Police say a Japanese man stole nearly $200,000 over a year-long burglary spree because he wanted to feed his 128 cats gourmet cat food.

Two years ago, Boston Globe reporter Billy Baker wrote a profile about two impoverished brothers who came from a difficult home, basically raising and supporting themselves, while also succeeding academically — at the tops of their classes — at a prestigious Boston school.

Colin Farrell was one of the few non-family members who spoke at Elizabeth Taylor's funeral, but beyond that their relationship was mostly one of speculation. Until today.

Back in the Blackberry heyday, its messaging service was a huge source of contention since there was no way to opt out of letting the sender know you read their text. It led to a lot of awkward conversations — "So uh, I see you saw my note and ignored it" — but that mostly melted away with Blackberry's stock.

Whether or not you actually want to see it is a whole other matter entirely.

The AP is reporting that legendary country singer Ray Price, who definitely did not pass away over the weekend, did unfortunately pass away today. He died at his ranch outside of Mount Pleasant, Texas after a hard two-year battle with cancer. A family spokesperson and a friend of the family confirmed the report.

Next stop, Mordor. Kindly remember to take all your precious possessions with you when exiting the train.

[Mount Etna just won't stop erupting. The latest lava spectacle shot up this weekend, spewing ash and shutting down Catania's airport in eastern Sicily. According to NBC, Mt. Etna produces enough lava each year to fill the Willis Tower in Chicago. Photo by Salvatore Allegra via AP.]

She was roundly mocked online after telling a state trooper that two "bricks" in the back of her car contained homemade soap not cocaine, but it was no laughing matter for Annadel Cruz and her companion Alexander Bernstein who spent the past month in jail despite telling the truth.

Less than a week after the latest weapon-involved domestic violence charges against George Zimmerman were dropped at the behest of his victim-slash-girlfriend, the perennial troublemaker-slash-black-teen-killer is back in the headlines today, but this time he's showcasing his softer, more artistic side.

The editor-in-chief of Jalopnik, our car-focused sister site, moved to New York last week, and promptly got the Accord he was driving towed. Welcome to the city, Matt.

To make sure everyone buys everyone the best gifts ever, this year Gawker has divided the universe of potential gift recipients into readers of our Gawker Media brother and sister sites.

Megyn Kelly may have been joking, but one New Mexico teacher apparently wasn't when he told a black student he couldn't dress up as Santa because "Santa Claus is white."

Reposted on Reddit over the weekend before making its way to Twitter and then the web writ large, the feast beast they call Cthulken (or, alternatively, the Craturktopus) reared its ugly, ugly head yet again to freak everybody out.

The scourge of SantaCon — the "nonsensical Santa Claus convention that happens once a year for absolutely no reason" — is the bane of pretty much every New Yorker, but a boon to voyeurs of badly behaving Santas.

In the latest setback for the NSA, a federal judge ruled on Monday that the spy agency's phone metadata collection program, which gathers information on calls to, from, and within the United States, probably violates the Constitution.

Is this chocolate lab broken? Confused? A rebel? A doggy lifeguard? Or maybe just taking a pee break?

"Part of our reporting was sitting with those girls, sitting with their families, seeing their scars on their wrists, hearing the emotion." - Jessica Hopper revisits the underage-sex allegations against R. Kelly that everyone has conveniently forgotten with the journalist who broke the story, Jim DeRogatis

Adrián García Bogliano's Here Comes the Devil is what would happen if psychological terror and weird sex shit came to a Mentos commercial. Stilted as fuck, fueled on pregnant pauses and eyeball acting that makes virtually every character appear to have a thyroid condition, the movie revels in the kind of unnaturalness the '70s schlock it so admires could only settle for. It's smart-dumb: buffoonery at its sleekest and most stylish.

The fact that the statement "governments should be legally required to make pension contributions every year" is controversial is just the latest reminder that it's time to blow up America's horrible pension system.