A man took a 135-foot jump off the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday morning, but somehow miraculously survived the dive and was saved.
The unidentified 32-year-old man jumped at about the same time a New York Police Department (NYPD) Harbor Unit was in the vicinity of the bridge. Officers Rosario Roccasalvo and Eugene Bebenista were on patrol offshore when Roccasalvo saw something fall…
Maybe the prison inmates President Obama is always trying to keep out of solitary confinement felt some musical inspiration.
In celebration of the Department of Justice's "National Reentry Week," which aims to help the approximately 600,000 state and federal prisoners released each year reenter society, Decoda, a non-pofit musical ensemble, will perform a song Wednesday at the White House that…
Update (4/27 12:57 p.m.): Dianne Gallagher of CNN is reporting that the lockdown has been lifted.
Update (4/27 12:24 p.m.): WJLA in Washington D.C. is reporting that the person who threw the package over the White House fence was immediately taken into custody.
Update (4/27 12:06 p.m.): Dianne Gallagher of CNN is reporting that the White House was placed on lockdown because someone threw a…
Update (4/27 11:41 p.m.): NBC News reported that the whole situation stemmed from a man who stole a woman's purse and jumped the fence to get away
Update (4/26 4:46 p.m.): A Twitter account claiming to be Washington D.C. Fire and EMS just released the following tweet:
Update (4/26 4:32 p.m.): The lockdown has reportedly been lifted according to ABC:
Original Story: The White House…
Apparently being a celebrity doppelganger does not always have its perks.
A man in New York was assaulted by another man, allegedly because he looked too much like actor Shia LaBeouf. We'd like to emphasize that this story is for real.
Mario Licato, 26, got sucker-punched while on his way home by man who is still at-large.
Licato told the Gothamist:
I didn't even see the guy. I just see…
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Would you like some chest hair with your sandwich?
A half-naked man in Festus, Mo., was seen dancing around and making sandwiches at a Subway restaurant this past weekend. The restaurant's guests were shocked to see the man, who was also a former Subway employee, behind the counter without a shirt on.
Subway released an official statement on the situation:
The person…
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The social justice warriors at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) got a taste of their own medicine Monday evening when they were taken to task by conservative comedian Steven Crowder.
Crowder was set to “tell a few jokes” and have an open conversation about free speech at UMass alongside former philosophy professor Christina Marie Hoff Sommers and conservative…
A Dallas County Grand Jury indicted Johnny Manziel on a misdemeanor assault charge on Tuesday.
The former Cleveland Browns quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner allegedly struck his ex-girlfriend back in January.
According to the Associated Press:
His indictment stems from allegations by his ex-girlfriend, Colleen Crowley, who alleges that he accosted her at a Dallas hotel and later struck…
Ever get frustrated with the battery for your smartphone or laptop? Who doesn’t? No matter how good a battery is, its life span is limited.
Researchers at the University of California-Irvine (UCI) have developed a breakthrough in battery technology that could revolutionize the battery-powered device industry, and it happened by accident.
According to the university, they have developed “…
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Update (4/26, 9:50 a.m.): The Washington Post reported Tuesday morning that an al-Qaeda affiliate has claimed responsibility for the grisly murder of two employees of an LGBT magazine in Bangladesh this week:
A Bangladesh-based militant faction linked to al-Qaeda claimed responsibility Tuesday for hacking to death two men, one of whom was a gay rights activist…
