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Mama June to TLC: No Fair, You Support Duggar Molestation and Not Ours
Honey Boo Boo matriarch Mama June Shannon is so angry about TLC’s handling of the revelation that 19 Kids and Counting’s Josh Duggar molested girls (including his sisters) as a teenager, that she’s threatening to sue the network, TMZ reports. → Read More
Josh Duggar Accused of Molesting Several Sisters as a Teen: Reports
According to a sealed 2006 police report obtained by inTouch Weekly, Josh Duggar, the oldest son of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting brood, confessed to allegedly molesting at least five underage girls when he was a teenager—including, TMZ reports, his sisters. And his parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, worked overtime to hide the scandal for several years. → Read More
Woman Gets 24 Years for Pushing Man in Front of Oncoming Subway Train
Erika Menendez was sentenced to 24 years in prison Wednesday for pushing a Hindu man, Sunando Sen, off a subway platform and onto the tracks as a train was coming into the station, killing him. → Read More
ISIS Captures Ancient Syrian City of Palmyra
Islamic State forces captured another key Syrian territory Wednesday night, toppling government forces in the ancient city of Palmyra. → Read More
More Like Jane FONDLE
Jane Fonda looked very pleased today in photos from the premiere of director Paolo Sorrentino’s new movie, Youth. But what’s behind that radiant smile? → Read More
Lawyers Release Gruesome Video of Bikers Beating SUV Driver
Footage of the brutal 2013 beating of a SUV driver by a group of bikers who chased the car down the West Side Highway was used as evidence in court this week against two of the bikers standing trial, including an undercover cop. → Read More
Docs Keep Woman Awake for a Full Week After Finding Eye-Eating Parasite
Jessica Greaney, a student at University of Nottingham, was suffering from a swollen eye this past March. She thought she had an eye infection. Nope! Just a parasite trying to burrow its way through her eyeball and into her spine to kill her. → Read More
Waco Biker Gang Shootout May Have Started Over a Parking Dispute: Cops
Sunday’s deadly shootout between rival biker gangs in front of a Waco restaurant may have first began, police believe, with an argument over a parking space. → Read More
Obama to Ban Military-Style Assault Weapons For Local Police Forces
President Obama will announce Monday a ban on the federal transfer of some military-style weapons to local police departments and impose stricter regulations on others. → Read More
Amazon Has an Unquenchable Thirst For Woody Allen
If I asked you to close your eyes and envision the worst possible celebrity interview scenario, what would it be? The right answer is of course Deadline’s Mike Fleming, Jr. interviewing Woody Allen. → Read More
Teen Puts Number on Chalkboard to Get Dates—His Teacher Calls Instead
Isabel Khan, a former science teacher at Imagine School in West Melbourne, Fla., pleaded guilty to having been in a months-long sexual affair with a then 14-year-old student. → Read More
King of the Blues B.B. King Dead at 89
Legendary blues singer and guitarist B.B. King died late Thursday in his Las Vegas home. He was 89. → Read More
Jury Acquits Six Philly Narcotics Cops On All Corruption Charges
Six Philadelphia narcotics cops were acquitted today on all 26 counts of federal corruption charges against them. The six were arrested in sting operations last year and stood accused of stealing drug money, planting evidence, and abusing suspects.http://gawker.com/six-philly-narcotics-cops-charged-with-kidnapping-robb-1613867033 → Read More
NTSB: Missing Tech Could Have Prevented Amtrak Crash
In the National Transportation Safety Board’s ongoing investigation into Tuesday night’s deadly Amtrak derailment, investigators have found that a technology designed to prevent trains from traveling at dangerous speeds had not been installed on the stretch of track where Amtrak 188 derailed. → Read More
Hearse Drivers Fired For Bringing Deceased Veteran on Donut Run
Two hearse drivers, assigned to transporting the body of a Korean and Vietnam War veteran to his funeral in Lecanto, Fla., Tuesday morning, have been fired after they were witnessed stopping at a Dunkin’ Donuts mid-trip. → Read More
Gunmen Kill 43 Ismaili Muslims in Karachi Bus Attack
Masked gunmen attacked a bus carrying Ismaili Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan early Wednesday, killing 43 people. → Read More
Sofía Vergara, the Onion Crunch King, & the Saga of the 2 Frozen Embryos
The battle between Sofía Vergara and her ex-boyfriend, Nick Loeb, over the destiny of some embryos the two had frozen when they were a couple is the climatic final act of a classic domestic drama: the one where the woman realizes her lover is a loser. → Read More
Cliff That Took Life of Mansion Home Finally Crumbles and Falls to Death
Last summer, Denise and Robert Webb lost their 4,000-square-foot mansion overlooking Lake Whitney, Texas, to the savagery of nature after the cliff they built their home began slowly crumbling away into the water below. → Read More
Police: No "Foul Play" Suspected in Hanging Death of Georgia Black Man
Roosevelt Champion, III, was found hanging from a tree in the yard of a Greensboro, Georgia, house Monday, but so far, the Georgia Bureau of Investigations says, “there is no evidence of foul play.” → Read More
At Least 32 Killed After 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Nepal
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake tore through Nepal Tuesday afternoon, leaving at least 32 people dead, at least a thousand injured, and several buildings ruined. The quake comes just three weeks after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit the country, killing more than 8,000 people. → Read More