Here's the Yemeni parcel bomb clarity you've been seeking: one of the two bombs intercepted by authorities was on a timer set to detonate as the plane flew over America's Eastern seaboard. But the bombers miscalculated.

The FBI has charged 17 people with participating in a decade-long scam to bilk the government out of millions of dollars that were designated for Holocaust survivors and WWII Nazi victims. God will not be smiling on these people.

In late September, Jon Stewart appeared at a Manhattan Barnes & Noble to promote his new book. A 9/11 Truther shouted some "9/11 truth" questions at him. Afterwards, a Daily Show executive producer punched that Truther in the face.

A Latin Grammy-winning pianist and wealthy oil heir was scammed out of as much as $20 million by computer repairpersons who convinced him that Polish priests from Opus Dei were targeting him for assassination. Oldest scam in the book.

Have you ever thought to yourself, "Do I have any outstanding arrest warrants?" Yeah, same here. A four-day event last week in New Jersey called "Fugitive Safe Surrender" allowed minor offenders to turn themselves in. 3,901 people showed up.

When 11-year-old Reuben Soames searched for his family's address on Google Maps, he was just looking for a picture of their home. He ended up finding a man apparently in the midst of stealing his family's caravan.

Martin Erzinger, a wealthy money manager at Morgan Stanley, struck and seriously injured a bicyclist with his Mercedes in Colorado last summer—and fled the scene. But Erzinger's getting off with a misdemeanor, because a felony could hurt his career.

Being high school pals with Jeffrey Dahmer is a great way to get out of jury duty.

The suspect in the Manhattan diner murder, Earle Barranco, was arrested in a VIP booth at a Charlotte Bobcats game.

Iranian police have arrested members of "underground rap groups" in Tehran after "young boys and girls" were found to be recording rap music and making videos in vacant homes. The rappers were also drinking liquor.

Google technical writer Noirin Shirley wrote a post on her personal blog yesterday describing a debauched night at a tech conference. But she claims the fun ended when she was sexually assaulted by Twitter engineer Florian Leibert.

Johannes Mehserle, the Oakland BART cop who shot an unarmed passenger, has been sentenced to 2 years in prison.

It's Friday, the last day of Bomb Week. Pray for peace! Today in bombing news: doubts cast on the near-miss Yemen mail bomb; another several bomb scares; and a suicide bombing.

Times are grim in urban America. And, as one would expect, hard times lead to teenagers trying to shoplift entire turkeys by shoving them down their pants and "waddling" out of stores, nonchalantly. Thank god for surveillance cameras.

According to police in Surprise, Arizona, a 12-year-old boy threatened to stab his mother on Halloween after she refused to let him trick-or-treat in a "gay Justin Bieber" costume.

Halloween was not without its casualties: The NYDN reports that a "marauding clown" at the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade broke reporter Arthur Chi'en's face in six places when the clown scaled Chi'en's float, then knocked the newsman off of it.

Yavuz Erdogan is the human embodiment of the American Dream: a Turkish immigrant who became a U.S. citizen, he owns his own business in Levittown, the archetypal American suburb. On election night, an ex-cop beat him with an American flag.

Today in bombs: new and skeery details about just how close those Yemeni mail bombs came to blowing up. Plus: new and skeery details on the Greek anarchist mail bombers. It's bomb week. Love it or else.

Spend enough time on 4chan's notorious /b/ message board and you'll come across child porn that slipped past overwhelmed moderators. One Navy sailor downloaded some kiddie porn he found on 4chan; now he's the subject of a federal investigation.

Police intercepted a mail bomb intended for Italian prez Silvio Berlusconi last night, the 14th mail bomb this week "linked to a far-Left [Greek] urban guerrilla group, the Conspiracy in the Cells of Fire." Greece has suspended all outgoing airmail.