On Wednesday, the US Army announced that a sergeant first class at the United States Military Academy at West Point has been accused of secretly filming female cadets as they undressed and took showers.

While many of America's classrooms remain criminally regressive when it comes to their sexual education policies, today Illinois has helped put a kibosh on some of that bullshit by stepping slightly into the 21st Century.

Kiera Wilmot, the 16-year-old honor student expelled from her high school after she allegedly ignited a chemical explosion on school property, received a full scholarship to the U.S. Space Academy, courtesy of a NASA veteran who, as a teenager, was accused of starting a forest fire during a science experiment.

James Bryan, a homeless man living in Florida, woke up the morning of May 8 to find that his pet dog was missing. The dog, a blue pit bull named Handover, was the only remaining tie to Bryan's previous life, before he'd lost his farm, his home, and nearly all of his other personal belongings.

The FBI has reportedly arrested a 37-year-old suspect in a Spokane ricin letter scare, not to be confused with last month's Ricin letter scare in Mississippi. Everyone stop putting ricin on letters, please.

The horrific beheading of a soldier in southeast London today by two young black men has mobilized mobs of thugs to take to the streets. The Woolwich terrorists warned witnesses of "a war in London tonight" and they just might get it.

A 48-year-old Cub Scout leader and mother-of-two from Cornwall is being credited tonight with calming down the men responsible for a suspected terror attack in Woolwich, South East London, that left one soldier dead.

The U.S. government formally—and finally—admitted to killing four American citizens today, one day before President Obama is set to deliver an important speech on national security and counterterrorism issues.

Initially reported a few weeks ago, it has just been confirmed that Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, together with Ibragim Todashev, killed by the FBI last night in Orlando, were responsible for a 2011 triple homicide.

After we published our post on the Hollywood Reporter story, in which Joe Francis said that the "retarded" jury that convicted him earlier this month "should be shot dead," we received an email from one of the 12 not-so-angry people who sat on jury. We followed up with this person by phone to produce the following account of the trial and the response to Francis' insults and allegations.

On Monday night, Dennis Rodman celebrated his 52nd birthday at Cheetahs, a gentleman’s club in Times Square. One press release advertised the event, part of an extended birthday tour, as “a no-holds barred birthday with topless dancers, thongs, and naked sushi.” Another cheekily teased that the NBA Hall of Famer might bring along a certain famously despotic guest, one Kim Jong-un, so that "maybe the Cheetah Strippers and Rodman can secure what our government has failed to do."

You know that feeling you get when you're driving on the freeway behind a truck laden with metal pipes and your immediate instinct is to get away from that truck before one of those pipes flies out and impales you? Well, it turns out that's not such an irrational instinct.

Science now says if you get a wound, you should rub dirt in it. Or, I guess, go to a hospital.

Philadelphia police are asking for the public’s help to track down a young man who recently picked a very silly, slippy night to halfheartedly attempt a murder.

The trailer for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, Don Jon, just premiered over at Apple trailers. It's a bafflingly hilarious, Jersey-accented, Saturday Night Fever-swaggering delight.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who smokes crack, has parted ways with the Catholic high school football team he used to coach. He's still mayor of Toronto though.

It's like something out of a comic book: A Minnesota man was in the process of remodeling an abandoned Elbow Lake house he had purchased for $10,100, when he suddenly stumbled across the most valuable comic book of all time hidden inside the wall.

Hyatt heir and would-be Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker accidentally left $80 million off her financial disclosure forms. No biggie; couch-cushion money, really.

Crooks broke into a KGO-TV news van outside an Oakland art gallery on Tuesday, but that's become common in California's city of constant crime. What's weird is that the burglars also broke into the private security vehicle assigned to protect the news van.

Ricky Schroder, who played the little Aryan kid on Silver Spoons, is now a professional propagandist working on behalf of the U.S. military-industrial complex, just as you would have guessed.