Prosecutors say a well-known gay porn actor tried to extort millions out of a wealthy, secretive businessman, only to end up in jail on felony charges.

Prosecutors in New Jersey say a 100-year-old man was behind a grisly murder-suicide this weekend.

A simple trip to the White House ended in chaos for a Washington-area honey bee on Monday, when a bunch of kids started freaking out and our commander-in-chief proved powerless to stop them.

Exciting time to be Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin. Dates with each other, dates with significant others, dates over here, dates over there, dates in Central Park, dates at very exclusive parties... As Martin might say, make new girlfriends but keep the old; one is a blonde movie star and the other is also a blonde movie star.

Further cementing Facebook's present-day role as a center for old, angry people to congregate, a New York City judge declared Facebook messages a perfectly acceptable venue for filing divorce papers.

The man who shot himself at the M Resort this past Sunday blamed his suicide on being banned from the buffet that had once promised him free meals for life, according to an indexed, 270-page suicide note mailed to the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Just 24 hours after setting the Sichuan Giant Panda Research Centre's record for panda sex by fucking his old flame Zhen Zhen for seven minutes and 45 seconds, Lu Lu the panda aka the "Enduring Brother" more than doubled his record sex time while doing it with another bear at the center. Sorry Zhen Zhen.

Gertrude Weaver, the world's oldest person, died on Monday at the age of 116. According to staff at the Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center in Camden, Arkansas where she lived, Weaver died of complications with pneumonia.

Stuart Leaf, a financier, purchased and combined nine separate apartments in a Brooklyn Heights condo building. He is now selling the resulting 11,000-square-foot apartment because it is "too spread out." Stuart, you motherfucker.

It's bad enough that the "broken windows theory" of policing, with its constant harassment of small-time hustlers, is back in vogue in New York City. Do they have to steal the churros, too?

Vani Hari, AKA the Food Babe, has amassed a loyal following in her Food Babe Army. The recent subject of profiles and interviews in the New York Times, the New York Post and New York Magazine, Hari implores her soldiers to petition food companies to change their formulas. She's also written a bestselling book telling you that you can change your life in 21 days by "breaking free of the hidden toxins in your life." She and her army are out to change the world.

On Friday afternoon, two narcotics officers with the Burbank, Calif., police department reportedly showed up at Tom DeVocht's door on an anonymous tip—complete with dubious photographic evidence—that the former Scientology executive was selling drugs in the area. The documentary Going Clear, in which DeVocht appeared as an interviewee, had premiered on HBO five days before. Was the apparent frame job the church's way of getting revenge?

David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery Communications, received total compensation of $156.1 million in 2014, a year in which the company's stock price fell by 25%. If you can find a justification for that, then you have what it takes to become a CEO.

Firing back at former SeaWorld trainer John Hargrove, who was featured in the 2013 documentary Blackfish, the theme park released a five-year-old cell phone video of a clearly drunk Hargrove shouting "nigger" to a friend on speakerphone.

Three people were killed and eight more were injured when a van carrying two heavy metal bands crashed early this morning in northeast Georgia.

As the 2016 presidential election draws closer, America's political press corps is warming up for what they do best: drone on about nothing of consequence.

Air India suspended two pilots after they two reportedly came to blows in the cockpit of a flight from Jaipur to Delhi Sunday night.

There are like, two places left in the United States where you have a reasonable expectation to not encounter gunfire (petting zoo, kindergarten graduation ceremony), and church is no longer one of them.

Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park is currently—and temporarily—home to a 100-pound bronze-colored bust of Edward Snowden, erected early this morning by a crew of guerilla artists. Animal New York has the story. Run see it before the pigs get there. [Pic: Animal NY]

According to the New York Post, a plumber who worked at the East Village building that exploded last month, killing two people, has confessed to illegally tapping into a gas line at the request of the landlord’s son.