Turnstile jumping is on the rise in New York City subways. Today, the New York Daily News published an analysis of data that detailed the increase in arrests for fare-beating busts made by officers. In the last five years, turnstile jumping apprehensions have ballooned by 69 percent—24,747 arrests were made last year as opposed to 14,681 in 2008 —and will likely increase in 2014.

Rachel Pepe, a 13-year-old in Middletown, N.J. who transitioned over the summer from being identified as Brian, has been told by an official at her school district that her gender transition will not be recognized and no accommodations will be made for her when the school year begins again.

Teens today do everything on social media, including make school shooting threats. California police arrested a 15-year-old boy on Sunday for posting photos of dead bodies and guns to Instagram with threats to shoot up Valencia High School in the Santa Clarita Valley. One of his captions read, "NO MERCY WILL BE SHOWN."

A Croatian man known as "the Penis Collector" has been arrested for allegedly abusing his position as a hospital nurse to amass a large collection of human dicks, taken from the bodies of dead patients.

Every day, a contingent of New Yorkers, moving in shadows, manages to board the subway without paying the fare—hopping turnstiles and slipping through propped-open service doors on their way to school, or work, or home. Who will defend the city from these monsters?

After our colleagues at Jezebel called attention last week to the overwhelming problem of graphic porn and gore GIFs and images in the comments, we're (re) introducing pending replies. You can read about them here.

Kenneth Douglas admitted in court to having had sex with at least 100 corpses during his time as a night shift employee at a morgue in Hamilton County, Ohio, where he worked from 1976 to 1992. "I would just get on top of them and pull my pants down," he said.

The police response to protesters in Ferguson, Mo., raised a lot more questions than it answered, and John Oliver took aim at one of the biggest on Sunday's Last Week Tonight: Why the hell does a local police force have all this military-grade equipment?

After being holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in Britain for more than two years to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault and rape allegations, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has signaled an interest in finally leaving.

After "deliberate, coordinated and intensifying violent acts" in Ferguson, Mo. Sunday night, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has deployed the state's National Guard to the town, which has been embroiled in protests following the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson.

Police in Ferguson were caught on camera Sunday night threatening to mace one reporter and shoot another. At least two other journalists also claim they were arrested while following police orders.

A private autopsy conducted on Michael Brown shows the 18-year-old was shot at least six times in the head, torso and arm, the New York Times reports.

Reporters on the scene in Ferguson say the protests erupted into chaos as police began firing tear gas at crowds of protestors Sunday night—well before the official curfew time was set to begin—hitting media and children in the abrupt offensive.

A woman accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two Amish girls last week with her boyfriend is now claiming that she only did it because of their "abusive and submissive" relationship.

High chairs for babies: easy for adults to get into, not so easy for adults to get out of.

A robot made of the kinds of things one finds in the back of their garden shed is hitchhiking across Canada. HitchBOT was created by researchers David Smith and Frauke Zeller who are studying the relationship between people and technology. The bucket-bodied creature is set to reach is final destination Sunday in Victoria, British Columbia.

Page Six reports that Rihanna, (who is that?), had to stand in line to wait for a drink at the Bowery Hotel late Thursday night. She performed the act of waiting "like a normal person," a secret source shared.

Rolf Buchholz, the world's most pierced man, claims he was denied entry to Dubai due to suspicions of "black magic" stemming from his many piercings. Buchholz currently holds the record for most piercings—453 in total. His various modifications include 278 piercings in or around his junk, horns implanted in his head and magnets in his fingertips.

Police say four people are injured after an early morning shooting today in Queens.

The Detroit area was pounded with unprecedented amounts of rain and flash floods on Monday, but Jena David, a 30-year-old woman who was caught in the deluge, survived—even though local news reported her as dead.