Edison, New Jersey police officer Michael A. Dotro was arrested and charged with five counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated arson on Thursday for allegedly firebombing the home of a captain from his own police department.

The Interstate 5 bridge spanning the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed Thursday evening, dumping two cars into the water. Three people were injured.

Amanda Bynes has made headlines recently for all the right reasons, including for asking Drake to murder her vagina and for posting twerking videos and topless photos on her fascinating Twitter account. And now, the former child actor has been arrested after allegedly throwing a bong from her apartment's window.

On Thursday, an eastern Pennsylvania woman was found guilty of first degree murder for stabbing her fiance to death just hours before their wedding last summer.

If there are two things Germans have traditionally loved, it's purity and beer. Now, according to a German brewers association, both are at risk because of a potential law that would legalize fracking in the country.

Convicted murderer Jodi Arias was given a sentencing retrial today when a jury was unable to unanimously decide on life in prison or the death penalty. The retrial will take place in July.

Lois Lerner, the IRS official in charge of tax-exempt organizations who pleaded the Fifth Amendment before a Congressional committee yesterday, has been placed on administrative leave.

Around 1,400 voting members of the Boy Scouts of America National Council voted 61 percent to 38 percent this afternoon to finally dismantle the group's ban on gay scouts. Unfortunately, the BSA will also continue barring gay scout leaders.

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Law enforcement officials in Florida believe they know who was behind the May 5th shooting death of a Lauderhill man — because the mastermind accidentally butt-dialed 911 and practically confessed to the crime.

According to Twitter, a video of a "woman squeezing a balloon out of her vagina" has been infiltrating Facebook newsfeeds. Have you seen this video? If so, I have a few questions.

Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions to caity.weaver@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not Okay."

As of this writing, the Rob Ford Crackstarter—our attempt to crowdfund $200,000 to purchase and publish a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine—has exceeded $145,000. At the rate it's going, we will reach our goal by Saturday, if not sooner. Since it looks like the money may actually come together, we are going to lay out the present state of play as clearly as we can. First order of business: The last time we established contact with the people who are in possession of the video was this past Sunday, and we have not been able to reach them since.

"Operation Swill," a New Jersey investigation into bars scamming consumers by substituting cheap alcohol for quality booze, turned up one watering hole selling rubbing alcohol, caramel coloring, and other filler as scotch.

Don't you just hate it when that happens?

OK, really, we get it, Anthony Weiner. You're running for Mayor of New York City. You think you should be given a second chance, and you won't give this shit a rest, even though you are, by all accounts, a pretty big dick with a curved dick that you SEXTED TO RANDOMS while MARRIED TO HILLARY CLINTON'S HOMEGIRL (who was pregnant with your baby) and WHILE HOLDING PUBLIC OFFICE. You kind of seem like a giant fuckface.

In a speech interrupted by frequent heckling, President Obama today made a bold and daring call for America to try to adhere to age-old concepts of "law" and "basic human rights" in the amorphous and endless "war on terror." But might treating people "decently" threaten Our Freedoms?

Pike Place Market butcher William Von Schneidau calls his latest creation the "pot pig."

Today, at National Defense University, President Obama gave his big national security speech, the one in which he finally acknowledged that his administration has killed four American citizens with drone strikes in foreign lands before saying that it is unconstitutional to kill (most) Americans with drones without due process.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who smokes crack, has fired his chief of staff.