Names in the News

Apr 05, 08:48 AM

Current Headlines: Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all.

In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," said Richards, one of rock's legendary wild men.

Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.

DNA evidence ties a former pizza delivery man accused of being one of the city's most prolific serial killers to the slayings of 10 women and an unborn fetus, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday at the start of his trial.

The women's killings happened over 11 years. Deputy Dist. Atty. Bobby Grace said Chester D. Turner was finally caught after he was arrested in 2002 on charges of raping a woman in Los Angeles.

Authorities charged Turner, 40, in October 2004. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.

A freelance videographer who spent more time behind bars than any other journalist for refusing to testify to a grand jury is expected to be freed through a deal with prosecutors, lawyers said Tuesday.

Joshua Wolf , 24, spent more than seven months in a federal prison after declining a subpoena to turn over his videotape of a chaotic 2005 San Francisco street protest during the G-8 summit.

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