Voters in the city of Houston today, after a nearly 18-month battle during which the city’s lesbian mayor was sent hundreds of protest bibles, rejected nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people.

Earlier this week, ninety-year-old activist Arnold Abbott was issued a citation for distributing food to the homeless in violation of strict new rules in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He warned that the law wouldn't stop him, and yesterday, he was busted for filling bellies yet again.

While the rest of us spend all our time worrying about being "cool," some people out there are just living their damn lives.

After tonight—or as of yesterday, depending on the rain—Derek Jeter will have played his final game in Yankee Stadium. It's as fine a time as any to note, for the record, that Derek Jeter was an OK ballplayer. He was pretty good at playing baseball, overall, and he did it for a pretty long time.

Thomas McGowan picked the wrong home to burglarize. This week, the 25-year-old allegedly broke into the trailer of one Jimmy Morgan, Jr., a Game of Thrones-loving Christian man who isn't afraid to use the "very quick, very agile and very deadly" short spear he keeps by his bedside.

Jeremi Lorenti and his buddy were driving down the street when they suddenly came upon a skunk wandering in circles with a cup stuck on its head. Sure, they could have driven on, but compassion compelled them to stop and save the poor creature from becoming just another roadkill statistic.

A brave teen is being credited with saving the lives of many this week when he threw himself on the a suicide bomber who was about to detonate inside his school.

An actor who was hired by the University of Virginia to play a patient so he could be "diagnosed" by medical students turned out to actually have the deadly condition he was pretending to have.

Tom Cruise got a lot of shit when he merely appeared to compare his job as an entertainer with the hardships endured by a soldier in Afghanistan. But when Kanye unequivicoally made that same exact comparison, he was mostly left to his own mania.

Hidden messages in newspapers are nothing new. Just ask John Forbes Nash, Jr.

A Kansas women raced topless across a Kohl's department store in Lenexa in an effort to apprehend a man she caught peeping on her in the dressing room.

A petty thief who tried to lift the iPhone of a customer at acclaimed Chicago sushi joint Juno realized a bit too late that he probably should have picked a restaurant that isn't co-owned by a martial arts expert who used to be a bouncer.

Buffalo bus driver Darnell "Big Country" Barton says he only did what he felt he was supposed to do when he stopped his bus to rescue a woman threatening to jump from an overpass above the Scajaquada Expressway.

When it comes to confronting its own historically low approval ratings, Congress is less of head-on type than a head-up-its-own-ass type.

A passenger with no flying experience was forced to land an airplane after its pilot suddenly collapsed at the controls.

Meredith Fitzmaurice had no intention of winning the Run for Heroes Marathon this past Sunday — but she did anyway.

The Force family will forever remember their little dachshund Bradley as being larger than life.

While strolling through Manhattan's Upper West Side one warm summer's day, a concerned New Yorker spotted a bike thief casually removing the front tire off a delivery bike that belonged to a local Lenny's location, and then just as casually walking away.

The daring rescue of a man trapped inside a burning apartment in Washington Heights was caught on camera by nearby residents who marveled at the superheroism of their fearless neighbor.

This clip from ABC's hidden camera series What Would You Do? is just a bit more poignant today than, say, yesterday, but it truly is an evergreen of verbal justice.