A spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner's office said this morning that filmmaker Tony Scott's suicide note does not reveal his motive for killing himself.

Atlanta-based historically black college Morris Brown is close to being foreclosed upon and disappearing. Dang.

People get hostile when you want to ask critical questions about someone's money. If it's a profile hailing an entrepreneur as a genius, then things are okay: we're only inquiring about the accumulation of an implicit good. When talk verges on criticism, people get itchy.

Country singer Randy Travis today had his third run-in with the cops this year after he reportedly got into a drunken brawl with the estranged husband of his girlfriend outside a church in Plano, Texas.

Congrats, pervs. The Parents Television Council released its annual report on TV nudity earlier this week, and it looks like you smut soldiers are winning the war.

Here's Mitt Romney in Michigan, talking to a group of voters:

The Onion is famous for its insanely painstaking joke-making process, where hundreds of proposed headlines are whittled down to just the handful of gems you see on the website or in the paper each week. But what happens when real breaking news collides with the imagined world of the Onion? Like any legit news organization these days, they update.

The way the YouTube description tells it, poor overworked Paula Jovel was taking the Tube home after finishing up the late shift at an undisclosed place of employment.

I'll tell you something about a lot of people that just might surprise you: people can't figure things out. Sometimes I look at people like, "Man, you are just not right with that." People don't understand things much, is the problem. People don't know.

This business of ours, the blog business, is not "easy." Bloggers must have the agile minds and exquisite judgment necessary to survey all the news of the day, decide what is important and why, and bring readers along on a journey towards understanding.

Set Up: On the short-lived American game show The Moment of Truth, where contestants are hooked up to a polygraph machine and forced to answer embarrassing, life-ruining questions for the chance to win a few dollars, a "husband, father, and carpenter" has just "torn his family apart" with "some startling confessions."

Casey Anthony has completed her court-ordered probation and is free to leave Florida, her attorneys said today.

Tipster Vladimir Dusil sent us these images of the body of a man who allegedly opened fire outside the Empire State Building earlier this morning.

Tom Cruise formally ended his raw, real heterosexual love affair with actress Katie Holmes on Monday, after a judge in New York agreed to the final terms of their divorce.

West Bloomfield, Michigan is described by the WSJ as a Detroit suburb that "leans Democratic and liberal" and "prides itself on its religious diversity." As long as you're not trying to build a mosque.

In a new web video from online knowledge forum Big Think, science guy Bill Nye talks about evolution denial and its negative impact on society.

Around 10:15 CNN's Ali Velshi tweeted: "BREAKING: law enforcement source tells CNN there appears to be terrorism connection to the #ESBshooting." This happened several minutes after local New York City outlets reported that the man who opened fire outside the Empire State Building, so the tweet spread like wildfire. And then Velshi deleted it. Why?

A Canadian-Ukranian artist has recruited several women to play the part of sleeping beauty in a new art installation currently on display at the National Art Museum of Ukraine.

Satirical headline from The Onion yesterday: "Nation Celebrates Full Week Without Deadly Mass Shooting." Almost, Onion.

A report released today by the nonprofit behind the standardized test used in American high schools to assess college readiness finds that just one out of four students graduating in 2012 were truly prepared for college.