It's still unclear why the host of a Dominican talk show set Las Vegas-based magician Wayne Houchin's hair on fire: Some say it was an unscripted prank gone wrong; others say it was an attempted exorcism gone wrong.

The former CEO of National Lampoon has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for running a $200 million Ponzi scheme.

Following news of Lindsay Lohan's latest nightclub rampage even the most voracious gossip hounds had to wonder if we've had about enough of LiLo and her attention-usurping exploits.

Last week we asked you to help us find gifts for the kind of people who spend most of their time trolling the internet for weird stuff: print-on-demand books about celebrity dick size, nonsensical custom-made t-shirts, and ill-advised search-engine-optimized gift results. As we expected, you returned a selection of complete and utter crap — but beautiful, weird crap. Some of the best:

Killing Them Softly is so heavy-handed, it features the Velvet Underground's "Heroin" during a scene in which a character shoots up heroin. But it's so cool that the instrumental section plays — you have to know the song to get it.

Jay McGuiness, one of the singers of The Wanted, gave the recently re-re-re-arrested Lindsay Lohan a special shout-out via fashion while opening for Justin Bieber at Madison Square Garden Thursday night, by wearing a "FREE LINDSAY" shirt onstage.

The anchors on Chicago's WGN-TV are certainly no strangers to embarrassing themselves. So it's a good thing they have some experience, because the broadcast this morning was a delight.

Movember may be over, but for mustachioed men around the world, facial-hair-themed festivities are a year-round affair.

Earlier this month we told you about Unionmade, the upscale San Francisco menswear store that sells expensive clothes that are not, in fact, union made. The cherry on top of that particular style-over-substance outrage was the fact that Unionmade's logo bears a suspicious resemblance to the logo of the AFL-CIO. And now, the AFL-CIO's lawyers have sent them an angry letter demanding they change their name and logo.

Gas station surveillance cameras apparently captured the moment one of this week's two Powerball winners realized he'd won. He reacts just about how you might expect someone who just won nearly $300 million: by freaking out.

Every once in a while, a name comes a long that is so fake, so not-real, so obviously made up, that you literally cannot fathom an alternate universe in which it might ever exist.

For the first time since it was introduced to penny candy customers in 1953, Bazooka bubblegum will have its packaging overhauled to do away with the familiar red, white and blue color scheme.

Essam Attia is the New York street artist responsible for placing fake NYPD ads reading "Drones: Protection When You Least Expect It" around town. In September, he gave a video interview to Animal NY, with his identity and voice obscured, in which he discussed this project and his art in general. Wednesday morning, the NYPD arrested him at home.

Susan Orlean's classic Esquire article, "The American Male at Age Ten," opens with the titular boy's description of what Susan Orlean's life would be like if the two were married. They would "both be good at Nintendo Street Fighter II, but Colin would be better." They wouldn't have sex—just crushes—and "magically, babies would appear." For fun, they "would load a slingshot with dog food" and aim it at Orlean's butt.

It was 35 degrees outside the night 25-year-old NYPD officer Lawrence "Larry" DePrimo bought a pair of $100 Sketchers boots and some socks for a homeless man on the corner of 44th and Broadway.

The next time you find yourself in Saskatchewan, Canada, take time to thank a Regina firefighter, they've had a rough couple weeks.

So, says here that Lucky Charms' new advertisement is targeting not children, but "adults who as kids grew up with Lucky the Leprechaun and are apparently running back to him in search of some feel-good nostalgia." I guess the General Mills™ corporation just likes throwing away money these days, because all of the adults I know have been eating Lucky Charms this whole time.

A high school in Mesa, Arizona, is catching some flak online for giving two students caught fighting a choice between being suspended for nine days or spending part of the day holding hands in full view of their classmates.

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