Princess Marks was arrested Friday when police found her children unattended in an SUV parked outside a Louisiana Walmart. When the 25-year-old returned to the vehicle, she allegedly told police she had been in her boyfriend's car, in the same parking lot, going down on him.

Last Thursday, 14-year-old April Millsap was killed while walking her dog along the Macomb Orchard Trail in a rural area north of Detroit. According to police, Millsap texted her boyfriend that night, "OMG. ... I think I'm being kidnapped."

Over the past few weeks, we've brought you several installments of true stories from the overworked, underpaid, and ill-treated employees who work at all levels in reality TV. We now offer you an absolute slew of new emails about the dark side of the "nonfiction" TV industry.

"Some people may say it's controversial, especially the theme I've chosen, but at the end of the day, little girls wear swimming costumes to the beach all summer, and that's not a controlled environment. The environment my kids go in is a controlled environment and it is ticket-entry only," explains 33-year-old unemployed mother of two Leann when discussing her decision to dress up her 4-year-old daughter Scarlett as a waitress from Hooters. Scarlett competes in beauty pageants. Obviously.

Michael Peroutka is a former candidate for president of the United States. He's currently running as a Republican for a council seat in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Around 1:55 in the video above, watch him grab a guitar, ask everyone to "stand for the national anthem," and start belting out "Dixie."

Rich: Central Park's Loeb Boathouse is the kind of a place an old person would go to for a celebration demarking another milestone. In the process, that only reiterates the oldness.

Are men crowding your Twitter feed like so many splayed legs in a subway car? Join Buzzfeed's Katie Notopoulos and #UnfollowAMan today. It's not a hashtag—it's a movement!

According to the BBC, nine-year-old Oceana Irizarry has died from injuries after being hit by a plane while walking on a Florida beach on Sunday. Her dad Ommy, an Army sergeant who was walking with her, died at the scene.

A cruise line is sticking to its "no refunds" policy after a family had to back out of a scheduled cruise because they discovered their 5-year-old son had cancer.

There's not much to say about this TMZ video other than the basics: It shows a terrified DMX screaming—"THIS IS SCARY SHIT. WHAT? WHAT????!!!"—as an amusement park ride called the Sling Shot shoots him 390 feet into the air.

Stop me if you heard this one: George Zimmerman was questioned by police under creepy, peculiar circumstances, but they ultimately let him go. Wait, no, hang on, there's a twist this time.

A group of four prisoners at a work release center in Australia's Berrimah jail are suspected of repeatedly sneaking out to get drunk and high, then breaking back in before correctional officers noticed.

A man fatally crushed by an elevator inside a Bronx public housing complex may have been riding the elevator like a "roller coaster," NYPD sources told the New York Post.

What, you think you like chips? You don't. Not the way this young woman filmed on the Metro North train by a fellow rider does. After what appears to be a long night of partying, the blond hero pursues the American dream: chips followed by chips and more chips, straight from the dirty floor.

All good guys with guns mean well. Not all good guys with guns do well. Here is another story about one who meant well, a Chicago man with a concealed-weapons permit who fired wildly at a robber and sent a police officer diving for cover, interrupting his pursuit of the perp.

With the exception of Diet Mtn Dew, most of the so-called beverages produced by the Pepsi Corporation are little more than bubbly carcinogens that aren't even fun, like smoking. Now, the Pepsi Corporation is offering you more nasty soda flavors than ever before.

Competition was especially steep this year for congressional gossip sheet The Hill's annual list of the "50 Most Beautiful People in D.C."—even Malia Obama got shut out. Can you ever be as beautiful as these residents of our nation's most beautiful city?

Last week, BuzzFeed fired Viral Politics editor Benny Johnson for lifting phrases and sentences from other sources, chiefly Wikipedia—a phenomenon some attributed to Johnson’s lack of training and the Internet’s lack of rules. But at least one trained journalist at the rule-bound New York Times couldn’t resist copying from the online encyclopedia, either.

R. Kelly was set to headline the first ever Fashion Meets Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio over Labor Day weekend, but he'll soon be making other plans. After weeks of backlash regarding Kelly's history of sexual abuse, the festival has announced that it removed the R&B singer from its lineup.

Today in unspeakable sadness, the story of Raphael Wittmann, a 14-year-old German boy with terminal cancer who broke both his legs and bit off his tongue in a head-on collision during a "dream ride" in a Porsche Boxster.