Arizona executed Jeffrey Landrigan by lethal injection yesterday even though the anaesthetic used may have been obtained illegally.

Italian ice cream maker Antonio Federici has been ordered by Britain's Advertising Standards Authority to stop running an ad featuring two "sexualized" priests about to kiss "passionately." Last month the company ran ads featuring a pregnant nun (also banned).

The biggest real estate deal boondoggle ever — a $5.4 billion scheme to rip renters off in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village — ended yesterday when lenders took control of the 4,300-unit property. Nice try! [NYT; NYO]

[Friday Night Lights actress Minka Kelly was passing through LAX on Tuesday, looking rather serene on her way to the plane, where, if past behavior is any indication, she totally freaked out about her dog.]

With the election only days away, a few single-minded patriots have decided to take on the biggest problem bedeviling our political system: election fraud! Yes, a problem so huge, only 95 people were charged with it between 2002 and 2005.

Looks like The Hobbit will be filmed in New Zealand after all, despite all the fuss.

Here's Steven Slater, the JetBlue attendant who stole two beers and ditched his plane via inflatable slide after being insulted by a passenger, telling his version of the story to Larry King. He blames "bad manners." Including his!

According to a new conservation study, one-fifth of all plant and animal species qualify for the Red List of Threatened Species, meaning they are "facing wipeout." So, basically, if we work hard, we can probably finish them off by 2100.

Ahhh, an homage to Rocky Horror. As if there was any other way for Glee to celebrate Halloween? Adam Shankman (the same guy who did the Step Up movies) smacked this baby into the world. And it was good.

[Two Red Cross workers walk away from a barn that was lifted off its foundation by a tornado in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Pretty easy for you to laugh, Red Cross workers! That poor barn is crying, though. Photo via AP]

According to prosecutors, 16-year-old Rufus Bowman "picked the wrong prostitute to rob." Because the prostitute he picked was the six-foot, 280-pound Joshua Bumpus (pictured), who "beat the [daylights] out of" Bowman—even though he'd been shot.

Tonight, Jon Stewart mentioned that many Republican Congressional hopefuls are screaming, "Washington is broken!" to get elected. Then, Stewart reminded us that John McCain's been saying it for two decades... by playing a hilarious reel of McCain doing just that.

NPR received a bomb threat in the mail today, prompting the news organization to take extra security precautions and "generally [be] more vigilant." Was it related to the termination of commentator Juan Williams? Or just a pledge drive gone wrong?

The state of video blogging? Grave. These days, it seems like every random guy's random YouTube video has no point, several ads/annotations, and a general insufferableness. Here, Scott Gairdner mocks all of those videos by making one just like them.

Software company LimeWire shut down its file sharing services on the order of a federal judge after being found liable for "a substantial amount of copyright infringement" in case brought against the company by the RIAA. RIP, peer-to-peer.

Who says cops are unhelpful? When one 21-year-old Pennsylvanian purchased some "nasty" pot, he called his local police department. They came by, and very helpfully tested the "leafy green substance," only to discover it was not, in fact, marijuana.

In this clip, the late Mitch Hedberg talks about hilarious life situations. The brilliant comedian talks of Bigfoot, turtlenecks, waiting for a restaurant table, and more.

In a recent discussion about the middle class, author Jacob Hacker explained to Charlie Rose that policy changes over the last half-century—and not technological advances, as many would claim—are responsible for the United States' income disparity. Watch inside.

Disney's TRON: Legacy—and the accompanying Daft Punk soundtrack—is set to be released in December. For those of us who can't wait, tough, there's this: the French duo's new song, "Dereazzled," cut with some footage from the film itself.

[A commuter in Chicago deals with some hair-raising weather as storms whipped across the Midwest today. Image via AP]