Dozens of commuters missed connections Sunday night when Delta Airlines kicked them off their Gainesville-to-Atlanta flight to accommodate the University of Florida men's hoops team.

This video has been on the Internet for a while, but it's making the rounds again this week for a very worthy reason.

Depending on your source, the engineer of the Metro-North train that crashed Sunday, killing four and injuring more than 60, was either "zoned out" or dozing just seconds before the derailment. The engineer, William Rockefeller, reportedly woke up as the train—then traveling 82 mph—entered a 30-mph bend in the Bronx.

A very drunk man who got in a very drunk brawl at Oktoberfest had to have his lip sewn back on after a very drunk woman bit it off.

[Thai police have stopped resisting protestors, removing fortifications blocking the gates of the prime minister's office. According to the AP, the protestors have not attempted to enter the building. The clash began three days ago, leaving at least three dead and 230 injured. Image by Sakchai Lalit via AP.]

Miley Cyrus: gateway drug. Back in the day, the latex salvia queen peer pressured Joe Jonas of the vaunted Brothers Jonas into trying marijuana, according to frère Joe's new semi-revealing (if weird Disney childhoods are your thing) New York Magazine essay.

All-around smooth operator Christopher Walken casually hitched a ride with two strangers in New York last month and was apparently a perfect gentleman.

President Obama announced a $100 million dollar HIV research initiative earlier today at the National Institutes of Health, saying, "The United States should be at the forefront of new discoveries into how to put HIV into long-term remission without requiring lifelong therapies, or better yet, eliminate it completely."

An Alabama woman has been charged with murdering a fellow fan because she "didn't seem upset over the Crimson Tide's loss to archrival Auburn," according to the victim's sister.

Earlier this year, Australian rangers set up a motion-activated camera to film crocodiles, but in May the camera went missing. When researchers found it six months later, they realized a sea eagle had stolen it and flown it 70 miles away before abandoning it. Rangers plan to bolt the cameras down in the future.

This past weekend nearly 150 million Americans braved Black Friday — literally a deadly holiday — spending at least $57 billion dollars in pursuit of the sale. And yet evidence suggests that the idea of a sale price is largely artificial. So why do we have such a Pavlovian response whenever the word "doorbuster" is used?

"I said, 'Put your glasses on,' and he just broke into tears," Lindsey Fisher told WLTX, recalling her son Noah's initial reaction to his brand new pair of specs.

Downtown residents are reporting that when it gets windy, the new One World Trade Center building emits an eerie choral sound. The first reports of the sound seem to date back to Hurricane Sandy.

He's been dubbed "Tippy the Fainting Squirrel" for fairly obvious reasons: This foraging black squirrel just can't seem to stay upright for more than a few seconds.

Authorities in Great Britain forcibly sedated a pregnant woman from Italy, performed a court-ordered C-section delivery on her, and now plan to put the child up for adoption against her will.

Just in time for the holiday charity season, the charity analysis group GiveWell has announced what it says are the three best charities in the world for helping the world's most poverty-stricken people.

An Icelandic man who was firing a shotgun at random targets out of his apartment window was shot and killed by local police, becoming the first person to die as a result of an armed police operation in the country's 70-year history.

The Metro-North train that crashed Sunday morning was traveling 82 mph—in a 30 mph zone—when it derailed. "When I heard about the speed, I gulped. It sort of takes your breath away," Sen. Chuck Schumer said at a press conference this afternoon.

Stuff's rapidly getting real in Russia's largest neighbor to the West. Here's what you need to know.

Business is booming in the superyacht industry. Boats now offer "pools with mechanical floors that can be raised or lowered to create a plunge pool, children's pool or helicopter landing pad."