Drunken Bathroom Brawl Forces Flight to Divert With Military Escort

Andy Cush · 08/29/14 10:01AM

Two passengers who had allegedly consumed a "significant quantity" of alcohol caused a Sunwing flight from Toronto to Cuba to return to the airport under a military escort after they smoked in the bathroom, tripped a fire alarm, got into a fight, and made a "threat against the aircraft."

Man Charged for Willfully Exposing Ex-Boyfriend, 24 Other Men to HIV

Aleksander Chan · 08/29/14 08:32AM

The San Diego City Attorney's Office has charged Thomas Guerra, 29, for knowingly exposing an ex-boyfriend to HIV, who is now testing positive. After Guerra's ex filed a report with police, Guerra has been accused of infecting 24 other men with HIV.

Hamilton Nolan · 08/29/14 08:16AM

The resale value of Manhattan condos rose to a record high last month, which is of no concern to the sort of people who might consider purchasing a Manhattan condo in the first place.

Remembering the Wylie-Hoffert Case, a Double Murder With Three Victims

Michelle Dean · 08/29/14 08:00AM

A little over 50 years ago, in the last days of a summer something like this one, a woman returned home from her publishing job to find a literal bloody mess. She shared the apartment on East 88th St between Madison and Park with two other young women in their early 20s. She took a few steps into the living room and saw a knife perched on the edge of the bathroom sink. Then she called one roommate's father, Max Wylie, who lived nearby, and ventured no further.

Ft. Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan Pens Letter Asking to Join ISIS

Aleksander Chan · 08/29/14 07:07AM

Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who was convicted of murdering 13 people in the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, has written a letter to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi requesting his acceptance into the group's self-declared caliphate. "I formally and humbly request to be made a citizen of the Islamic State," Hasan apparently wrote in the letter, first obtained by Fox News.

Black Tiger Cub Is Young, Rare, Super-Cute

Jay Hathaway · 08/28/14 05:35PM

Good news for people who love tiger news: This 25-day-old black tiger exists. The unnamed, cute-as-hell cub resides in Hangzhou, eastern China, where it uses a dog as a wet nurse and "owns the color of black due to pseudo-melanism," according to ChinaFotoPress.

God Almighty Sent Blake Lively a Bee Attack for Her Birthday

Caity Weaver · 08/28/14 04:05PM

With our imperfect knowledge and limited faculties constrained, as they are, by the hedges of time and space, we cannot "know," in the narrow, popularly-used sense of the word, which of the Ten Commandments Blake Lively violated that prompted God to turn her birthday into a bee hell, but it was probably 9.