Maryland police have arrested the Philadelphia woman accused of abandoning her quadriplegic son with cerebral palsy in the woods for over five days, NBC Philadelphia reports. Police say Nyia Parler, 41, left her son on Monday morning with just a blanket and a Bible.

On Friday, authorities released footage of the final moments of Eric Courtney Harris, the unarmed Oklahoma man shot and killed by a Tulsa County reserve deputy who claims he mistakenly fired his gun instead of his Taser.

A California cop has been placed on paid leave after allegedly playing with a corpse's feet, the New York Daily News reports. The man had been shot and killed by police after leading them on a high-speed chase in November.

Hip-hop artist Nelly, best known for his 2002 climate change anthem "Hot in Herre," was arrested in Tennessee on felony drug charges yesterday, thus confirming the St. Lunatic's continued existence well into the current decade.

Two college students have been arrested in connection with what authorities are describing as a gang rape that took place during spring break at Panama City Beach, Florida last month, NBC News reports. Police said that hundreds of bystanders did nothing to stop the assault.

On Wednesday, a nun set herself on fire in a Tibetan area of Western China, the New York Times reports. The nun's death could not be confirmed, because police took her away after extinguishing the flames.

A San Diego-area sea lion lived out the worst nightmare of ocean-dwelling teens everywhere this week, when his first day at a new school ended in the back of a squad car, the NY Daily News reports.

A new class action lawsuit has been filed against SeaWorld in Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reports. This is the second such suit filed against the company in the last month. The earlier suit was filed in California.

Police placed the U.S. Capitol on lockdown "as a precautionary measure" after an apparent suicide shooting near the building's West Front on Saturday. In their initial statement, authorities said only that the suspected shooter had been "neutralized."

A federal judge reprimanded U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for his "media blitz" following the indictment of Sheldon Silver on corruption charges in January, Capital New York reports. The warning came even as the judge rejected Silver's motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that Bharara had made "prejudicial extrajudical statements."

As requested, I arrived just before dinner. A tall, Hollywood-beautiful blonde woman vacuumed the room that would soon be swimming in hippies. Except they weren't stereotypical hippies; the people who would soon become my house- and community-mates were an eclectic blend of professionals, students, and everyday folks who'd answered a Craigslist ad for a unique job/housing opportunity in New York City.

An Argentine judge issued a warrant for the arrest of Justin Bieber on Friday, making the jet-setting petty criminal a wanted man in South America and prompting widespread pleas of "go ahead and take him, then."

On Saturday, an American citizen, Mohamed Soltan, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Egypt for his support of an Islamist protest in the summer of 2013, the New York Times reports. The presiding judge sentenced more than 35 other defendants in the case to the same penalty, while fourteen senior members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood were sentenced to death, Reuters reports.

A man who had just been found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the 2000 choking death of his wife killed himself in a courthouse holding room on Friday, the Roanoke Times reports. The 72-year-old Mark Ward Faville was awaiting sentencing after a week-long trial.

On Friday, authorities in Arizona released a video showing a chaotic brawl between police and a family of Christian street performers, an incident that left one man dead in a Walmart parking lot last month.

Gunmen have killed at least 20 workers at a construction site in a remote part of the Baluchistan Province's Turbat district, the New York Times reports. Officials believe that the attack was carried out by a separatist group that's operated in the region for decades.

"Their place at the table," reads the headline of a front-page article on yesterday's Suffolk Times, a newspaper serving the north fork of Long Island. Nothing about that phrase or the article accompanying it is visibly amiss, but one eagle-eyed reader called in to complain anyway. "Do you think that's the correct spelling of that word?", she asked the paper's editor. "It's spelled -IER."

The Manhattan district attorney’s office announced today that Harvey Weinstein will not be charged for allegedly groping an Italian model last month.

Weird Utah pseudocelebrity Dell Schanze, a.k.a. "Superdell," the star of a number of wacky commercials for defunct computer chain Totally Awesome Computers, could have taken a plea deal when he appeared in court Thursday, but he didn't—because that would mean admitting he kicked that owl.

The Hugos are among science fiction's most prestigious awards. Since the 1950s, they've been awarded to the genre's best and brightest—icons like Heinlein, Asimov, LeGuin, and Dick. This year, they're just the latest front in Gamergate's war against women and minority fandom.