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Ozzy Osbourne has denied those split rumors, but he appears to have taken a ride on the crazy train once again - at least for a little while. The rocker took to Facebook on Monday night with his side of the story. "For the last year and a half I have been drinking and taking drugs," he wrote. "I was in a very dark place and was [a jerk] to the people I love most, my family. However, I am happy to say that I am now 44 days sober. " PHOTOS: Celebrities by The Times Ozzy, 64, infamously used drugs heavily for decades but got sober in his early 50s. "Just to set the record straight, Sharon and I are not divorcing.

BOSTON - The bombs that tore past the finish line of the Boston Marathon were probably made with simple kitchen pressure cookers packed with metal pellets and nails and hidden in black nylon bags, investigators said Tuesday. FBI lead investigator Rick DesLauriers said fragments from a pressure cooker and pieces of black nylon were discovered near one of the bomb sites. Physicians said they had extracted from the wounded large numbers of pellets and carpenters' nails, common shrapnel components in the elementary bombs widely used in Afghanistan and Pakistan - and also discovered in at least two previous attempted terrorist attacks in the United States.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Pakistani Taliban, an insurgent group focused mostly on the Pakistani state but which claimed responsibility for a failed bomb attack in New York nearly three years ago, has denied any involvement in the bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon on Monday. The group is responsible for many of the suicide bombings and terror attacks that have wreaked havoc on this South Asian nation for years. It does, however, regard the U.S. as an enemy and helped train Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani American who confessed to engineering a botched bombing attempt in New York's Times Square in 2010.

Olympian Oscar Pistorius was seen "partying it up" at a Johannesburg restaurant last weekend, according to South Africa's Sunday Times. The paper quotes witnesses who spotted he double-amputee sprinter knocking back shots and flirting with women. Many people said that's not the way someone awaiting trial for the alleged murder of his girlfriend should behave. "He was greeting a couple and then gave the woman a little pat on her backside. It was just so inappropriate," the woman told the Sunday Times.

A commander in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department was disciplined after his phone rang during a meeting with top brass. But it wasn't failing to put his phone on silent that raised eyebrows. It was the ring tone. Cmdr. Paul Pietrantoni, one of Sheriff Lee Baca's hand-picked jail reformers, was meeting with other top supervisors when his personal cellphone played "The Oriental Riff" - accompanied by a mock, stereotypical Asian voice saying: "Hello, you pick up phone, you pick up phone.

Kate Upton and Diddy are not dating despite reports linking the two ultra-famous individuals. Upton, who broke up with Detroit Tigers Pitcher Justin Verlander around Valentine's Day, was said to be spotted kissing music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs and "not hiding it" at a party he was hosting at Miami's Liv club March 24, according to the New York Daily News . The Sports Illustrated cover girl took to Twitter on Wednesday to debunk the...

For several days, Occidental Petroleum Corp. has been roiled by speculation that its CEO search was really a power play by Executive Chairman Ray Irani to push out his onetime protege, Chief Executive Stephen Chazen. On Monday the Westwood company's board of directors took the unusual step of saying there is "no fight at the top" of the oil and gas producer, but made clear that the two men who have run Occidental for the last decade were on their way out in one way or another. The board's statement, billed as unanimous, went on to say that the 78-year-old Irani played no role in the February decision by independent directors to identify a successor for Chazen, 66. Chazen acknowledged Monday that he didn't ask to leave Occidental but said, "I respect the board's decision to seek a new generation of leadership.

Saudi Arabia denied reports that a young man had been sentenced to paralysis, a punishment that human rights groups had excoriated as a form of torture. “This is untrue,” the Justice Ministry said Monday on its Twitter account, according to a translation by blogger Ahmed Omran . The judge “dismissed the request of such punishment.” The Saudi Gazette reported last month that if Ali Khawahir could not pay roughly $270,000 to the friend he allegedly stabbed and paralyzed a decade ago, he in turn would be paralyzed.

LONDON - Indifference was not an option. In death as in life, at home and abroad, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was lionized and lambasted - sometimes both in the same breath - as news of her passing Monday spread across the world. Whether she was lauded as a savior or loathed as a destroyer, no one could deny the indelible imprint left on Britain by its first female prime minister, whose free-market revolution in the 1980s shook this country to its core. "We have lost a great leader, a great prime minister and a great Briton," said Prime Minister David Cameron, one of Thatcher's heirs as leader of the Conservative Party.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- The University of Colorado-Denver stood firm Friday in saying that it never barred James E. Holmes from campus, despite newly released court documents that indicate the suspect in the Aurora movie theater massacre had his ID card deactivated after he alarmed a school psychiatrist. Dr. Lynne Fenton told campus police officer Lynn Whitten on June 12 -- more than a month before the July 20 rampage that killed 12 and injured 70 -- that Holmes had “homicidal thoughts” and may be a danger to the public.