner back Champ Bailey this season, held Michael Vick to 248 yards on 14 completions and running back LeSean McCoy to just 73 yards on the ground.

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Trojans dismiss coach Lane Kiffin

The USC Trojans fired coach Lane Kiffin less than six hours after a blowout loss at ArizonaState.

Ed Orgeron was picked as USC's interim head coach by athletic director Pat Haden later Sunday. The Trojans (3-2, 0-2 Pac-12) have eight games left on their 13-game schedule.

"I want to tell you we're here as a staff to answer the bell," Orgeron said. "We're all accountable for what happened as a staff and as players. Us Trojans know how to do it."

Orgeron was Kiffin's assistant head coach and the former Mississippi head coach.

Haden fired Kiffin at the Trojans' private airport terminal in Los Angeles when the team plane returned from Arizona early Sunday morning following the 62-41 loss in Tempe, but not before a 45-minute meeting in which Kiffin tried to change Haden's mind. The Trojans matched the most points allowed in school history in their seventh loss in 11 games.

Kiffin's overall record in four years at USC was 28-15.

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