A Colombian mugger's cunning plan to steal a defenseless woman's cellphone was nearly foolproof — except for the part where he was run over by a bus while fleeing, and ended up looking like a fool.

Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18-year-old high school senior from Indian River County, Florida, is facing felony charges for engaging in a sexual relationship with another girl at her school.

For years now, affluent (mostly white) Americans have been moving back into our nation's "inner cities," those once-scary locations populated only by forgotten minorities and a distinct lack of quality condo development. And poor people, in turn, have been decamping for the suburbs, those once-deluxe bastions of white flight. Slumburbia is no longer our future. It is our present.

Three more bodies were recovered today bringing the official death toll to 17 for a mine collapse in Papua, Indonesia. The mine, which extracted both gold and copper, is owned by a Phoenix-based company.

In between jabs about the Wahoos snagging the top spot on Playboy's list of top party schools and personal recollections of doing some partying of his own with the girls of Phi Kappa Phi, Stephen Colbert had one pearl of wisdom to impart on the University of Virginia's Class of 2013: Feel free to be self-obsessed.

While being interviewed on CNN on Sunday, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said he believes that the Internal Revenue Service had a written policy that was specifically "targeting people who were opposed to the president."

Taylor Swift may have swept the 2013 Billboard Music Awards with eight trophies and eight corresponding expressions of shock, but it was her backstage reaction to the sight of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez kissing that won the night.

It's (super) official: Yahoo has bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. Well-known boy and Tumblr CEO David Karp signed off his Tumblr post announcing the acquisition, "Fuck yeah."

A half-mile wide twister touched down near Oklahoma City as a vicious storm system moved through five states Sunday. The storms continue to pummel the Midwest this morning.

For the third consecutive day, North Korea launched rockets into the sea of its east coast, as part of what the DPRK is describing as a "regular military exercise."

Star Trek Into Darkness was the number one movie this weekend with a “disappointing” $70.6 million. Meanwhile, Iron Man 3 has passed the billion dollar mark and is still going strong.

During his performance at the Billboard Music Awards, Miguel attempted to jump from the stage to the catwalk as the crowd watched on from what they hoped was a safe distance. One lucky fan, however, got up close and personal with the pop singer when his genitals came crashing into the back of her head, slamming her face into the stage. After removing the girl's head from between his legs, Miguel hugged another (not as lucky) fan next to him because everything is awesome and the show must go on.

Three major scandals, and one about umbrellas, have done little to affect Obama's approval ratings, which have remained roughly the same over the past month.

There are lots of embarrassing ways to get busted for a crime. You could flee police only to get attacked by an alligator, or you could accidentally lock your victim in their own gun closet to predictable results. Dumber still? Butt dialing 911 as you're in the midst of a robbery.

A group of tornadoes – some reportedly a mile-wide – struck Kansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma Sunday evening. Several injuries and at least one death have been confirmed.

Last week, the Cannes Film Festival was the site of several movie-worthy crimes of its own, as both a a million dollar jewel heist and a shooting caught on camera reportedly took place on the same day. And on Sunday, news broke that another high-profile burglary hit the French Riviera during the prestigious festival.

First hot coffee, now broken glass. A Brooklyn gospel singer is suing McDonalds after she allegedly bit into a shard of glass "bigger than a penny" in her chicken sandwich, which she claims ruined her singing voice.

New research on the health of immigrants has found that they live longer than their children, mostly because the American way of life is a horribly unhealthy one.

Who has the smallest penis in Brooklyn? A local bar aims to find out with their first annual Smallest Penis in Brooklyn pageant this June.

We've already reported on the legions of adoring fans who post about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tumblr and Twitter, but now the nurses who cared for him at Beth Israel Hospital are putting in their two cents.