When Dustin Moore spotted his grandmother sitting casually on the front stoop of her house, he thought he was seeing things. After all, his grandma did pass away last year.

One of the motorcyclists involved in this weekend's violent New York City road rage incident, in which dozens of bikers clashed with a man in an SUV on the West Side Highway, has turned himself in to police as authorities continue investigating just what the hell happened.

On Monday, an autopsy revealed that the headless and handless murder victim discovered last week inside a metal barrel in northwest Pennsylvania was killed by a single arrow to the heart.

"It Happened to Me: I Used A Photo Of My Naked Back As My OKCupid Profile Photo." The shocking true story of how to write 1,206 words about your OKCupid profile photo.

If you didn't immediately leap off the nearest building upon learning that teen mom Farrah Abraham earned a $1 million payday for opening her back door to porn star James Deen in her first professionally produced "sex tape," you'll be glad to know that life isn't quite that unfair just yet.

Having overseen the near-total collapse of the Newsweek-Daily Beast conglomerate, Tina Brown announced last month that she was leaving The Daily Beast—uh, strictly by choice, of course. The site hastened to add that it would not be closing down. It will, however, be laying people off.

Earlier today, we asked how the government shutdown has affected you. More than 600 comments later, we've heard from government workers, students, concerned family members, non-profit employees and dozens of others. Here's what they said.

Did you know the federal government shut down last night at midnight? Do you have any clue why, or what that means? It's okay if you don't: Ryan Gosling and Kate Upton—last seen explaining the sequester—are here to help you understand.

Casual banter about dogs between morning anchors on Birmingham's CBS 42 turned inadvertently kinky after Gina Redmond kicked the conversation over to meteorologist Mark Prater with a question about his "little wiener."

Actress Michelle Rodriguez has come out as bisexual (or something like that): "'Men are intriguing. So are chicks.' She shrugs." Oh. (I shrug.)

Guys! We have a problem that you could maybe help with, but it's related to a problem that Jane Pratt has that you also may be able to help with, so let's focus on that first: The Sassy/Jane/xoJane boss is going to be photographed nude tomorrow and she's not exactly sure how to go about it.

Authorities in Joliet Township, Illinois, said a man who murdered his wife before turning the gun on himself had tried out for the game show Family Feud just hours earlier.

Addressing the partial government shutdown that went into effect last night and the first day of open enrollment in the Affordable Care Act, President Obama just a few minutes ago praised his cornerstone healthcare legislation while also making it clear that he thinks some of the House Republicans are total assholes.

UrbanBaby.com is the Craigslist of the wealthy stay-at-home mom set; it's the Thought Catalog of the second-home-in-the-Hamptons family. Today's most popular discussion topic: "I hate old people. What non-racial group are you prejudiced against?"

As part of its Internship Investigations project, the journalism non-profit ProPublica dug into the mandatory Journalism Residency program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The gobsmacking results are in:

What you're looking at here is the largest analysis of the words we use on Facebook ever undertaken. Look at the words. They are you. If you're a man, you care about "fucking metal fuck girlfriend league wishes." Ladies, you're partial to "shopping excited love cute dress yayyyy." Blame yourself.

Look at the nice illustration Google put together for the birthday of Yosemite National Park. Thanks to anarchist Republicans in the House of Representatives, today's "Google Doodle" also marks the closing of all U.S. national parks. Even the parks' websites are shut down.

In this photo tweeted by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, House Republicans sit across from empty chairs (again with the empty chairs) meant to symbolize absent Democratic leadership from the Senate. Or something.

The average American's rent is 3% higher than it was a year ago. "You just can't have double-digit rent growth every year or rents would be a million bucks," one realtor tells the Wall Street Journal. (Except in New York, where rents are a million bucks.)