A 29-year-old woman with Down syndrome won her independence from her parents in a guardianship case on Friday when a judge ruled that the woman couldn't be kept in a group home against her will.
Woman With Down Syndrome Wins Independence From Her Parents
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Finally some good news out of Florida -- lawmakers have agreed to hold hearings on the "Stand Your G
Finally some good news out of Florida — lawmakers have agreed to hold hearings on the "Stand Your Ground" law.
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Kid Rock Offers Reward For Information About Thieving Man On Crutches
Kid Rock has issued a $5,000 reward for anyone who can identify the man on crutches who attempted to break into his Detroit-area home. The Rock Kid, who managed to ruin "Werewolves of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama" simultaneously, also wants everyone to know that he will "not hesitate to shoot" anyone else who tries to break in.
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Bill Clinton and the Sport of Hating Poorness
In 1998, during a staff meeting at my first off-white collar job, tele-fundraising for arts programming in neglected city schools, someone brought up President Bill Clinton. I rolled my 20-year-old eyes and said, “Like he ever did anything for poor kids.” The woman sitting to my right, who got under folks’ skin in such a way that the phrase I’m not going to jail for her was often uttered, stepped to his defense.
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Here's Jay Z's "Performance Art Movie," "Picasso Baby"
The fruits of Jay Z's six-hour lip-synching labor
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Qantas Flight To Australia Becomes Poop Plane From Hell
Everybody poops. It's a fact of life. A Qantas flight from Santiago, Chile, to Sydney, Australia learned that hard way this week when everybody pooped, for 13 hours, in a near-constant stream of bodily discharge when 26 of the passengers came down with a stomach bug.
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Making Old Guys Buy Bottle Service is Not Violating Their Civil Rights
A judge ruled this week that making a 66-year-old man buy really expensive alcohol to get inside a night club is a totally legal thing to do.
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At least four suspected Nazis who were supposed to be deported out of the United States are still li
At least four suspected Nazis who were supposed to be deported out of the United States are still living here, due largely in part to the fact that no other country will take them.
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A Different Anthony Weiner in Boston Has a Way Worse Sexting Problem
A Boston man named Anthony Weiner out-Weinered the OG Anthony Weiner this week. The Boston Weiner was just arrested for sexting a 21-year-old man from his wife's phone, luring him to an empty house, hitting him in the head with a bat, tying him to a chair, and threatening to torture him.
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Obama helps good old friend Apple
President Obama has vetoed a ban on Apple products after losing a patent battle to Samsung. Is this a favor between old friends?
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You no longer have to travel to Spain to be trampled and gored by bulls -- the Pamplona Bull Run is
You no longer have to travel to Spain to be trampled and gored by bulls — the Pamplona Bull Run is coming to the US in August.
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(Update) LA Driver Deliberately Hit Pedestrians on the Venice Beach Boardwalk
A man in a black car purposely drove onto the Venice Beach boardwalk last night, hitting twelve pedestrians and killing one, before fleeing the scene.
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The world is only going to become a more violent place, according to a new study examining the corre
The world is only going to become a more violent place, according to a new study examining the correlation between climate change and conflict.
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Ninth Woman Comes Forward as San Diego Mayor Heads Off to Therapy
A Marilyn Monroe impersonator has become the ninth (or possibly tenth) woman to publicly accuse San Diego mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment. The embattled mayor has resisted calls for his retirement, and is instead beginning an "intensive" two-week therapy session.
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Stomach Virus Tied to Olive Garden and Red Lobster, Lawsuits to Follow
The FDA announced this week that a Mexican salad mix served at Iowa and Nebraska Olive Gardens and Red Lobsters contained parasites that cause a severe stomach virus called cyclospora, giving bottomless salad bowls a whole new meaning.
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BBC just announced that Scottish actor Peter Capaldi will become the twelfth Doctor Who to step into
BBC just announced that Scottish actor Peter Capaldi
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Iowa Slaughterhouse Not Allowed to Start Killing Horses Just Yet
A federal judge ruled Friday that an Iowa company can't just start slaughtering horses like it's 2011 and "Luck" is back in production, because that dead horse joke hasn't been beaten enough, amirite?
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Next season Sunday football Matrix-style replays will look awesome
Watch these incredible clips for a taste of the Matrix-style 360-degree replays coming to NFL Sunday Football starting this September. They were taken with a similar technology now installed at Yankee Stadium. It's really going to be incredible.
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Venice Beach boardwalk car hit-and-run captured on video
This short CCTV video shows the precise instant in which a driver hit multiple people on Venice Beach's boardwalk last night, killing one and injuring twelve, one in critical condition.
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Rookie NYPD Officer Shoots and Kills Allegedly Armed 14-Year-Old
A first-year NYPD police officer shot and killed an allegedly armed 14-year-old boy Sunday morning in the Bronx. According to police, 14-year-old Shaaliver Douse was killed after he pointed his handgun at the officer and his partner.
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