November 10, 2007 (New Haven Register / James Tinley) -- A Florida man who came to Shelton for a pair of custom-made "vampire" teeth will be spending more time than he intended in Connecticut after being sentenced to serve eight years in prison for a vicious assault.

"Budapest seems a wonderful place... The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East." So begins Bram Stoker's Dracula, written in a time when the city was seen as Europe's final frontier. Today, Budapest is rather more familiar (it joined the EU in 2004) - although it has lost none of its original appeal.

Are you a fallen angel?
Did you commit a deadly sin?
Did you eat away a child's dreams
and rot the heart within?
Were you ever called an angel?
Did you reign from high above?
Were you ever called an angel?
Were you made of dreams and love?

Raevynn
October 21, 2001

Hair fine as silk
The color of spun gold
Skin pale as the new fallen snow
Voice like the angels
Smile like the sun
Eyes so deep
A man could lose himself within
And be happy in doing so

Louis Giuseppi
October 19, 2001

February 18, 2008 (Reuters / Paul Majendie) -- Luxury storeowner Mohamed al-Fayed said on Monday the death of Princess Diana and his son Dodi in a 1997 Paris car crash was murder and accused the royal family of wanting to "get rid" of Diana. In an emotional appearance at the inquest into their deaths, al-Fayed accused Prince Philip of being a "Nazi" and a "racist."