Police in Arizona have arrested a man who allegedly branded his initials on his girlfriend's "vaginal area," and then informed her that he did so because "her vagina was his."

Following a "bloody diarrhea outbreak" that left 74 of its patrons wondering why their God had forsaken them, Federico's Mexican Food in Litchfield Park, Arizona, is begging people to "come back" — and offering them free burritos if they do.

According to at least one subway commuter, the D/N/Q trains were delayed early Friday morning because a naked man refused to get off the tracks at the DeKalb Ave. stop in Brooklyn.

A huge fire ripped through the Jersey Shore boardwalk Thursday night, destroying dozens of businesses along a four-block stretch in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights, two of the areas devastated during last year's Hurricane Sandy.

31 year-old Terry Antone Jenkins of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was arrested twice on September 8 for domestic violence charges after having a threesome with his girlfriend…and her cousin.

There has been an attack at the United States Consulate in Herat, Afghanistan. The AP is reporting a car explosion. Nine—including four women and two policemen—are reportedly wounded and sources say there is ongoing gun fighting outside of the building.

Husband Of the Year Anthony Weiner was spotted today with his wife Huma Abedin. They couldn't hold hands because he was carrying a L'Occitane bag, like any disgraced non-mayor would do. He spent his totally calm day taking his son to Duane Reade and the playground.

Trader Joe’s fans are now going to have a harder time defending the store’s “great treatment” of workers. Famous for providing health benefits to even part-time employees, the company announced that all those who work under 30 hours a week will no longer be eligible for company-provided insurance in the new year. Instead they will be forced to pick their insurance policy from the exchanges created under the Affordable Health Care Act.

There's sorta hope. The California Legislature just approved a bill to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour by the start of 2016. Currently the highest state minimum wage in the country is in Washington state, where workers make $9.19 an hour.

According to a new report released Thursday, The Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF) reports that female DUI arrests have risen 28.8% between 1998 and 2007. In 2011, FBI statistics show that nearly 25% of drunk drivers arrested in the United States were women, whereas in 1980 that number was just 9.8%.

A Utah man, Spencer Stout, proposed to his boyfriend Dustin in the most romantic store of them all: Home Depot. And while the whole flash mob proposal thing is pretty ugh at this point, this one is a little less ugh than the rest.

A fire that began around 2:15 p.m. EST at Kohr’s Ice Cream in Seaside Park, New Jersey has now spread to other boardwalk buildings and escalated into a six-alarm blaze. These buildings include the Funtown Amusement Pier building, notable for surviving the devastation Hurricane Sandy.

ThinkProgress has published a series of emails in which Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell, who oversees cops in George Zimmerman's Florida town, appears to agree with a concerned citizen who worries that Zimmerman is "a Sandy Hook, Aurora waiting to happen."

Here, a local politico in Florida rants for 45 seconds about how much the media sucks, until the lone reporter in attendance blows up and storms out in a huff. This is exactly what would happen if my mom was a journalist. [via Romenesko]

A black Jacksonville, Florida man is suing the local police department after he was reportedly punched in the face, Tasered, and arrested — all for "walking on the wrong side of the road."

Elizabeth O’Bagy is a frequently-cited “expert” on Syria, a popular talking head on cable news, and recently wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that Senator John McCain and State Secretary John Kerry both cited as evidence for bombing Syria. (She was later outed as an employee of a pro-Syrian-rebel group.) You can watch her arguing with Fareed Zakaria on CNN in the video above. The only problem: she faked her credentials at Georgetown, where she claims to have earned a PhD. Zack Beauchamp at ThinkProgress tracks how O’Bagy claimed she was a “doctor” even though anyone could have easily proven otherwise:

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Five drunk men stunned town officials by putting their liquid strength to good use and fixing a bike rack that had gone unrepaired for weeks.

Six seconds is the perfect amount of time for a bait and switch.