Showing remarkable resolve and clarity of thought, 14-year-old James Persyn III of Shepherd, Michigan protected a rape victim and his siblings from an attacker. Read on for James’ tale of heroism and how the evening ended with the attacker dead but not before he made one last Facebook post from his cellphone.
Wish you could be loved for who you are? Thanks to modern science, that may be possible. Scientists have pinpointed three pairs of genes that may be able to gauge satisfaction in various aspects of a relationship. The gene pairs, referred to as the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC), can predict the health of a couples’ children, sexual satisfaction and even whether someone will find a mate’s bodily scent appealing. But, is it really as simple as it sounds?
Authorities are searching for 14-year-old Baileigh Karam, who has went missing after a video involving the teen in a fist fight was posted to Facebook. Baileigh’s mom, Karen Karam, hasn’t seen her since the fight took place last Friday. In the footage, a group of girls can be seen gathered around cheering the brawl that happened at Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, California. See a local news report that includes a portion of the violent melee and find out who to contact if you have any information on her whereabouts.
Wrangler’s selling a pair of $135 jeans called Denim Spa that are supposed to reduce the appearance of cellulite (when the jeans are off, of course, because all jeans make cellulite disappear when they’re on.)
The creator of one of the most successful advice columns in print history, Pauline Phillips, has passed away at the age of 94. Phillips started her “Dear Abby” work under the pen name Abigail Van Buren in 1956. Her column appeared in over 1,200 papers and reached an estimated 90 million readers. Read on for some fascinating information about the legend including who her famous identical twin sister was and enjoy 10 memorable quotes from her archives.
Two teenagers from Arizona, Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta, decided they would do a live-action re-enactment of Toy Story, as in the entire film! After two years of work they completed their homemade masterpiece and got permission from Pixar to upload it to YouTube. Since its premiere on January, 12th it already has over 4 million views. Check out the film and a gallery of caps for this wonderful example of youthful exuberance and determination.
Officials at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport intercepted a package that contained 18 severed human heads back before Christmas. The package made some headlines considering the fact that, oh I don’t know, it was stuffed full of freaking severed human heads!!! All of this fuss about the heady baggage apparently irritated Department of Homeland Security spokesman Brian Bell, who gave some seriously good and seriously “not impressed” quote. See what Bell had to say as presented to us by “not impressed” meme-legend Grumpy Cat.
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy, one of Lady Gaga’s costume choices is called into question. The pop singer wore a bra made of toy automatic rifles at one point during her “Born This Way Ball” performance in Vancouver, Canada. She’s received backlash on Twitter and pretty much everywhere else for wearing…
Have you ever been bored and searched Facebook for someone with the same name? I have and actually friended the guy and it always makes me laugh whenever I see his status pop up on my feed. Back in 2008 a Florida woman did just that and discovered a Texas man with the same name and contacted him about the peculiar coincidence. This sparked a romance that has now sadly ended in divorce. Find out why having the same name wasn’t enough to keep the Kelly Hildebrandts together.
When 61-year-old Jeanette Morris, a truck driver by trade, set out to get revenge on her ex-husband for regaling a lady at the house the two share, things took a turn for the worse leaving her ex, Robert Hall, with a broken pelvis, broken facial bones and bleeding in his brain after he was dragged nearly half-a-mile behind a pickup truck. This horrific act came after he was held up at gunpoint, beaten, shocked with a stun gun, and threatened with a scalping and burial.
Are you having troubles getting your sweet little princess or prince to go tee-tee or too-too where they’re supposed to? Well now you can get some toddler toilet training tablet technology assistance courtesy of the iPotty for iPad! Find out about the new product including the cost and let us know if you think it could actually help with potty training.
The list of nominations for film’s big prize, the Oscar, are in and the Daniel Day-Lewis driven biopic Lincoln leads the way with 12 nominations. Read on for the complete list of nominees.
CMT’s upcoming new reality show about a family-owned gun range called Guntucky has been postponed. We followed up with the network and have received an official statement that the delay is directly related to the tragedy in Newtown. Read on for that statement, details about the show and a video from the range’s popular bi-annual Machine Gun Shoot featuring older footage allegedly dropped by NBC because it was filmed shortly after the massacre at Columbine.
26-year-old Mexican immigrant Maria Sanchez died in Houston, Texas on Sunday just four days after her parents were denied humanitarian parole into the U.S. to say goodbye.
In a story of remarkable restraint and resolve, an armed Tampa area man who had suffered racial slurs and being shot at with a pellet gun refused to return fire. See video of the incident and find out more about the victim Cameron Mohammed. The image seen is the mug shot for his assailant.
J.J. Abrams’ latest Star Trek film “Into Darkness” isn’t set to be released until May, 2013, but the director allowed a special screening to take place
Critically revered artist M.I.A. is running across a rather interesting conundrum while attempting to release her latest album. According to her label Interscope, the release entitled Matangi is “too positive.” Read on for what the outspoken performer thinks of this evaluation and how the firing of her manager might be playing a role in her awkward circumstance.
If you’re not a sports person, or simply missed it, referee Jeff Maconaghy awarded Michigan a first down after bringing out the chains during this year’s Outback Bowl. The problem? The chain measurement unequivocally showed that the nose of the football was short. The old ball coach Steve Spurrier lost his collective mind and the blunder has resulted in a Facebook page dedicated to the requested firing of Maconaghy. It was such an obvious flub that even a child could see it. To prove the point, a proud daddy uploaded his 3-year-old explaining in detail why the call was flubbed. And man is she adorable while doing it!
Sometimes as an American I get some pretty shocking reminders of the freedoms I often take for granted on a daily basis. The story of Icelandic teenager Blaer Bjarkardottir and her current fight is one of those instances. Blaer is 15 and currently suing the Icelandic state for the right to use the name bestowed upon her by her mother. Read on to find out why.
The Season 2 premiere of National Geographic Channel’s disaster preparedness reality series Doomsday Preppers was the network’s highest rated series premiere in its 11-year history, bringing in well over one million viewers. The weekly show features people from all over the country preparing for various doomsday scenarios including natural disaster, financial collapse, and nuclear war, with each episode concluding with “experts” giving the featured prepper(s) a final score based on the five categories of water, food, shelter, security, and x-factor. So who are the Doomsday Preppers experts who give out the scores? Keep reading to find out!
The U.S. Navy has been dealing with the problematic usage of bath salts among its sailors and as a solution they have put together a PSA about the drug called, “BATH SALTS: It’s not a fad…It’s a NIGHTMARE.” In the clip a young man gets some bath salts in the mail, does a line of the drugs, vomits, sees his girlfriend as a deranged demon, punches her in the face, returns home and sees his roommate as a demon, passes out, ends up in the hospital, convulses and then gets tranquilized by a group of people in fatigues all while a catchy dance club mix plays. Check it out!
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In the case of Brazilian teenager Rebecca Bernardo, it’s also an extremely disturbing act. 18-year-old Bernardo was inspired to auction off her virginity by fellow Brazilian Catarina Migliorini. Unlike Catarina, who was simply pursuing fame (and receiving $800,000 from the highest bidder), Rebecca says she’s doing this to assist with her ailing mother.
CNN has filed a disturbing report on the maligned FLDS church led by imprisoned Warren Jeffs. The report alleges that devout followers are preparing for the end times based on a declaration from Jeffs that the world will end before 2013. Whenever you have the mix of a cult leader, devout followers and talks of end times it should always be a cause for alarm. See the report and read a reaction from a former member who doesn’t seem to be too concerned.
21-year-old Aubrey Ireland, a student at the prestigious College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinatti, Ohio, has received a stalking order against her parents who admitted to placing tracking devices in her cellphone and laptop. Read on for the details of Aubrey’s unique story and why she felt she had to have the courts step in and why the courts agreed to take action.
Recently Bo Obama did an excellent job of fulfilling his role as First Dog by hopping into the lap of Michelle Obama as she read Twas the Night Before Christmas to a group of children at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C.
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is a beloved Christmas story that first appeared in a 1939 booklet by Robert L. May. It truly entered the popular culture canon in 1949 with the song version first performed by Gene Autry, and most of us simply can’t live a Christmas without the 1964 stop-motion CBS television special adaptation.
Rudolph is bullied by his peers for having a bright red nose, but it’s this unique attribute that helps him land a gig with Santa Clause.
Now, scientists finally found the secret behind Rudolph’s glowing schnoz. If only they could find out how the reindeer are able to fly!
It doesn’t seem like it could be right for a boss to fire you because he’s too attracted to you, even if you behave in a professional manner and never flirt; but that’s exactly what happened to dental hygienist Melissa Nelson.
One of my favorite year-end lists is the CNN Hero project that highlights many people doing extraordinary things that I may not have otherwise known about. This was certainly the case for Catalina Escobar of Cartagena, Colombia. Escobar was volunteering her time at a local hospital in the town of Cartagena when a 12-day-old boy died in her arms. This was heartbreaking enough, but when she discovered his passing could have been prevented with a mere $30 she had in her pocket it was a situation she found untenable. This, combined with the tragic loss of her own son, led her to action and over the last decade she’s been credited with having saved over 2,000 babies. See her moving tribute video and find out how she’s doing much more as she looks to address the cycle of poverty for the teenage mothers for whom she cares about so passionately.
Soldiers Army Sgt. Drew Fidler (27) and his wife Army Spc. Michelle Williams (27) were featured on The Today Show Saturday morning for their unconventional nuptials.
They were both deployed to Afghanistan, but they were so much in love, they wanted to get married right away. Because weddings are not performed by military chaplains in combat zones, they found another way to get hitched before returning home.
Have you ever been so hungry that unwrapping your burger would just be entirely too time consuming? Well, you’re in luck. A fast food chain in Brazil called Bob’s has just created edible wrappers which will shed precious seconds off the time it takes customers to get their burgers off their trays and into their mouths.
Tis the season for random viral video thefts and so it was for Mr. Al Alverson from deep in the heart of Texas. Al had come home expecting the delivery of an iPad mini he had purchased as a Christmas gift for his daughter. When he discovered it was not there, he went to his surveillance footage and got a shock when he discovered why. It turns out that a UPS delivery dude who had brought a separate package had stolen the iPad mini that was delivered by a FedEx delivery dude earlier in the day. This IS NOT logistics my friends. See the crime after Al posted it to YouTube when he got no justice from UPS.
The internet was all in a tizzy yesterday after the popular photo App Instagram (now owned by Facebook) announced their new terms of service, which appear to give the company the right to sell your photos, name, and comments to advertisers without your consent and without notifying you at all. Because of the outcry the company’s co-founder posted a statement addressing users’ concerns in which he says it was never their intention to sell users’ photos and that the wording of the terms would be amended before they go into effect in mid-January. Keep reading for the full statement, which sounds a little like they just plain ol’ got busted!
Camden, New Jersey, one of the deadliest towns in America, launched a gun buyback program on the same day as the Newtown massacre and officials on Tuesday stated that over 1,000 guns were sold back, no questions asked, setting a record. See a video report, some mind-boggling images of the weapons all together and why officials believe the recent tragedy at Sandy Hook was the catalyst for the record haul.
This 30-year-old Sesame Street clip about Big Bird learning about death is making the rounds on the web in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting as a means to help children, and adults too actually, cope with the grief of this terrible shooting.
Westboro Baptist Church, a small church famous for protesting outside funerals for U.S. soldiers, has announced that it will protest Sandy Hook Elementary to “sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment.”
Yesterday 20 children and 6 adults were brutally murdered at an elementary school in the most deadly school shooting in history before the shooter Adam Lanza turned the gun on himself.
The grief that the families, friends, and the community is suffering is beyond measurable, but there are small ways to show your support and help.
UPDATE – Initial reports identifying 24-year-old Ryan Lanza of Hoboken as the shooter appear to have been premature and inaccurate. 20-year-old Adam Lanza, his younger brother is the shooting suspect. Ryan’s identification was found at the scene.
The main man over at Reality Blurred, Andy Dehnart, posted the following video of Storage Wars executive producer Thom Beers discussing how lines are sometimes written for the cast and how the storage units are sometimes altered for show. Now before you start saying, “I knew Dave Hester was right about all of this!” Please be aware that what Beers owns up to is a far cry from the many allegations the former cast member has brought about in litigation.
Last night (12-12-12) just about every living music legend anyone could think of performed at Madison Square Garden for a Hurricane Sandy Relief concert. Producers of the show say that more than 2 billion people tuned in to watch the rousing and epic show.
A 33-year-old woman from Panama named Yeraldina was stopped in Barcelona, Spain on a flight from Bogata, Colombia to investigate two bandaged and bloody wounds under her breasts. She was in a terrible condition, and sent to a hospital to be further evaluated where doctors found 2.9 pounds of cocaine in her chest, worth about $130,000.
9-year-old fifth grader Breanna Bond is making headlines for losing almost 70 pounds in less than a year after struggling with bullying and mobility problems.
One year after losing their three little girls in a tragic house fire on Christmas Day, ad exec Madonna Badger and her ex-husband Matt Badger are speaking out to the media about how they’re coping with their grief.
Madonna is consoled by dreams of her daughters, and her belief in heaven; while Matt firmly believes that there must be a reason why everything in their lives led up to this horrific fire.
South Korean internet sensation Psy dominated 2012 with his unavoidable “Gangnam Style.” It is already the most watched clip in YouTube history but something tells me that his popularity in the United States may soon take a serious hit. It has been revealed that on a song from before his horse dancing viralness, PSY rapped about wanting American soldiers as well as their families killed. Read the lyrics and find out what upcoming scheduled event could cause a major headache for Barack Obama.
We have covered a seemingly bottomless amount of new reality shows over the years we’ve been up and posting. I can say, without hesitation, that never have I seen more backlash and all around grumbling about an as-yet-aired show than what MTV’s Buckwild is facing. Find out why a Senator is requesting that the network cancel the “travesty” and why I think his argument is hogwash.
39-year-old Florida resident Gretchen Molannen committed suicide over the weekend because she’s suffered from a rare genital arousal disorder that gave up her up 50 uncontrollable orgasms a day for 16 years.
Count me in as one of the millions of fans of the hit show The Walking Dead. While I get pretty passionate about Officer Rick Grimes and the gang I do not take it as seriously as 26-year-old Jared Gurman from Williston Park, New York does. No where even close apparently. Find out how an argument about the show ended up with Gurman’s girlfriend being shot in the back, find out her current condition and what Gurman is now claiming happened.
Hoarders is renowned for its ability to shock viewers with its look into the tragic lives of those who suffer terribly from the sickness of hoarding. Every once in a while they’ll feature an episode that has me thinking, “They’ll never manage to out-disturb me with any episode again.” Then, they unleashed the living nightmare that is Terry the cashier’s reality last night.
Just in case you needed yet another reminder that meth is bad, check out these two mug shots of Melissa Wolf of Eaton, Ohio taken just 17 months apart, the second of which was taken on Monday after police raided her home and found materials used to cook meth.
One of the many things people do to make themselves look different than their natural state is get butt injections, and butt implants. We’ve seen what happens with butt injections are done incorrectly, but now there’s an anonymous video making the rounds of what can happen with booty implants.
The latest video making the viral rounds is an elevator prank from a Brazilian TV show, The Silvio Santos Program. It’s brilliant and flat out frightening at the same time. Take one elevator, turn the lights off and insert one demented-looking little girl holding a baby doll and you have some seriously creepy YouTube gold. Check it out (if you dare).
First there was planking, then there was Batmanning and Tebowing, and now there’s a similar new trend developing in the U.K. that’s really gross: “milking.” Basically you pour a bunch of milk on your head (or have someone do it for you) and take photos and video of the event to post on the internet. People on the internet are so grossed out and mesmerized by the event that they like and share and write articles about it.First there was planking, then there was Batmanning and Tebowing, and now there’s a similar new trend developing in the U.K. that’s really gross: “milking.” Basically you pour a bunch of milk on your head (or have someone do it for you) and take photos and video of the event to post on the internet. People on the internet are so grossed out and mesmerized by the event that they like and share and write articles about it.
In a shocking post-trial bombshell it has been revealed that prosecutors in the murder trial of Casey Anthony overlooked a Google search for the terms “fool-proof suffication” on her computer on the last day her daughter Caylee Anthony was seen alive. The internet history then shows the user clicked on a link to a site criticizing websites promoting suicide that included the quote “Poison yourself and then follow it up with suffocation” by placing “a plastic bag over the head.” As you may know, Caylee Anthony was allegedly poisoned and then suffocated. The search was reportedly missed because investigators for the prosecution only checked the computer’s Internet Explorer browser history and not the Firefox browser used almost exclusively by Casey Anthony after March of 2008.
Not only has Santa Clause been enjoying his tobacco pipe for centuries, he’s also enjoyed some time helping out advertising execs by selling cigarettes in the mid-20th century. But now Santa’s tobacco days are over!
Hardcore Pawn is branching out from The Motor City over to The Windy City as the successful franchise for truTV looks to cash in on further ratings gold. Hardcore Pawn: Chicago will revolve around the Cohen brothers (no, not the famous directors -that’s Coen), but Randy and Wayne, co-owners of Royal Jewelers and Loans. Read on for info about the show and photos of the cast including Elyse and Nathan Cohen.
Apparently there is a a masked Super-Hero-Dumbass stalking the streets of Merced, California. See the memorable mug shot left by Spider-Moron Daniel James Bradley following a completely forgettable attempt at snatching a purse while rocking a Spider-Man costume. Sometimes all we can do is marvel at the intricate web of stupidity criminals often weave.
20-year-old Missouri man Blaec Lammers was charged Friday morning with “first-degree assault, making a terroristic threat and armed criminal action” after his mother contacted authorities over her concern that he was planning a massacre at a local Twilight screening.
24-year-old Allyn Rose, who placed 8th overall in the 2011 Miss America pageant, and will be back representing Washington D.C. in the January 2013 pageant, has chosen to remove both of her breasts after losing her mom to breast cancer, and finding out she carries the breast cancer gene.
People much smarter than this here blogger at Yale’s “baby lab” have discovered that little cutie pies as young as 3-months-old may be able to ascertain right from wrong. You read that correctly. So if you ever get that feeling like those big ol’ eyes are watching and judging you like I sometimes do, well, you just may be right. Watch an interesting video preview for the story to be featured on this week’s edition of 60 Minutes.
Hostess Brands Inc. is making a move to liquidate its assets and go out of business because they claim a labor strike has forced their hand. This blogger is inconsolable as he considers the possible death of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Sno Balls.
James Holmes, the man responsible for the horrific Aurora theater massacre that took 12 lives and injured 58 others, has been hospitalized after lackluster attempts at taking his own life.
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