It looked like it could go either way for a while there, but Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will remain Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker after beating Democratic opponent Tom Barrett.

How does a horrible and upsetting story get even worse? ABC News reports that Jerry Sandusky wrote love letters to his victims.

The good news about Sheryl Crow's brain tumor is that it's benign. The bad news is that it might be affecting her memory.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals voted today against reconsidering its previous ruling that the state's same-sex marriage ban — better known as Proposition 8 — was unconstitutional.

A few years ago, Sister Margaret Farley, a nun and a teacher at Yale's Divinity School, published Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics—a book that did not say that your sexual urges are nothing more than the shameful pangs of demon penises fucking your soul which should be repressed and repressed and repressed until you are absolutely warped, underneath that church outfit. Burn the witch! Ahh, apparently we don't do that any more? Well... censure the witch!

Serious accusations of mistreatment are being levied against the security firm put in charge of hiring and training stewards for the river pageant portion of the Queen's diamond jubilee festivities.

George Zimmerman is back in custody after his bail was revoked for lying about his finances. Today, Zimmerman's lawyer Mark O'Mara admitted that his client intentionally misled the court.

It's not often news when 91-year-old people go to the hospital with a bladder infection, but it is when they're royalty. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was "admitted to hospital" (that's how they say it) today, hours before the Queen's jubilee concert. He was said to be "disappointed" to be missing it.

By most accounts, Maria Gunnoe is a pretty swell lady. She's a coal activist who's won prizes for her efforts to stop mountaintop removal coal mining, and just last week she went to Washington, D.C. to talk to the House Committee on Natural Resources. Gunnoe was in our nation's capital to plead her case on behalf of her West Virginia neighbors suffering through coal-related water pollution.

Taco Bell announced last Friday that its Doritos Locos Tacos — that's a taco with a nacho cheese-flavored Doritos shell — has been sold over 100 million times in the last 10 weeks, becoming the company's most successful product launch ever.

Last year, a Target store in Valley Stream, New York was the site of an long campaign by the UFCW to unionize the store's workers. Target has no unionized stores, and remains staunchly anti-union. The union lost the vote at Valley Stream, but last month a judge ordered a new election due to company misconduct. Let's take a look at just how brazen Target's anti-union culture of fear really is.

The North African nation of Mali is in the midst of an uprising by strict conservative Islamist rebels who have captured Timbuktu and locked it down under harsh Sharia law and are running around with guns and making all the women wear veils and chasing off all the Westerners and generally just throwing a wrench into any fun summer bikini party plans that Timbuktuans may have had. This is all very troubling, we grant you, (LIP SERVICE ABOUT 'RIGHTS'). But the New York Times' excellent story yesterday on the situation really buried the scariest penalty of all that the cruel extremists are imposing on the not-even-allowed-to-fuck-casually citizenry:

Russian baritone crooner Eduard Khil, who became world famous two years ago when his 1976 performance of the song "I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home" went viral on YouTube, passed away today in St. Petersburg, two months after suffering a stroke that caused irreversible brain damage.

The spell of The Avengers has been broken.

The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire has burned 241,701 acres of the Gila National Forest, making it the largest fire in New Mexico history. It's also been incredibly difficult to fight against, but firefighters are now reporting that it is 17 percent contained.

The Obama campaign is not mincing words: the Republicans want the economy to fail.

A charred SUV with five bodies burned beyond recognition was found in Arizona's Vekol Valley. The deaths are thought to be a result of drug cartel violence, though investigators could not immediately determine the ethnicities or genders of the victims.

Florida governor Rick Scott is concerned about non-citizens voting in the upcoming presidential election. At least, that's his excuse for singling out 182,000 registered voters suspected of not being U.S. citizens. That number has since been whittled down to 2,600, but the Department of Justice would like Florida to call off the purge entirely.

You might not know the name "Kathryn Joosten," but there's a good chance you'd recognize her face.

It's not every day you get a chance to see President Obama speak — and it's even rarer to watch him get introduced by your dad. That's why fifth grader Tyler Sullivan made the wise choice to skip school and head to the Honeywell factory where his dad, Ryan Sullivan, works.