High School Hot Sauce Prank Goes Wrong, Sends 3 to Hospital

Taylor Berman · 06/06/13 08:58PM

Some advice: If you decide to spike your high school cafeteria's stash of marinara with hot sauce, make sure the hot sauce isn't the same strength as US law-enforcement-grade pepper spray. Unfortunately for the cafeteria staff at Chicago's Highland Park High School, that's just what one student decided to do during an ill-fated prank last month.

Cord Jefferson · 06/06/13 05:03PM

A New York City woman pleaded guilty to fraud today for using Facebook and phone calls to solicit money for a "funeral fund" for her nephew, who was killed in last year's Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. No such nephew ever existed.

Costco: The Anti-Wal-Mart

Hamilton Nolan · 06/06/13 04:53PM

The must-read capitalist profile of the week is BloombergBusinessweek's look at Costco and its CEO, Craig Jelinek. Costco is the second-largest retailer in America, after Wal-Mart. Their business practices could hardly be more different.

Justin Bieber Is Moving to Space

Leah Beckmann · 06/06/13 04:30PM

You thought it was hard babysitting Justin Bieber before, back when he was putting your hand in warm water when you fell asleep on the couch and ditching his monkeys in foreign prisons full of blondes—well, just you try babysitting Justin Bieber now, now that he lives in SPACE, address 1 Milky Way Place.

Hamilton Nolan · 06/06/13 02:32PM

The day after Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was finally captured, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick "got 'quite drunk' alone in a restaurant."

A Handful of Life Lessons Paris Hilton Learned from The Bling Ring

Leah Beckmann · 06/06/13 01:10PM

All the bad gals are excited for this month's release of Sofia Coppola's based-on-real-events movie The Bling Ring, about a gang of Lip Smacker-sticky teens robbing the homes of celebrities. One bad gal who is not so excited? Paris Hilton.

Max Read · 06/06/13 12:58PM

New Jerseyans, meet your new senator (until October 13): State Attorney General Jeff Chiesa. Chiesa has said he won't run in October's special election.

Max Read · 06/06/13 12:43PM

Esther Williams, swimming champion and star of dozens of musicals, has died at 91.

College Grads Are Too Broke to Become Good Little Entrepreneurs

Hamilton Nolan · 06/06/13 12:43PM

Besides forcing young college graduates into a decades-long penurious existence as veritable indentured servants to institutions of higher learning, there's another downside to our nation's $1 trillion student debt: it's stopping young people from starting business. Businesses! The lifeblood of Republicanism!