In an effort to avoid paying his traffic tickets that worked for a lot longer than it probably should have, Olawale Agoro of Hackensack, New Jersey appeared in court several times while posing as his made-up twin brother "Tony," the Bergen Record reports. Also, he pretended to be blind.

According to Reuters, ISIS released another grisly beheading video on Sunday, this one purportedly showing the execution of 21 Coptic Christians kidnapped in Libya.

Authorities in Copenhagen say the dead man believed to be responsible for yesterday's shootings was a 22-year-old born in Denmark. Unconfirmed reports from Danish media have named him as Omar Abdel Hamid el-Hussein.

The deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Zaki Bani Rushaid, sentenced on Sunday to 18 months in prison for "acts harmful to the country's relations with a friendly nation," the New York Times reports. In November, Bani Rushaid had posted a message critical of the United Arab Emirates, one of Jordan's regional allies, to his personal Facebook page.

Autopsy results from the New York City Medical Examiner's office show that David Carr died of complications from metastatic lung cancer, The New York Times reports.

A 28-year-old Queens man died yesterday from gunshot wounds he sustained on Friday, the New York Times reports. So ends New York City's longest stretch without a new homicide—12 days—since the police department began tracking such data in 1994.

The Associated Press reports that actor and outworlder Benedict Cumberbatch married Earth female Sophie Hunter on Saturday, forever tying him to our strange and wonderful planet.

Ukranian soldiers outside Debaltseve received a mass text message telling them that they would not be killed if they surrendered to rebel troops who have surrounded the city, the Guardian reports.

A cease-fire brokered by Angela Merkel and François Hollande went into effect in Ukraine last night, the New York Times reports. Aleksandr Zakharchenko, leader of the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic, has announced that it would not apply to Debaltseve, one of the war in Ukraine's key battlefields.

At least three people were wounded in a shooting at a Copenhagen synagogue tonight. Two of the wounded were police officers, and one of the victims was reportedly shot in the head. The shooter reportedly fled on foot, and a manhunt is underway in central Copenhagen. The attack comes just hours after a gunman opened fired during a free speech debate at a cafe in the Danish city, killing one and wounding three.

For snake dealer Mark Haas, the plan was simple: he'd bring the long ones and the other guy would bring the big ones—12,600 simoleons, to be exact. But until this week, all Haas got was a Beretta slug and a bad taste in his mouth.

A homeless man broke into a funeral home in Columbus, Georgia and fucked a woman's corpse, the Associated Press reports.

The Lexington Dispatch regrets the error.

Republican senator Thomas Croci of the New York state senate introduced a bill this week to establish a "New York State Terrorist Registry," the New York Daily News reports. It would be modeled on the existing registry used to track sex offenders.

An excessive force lawsuit filed in Georgia this month claims that a police officer slammed a pregnant woman to the ground so hard she blacked out, causing her to miscarry, allegedly because the officer didn't like her tone of voice.

Montana state representative David Moore (R-Missoula), who told the Associated Press that he thinks yoga pants should be illegal, was, he tells The Guardian, just kidding. Classic!

According to an assistant imam, investigators have found signs that a fire at an Islamic center on Friday was set deliberately, the Houston Chronicle reports.

I met Marlon Peterson in 2009, a few months after he'd completed ten years of a 12-year sentence for first degree assault and third degree weapons possession. While Marlon was inside, I read his blog and some of the correspondences he'd exchanged with Nadia Lopez's eighth graders. I was amazed not simply by Marlon's generous precision in the letters, but by how descriptive and honest Ms. Lopez's students responded to his prose. Without a drop of condescension, Marlon's letters encouraged the students to reckon with their thoughts, feelings, senses, and imaginations.

Gary Busey struck a woman with his car as he was pulling out of a parking space at a shopping center in Malibu, TMZ reports. The woman suffered minor injuries.

Canadian police say they uncovered a plot to commit a mass shooting in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, The Guardian reports. The plot involved four people, three of whom have been arrested and one of whom reportedly shot himself when police surrounded his house.