Less than a week before News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was arrested for her involvement in the phone-hacking scandal that rocked Britain, she received an offer of help from an unlikely source: The country’s former Prime Minister. The Guardian reports:

A driver stopped in traffic about 20 miles outside of Las Vegas last Friday recorded this video of police shooting and killing a man who climbed into one of their cars.

A home care nurse administrator who was known as "Juror No. 4" in the Florida murder trial of Michael Dunn—the white man not convicted last week of murdering Jordan Davis over the black teen's "loud music"—says she, and most of her peers, wanted to convict Dunn of the killing.

By now, you've probably heard of Miranda Barbour, self-professed teen murderess: The 19-year-old claims to have killed more than 20 people across the country, all for her two loves: Satan and her hubby. Is it a chilling super-killer's confession, or is it bullshit? Here's what we know:

An Arkansas man has been charged with first degree murder and a host of other counts after tracking a carload of teens that planned to egg his house and shooting into it, killing one girl.

Earlier this week, a 10-year-old stole his parents' car, crashed it into a snowy ditch, and then told responding police officers he was a dwarf who'd forgotten his driver's license.

An ex-con who calls himself "The God of Time" used his pickup truck to force a terrified young mom into oncoming traffic on a Washington state highway, prosecutors in Snohomish County said this week.

The New York Post reports that 42-year-old Canh Oxelson, pictured above, was arrested on the Upper West Side last week for threatening to disseminate copies of his 28-year-old ex-girlfriend’s sexts to her colleagues at NYU’s Langone Medical Center.

A woman allegedly went on a naked, bloody rampage and destroyed her home after her boyfriend refused to have sex with her.

A judge banned a man from the internet for pulling a series of dangerous "pranks" on his neighbor, including posting a fake Craigslist ad that requested nude male suitors.

Who hasn't done this before: Early Monday morning, a teenager allegedly got drunk as hell, put a flower pot on his head, grabbed a chainsaw, and tried to rob a 7-Eleven.

Imagine driving down the street on a lovely Saturday afternoon when you look over and there, standing on the side of the road, is a man dressed as a banana, holding an AK-47 with a 50-round magazine attached.

This is creepy as hell: A woman realized her house was broken into while she was home after she found the burglar's selfie on her cell phone the next day.

Five of Guantanamo's worst "forever" detainees plan to open a Yemeni farm business consisting "of 200 families, 100 farmhouses, 10 cows, 500 chickens, 50 sheep, a honey bee subsidiary and computer system powered by windmills," maybe with Kickstarter capital. That is, if they ever see daylight again, obvs.

A woman claims she was assaulted after she discovered her husband and his girlfriend "naked, smoking pot, drinking liquor and having anal sex," apparently at the same time.

Sometimes you just gotta find a release, man. Like when your lady is going into labor and you're stuck in the hospital and everything's so crazy and just a couple hits could calm you down. Next time, though, spring for a better vaporizer.

After serving almost 22 years in prison for a triple murder they did not commit, two Brooklyn men, Antonio Yarbough and Sharrif Wilson, were released this week after exonerating DNA evidence was found.

Who in their right minds would rob an orchestra concert master in broad daylight, take his rare multi-million-dollar violin, and make off in a getaway minivan through the streets of Milwaukee? A local barber and gun licensee named Universal Knowledge Allah, that's who.

A 16-year-old girl was charged with distributing child pornography after she posted nude pictures of herself to Twitter in January.

More important Justin Bieber crime news: Last night, the Miami Police Department released Justin Bieber's booking video from his DUI/drag racing arrest in January. Watch as police search the 19-year-old and make him take off his shoes. Between this and potential felony vandalism charges, it's been a rough 24 hours for Bieber.