The former teacher who admitted raping his 14-year-old student was released from a Montana prison today after serving 30 days of his 31-day sentence. Stacey Rambold received the lenient sentence last month, after a Montana judge said the victim was “older than her chronological age” and “as much in control of the situation” as Rambold.

The six-year-old had to have brought it up, because I can't imagine how I would have. But the argument flared so fast I don't really remember how it started. A is red, he was saying, and B is blue.

An unidentified man who could have proudly responded "yes" to the question "is that a $2 million check in your pocket" is probably very unhappy today after having that check stolen from him on the subway.

As baseball's regular season nears its end, here is a highlight reel celebrating the hideous souvenir-crazed monsters who grab balls away from young children in the stands.

Tom Cruise in that Top Gun movie, Han Solo, and that U.S. Airways pilot who landed a busted passenger jet in the Hudson River are some of the many dashing heroes we think of when we consider the heroic American pilot. But human pilots just aren't necessary anymore.

"'In every city and state I have visited, the jails have become the de facto mental institutions,' says Esteban Gonzalez, president of the American Jail Association, an organization for jail employees."

The Florida woman whose "Stand Your Ground" defense was rejected in a controversial 2012 trial that rose prominence in the wake of George Zimmerman's acquittal will get a new trial after an appeals court ruled that the jury instructions on self-defense "were erroneous."

The Randolph County Board of Education voted to rescind its ban on Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man. Emails protesting the initial ban, one board member told The Courier-Tribune, “made him realize that he didn’t have the right to subject his morals on others.”

Authorities in Texas this week arrested 38-year-old Samantha Weber and charged her with felony online impersonation after she alleged posted an ad on Craigslist soliciting sex from strangers on behalf of her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend.

Was the infamous "White Widow"—the British woman whose husband bombed the London Underground in 2005—present at the Kenya Mall Attack?

Well, this is too bad. Guido Barilla, head of the world's biggest pasta brand, went on an anti-gay rant on Italian radio yesterday, proclaiming that he would never OK a commercial depicting a gay family and that if gays don't like his views "they can eat another pasta."

Over twenty reporters have accepted leadership positions in the Obama administration since 2008. And they’re having fun! “Journalists who became Obama operatives speak highly of the experience,” The Washington Post observes, after noting that four of the paper’s former staff members now work for the government.

It's good to know that, even in our modern age, if things don't work out, you can always go find some sunken pirate treasure.

It's the most terrifying news of the year: Google has reportedly been sending Google Talk messages to the wrong people—not just to the wrong people on your contact list, but to people you don't know at all.

Monday was not the best day of David Marshall's life. By six p.m., the 38-year-old from Jonesboro, Arkansas was so obliterated that he'd passed out in an apartment-complex parking lot and the neighbors had to call the cops. This was not a good reason to smile. So what was?

With your help, we are on a quest to find the least privileged subgroup of all. Yesterday, we launched The Privilege Tournament. Today, it is time for you to vote once again.

This pranking warehouse employee likes to scare the living Dickens out of his boss.

The least you can do if you're going to copy Buzzfeed's style with a single-page gallery of photos of a crazy Russian bachelor is make sure Buzzfeed didn't already publish the exact same photos 18 months ago. (To be fair: Back then he was Serbian.) This is the kind of thing a Facebook founder should be all over.

David and Jackie Siegel set out to build the United States' largest single-family house (in Florida, of course), but after David's time-share business, Westgate, went belly-up, they lost it all. This was depicted in last year's astounding Queen of Versailles documentary. In the time after the movie was filmed, as Jackie claimed earlier this year on Watch What Happens Live, David's business gained footing, posted its biggest profits ever, and the couple bought back their formerly foreclosed 'roid roost. They also disputed the veracity of the documentary, in court and elsewhere.