A minute-long video shown in court on Friday and obtained by NBC News shows sheriff’s deputies tasering 22-year-old Matthew Ajibade’s groin while he is restrained to a chair. Ajibade would be found dead the next morning.

Memphis police have taken a neighbor of the victim into custody in the fatal shooting of off-duty police officer Terence Olridge Sunday afternoon, reports the Associated Press.

Just after 4 a.m. on Monday morning, a Bronx woman, Walikque Faussett, 24, was killed in a shooting outside Motivo, a nightclub in Manhattan’s Flatiron district. Two other women were injured.

Yet again, the man who was rocketed to fame by playing the neighbor of a character named Beans is proving that he is succeeding at “retiring from all public life.”

Let’s be clear about something, PETA: if you get turned down by that piece of shit elephant up there, you are not going to prom. Not a chance.

The dentist who paid $50,000 to shoot, shoot again, and then skin and decapitate a 13-year-old African lion named Cecil will not be charged in Zimbabwe after all.

In early September, a group of teenagers hunting birds in a forest off Pulau Sugbay, South Ubian Tawi-Tawi, in the southern Philippines, came across the wreckage of a Malaysian plane filled with skeletons, Free Malaysia Today reports.

In the rich and vibrant folklore of the storied lands of South Jersey, the most fascinating creature of all is the fabled Jersey Devil. Now, thanks to a citizen journalist in correspondence with NJ.com (motto: “True Jersey”), the mystery is solved. At long last, we have proof: The Jersey Devil is real.

A group of white Georgia men and women with an alleged penchant for displaying the Confederate flag while terrorizing innocent black partygoers was just indicted as a street gang—a creative charge that would triple the time they could spend in prison, if convicted.

On Saturday night, a Florida woman broadcast her alleged drunken driving escapades onto Periscope, Twitter’s live video app. “I am drunk,” Whitney Marie Beall said at one point. “This is horrible!”

Celebrities aren’t journalists—until they are! Recently, author and film person Miranda July interviewed Rihanna for T Magazine, providing us a unique opportunity to read about Miranda July.

Realistically speaking, no one wants to be the Speaker of the House. It is an awful, thankless job that spells certain political death for whichever misguided soul ascends to its cursed ranks. That said, someone has to do it. And now that Kevin McCarthy is out of the running, throwing the House of Representatives into chaos, we’ve set out to find which people are actually willing to take the Speaker’s chair.

Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, have been charged with being fugitives from justice and are each being held on $500,000 bail, the AP reports. The two were detained in Vermont Friday night while trying to enter the U.S. from Canada. They both remain abjectly weird.

Dressing up in costume is a debatably enjoyable Halloween tradition that follows you from the trick-or-treating outings of childhood to the Halloween parties hosted by friends who have not yet addressed their problem with drinking of adulthood. For those in the latter scenario, there is often a desire to stay relevant—pop culturally speaking. Like by wearing this sexy pizza rat costume.

Just before puking and just after allegedly crashing his car into a house, Florida resident Reliford Cooper reportedly told the police arresting him on DUI charges that he was not the person driving his car. In fact, Cooper said, a person wasn’t behind the wheel at all. “My dog was driving that car,” he said, according to WFTS.

Back in June, Texas approved a “campus carry” law that would allow anyone with a license to bring a concealed handgun onto the state’s public university campuses. It goes into effect August 1, 2016—that is, unless some good guys with big dildos manage to stop it.

Wow—you like the Mets? Okay—congrats. A thousand apologies for my failure to immediately fall to my knees and worship your great moral courage.

Jason Rezaian—the 39-year-old Washington Post reporter held in an Iranian jail for over a year on espionage charges—was reportedly convicted this weekend. He could face as long as 20 years in prison—a definite possibility, according to the Post, which reports the judge is “known for handing down harsh sentences.”

Cops say a woman waiting for an Uber ride in D.C. this weekend was sexually assaulted after she mistakenly got into a stranger’s car instead.

The Guardian has a strong contender for the least likely thing to happen during any of our lifetimes: two orphaned sisters, separated in Korea 40 years ago, were reunited when they discovered each other working the same shift...at the same hospital...in Florida.