The graffiti artist COST—whose illegal black-and-white posters are inescapable in New York—was arrested Sunday in the Meatpacking District.

An Oregon man taking advantage of the state's open carry laws had his new semiautomatic pistol stolen at gunpoint early Saturday morning, and apparently didn't put up a fight.

An alleged mother-son meth-making team managed to alert law enforcement to their activities when they accidentally dialed 911 while preparing for a cook at their Florida home.

Brisbane police believe an Australian chef murdered his girlfriend, then chopped up her body and cooked it on his stove before committing suicide by cutting his own throat.

In this segment from the most recent Last Week Tonight, John Oliver is pissed that the police have a legal mechanism by which they can seize your money for essentially no reason, and then use it for whatever they want, with virtually no limitations.

Sam Pepper, a YouTube personality and former UK Big Brother contestant, has been accused of raping several young women in recent weeks, BuzzFeed reports.

Charlie Sheen, erratic Taco Bell enthusiast and former television Man, is being investigated for assault after allegedly threatening his dentist with a knife Thursday. A dental technician told police Sheen was high on cocaine and flipped out while she was trying to administer nitrous oxide.

Last week, Levar Jones, an unarmed black man, was shot by a South Carolina police officer during a routine traffic stop. Fortunately, Jones survived the encounter. In February, however, Ernest Satterwhite, another unarmed black man who encountered a similarly trigger-happy S.C. cop, wasn't so lucky— the cop shot and killed him after a low-speed chase ended in Satterwhite's own driveway.

Kuntal Patel, 37, is currently on trial in the UK for the attempted murder of her mother, whom she allegedly poisoned with abrin after seeing a similar stunt on Breaking Bad. The ricin-esque substance was purchased with bitcoin on a dark web site and delivered to a friend's home, disguised in a candle.

Have pity on those who are traveling today: a fire set by an FAA contractor at an air traffic control center in the Chicago suburbs has stopped all traffic at O'Hare and Midway Airports, canceling at least 850 flights.

We've all been there: You're trying to have a romantic time with that special someone of yours, but something isn't right. The phone keeps ringing, or it takes too long to find a condom, or you're having sex on top of dead bodies and it's like, hey, I'm no prude but this is a little weird, right?

Even in 2014, it is still possible to come across facts about the American justice system that stagger even the most cynical of minds. For example: do you know how long people are sitting in jail in Mississippi without being charged with a crime?

The Charlotte Observer reports the bizarre story of a man who drove cross-country this June to confess to murdering a woman and dumping her body in a river in 1997. Matthew Gibson, 55, was driven to confess after he got texts and calls from Walmart about prescriptions for Anita Townshed. He thought Townshed was the woman he killed.

This week, the Philadelphia District Attorney's office identified three people who will be charged with crimes in the anti-gay beating that took place in Center City September 11. This morning, all three turned themselves in to police.

In February of 2013, William Lopez was released from prison after serving 23 years for murder. In fact, he was innocent. He was exonerated. Now he's dead.

Timothy Ray Jones Jr., a 32-year-old South Carolina father, was detained in Mississippi this week after allegedly confessing to murdering his five children, whose bodies were found inside individual garbage bags on an Alabama roadside today.

A fifth-grade class in Waterville, Maine planted vegetables last spring as a lesson in agriculture and charitable giving. The food, once sprouted, was going to go to the school lunch program and a local homeless shelter. When harvest time arrived this week, though, their onions were gone.

The global War on Drugs has been a long, sustained, incredibly expensive and destructive failure. A major new report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy says: it's time to give it up.

Context isn't really necessary to appreciate this video, but here's what we know about it: Six college-aged bros were caught reportedly breaking into Miami University (Ohio)'s Kappa Alpha house, confronted the guy filming them, and apparently attacked him with a bag of bagels.

Last week, two men were released after spending 30 years in prison in North Carolina. They were falsely convicted of rape and murder in 1983. They were both exonerated by DNA evidence. The man who prosecuted them is, proudly, no pussy.