A body pulled out of Lake Ontario last Friday has been identified as Max Maisel, the missing son of ESPN writer Ivan Maisel. Max, 21, was last seen getting out of his SUV at Charlotte Pier in Rochester, New York.

Robert Bates, charged with second-degree manslaughter in the April 2 killing of Eric Harris, pleaded not-guilty Tuesday. Bates and Tulsa sheriff’s department have maintained that the reserve deputy mistook his firearm for his Taser and fired the weapon at Harris accidentally.

When it was announced last July that NYC’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development approved a high-rise building with separate entrances for low-income and wealthy tenants, outrage dutifully followed. But now that applications for the building are open, the city’s housing problem appears to be worse than we thought.

A Chicago Uber driver won’t face charges for shooting a man who opened fire into a crowd in Logan Square over the weekend, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in prison by an Egyptian court Tuesday for charges connected to the 2012 killing of protesters outside his presidential palace.

Full House, the television show you only watched because there were no cartoons on and only miss because you haven’t seen it in 20 years, is coming to Netflix, sex-haver John Stamos announced tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

A 13-year-old student was detained by police on Monday for an assault on a Barcelona school that left one dead and four injured, the BBC reports.

Bet you woke up this morning feeling all smug about being a “person,”with “rights” just like any other Tom, Dick or duly incorporated S Corp. Well too bad, sucker, because chimps have rights now too.

According to the L.A. Times, Blue Bell Creameries has issued a worldwide recall of its products over concerns that they may be contaminated with a dangerous strain of Listeria bacteria.

One of today’s Pulitzer winners for local reporting isn’t actually a reporter anymore.

Arrested in November for allegedly plotting the murder of a former employee, AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd pled guilty in a New Zealand court today to one count of threatening to kill and two drug possession charges, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Paul Haggis’s angry 2009 resignation from the Church of Scientology and subsequent participation in damning exposés and documentaries earned him a permanent spot on the notoriously vengeful group’s shit list. Enough for them to try to catfish him? Wouldn’t be the strangest thing they’ve been accused of!

Los Angeles police officers are reportedly searching for a quartet of Honda-driving California dickheads who harassed a pair of baby sea lions before stealing one off the beach and throwing it in the trunk.

Following a Day of Silence in support of bullied LGBT teens, a group of anti-gay Pittsburgh-area high schoolers decided they were entitled to a special day of their own. In honor of “Anti-Gay Day,” they drew anti-gay slogans on their hands, wore matching flannel outfits, and, allegedly, created a “lynch list” of kids who support the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance.

Why would you spend your money on a vinyl copy of U2’s Songs of Innocence? Regardless of your feelings on what I’m sure is a perfectly fine late-career U2 album, didn’t basically everyone get that record for free last year? The lunkheaded spendthrifts who stood in line to shell out for a “deluxe exclusive” version of Songs on Record Store Day and found another band’s music inside only got what was coming to them.

There will be no justice for Rekia Boyd, the 22-year-old unarmed Chicago woman who was fatally shot by an off-duty cop in 2012.

Jay Hart, a striker for semi-pro British soccer team Clitheroe, was cut from the squad after he was caught on video having sex with a fan in the dugout while still wearing his team warmups, the Mirror reports. The incident took place after an away game versus Mossley AFC. Every detail reported is more embarrassing than the last:

After nearly a decade indoors, agoraphobic grandmother Janet Faal had finally worked up the courage to leave her home and brave the world outside. Her reward? Two black eyes, a broken leg, and a fall down an open manhole.

A couple in Hallett Cove, South Australia filmed themselves killing a wolf spider with a broom recently. Did they film themselves because they knew it would explode with hundreds of baby spiders, making for a brutal and terrifying video? Almost certainly. Should you watch it? Almost certainly you should not. And yet.