The Fredericksburg police in Virginia are now launching an internal investigation into a Saturday night incident in which suspect, Lantz Day, 36, appeared to be tasered for 42 consecutive seconds.

The surviving members of the Brooklyn-based Iranian band the Yellow Dogs have released a statement about the Monday murder of two bandmates and a close friend: "We wanted the world to discover us as we were…This is not the way we ever imagined the world would learn of our story."

[Typhoon Haiyan survivors walk through the ruins of their neighborhood on the outskirts of Tacloban, central Philippines. Photo by David Guttenfelder via AP]

Four Marines were killed in a training accident today at Southern California's Camp Pendleton. Few other details have been released, but base officials said the accident occurred during "a range maintenance operation," according to the AP. A mortar explosion killed seven Marines training in Nevada only eight months ago.

Good news for people who like good news about Wes Anderson: A brand new short film by the acclaim auteur which, naturally, stars Jason Schwartzman as a race car driver in 1955 Italy, has popped up online today for no real reason.

"Mayor FORD said 'I'm going to eat you out,' and 'I banged your pussy'": more details from the police reports the Sun reported on earlier today are out, and boy are they something.

A New York architect has filed a lawsuit against an Ivy League journal editor alleging she wrote increasingly libelous blog posts about his sex life and anatomy after the two stopped seeing each other. [Some of the associated images, below, are NSFW]

One day after the world's most expensive artwork sold at auction, the world's most expensive gemstone—and $83 million pink diamond—has sold at auction. The real winner here: the proud diamond miners of Africa.

According to a media lawyer who has read soon-to-be released police reports, witnesses—including several of the mayor's former staff members—told Toronto Police that they saw Rob Ford drink 20 ounces of vodka, snort cocaine, smoke weed, and take OxyContin while spending time with a suspected prostitute on St. Patrick's Day last year.

Yesterday, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote that "people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex" when thinking about interracial relationships. That got us wondering: What else does Cohen think might make people gag?

Scientists have finally figured out what black holes shoot out in their superfast particle jets. It's just a bunch of elements, is all. No aliens or people from other dimensions at all. Huh.

Tom Cruise stirred up major controversy earlier this week when court documents obtained by several websites appeared to suggest Cruise felt his job as an actor was comparable to "fighting in Afghanistan."

At least three people were wounded during a shooting at Brashear High School in Pittsburgh this afternoon. Two people were reportedly shot in the leg outside the school, and one was shot in the head inside the school's locker room. All three were rushed to local hospitals, though their injuries are believed to be non-life threatening. It's not yet known if the victims were students, or if the shooter has been captured.

The New York Times has long been considered the top of the media food chain, the final stop in a journalism career. No mas. In recent weeks, the Times has been leaking talent left and right. Who do they have left that they really need to hang on to?

An Alabama teenager will be tried as an adult after he allegedly stabbed his mother to death and left his father paralyzed with a punctured lung.

Police in Montgomery County, Maryland have arrested a 38-year-old real estate appraiser and amateur beer pong player for allegedly raping at least four young men–several of whom he met at beer pong tournaments–over the past ten years.

A new investigation by the ACLU has found more than 3,000 people in this country who are serving life sentences without parole for nonviolent crimes, like drugs or theft. Unless something changes, these people will die in prison.

A general assignment reporter for Detroit's Local 4 News was having trouble getting her earpiece (IFB) to work during this morning's newscast, so she attempted to fix the problem by angrily shouting "I can't get this fucking in there" with a live news camera rolling beside her.

The death of a British spy whose body was found locked inside a duffle bag was "probably an accident," according to London police. The announcement contradicts the findings of a coroner, who last year said the MI6 agent was "probably" killed unlawfully.

There's no getting around it: This video is tough to watch. But having actually lived the things described therein — that may be the literal definition of torture.