When subscribers of Arizona Highways—Arizona’s “award-winning” travel magazine—receive their October 2013 issue, they’ll be able to turn to page 13 and read all about the edible fly agaric mushroom. The only problem is that the fly agaric mushroom, when consumed raw, has “unpredictable psychotropic and physical effects.” Yet there is no mention of these potential side effects in the “nature factoid” section on the mushroom.

Larry Summers has withdrawn his name from consideration for Federal Reserve chairman citing a confirmation process that "would be acrimonious and would not serve the interest of the Federal Reserve, the Administration or, ultimately, the interests of the nation’s ongoing economic recovery."

More than 10 percent of our nation's bridges are structurally deficient and in need of rehabilitation or replacement.

Albert Buitenhuis, the South African chef who was getting kicked out of New Zealand for being too fat, has been given a 23-month reprieve. Buitenhuis will not be allowed access to any publicly-funded healthcare, however.

In addition to chronicling his "lust demons," RFK Jr. also journaled about lunching on a yacht with Larry David, falconing at Martha Stewart's house, playing capture the flag with Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, giving relationship advice to Alec Baldwin, and defending Leonardo DiCaprio's haircut to his three-year-old.

During the 1981-1982 season, at least three Knicks players fixed games for their unnamed cocaine dealer, “one of the largest dealers on the East Coast,” according to FBI files.

Stephen Crohn helped care for his partner while he was dying from a disease that didn't even have a name yet. In was 1978, and AIDS had just begun sweeping through New York City. Several of Crohn's friends were dying, except he never got sick. He was immune to HIV. After years of helping scientists gain a better understanding of the disease by studying his genetic make-up, Crohn committed suicide on August 23rd. He was 66.

In another shooting of an unarmed individual by police this weekend, a former Florida A&M football player was shot and killed as he approached police officers, looking for assistance after getting into a car accident.

Paula Deen's here, y'all. The maybe-racist, maybe-sexist fan-of-antebellum appeared at a Texas cooking show yesterday and cried tears of real butter when the crowd gave her a "10-minute ovation" with "thunderous applause." She then looked straight into a camera lens and declared, "I'm back."

A secret society called the Machine was apparently behind the spate of free-drink-toting, limo-riding University of Alabama sorority girls who showed up to vote in the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education race last month.

Schools in Philadelphia opened this week with 2,400 fewer employees, almost zero support staff, and no art, music, or athletics. Here's the story on how a school district is destroyed in America.

In a scene from straight out of a sitcom (or a horrible recession with no end in sight), a judge in Spain has ordered a feuding couple to partition their apartment right down the middle, in an attempt to stop the couple from incessantly fighting.

Holy shit! There's a pretty good chance your holy water is actually contaminated with fecal matter.

Porn participants will continue to go raw for the foreseeable future — even as four performers tested positive for HIV in the last month — after California lawmakers rejected a bill that would make condom use mandatory during filming.

In a bizarre confrontation last night, NYPD officers shot two bystanders while trying to arrest a man who was blocking traffic just a block from Time Square.

Beware of Greyhound. An overnight bus traveling from Cincinnati to Detroit went off road last night, struck a tree, and eventually rolled over into a field. Amazingly, no one was killed.

The drinking water of a Louisiana parish has been found to contain a brain-eating amoeba that can be fatal if it goes up your nose.

Microsoft has pulled a series of ads making fun of the new iPhone for being sucky and not-at-all-funny.

While the total number of people unaccounted for has dropped to below 200, rain continues to fall in Colorado, and won't stop until Monday. Rescuers are growing concerned that residents who haven't found safety yet are running out of time.

A colony of Herpes-infected Rhesus monkeys, flinging their feces and viral loads through Florida, now pose an official public health threat to the Sunshine State.