The boys had gone into the desert to eat a local wild plant and trip their brains out. One boy died. The survivor allegedly stuffed his friend's body into a 15-foot-deep outhouse. Then he made his way ...

On July 14, 2004 Eric Sears and Ben Fogelstrom went on a camping trip to Joshua Tree State Park in California. The two seventeen year olds had recently graduated from Carlsbad High School. Ben ...

It surprised many people that a simple weed, so common that it grows beside the freeway, could spell death. But when two teen-age boys died this summer from jimson weed poisoning, officials and the ...

The 15-year-old boy lying on his bed didn’t act anything like her son. He was batting at objects in the air that didn’t exist. His pupils were so dilated they eclipsed the blue of his eyes. White ...

If you happened to come across a plant with trumpet-shaped flowers inside a concrete median strip along a bike lane on the Upper West Side you may have thought nothing of the unassuming plant. But, be ...