Matthew Perry's assistant gets more than 3 years in prison for central role in his ketamine death

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Perry’s live-in personal assistant, who had a central role in the “Friends” actor’s descent into ketamine addiction and injected him with a fatal dose of the drug, was sentenced last week to three years and five months in prison, bringing an end to the legal saga surrounding t ... (full story)

Oldest Pearl Harbor survivor is keeping the memory of the surprise bombing alive at 106

CENTERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — On the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, the country's oldest living survivor of the Japanese bombing was far below deck helping repair one of the boilers of the USS St. Louis.
Freeman Johnson, who turned 106 in March, never witnessed the surprise attack. He never heard his shipmates firing anti-air ... (full story)

Jim Henson's Creature Shop opens for tours. Here's what's inside the once-hidden puppet studio

NEW YORK (AP) — Deep in a cavernous New York City warehouse, the artisans behind some of the world’s most beloved children’s characters have been fashioning costumes and puppets for years in relative anonymity.
Now Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the workshop founded by the legendary creator of the Muppets, is draw ... (full story)

How state laws can stymie research into your ancestors' psychiatric records

NEW YORK (AP) — Breta Meria Conole was in a state psychiatric hospital for more than two decades. But the reason why is a family mystery.
Debby Hannigan, her great grandniece, tried for years to access Conole's medical records, because she thought they might hold clues to mental health issues in her family, including her o ... (full story)