This story popped up on my iGoogle homepage:

'Text Rage' Leads to Alleged Brutal Teen Beating

Basically, a 15-year-old who found his older brother hanging from a tree outside a local church the year before participates in a texting conversation with a girl from his high school (who he's never met before) about his relationship with his girlfriend. ( Read more... )

I read DCist on a regular basis, and it's extremely helpful in terms of updating me with event postings, political goings-on and news around the city. Sometimes the news is more informative (or scary, if it's about a shooting) than entertaining, but I found part of today's post fascinating. It linked to an article about a turf war going on between ( Read more... )

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You know how people sometimes say things like, "It would take a marching band to wake me up in the morning"? Well, this morning I slept through a two-alarm fire in the apartment building next to mine. If my roommate hadn't been watching the news when I woke up, I wouldn't have known until I tried walking to work -- the entire street was blocked off ( Read more... )

Colorado 6-Year-Old Floating Away In Balloon


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Last night I went out with a group of people to see our friend Keegan play an acoustic set at a neighborhood restaurant called Parker's. On my walk over I opened my phone to receive a text and it SNAPPED IN HALF. I was pissed (this is not the first time the same model of phone has died on me), but I'm due for an upgrade, so I figured I'd just ( Read more... )

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I don't usually follow celebrity news, but I was intrigued enough by the bizarre murder of Jasmine Fiore (a bikini model whose body was found in a suitcase; her teeth were ripped out and her fingers were cut off to prevent identification of the body) to do a little research. Obviously the murder was gruesome, and I wouldn't wish that on anybody. ( Read more... )

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