Introducing Palcohol, the world's sneakiest and most efficient way to get drunk. This week, the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approved the powdered booze product, and its makers hopes to unleash it on an unsuspecting public this fall.

Authorities have confirmed that a body found by the side of a highway near Worcester, Massachusetts, is that of Jeremiah Oliver, the five-year-old boy who went missing in September and for whom an investigation wasn't opened until nearly four months later.

After a ferry sank off South Korea last week, leaving over 266 missing and 36 confirmed dead, an arrest warrant was put out for the ferry's captain, Lee Joon-seok. He and a helmsman, as well as a rookie third mate, were taken into custody this afternoon.

Just as Moses parted the Red Sea, a man with only a serrated knife and a spatula pulled apart a log of glossy animal innards to reveal the stuffed detritus of several other animals, like if only one section of your thigh was removed, making a stump on both ends, spackled with goo and blood.

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal received an unexpected lesson in practicing what you preach at a press conference yesterday. Standing on the platform at the Milford Metro-North station, Blumenthal and his easel narrowly dodged an oncoming train as Milford Mayor Ben Blake spoke about commuter safety.

On January 24, 2009, my college classmate Julian was killed in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan. He was twenty-five years old, and his was the first combat death in Afghanistan during the Obama presidency. His death was also the first I learned of from a Facebook wall.

After Michael Egan came forward this week with details of sex abuse he was a victim of in the late 90s at the hands of X-Men director Bryan Singer, it was revealed that a documentary about this and other stories of the sordid Hollywood sex ring has been in the works for two years.

MosKa, an Australian energy drink that claimed to naturally increase sexual performance, was banned in its home country after authorities found it contained vardenafil, a drug you may recognize by its brand name: Levitra.

A man in Austria this week was just checking in with local authorities to see if they had any dirt on him, and oh wait—he was wanted on four counts of fraud and embezzlement. What a twist!

If you have an account on Healthcare.gov, you might consider getting a new password. The internet security flaw known as Heartbleed, which left everyone's personal data on Google and Facebook open for the taking, hasn't reared its ugly head at Obamacare, but the administration is encouraging users to be proactive just in case.

Loch Ness monster experts are all a-flurry this week at the thought that they might have located the mysterious Loch Ness monster through modern technology. An image on Apple Maps, when zoomed in very tightly, reveals a gargantuan shape with fins swimming in Loch Ness.

The film adaptation of Heaven Is for Real, pastor Todd Burpo's bestselling memoir describing the near-death visions of his then-four-year-old son, Colton Burpo, opened this week. In case the scheduling synergy with another popular inspirational death-and-resurrection story doesn't create enough ticket-buying enthusiasm, TriStar Pictures is also offering a Heaven Is for Real make-your-own meme site. Give it a try!

A New Jersey woman says the state discriminated against her on the basis of her beliefs when it rejected her request for a license plate reading "8THEIST" as "objectionable."

An adobe wall collapsed on a parked car during a strong earthquake that shook Chilpancingo, Mexico, Friday morning. There were no early reports of major damage or casualties from the 7.2-magnitude quake. Image via Alejandrino Gonzalez/AP.

Happy Passover! Here's "That Jew Died for You," a bizarre video depicting Jesus on his way to a gas chamber in a Nazi death camp with some Polish Jews. It comes from Jews for Jesus, an evangelical group that aims to convert Hebrews in apparently the most off-putting way possible.

Journalism has a short shelf life, which is why people who are not journalists mostly don't remember the name "Ernie Pyle" anymore. He died on this day in 1945, doing what he had done more or less throughout World War II, which was to say hang around with a bunch of troops on the front lines of a difficult war so he could record their sufferings in incredibly popular, lyrical columns he published for the Scripps-Howard news service.

On Wednesday, a woman hosting an Easter egg hunt party for her four-year-old son discovered a dead body under her deck.

A popular street artist who's rubbed elbows with Anthony Bourdain and graffitied the walls of Facebook's headquarters used his sex-talk podcast last month to describe a forceful sexual encounter with his massage therapist that sounded an awful lot like assault.

Garbage yogurt brand Chobani is planning to launch several new products this year, including desserts and dips. Maybe one of their new products will be "good yogurt."